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Access to Home & Community Settings
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CareGivers America is dedicated to a policy of integration and access for our participants to be able to engage independently in their home and community settings.
If you identify an accessibility need for your participant, notify our office so that we can work with the participants Supports Coordinator to identify funding to achieve these access needs.
Accessibility examples include but are not limited to the below:
Home Accessibility Adaptations
Home accessibility adaptations are modifications to the private home of the participant. The modification(s) must be necessary due to the participant’s disability, to ensure the health, security of, and accessibility for the participant, or which enable the participant to function with greater independence in the home.
Assistive Technology
An item, piece of equipment, or product system, whether acquired commercially off the shelf, modified, or customized, that is used to increase, maintain, or improve a participant’s functioning or increase a participant’s ability to exercise choice and control.
Transportation
Transportation is a direct service that enables participants to access services and activities specified in their approved service plan.
Vehicle Accessibility Adaptations
Vehicle accessibility adaptations consist of certain modifications to the vehicle that the participant uses as his or her primary means of transportation to meet his or her needs. The modifications must be necessary due to the participant’s disability. The vehicle that is adapted may be owned by the participant, a family member with whom the participant lives, or a non-relative who provides primary support to the participant and is not a paid provider agency of services.
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