CCDH

In partnership with people with disabilities and their families, CCDH advocates, coordinates and provides supports and services.

In-Home Supports

For children or adults with developmental disabilities, CCDH provides funding for someone to come to your home to provide assistance. You may have also heard this referred to as respite, personal care assistance, companion, or homemaker services.

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To qualify for this service an individual must:

Have a developmental disability;

Reside in their own or family home (including a foster
home);

Have not received In-Home Supports or Therapies
from CCDH within three (3) years; and

Be unable to obtain services from any other source.

Once an individual is determined eligible for In-Home Supports, the Family Support Coordinator assigns them to one of the following priority criteria. Because the agency frequently receives more demand than there are resources, eligible applicants are approved for In-Home services based on their placement within these criteria:

Priority 1: An individual who is determined to be in a situation that poses Immediate Danger to his/her health and/or safety. Examples include someone who lacks needed supervision, or who is at imminent risk of hurting themselves or another.

Priority 2: Hospitalization of primary caregiver or of the consumer (and in the case that the primary caregiver requires additional assistance for that individual while he/she is hospitalized.

Priority 3: A person whose caregiver has significant health limitations or who, as a result of aging, is no longer able to provide needed care OR someone living in their own home who needs assistance to remain there.

Priority 4: A Caregiver with two or more people with disabilities living in the same home. Examples include caring for more than 1 child with a disability or caring for 1 child with a disability and an aging parent.

Priority 5: A single parent in immediate risk of losing his/her job, or one who is unemployed and wants to work, but who is unable to actively seek employment because of their caregiver responsibilities.

Priority 6: A Caregiver with no other support system.

Priority 7: An individual who is over the age of 21 in Tier 4 of the Medicaid Waiver, living in their own home or with family, and who has exhausted all their cost plan dollars.

Priority 8: Anyone not fitting the criteria of Priorities 1-7 and in order of date of request.

For more information please call 305-596-1160 to speak with a Family Support Coordinator, or contact us at familysupport@ccdh.org.

If you are currently receiving this service and have questions about timesheets or payments, please contact Carmen Gulisano at 305-596-1160, or via e-mail at cgulisano@ccdh.org.

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