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What are Habilitation Services?
What are Habilitation Services?
Habilitation Services provide Home-and Community-Based Services (HCBS) for Iowans with the functional impairments typically associated with chronic mental illnesses.
Habilitation Services are designed to assist participants in acquiring, retaining and improving the self-help, socialization and adaptive skills necessary to reside successfully in home-and community-based settings.
The focus of the Habilitation program is recovery.
What are the benefits of Habilitation Services?
What are the benefits of Habilitation Services?
Habilitation services are aimed at helping individuals attain, keep or improve skills and functioning for daily living.
These services promote personal independence, skills training, community integration, and other habilitative supports needed to achieve overall health and social well-being.
Habilitation Services assist with skills that may prevent hospitalizations, homelessness and interventions with law enforcement.
What skills are focused on in Habilitation Services?
What skills are focused on in Habilitation Services?
Habilitation includes the following supports:
•Adaptive skill development
•Assistance with activities of daily living
•Community inclusion
•Transportation (except to and from a day program)
•Adult educational supports
•Social and leisure skill development
•Personal care
•Protective oversight and supervision
•Assistance with acquisition, retention, or improvement in self-help, socialization, and adaptive skills to attain or maintain the member’s maximum functional level
•Focuses on areas such as social skills, communication skills, behavior management, functional skill development, daily living activities, self advocacy skills, etc.
This is just a small sampling of all the skills that can be gained with our Habilitation Services!
How often will staff provide Habilitation Services?
How often will staff provide Habilitation Services?
Habilitation service time is a tier based system depending on the needs of the individual.
Individuals work through the tier system with the goal of decreasing the amount of support time given.
The amount of time each individual needs is decided based on their level of need and risk of hospitalization.
Intensive III - 17 to 24 hours a day
Intensive II - 13 to 16.75 hours a day
Intensive I - 9 to 12.75 hours a day
Medium Need - 4.25 to 8.75 hours per day as needed
Recovery Transitional - 2.25 to 4 hours per day as needed
High Recovery - .25 to 2 hours per day as needed
RISE Ltd. is committed to providing services that work around the individuals preference, needs, personal schedule, employment and day program.
What locations are Habilitation Services provided?
What locations are Habilitation Services provided?
Services take place in Northeast Iowa in the surrounding communities of Elkader and Oelwein
Habilitation Services are provided in the following locations:
Individual's home or apartment
Family home
RISE Ltd. Elkader and Oelwein Group Homes
Individual's community
Who is eligible for Habilitation Services?
Who is eligible for Habilitation Services?
Members may be eligible for HCBS Habilitation services by meeting the following criteria:
Be at least 16 years old.
Meet needs-based eligibility criteria as determined by a needs-based evaluation
The individual meets at least one of the following risk factors:
Has undergone or is currently undergoing psychiatric treatment more intensive than outpatient care, more than once in a lifetime (e.g., emergency services, alternative home care, partial hospitalization or inpatient hospitalization).
Has a history of psychiatric illness resulting in at least one episode of continuous, professional supportive care other than hospitalization.
In addition, the person has a need for assistance typically demonstrated by meeting at least two of the following criteria on a continuing or intermittent basis for at least two years:
Is unemployed, or employed in a sheltered setting, or have markedly limited skills and a poor work history.
Requires financial assistance for out-of-hospital maintenance and may be unable to procure this assistance without help.
Shows severe inability to establish or maintain a personal social support system.
Requires help in basic living skills such as self-care, money management, housekeeping, cooking, or medication management.
Exhibits inappropriate social behavior that results in demand for intervention
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