Developmental Educational Assistance Program

D.E.A.P.

Community Supports

Community supports includes any individually designed service that will assist adults with developmental disabilities to live more independently in the community of their choice.

Who is Eligible?

This service is intended for adults (age 18 and over) who have a developmental disability and who have no other services from the Developmental Disabilities Program (other than DD case management.)  Individuals receiving this service may not live in a nursing home.  Individuals must be determined to be Medicaid eligible based on disability and limited assets.  Funds for this service are capped for each individual, so a person’s health and safety needs have to be met with this limited dollar amount.  DEAP provides services in the following counties: Carter, Custer, Dawson, Fallon, Garfield, Powder River, Prairie, Rosebud, Treasure and Wibaux.

How to make a referral or access services?

Community Supports services are accessed through a DD Case Manager, who can place an individual on the waiting list.  Once an individual is screened into services, the family may choose from available providers in the area.  An individual can keep receiving the service even if they move to another area, as long as they remain in the state and continue to be eligible.

What Services are provided?

A team, with the individual, develops an Individual Plan outlining the individual’s long-term goals and objectives to work on each year.  Services provided may include:

• Personal care services such as assistance with personal hygiene, dressing, eating, and ambulatory needs of the individual

• Residential habilitation- acquiring skills in activities of daily living such as   personal grooming, household chores, and food preparation

• Employment services- teaching employment skills or assisting the individual to work in a paid job in the community

• Educational services- adult learning activities

• Respite- services provided to the individual so as to relieve those persons normally caring for the individual

• Environmental accessibility adaptations such as ramps to accommodate wheelchairs

• Specialized medical/adaptive equipment and supplies- devices which increase the individual’s independence or are necessary for life support

• Private duty nursing

• Health supports- supports which reduce health risks

• Transportation for the individual to gain access to services, activities and resources

• Homemaker services such as meal preparation and routine household care when the person responsible for these activities is temporarily absent or unable to manage the home and care for himself/herself or others in the home.

Connecting with individuals, families and communities.

 Adult Supported Living Services    Child Care Resource & Referral    Community Supports

Evaluation & Diagnosis Services    Family Education & Support    IDEA Infant & Toddler

In-Home Program    Lifespan Respite

PASARR    WIC