Respite Care Services This service is short-term support that gives you and your family, or other primary caregiver,a break from daily routines. It is a one-to-one service.Respite is provided in: your home; a respite care provider’s home; a licensed residential site; state certified overnight or youth camps; or other places and camps approved by the DDA. This does not include…
OHCDS This service is meant to provide access to DDA-funded goods and services authorized in the person-centered plan.We offer these services under OHCDS: Assistive Technology;Environmental Assessments; Environmental Modifications; Transition Services; and Transportation. Assistive Technology Service What does this service do? This service supports you to maintain or improve your independent skills. This includes improving interactions, supporting meaningful relationships, and increasing…
These services provide you with information about and support with getting and keeping independent housing.This service includes housing information, assistance, transition and tenancy sustaining services. The Housing Information and Assistance part of this service helps you get independent housing. The Housing Transition Services assess your housing needs and develops an individualized housing support plan.The Housing Tenancy Sustaining Services help you…
The term “Meaningful Day” is used to describe the entire menu of Maryland DDA’s employment and day services. The purpose of Meaningful Day services is to support participants of working age on their path to employment (no matter where they are on that path), and participants of retirement age to take part in retirement activities.
Community Living services assist the participant, who lives in a provider-owned or operated residential setting in the development, acquisition, and maintenance of skills related to activities of daily living, instrumental activities of daily living, and to engage in community integration, socialize, and work, if the person would like to do so.
Supported Living services assist the participant to learn self-direction and problem solving related to performing and maintaining activities of daily living, instrumental activities of daily living, and engage in community-based activities of the participant’s choosing within his or her personal resources.
Personal Supports provide habilitative services that assist people who live in their own or family home with the development or maintenance of skills related to daily and community living.Activities should be habilitative in nature (meaning they should be focused on keeping, training, learning,or improving skills and functioning for daily living). However, what activities a particular person does is going to be based on their own outcomes/goals, experiences, and barriers.