Goals of Brain Injury Program:

• To provide service funding to support individuals in achieving their life goals.

• To provide individualized supports, which allows a person to stay in the home, or return to their community from an institution.

Services Available:

• Supported Community Living

• Respite Care

• Community Employment

• Prevocational Services:  Services aimed at preparing a consumer for paid, or unpaid, employment.  These services are not job-task oriented.  It includes teaching the consumer job readiness skills.

• Consumer-Directed Attendant Care (CDAC)

Eligibility:

• Diagnosis of a brain injury

• Eligible for Medicaid

• Assessed by the Iowa Foundation for Medical Care (IFMC) to be able to live in a home, or community-based setting, where all medically necessary service needs can be met by the HCBS-BI program.

• The consumer must be aged one month to 64 years of age.

• Must be eligible for Case Management services each quarter

For more information about this service, please contact Wendy Davies at our Red Oak Work Center at 712-623-4362.

These services are certified by the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Commission.

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