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contract with the Department, Local Mental Health Authority, or other entity
as contracted by the Department.
(19) "Community Living and Inclusion Supports" mean services that
facilitate independence and promote community integration by supporting
the individual to gain or maintain skills to live as independently as possible
in the type of home the individual chooses. Community living and inclusion
supports provide support for the individual to participate in activities in
integrated settings that promote community inclusion and contribution.
(a) Community living and inclusion supports include supports
designed to develop or maintain skills for self-care, ability to direct
supports, care of the immediate environment, and may include
instruction in skills an individual wishes to acquire, retain, or improve
that enhance independence, productivity, integration, or maintain the
individual's physical and mental skills. Community living and inclusion
supports include supports in the following areas:
(A) Personal skills, which includes eating, bathing, dressing,
personal hygiene, and mobility;
(B) Socialization, which includes development or maintenance
of self-awareness and self-control, social responsiveness,
social amenities, and interpersonal skills;
(C) Community participation, recreation, or leisure, which
includes the development or maintenance of skills to use
available community services, facilities, or businesses;
(D) Communication, which includes development or
maintenance of expressive and receptive skills in verbal and
non-verbal language and the functional application of acquired
reading and writing skills; and
(E) Personal environmental skills, which includes development
or maintenance of skills such as planning and preparing meals,
budgeting, laundry, and housecleaning.
(b) Community living and inclusion supports may or may not be work
related.
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