Our Services
We provide efficient integrated community support services ( ICS) which includes support and training to adults age 18 and above in their own living unit or in the community. Our services are provided in the following community living service categories.
Our support services include: Cueing, skill maintenance, guidance, instruction, assistance with activities of daily living, assistance with coordination of community living activities or direct supervision.
Our Training services are tailored to each person’s specific needs and include but are not limited to skill-building and instructional services to acquire, retain and improve the person’s experience living in the community.
Community participation
- 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 communications skills.
- Leisure, recreation and socialization planning.
- Skill-building to meet transportation needs.
Health, safety and wellness
- 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.
CRISIS RESPITE
Living Hope provides short-term care for individuals needing intensive supports to allow them to progress, stabilize, and transition. Our crisis respite care serves as a steppingstone back to the community, facilitating the individual’s return to a more integrated setting.
Household Management
- 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.
Adaptive Skills
- Crisis prevention skills.
- Implementation of positive support strategies.
- Problem-solving.
- Sensory/motor development involved in acquiring functional skills.
- Support strategies for self-sufficiency.
- Support and training to increase positive behavior, resulting in reduction or elimination of challenging behavior.
Community Residential Services (CRS)
Services that provide training and/or habilitation, ongoing residential care and supportive services to adults and/or children in a licensed setting. These services are individualized and based on the needs of the person, as identified in the support plan.
Individualized home supports (IHS)
Services for people who live in their own home or family home that provide support and/or training in the community living service categories listed in the covered services section. There are three types of IHS:
- Without training.
- With training.
All types of IHS can be provided in the person’s own home, family’s home or in community spaces used by the general public, and either in person or remotely