Personal supports services are designed to pro- vide instrumental assistance to persons and/or families served. They may also support or facili-tate the provision of services or the participation of the persons served in other services/programs, such as employment or community integration services.

 

Services and supports, which are pri- marily delivered in the home or community, are not provided by skilled healthcare providers (please see the Glossary for a definition of skilled healthcare provider), and typically do not require individualized or in-depth service planning.

 

Services can include direct personal care sup- ports such as personal care attendants and housekeeping and meal preparation services.

 

Services can also include transporting persons served, information and referral services, trans- lation services, senior centers, programs offering advocacy and assistance by professional volun- teers (such as legal or financial services), training or educational activities (such as English lang- uage services); music therapy; recreation therapy; mobile meal services; or other support services, such as supervising visitation between family members and aides to family members.

 

A variety of persons may provide these services/ supports other than a program’s staff, such as PSW, SSW, DSW