Community Engagement Services include community education or training, retirement, and volunteer act
Supportive In Home: MCSS renders these services in the individual’s home, family home, or community
Supportive In Home: MCSS renders these services in the individual’s home, family home, or community
- Community engagement service means a service that supports and fosters an individual's abilities to acquire, retain or improve skills necessary to build positive social behavior, interpersonal competence, greater independence, employability, and personal choices necessary to access typical activities and functions of community life such as those chosen by the general population.
- The community engagement service may include community education or training and volunteer activities.
- The community engagement service shall provide a wide variety of opportunities to facilitate and build relationships and natural supports in the community, while utilizing the community as a learning environment.
- These activities are conducted at naturally occurring times and in a variety of natural settings in which the individual may actively interact with persons without disabilities, other than those who are being paid to support the individual.
- The activities shall enhance the individual's involvement with the community and facilitate the development of relationships and natural supports.
- The community engagement service shall be covered in the FIS, CL, and BI waivers.
- The community engagement service shall be provided in the least restrictive and most integrated community settings possible according to the individual's plan for supports and individual choice.