Habilitation-Group Home (HAB)

Service Description (All Group Homes)

Services provide a variety of interventions designed to maximise the functioning of individuals with developmental disabilities. Services may include, but are not limited to, habilitative therapies, specialised developmental skills, behaviour intervention, and sensorimotor development.

Service Requirements and Limitations (All Group Homes)

• This service shall be provided to consumers in a residential setting who have a variety of needs, including behavioural, physical, and medical challenges. These settings typically serve two (2) to four (4) consumers and may serve up to six (6) consumers.
• This service shall not be provided when the consumer is hospitalised.
• Meaningful Life Behavioral Health shall have applied for and been awarded authorisation for the service of Room and Board, All Group Homes, and shall provide this service at all relevant times.
• This service is authorised on a daily basis.
• Meaningful Life Behavioral Health shall not be relieved of its obligation to continue serving a consumer when that consumer’s needs change.
  • When a consumer’s needs change, Meaningful Life Behavioral Health shall promptly notify the consumer’s Support Coordinator in writing by email or facsimile, within one business day of the change. Meaningful Life Behavioral Health shall initiate a cooperative planning process with the consumer’s planning team to update and revise the consumer’s planning document. Staff will be involved when the change is medical in nature.
• Meaningful Life Behavioral Health shall be responsible for transportation to school, day programmes, and employment services, including associated fees. The organisation shall also be responsible for other reasonable transportation within the community. If a consumer chooses not to use group home-provided transportation and the consumer’s choice to use public transportation is documented in the consumer’s planning document, the consumer shall be responsible for associated public transportation fees.
• Meaningful Life Behavioral Health shall comply with Arizona Administrative Code (A.A.C.), Title 6, Chapter 6, Article 8.

Service Goals (All Group Homes)

1. To provide a broad range of support services that promote the consumer’s physical, emotional, and mental well-being.
2. To enable the consumer to acquire knowledge and skills and participate in the community based on personal choices.
3. To provide training and supervision that help the consumer increase or maintain self-help, socialisation, and adaptive skills.
4. To support the development of positive relationships with others.
5. To provide opportunities for interaction with others in the community.
6. To assist the consumer in achieving and maintaining a quality of life that reflects their vision for the future and personal priorities.
7. To ensure the health and safety of all residents.

Service Objectives (All Group Homes)

Meaningful Life Behavioral Health shall ensure that the following objectives are met:

1. In accordance with each consumer’s planning document (e.g., ISP), assist in developing:
   1. Habilitation-related outcomes based on assessment data and input from the consumer and the consumer’s representative. These outcomes shall help the consumer work towards their long-term vision for the future and personal priorities.
   2. A specific teaching strategy for each habilitative outcome within twenty (20) business days following the initiation of the service for a new or continuing placement, and whenever a new outcome is identified for the consumer. Each teaching strategy shall identify the implementation schedule, frequency of services, data collection methods, and steps to be followed when teaching the new skill.
   3. Changes to specific outcomes and/or strategies, as agreed upon by the consumer’s planning team and based on the presence or absence of measurable progress.
2. As identified in each consumer’s planning document, provide a broad range of support services, including:
   1. Assistance and training related to personal and physical needs and routine daily living skills.
   2. Implementation of strategies to address behavioural concerns identified by DDD, development of behaviour support programmes, and coordination with behavioural health programmes to ensure appropriate review of medication treatment plans.
   3. Ensuring that the consumer’s health needs are met, including providing follow-up as requested by the consumer’s Primary Care Provider (PCP) or medical specialist.
   4. Implementing all therapeutic recommendations, including speech, occupational, and physical therapy, and assisting consumers in following diets, exercise routines, or other therapeutic programmes.
   5. Mobility training and alternative or adaptive communication training.
   6. General supervision.
   7. Opportunities for training and/or practice in basic life skills, such as shopping, banking, money management, accessing and using community resources, and community survival skills.
3. Develop, maintain, or enhance each consumer’s independent functioning skills in sensorimotor areas, cognition, personal grooming, hygiene, dressing, eating, toileting, self-medication and first aid, recognising symptoms of illness, and preventing accidents and illnesses. Basic hygiene, grooming, and first aid supplies shall be available to support these activities.
4. Assist each consumer in developing ways to establish and maintain friendships of their choice, as well as appropriate assertiveness, social skills, and problem-solving abilities for daily interactions.
5. Provide opportunities for consumers to participate in community activities and facilitate their use of community resources.
6. Arrange and plan transportation to support each consumer’s participation in daily living activities, such as day treatment and training, employment, medical appointments, visits with family and friends, and other community activities. Promote the development of skills needed to access community transportation resources, as appropriate.
7. Develop, at a minimum, a monthly schedule of on-site and community-integrated daily activities and document each consumer’s direct input into the schedule. Activities and schedules shall reflect consumer choices and preferences, developmental levels, planning document goals, and opportunities to enrich life experiences. Allow reasonable choices in activity participation and offer alternative activities. The schedule shall be available to consumers, consumer representatives, or others upon request.
8. Play an active role in ensuring that services are complementary to those provided by other involved entities, including day treatment and training providers, healthcare providers, and schools, and that services are coordinated to meet the needs of the consumers served.

Source: Arizona Department of Economic Security

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