Access and Eligibility
This person will help you find, start, and maintain your services.
Who is a Supports Coordinator?
This service provides individualized support, teaching, and training to help an individual be as independent as possible.
What is Adult Foster Care (AFC)?
This Michigan program helps eligible adults stay in their own homes instead of moving into residential care.
What is the Michigan Home Help Program?
This group of people is the primary population served by these programs when eligibility requirements are met.
Who are adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD)?
This planning approach makes sure the individual's strengths, needs, and preferences guide their services.
What is person-centered planning?
This is how weekly CLS hours are determined
A needs assessment
AFC residents must be at least this age
What is 18 years old?
A Home Help applicant must need physical assistance with at least one of these.
What is an activity of daily living (ADL)?
This state agency assesses eligibility for the Michigan Home Help Program.
What is the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS)?
What is Medicaid?
This portion of an AFC placement is typically funded via Social Security/Disability income and/or private arrangement
What is room and board?
Name one daily task that Home Help may cover.
What are personal care, light housekeeping, or medication administration?
Contact this agency for an intake for I/DD services
What is the CMH?
This authority contracts all I/DD services except Home Help
What is the CMH (Community Mental Health)?
This service provides unpaid caregivers with temporary, intermittent breaks from providing care to their loved one.
What is respite care?
What is a Specialized Residential option?
This type of person may be eligible to receive payment as a caregiver under program rules.
Who is a qualified family member or friend?
This planning principle means the individual helps decide what a good life looks like and what goals matter to them.
What is person-centered planning?
The minimum number of Major Life Areas that must be limited by disability to qualify for services
What is 3 (three)?
This type of arrangement allows individuals to hire their own staff.
The number of residents housed in most AFCs in Michigan
What is 1-6?
This agency administers and oversees the Home Help Program
Who is MDHHS (Michigan Department of Health and Human Services?)
These two ideas connect all four programs: giving people support while promoting these.
What are independence and choice?