Residential Supports
At Total Care Services, Inc., our Residential Supports include a range of services delivered in community-based residential settings. Our goal is to help you to achieve your goals, developing skills and relationships that support your participation in the community. That's why our services are designed with an approach that is person-centered.
Our Direct Support Professionals will support your participation in activities of your choice throughout the community. Go shopping, banking, use library services, volunteer, and more. Build towards your future of greater independence with these Residential Supports:
- Supported Living
- Host Home
- Residential Habilitation
Supported Living Services
Do you want to live in your community and enjoy your independence? Whether you prefer to live on your own or with a roommate, TCS' Supported Living services can help.
Our Supported Living services include habilitation, personal care, nursing, and other residential supports. We will help you gain, maintain, and improve skills related to activities of daily living. Our services are offered in a home serving one to three people. Transportation can be optional.
How do Supported Living services help?
Our goal is to help you live the life you want and participate actively in your community. We'll support and empower you to make choices with our person-centered approach. You'll receive hands-on support and habilitation services from our dedicated and trained staff.
Benefits of Supported Living services include:
- Developing social and adaptive skills
- Developing skills related to activities of daily living, like personal grooming, chores, and eating and meal preparation
- Transportation training
- Opportunities for community exposure
- Support for community integration
- Access to nursing and nutrition services, including 24-hour supervision, 7 days a week
- Access to occupational, physical, behavioral, and speech therapies as needed
Host Home
TCS' Host Homes offer a safe way to live in your community in a family-type setting and maintain your independence.
TCS' Host Home services provide a family-type setting to support you in achieving your goals. You can take part in community life and activities, maintain your health, and build on the skills that are important to you, such as:
- Daily living activities
- Money management
- Travel capabilities
- Recreation
- Cooking
- Shopping
- Using community resources
- Community safety
- Other adaptive skills needed to live in the community
A host home is a private home where an unrelated caregiver provides training, support, and supervision to one to three people.
Along with room and board, a host home caregiver will help you with:
- Eating and food preparation
- Personal hygiene
- Getting dressed
- Monitoring your health and physical condition
- Taking medication
- Communication between you and your health care providers
- Interpersonal and social skills
- Household chores, like laundry, shopping, and general housekeeping
- Mobility
- Motor and perceptual skills
- Problem-solving and decision-making
- Maintenance of medical and financial records
- Coordinating transportation to and from appointments*
- Planning and attending appointments and events
- Daily living activities and/or therapeutic goals in your Individual Support Plan (ISP) and Plan of Care
- Enhancing your opportunities for social, recreational, and religious activities using community resources
- Ensuring your adaptive equipment is appropriate and working well
*Host Home staff do not provide transportation services. TCS coordinates transportation services that are provided by 3rd party providers.
If you live in one of our host homes, your Registered Nurse (RN) and Qualified Intellectual Disability Professional (QIDP) will conduct an in-home visit monthly. We also offer help with coordinating professional services. Our QIDPs will help arrange the following services:
- Medical Care
- Dentistry
- Education
- Nutrition
- Nursing
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Behavior Support
- Community Supports
- Social Work
- Speech, hearing, and language therapy
- Recreation
If you would like to apply to be a host home provider, please let us know by submitting your inquiry on our Contact Us page
Residential Habilitation Services
(We are currently not accepting new participants.)
Residential Habilitation services are supports provided in a shared home setting of four to six people. These services offer ongoing training, support, and supervision.
At Total Care Services, Inc., we provide Residential Habilitation services that are tailored to you. Our staff will help you learn, maintain, and improve skills related to self-care, activities of daily living, adaptive functioning, and other areas that enhance your independence.
You will receive hands-on support, habilitation, and other services in line with your Individual Support Plan (ISP) and Plan of Care. Depending on your goals and needs, these supports may include assistance with:
- Meals and food preparation
- Personal hygiene
- Dressing
- Monitoring health and physical conditions
- Help with the administration of medication
- Communications
- Interpersonal and social skills
- Household chores
- Mobility
- Financial management
- Motor and perceptual skills
- Problem-solving and decision-making
- Human sexuality
- Opportunities for choice-driven social, recreational, and religious activities utilizing community resources
- Appropriate and functioning adaptive equipment
- Making sure that each home is accessible to public transportation and emergency vehicles
At Total Care Services, Inc., we will also ensure that you receive the professional services you need to meet the goals in your Individual Support Plan (ISP) or Plan of Care. Depending upon your goals, you may receive professional services in the following areas:
- Medicine
- Dentistry
- Education
- Nutrition
- Nursing
- Occupational therapy
- Physical therapy
- Psychology
- Social work
- Speech, hearing and language therapy
- Recreation
If you are in need of short-term relief as a caregiver, we also offer daily Respite services. Please visit our Respite Services page for more information or contact us to ask about Respite Services.
One-Time Transitional Services
What if you also need professional services?
Are you moving out on your own? You may be eligible for one-time transitional services.
One-Time Transitional Services are non-recurring set-up expenses for people who are transitioning from an institutional or another provider-operated living arrangement to a living arrangement in a private residence where you are directly responsible for your own living expenses.
One-Time Transitional Services are limited up to $5,000 (One-Time). Allowable expenses are those necessary to setup a basic household and may include:
- security deposits
- essential household furnishings
- set-up fees or deposits for utility or service access
- services necessary for your health and safety such as pest eradication and one-time cleaning prior to occupancy
- moving expenses
- necessary home accessibility adaptations
- activities to assess the need for, arrange for and procure needed resources
Eligibility for this service is determined by the Department on Disability Services (DDS).
