Services Offered

Services, Supports and Trainings Offered:

• Offering Support Planner services and supports to people with CDCS and CSG funding under EW (Elderly Waiver), AC (Alternative Care), BI (Brain Injury), CAC (Community Alternative Care), CADI (Community Alternatives for Disabled Individuals) & DD (Developmental Disabity) waivers in ALL counties throughout Minnesota,

• Offering services & supports to languages, cultures and people including, but not limited to: African, American, Native American, Spanish, Hmong, Thai, Laos, Vietnamese, Persian, Russian & Somalian.  “Se Habla Espano!,”  “Waxaan cawiineen dadka Somalida ah ee ubahaan kalmo iyo cawiinada” and “Peb muaj neeg paub lus Hmoob yaur pab koj thiab koj tsev neeg tib si,”

• A person-centered approach to developing and implementing Community Support Plans (CSP’s),

• Monitoring and assisting with revisions to the CSP,

• Coordinating and communicating with individuals, managing parties, case managers and Fiscal Support Entities (FSE's),

• Provide Essential Lifestyle Planning, Person-Centered Planning, Organizational Assistance and/or Consultation and CDCS training and resources,

• Assistance in recruiting, screening, hiring, training, scheduling, monitoring and compensating workers,

• Monitoring the provision of services including activities such as interviews or monitoring visits with the consumer or service providers,

• Provide Support Planner services directed at the development and maintenance of community living skills, community integration and to facilitate community access and inclusion,

• Provide staff training that is specific to the CSP,

• Other training and/or consultation available including:  Essential Lifestyle Planning (ELP), Person-Centered Thinking, PCP approaches to Challenging Behaviors,  Organizational Assistance and/or Consultation, Boundaries & Values, R–E–S–P–C–T, etc.

• Available to all CDCS and CSG recipients, and

• Responds and attends to requests promptly.