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In-Home Support Services

Home and community habilitation (HAB) provides ongoing assistance to individuals for many everyday tasks: personal care; living skills; shopping; household maintenance; budgeting or attendance at recreational and community events. In-Home Support Services are built around the person where preferences, needs, goals, and values are at the core of all decision-making.

HAB can also be provided to small groups of individuals (two or three), who would like to spend time together socializing and enjoying their favorite activity in the community.
Companion care provides the person with supervision for their health and safety and is provided at times when the person is not focused on learning skills such as when a peson is sleeping or when the person lives on their own, but doesn’t have the ability to safely evacuate. In companion cases, the caregiver is able to provide minimal assistance with daily living activities, but is primarily used when non-medical or non-habilitative care is needed.

Family aides provide supervision for health and safety to the person, but may also provide supervision to other people in the household such as siblings or elderly family members. This service is referred and approved by the individual’s Administrative Entity; i.e., county.
Achieva's Direct Support Professionals are able to provide personal assistance to support people, birth through 21, with special healthcare needs, to assist with their daily living skills, personal care, dressing, hygiene, etc. This support must be prescribed as medically necessary from the person's physician and approved by the individual's Medical Assistance’s (MA) Managed Care Organization (MCO); i.e., Gateway, United Healthcare, etc. or directly through the state MA program.
Achieva Home Care can assist someone with special needs or the family with whom the individual resides with household tasks that may prove to be too difficult to perform; i.e., outside yard maintenance, leaf removal, major cleaning projects; i.e., walls, carpets, etc. An individual can qualify for this support only when other household members, landlord or agency is unable to provide the task.
Provide families the opportunity to hire their relatives, siblings, friends or neighbors for respite care and habilitative supports to their family member with special needs. Achieva will ensure the employee meets all regulatory training requirements to provide supports.

 

Community Participation Support (CPS)

Community Participation Support provides individuals with opportunities to engage in meaningful community activities. These supports promote inclusion, foster the development of skills, and encourage interest in competitive integrated employment. All activities are aligned with each individual's rights, preferences, choices, and interests. 

Providing Assistance, Care, and Support

Achieva Direct Support Professionals provide in-home and community support for people of any age with a disability. Our goals and supports are designed to build independence and ensure health and safety.

Home and Community supports can be provided for a few hours daily, weekly, or monthly, depending on a person's needs. 

Achieva Home Care is licensed by the Department of Health and is a member of the Pennsylvania Homecare Association. Achieva Home Care is also regulated and monitored by Pennsylvania's Department of Human Services Office of Developmental Programs and area Administrative Entities (AE).


Families as Caregivers

Families as Caregivers provide families the opportunity to hire their friends, relatives, neighbors and/or siblings to provide respite care and/or habilitative supports to their family member with special needs. In these situations, Achieva Home Care becomes the managing employer and coordinates the hiring of the caregiver and maintains employer related tasks, payroll, worker's compensation, liability insurance, taxes, etc.

In addition, we ensure the employee meets all regulatory training requirements to provide supports. If you know someone who may be interested in providing supports to an individual with disabilities, please contact Achieva.


Funding

Services are funded in a variety of ways. Primary funding streams include Federal/State Title XIX waiver services.

For people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), these can include, but are not limited to, Consolidated, Person/Family Directed Support (P/FDS), Autism and OBRA Waivers. In some counties, individuals with IDD may qualify for county funding to support the cost of home care.

For individuals, birth through 21 with special healthcare needs who require a personal care attendant, funds are available through Medical Assistance as long as the support is prescribed and approved as medically necessary. Families also have the option of paying directly and Achieva Home Care can bill other funding organizations such as school districts, trusts and community organizations.