Support Services

Support Services

IHSS (In-Home Supportive Services)

The In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) program is a California Medi-Cal program that provides funding for in-home care services for individuals with disabilities, including children. Registered IHSS service providers, such as parents, family members, or other caregivers, can provide care to minor beneficiaries and receive payment for their services.

Phone Application: 888-944-IHSS (4477) or 213-744-IHSS (4477)
Online Application Form: https://dpss.lacounty.gov/en/senior-and-disabled/ihss.html

Respite (In-Home) Services

Respite (In-Home) Services means intermittent or regularly scheduled temporary non-medical care and/or supervision provided in the person’s home. In-Home Respite services are support services which typically include:

  • Assisting the family members to enable a person with developmental disabilities to stay at home;
  • Providing appropriate care and supervision to protect that person’s safety in the absence of a family member(s);
  • Relieving family members from the constantly demanding responsibility of providing care; and
  • Attending to basic self-help needs and other activities that would ordinarily be performed by the family member.

Respite (Out-of-Home) Services

are provided in licensed residential facilities.

Respite services typically are obtained from a respite vendor, by use of vouchers and/or alternative respite options. Vouchers are a means by which a family may choose their own service provider directly through a payment, coupon or other type of authorization. 

Reference: https://www.dds.ca.gov/general/eligibility/support-services/

SDP (Self-Determination Program)

On June 7, 2018, the Department of Developmental Services (DDS) announced that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) had approved funding applications for the federal Self-Determination Program (SDP). The Self-Determination Program is designed to ensure five key rights for individuals with disabilities: freedom, authority, support, responsibility, and confirmation. It is a program aimed at empowering individuals with disabilities to lead and implement their own lives.

  • Freedom – to exercise the same rights as all citizens; to establish, with freely chosen supporters, family and friends, where they want to live, with whom they want to live, how their time will be occupied, and who supports them;
  • Authority – to control a budget in order to purchase services and supports of their choosing;
  • Support – including the ability to arrange resources and personnel, this will allow flexibility to live in the community of their choice;
  • Responsibility – which includes the ability to take responsibility for making decisions in their own lives and accept a valued role in their community, and
  • Confirmation – in making decisions in their own lives by designing and operating the system that they rely on.

 

Customers interested in participating in the Self-Determination Program should inform their Regional Center service coordinator. Interested customers and families must attend the mandatory online orientation provided in English, Spanish, and Korean through Lanterman’s educational forum, ARCALearn.

Reference: https://lanterman.org/client-and-family-services/self-determination-program/

Reference

https://www.disabilityrightsca.org/