Innovation Waiver Services

Day Support

Securing Resources’ Day Supports Program emphasizes inclusion and independence with a focus on enabling the
individual to attain or maintain his/her maximum self-sufficiency, increase self-determination, and enhance the
individual’s opportunity to have a meaningful day. To ensure informed choice among a variety of options for a meaningful day, individuals new to the service will receive education on available options during the planning meeting.

Securing Resources will provide education and exposure to the same day activities as others in the community, and the structure of our Day Supports Program will provide the opportunity to discover his or her skills, interests, and talents in his or her community. When applicable, Securing Resources will ensure that individuals receiving group services are appropriate to the age and preferences of the individuals. Securing Resources’ Day Supports Program will include career and employment exploration through educational and experiential opportunities designed to identify specific interests and aptitudes for paid work, including experience and skills transferable to competitive integrated employment.

Some activities may include business tours, informational interviews, and job shadows, related to identified interests, experiences, and skills to explore potential opportunities for competitive integrated employment in the individual’s local area to explore potential opportunities for competitive integrated employment in the individual’s local area. Transportation to and from the licensed day program is the responsibility of Securing Resources for Consumers, Inc.

Community Living and Support
Community Living and Support provides technical assistance to unpaid supports who live in the home of the individual to assist the individual in maintaining the skills they have learned. This assistance can be requested by the unpaid support or recommended by the person-centered planning team and must be a collaborative decision. The technical assistance is incidental to the provision of Community Living and Supports.

Community Living and Support may include the following services and supports:
• Learn, practice, and improve existing skills related to the following: interpersonal, independent living, community
living, self-care, and self-determination.
• In conjunction with new skill acquisition, provides supervision and assistance for the individual to complete an
activity to his/her level of independence: assistance in monitoring a health condition, nutrition, or physical condition, incidental supervision, daily living skills.

Respite Care
Respite services are designed to give caregivers a break, while knowing that their loved one is cared for. Care for the member could be provided in or out of the home for overnight, weekend, or emergency care.

Community Networking
Community networking services are individualized day activities that support the individual’s definition of a
“meaningful day: in an integrated community setting, with persons who are not disabled. Services are designed to promote maximum participation in community life while developing natural supports within integrated settings. Community networking services enable the participant to increase or maintain their capacity for independence and develop social roles valued by non-disabled members of the community.

Supported Employment
Supported Employment Services assist with choosing, acquiring, and maintaining a job for participants
ages 16 and older for whom competitive employment has not been achieved, or it has been interrupted, or
intermittent in nature.

Initial Supported Employment services include:
1. Pre-job training/education and development activities to prepare a person to engage in meaningful work-
related activities, which may include career/educational counseling, job shadowing, assistance in the use of

educational resources, training in resume preparation, job interview skills, study skills, assistance in
learning skills necessary for job retention.
2. Assisting a participant to develop and operate a micro-enterprise. This assistance consists of:
a. Aiding the participant to identify potential business opportunities;
b. Assistance in the development of a business plan, including potential sources of business
financing and other assistance;
c. Identification of the supports that are necessary for the participant to operate the business.
3. Coaching and employment support activities that enable a participant to complete initial job training or
maintain employment such as monitoring, supervision, assistance in job tasks, work adjustment training, and
counseling.

Long-term follow-up supports include:
1. Supported Employment Services assist with choosing, acquiring, and maintaining a job for
participants ages 16 and older for whom competitive employment has not been achieved, and /or has been
interrupted or intermittent. 
2. Pre-job training/education and development activities to prepare a person to engage in meaningful work-
related activities, which may include career/educational counseling, job shadowing, assistance in the use of
educational resources, training in resume preparation, job interview skills, study skills, assistance in
learning skills necessary for job retention.
3. Assisting a participant to develop and operate a micro-enterprise. This assistance consists of:
a. Aiding the participant to identify potential business opportunities;
b. Assistance in the development of a business plan, including potential sources of business
financing and other assistance;
c. Identification of the supports that are necessary for the participant to operate the business.
4. Coaching and employment support activities that enable a participant to complete initial job training or
maintain employment such as monitoring, supervision, assistance in job tasks, work adjustment training, and
counseling.