Integrated Community Support (ICS)
Services that provide support and training/habilitation in community living service categories to adults age 18 and older who reside in a living unit of a provider-controlled ICS setting (e.g., an apartment in a multi-family housing building). ICS can be delivered up to 24 hours per day in the person’s living unit or in the community.
This covers training/habilitation and support to meet the person’s individualized assessed needs and goals in at least one of the community living service categories:
- Community participation
- Health, safety, and wellness.
- Household management
- Adaptive skills
Community Participation
This category may include:
- Community mobility and pedestrian safety (e.g., safely getting in and around the community)
- Community resource use and access
- Community safety and awareness
- Informal support system and network development
- Interpersonal communication skills
- Leisure, recreation, and socialization planning
- Skill-building to meet transportation needs
Health, Safety, and Wellness
This category may include:
- Collaboration with the person to arrange health care (e.g., physical, mental, chemical), meaningful activities, social services, meetings, and appointments.
- Training or support to complete self-care activities, including ADLs.
- Health services support
- Help for the person to activate and build resiliency factors
- Support for the person to design and meet individualized strategies to reach their health, safety, and wellness goals.
Household Management
This category may include:
- Cueing, guidance, supervision, training, or instructional support to complete routine household care and maintenance.
- Household safety knowledge and skills.
- Tenancy support and advocacy.
- Training, assistance, support, and/or guidance with:
- Budgeting and assistance to manage money
- Cooking, meal-planning, and nutrition
- Healthy lifestyle skills and practices
- Household chores, including minor household maintenance activities
- Personal-needs purchasing
Note: The person is responsible for the cost of the maintenance replacement items or products.
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