Our Services

I/O HPC (Homemaker Personal Care)

According to dodd.ohio.gov, Homemaker/Personal Care is provided to help a person with daily living activities such as personal hygiene, dressing and eating. These services include:

• Basic personal care and grooming, including bathing, hair care, and help with clothing.
• Help with medications that are usually self-administered when ordered by a doctor.
• Household services essential to a person’s good health and comfort, such as changing bed linens.
• Light cleaning in areas of the home used by the person.
• Preparation of a shopping list, grocery shopping and meal preparation.
• Laundry.
• Other neighborhood errands including going to medical appointments or taking short walks.

Level One HPC (Homemaker Personal Care)

According to dodd.ohio.gov, Homemaker/Personal Care is provided to help a person with daily living activities such as personal hygiene, dressing and eating. These services include:

• Basic personal care and grooming, including bathing, hair care, and help with clothing.
• Help with medications that are usually self-administered when ordered by a doctor.
• Household services essential to a person’s good health and comfort, such as changing bed linens.
• Light cleaning in areas of the home used by the person.
• Preparation of a shopping list, grocery shopping and meal preparation.
• Laundry.
• Other neighborhood errands including going to medical appointments or taking short walks.

I/O Transportation

Transportation enables people to access waiver services and travel to community services, activities, and other resources.

Vocational Habilitation

Vocational habilitation means services designed to teach and reinforce habilitation concepts related to work including responsibility, attendance, task completion, problem solving, social interaction, motor skill development, and safety. Activities that constitute vocational habilitation include:

• Vocational assessment that is conducted through formal and informal means for the purpose of developing a vocational profile and employment goals. The profile may contain information about the
  individual’s educational background, work history, and job preferences; will identify the individual’s strengths, values, interests, abilities, available natural supports, and access to transportation; and will
  identify the earned and unearned income available to the individual.  Ongoing support which includes direct supervision, telephone and/or in-person monitoring and/or counseling, and the provision of some or all of the following supports to promote the individual’s adjustment and retention.
  • Developing a systematic plan of instruction and support, including task analyses.
  • Assisting the individual to perform activities that result in his or her social integration with other individuals and persons employed at the worksite.
  • Supporting and training the individual in the use of generic and/or individualized transportation services.
  • Providing services and training that assist the individual with problem-solving and meeting job-related expectations.
  • Assisting the individual to use natural supports and generic community resources.  Providing training to the individual to maintain current skills, enhance personal hygiene, learn new work skills, attain self-determination goals, improve social skills, and/or modify behaviors that would interfere with employment.
  • Developing and implementing a plan to assist the individual to transition from his or her vocational habilitation setting to supported and/or competitive employment, emphasizing the use of natural supports.
  • Assisting the individual with self-medication or provision of medication administration for prescribed medication and assisting the individual with or performing health-related activities as identified in rule 5123:2-6-01 of the Administrative Code, which a licensed nurse agrees to delegate in accordance with the requirements of Chapters 4723., 5123., and 5126. of the Revised Code and rules adopted under those chapters. With nursing delegation, a provider may perform health-related activities; Administer oral and topical prescribed medications, administer prescribed medications through gastronomy and jejunostomy tubes if the tubes are stable and labeled; and/or perform routine tube feedings if the gastronomy and jejunostomy tubes are stable and labeled. 

Adult Day Support

Adult day support means non-vocational day services provided in a non-residential setting. Activities that constitute adult day support include:

• Assessment that is conducted through formal and informal means for the purpose of developing components of an individual service plan pertaining to the provision of adult day support.
• Personal care including supports and supervision in the areas of personal hygiene, eating, communication, mobility, toileting, and dressing to ensure an individual’s ability to experience and participate in community living.
• Skill reinforcement including the implementation of behavior support plans, assistance in the use of communication and mobility devices, and other activities that reinforce skills learned by the individual that are necessary to ensure his or her initial and continued participation in community living.
• Training in self-determination which includes assisting the individual to develop self-advocacy skills; to exercise his or her civil rights; to exercise control and responsibility over the services he or she receives; and to acquire skills that enable him or her to become more independent, productive, and integrated within the community.
• Recreation and leisure including supports identified in the individual service plan as being therapeutic in nature, rather than merely providing a diversion, and/or as being necessary to assist the individual to develop and/or maintain social relationships and family contacts.
• Assisting the individual with self-medication or provision of medication administration for prescribed medication and assisting the individual with or performing health-related activities as identified in rule
  5123:2-6-01 of the Administrative Code, which a licensed nurse agrees to delegate in accordance with the requirements of Chapters 4723., 5123., and 5126. of the Revised Code and rules adopted under those chapters. With nursing delegation, a provider may perform health-related activities; Administer oral and topical prescribed medications, administer prescribed medications through gastronomy and jejunostomy tubes if the tubes are stable and labeled; and/or perform routine tube feedings if the gastronomy and jejunostomy tubes are stable and labeled.

Level One Transportation

Transportation enables people to access waiver services and travel to community services, activities, and other resources.

Non-Medical Transportation

Non-Medical Transportation is a service available to enable waiver participants to obtain transportation to access Adult Day Support, Vocational Habilitation, Supported Employment-Enclave and Supported Employment- Community waiver services, as specified by the Individual Service Plan. Non-medical Transportation is available in addition to the Transportation waiver service, used primarily in connection with the provision of Homemaker/Personal Care Services.