Residential Support

Residential Supports provides individualized services and supports to enable a person to live successfully in a Group Home or Alternative Family Living (AFL) setting of their choice and be an active participant in his/her community. The intended outcome of the service is to increase or maintain the person’s life skills, provide the supervision needed, maximize his/her self-sufficiency, increase self- determination and ensure the person’s opportunity to have full membership in his/her community.

Residential Supports includes learning new skills, practice and/or improvement of existing skills, and retaining skills to assist the person to complete an activity to his/her level of independence. Residential Supports includes supervision and assistance in activities of daily living when the individual is dependent on others to ensure health and safety.

Residential Supports are provided to individuals who live in a community residential setting that meets the home and community based characteristics as outlined in the Waiver in Appendix C. Residential Supports may additionally be provided in an AFL situation. The site must be the primary residence of the AFL provider (includes couples and single persons) who receive reimbursement for the cost of care. These sites are licensed or unlicensed in accordance with state rule. All unlicensed AFL sites will be reviewed using the PIHP AFL checklist for health and safety related issues. NC Innovations respite may also be used to provide temporary relief to individuals who reside in Licensed and Unlicensed AFLs, but it may not be billed on the same day as Residential Supports.