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CAP MR/DD

The goals of the Community Alternatives Program for Persons with Mental Retardation/Developmental Disabilities (CAP MR/DD) are consistent with reform of the system. They are to:
1. Address the the needs of the individuals in their community

2. Insure person-centered planning for each individual.

3. Provide for simplicity and ease of service delivery

4. Lift the individual fiscal limit on available services and supports

5. Promote movement of individuals to the community from intermediate care facility for persons with mental retardation (IC-MR) group homes and state developmental centers

Home and Community Supports services provide instruction and assistance to enable the individual to acquire and maintain skills that will allow him/her to function with greater independence in the community.

Personal Care Services (PCS) include support, supervision, and engaging participation with eating, bathing, dressing, personal hygiene, and activities of daily living. Support and engaging consumer participation is non-habilitative and describes the flexibility of activities that may encourage the person to maintain skills gained during active treatment and/or habilitation while also providing supervision for independent activities of the consumer.

Residential Supports (Alternative Family Living) provides assistance with acquisition, retention, or improvement in skills related to activities of daily living, such as personal grooming, and cleanliness, bed making and household chores, eating and the preparation of food, and the social and adaptive skills necessary to enable the individual to reside in a non-institutional setting.

Respite Care is a service that provides periodic relief for the family or primary caregiver. In order to be considered the primary care giver, a person must be principally responsible for the care and supervision of the individual, and must maintain their primary residence at the same address as the covered individual. This service may be provided in the individual's home or in an out-of-home setting.