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Consolidated, P/FDS & Community Living Wavers

These waivers are designed to help individuals with an intellectual disability, autism, or developmental disability to live more independently in their homes and communities and to provide a variety of services that promote community living, including self- directed service models and traditional, agency-based service models. HLS provides the following services under these waivers:
Here to Help

Companionship service is intended to assist individuals to participate meaningfully in home and community life. As Companions, Direct Support Professionals provide supervision and assistance with instrumental activities of daily living IADLs to ensure the individual’s health, safety, and welfare.
Having Fun Getting It Done!

In-Home & Community Habilitation service is provided to assists individuals in the acquisition, retention, or improvement of skills related to living an independent, meaningful, and purposeful life.
Finding Meaning and Creating Balance

Behavior Support service (BS) is provided to; assess the function of behaviors that impede one’s ability to thrive in one’s environment; develop plans to modify those behaviors using key principles from Applied Behavior Analysis and Positive Behavior Supports; And monitor implementation and effectiveness through regular consultation and data analysis.
Go Ahead, Take a Break!

Respite service is provided in the consumer’s home when the primary caregiver is either absent or in need of relief. During respite, individuals are assisted with maintaining daily routines, including ADLs and community participation, in the absence of a primary care giver.

Adult Autism Waiver (AAW)

The Adult Autism Waiver is one of two programs in Pennsylvania specifically designed to help adults with autism spectrum disorder participate in their communities in the way that they want to, based on their identified needs. HLS provides the following services under the AAW:
Systematic Skill Building (SSB) is one of 3 components of the Specialized Skill Development service offered in the Adult Autism Waiver; the other being Behavior and Community Supports. The Systematic Skill Building is a unique service that evidence-based methods to help participants acquire skills that promote independence and integration into the community, which are not behavioral in focus.

Skill Building Plans are individualized based on assessment of the participant’s skill level and are generally implemented by the Direct Support Professional supporting the participant. Others with regular contact with the participant– such as family, friends, neighbors, and employers may also receive training to implement the SBP to ensure consistent application of the approach determined most effective for the participant’s skill acquisition. The goal is to align paid and natural supports in using the same strategies to promote generalization of skills across different environments which is often a challenge for individuals with Autism. Possible skills include how to cook, do laundry, or use public transportation.
Behavior Specialist Services (BSS)
BSS provides specialized interventions aimed at increasing adaptive behaviors and modifying challenging behaviors that are deemed destructive, disruptive or disturbing and interfere with the participant’s home and community integration.
Systematic Skill Building (SSB)
SSB uses evidence-based methods to help the participant acquire skills that promote independence and integration into the community, which are not behavioral in focus. While SSB develops a Skill Building Plan (SBP) based on the participant’s goals, the person providing SSB is not the primary implementer of that Plan. People who provide other support such as Community Support, Supported Employment, Day Habilitation, or Residential Habilitation are primarily responsible for the implementation of the SBP. Other people with regular contact with the participant – such as family, friends, neighbors, and employers – may also implement the SBP to ensure consistent application of the approach determined most effective for that participant’s skill acquisition. Aligning paid and natural supports in using the same SBP also promotes the generalization of skills across different environments, often a challenge for individuals with ASD. Possible skills include how to cook or use public transportation.
Home & Community Support (CS)
Through Community Support services, participants are assisted in acquiring, retaining, and improving communication, socialization, self-direction, self-help, and other adaptive skills necessary to reside and thrive in their communities. Community Support facilitates social interaction and promotes participation in education and volunteer activities.
BSS provides specialized interventions aimed at increasing adaptive behaviors and modifying challenging behaviors that are deemed destructive, disruptive or disturbing and interfere with the participant’s home and community integration.
SSB uses evidence-based methods to help participants acquire and maintain skills that increase independent living and community integration. This systematic approach to skill acquisition and fluency is specifically designed to address deficits that are not related to destructive, disruptive and disturbing behaviors.
Through Community Support services, participants are assisted in acquiring, retaining, and improving communication, socialization, self-direction, self-help, and other adaptive skills necessary to reside and thrive in their communities. Community Support facilitates social interaction and promotes participation in education and volunteer activities.
Finding Ways to Heal

Counseling Services are provided to assist individuals with managing symptoms of mental health conditions. HLS Understands the connections between one’s thoughts, emotions and behaviors and recognizes the prevalence of dually diagnosis participants in our program. To position ourselves to better support our participants in this area, HLS is seeking authorization from the Office of Developmental Programs to add Counseling to our list of services provided in 2023.

Community Tours

Community Tours is a signature program offered by HLS to support our participants in maximizing the benefits of their communities. In our exciting and informative ventures, we employ person-centered, strength-based, and transitional strategies that promote access to and facilitate participation in events and activities that allow for more meaningful daily experiences.

HLS’s Community Tours program promotes Choice, Balance, and Independence by familiarizing participants with the resources available in their communities during individual and group excursions. We believe everyone should have knowledge of, as well as access to, people, places and things that promote meaningful experiences. Our program aims to increase resourcefulness and initiative through exposure to a versatile mix of educational, cultural, spiritual and social activities in each participant’s local and extended communities.
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Choice
“an act of selecting or making a decision when faced with two or more possibilities.”-

At HLS we believe in the ability of all people to choose their own happiness and we support them in their pursuit.
Balance
“mental and emotional steadiness; Stability.”

At HLS we believe a balanced life includes things that support all aspects of one’s physical, mental and emotional well-being; and we help our participants incorporate them into their everyday lives.
Independence
“free from outside control; not depending on another's authority.”-

At HLS we believe in the rights of individuals to exercise authority and control over their own lives, and we support out participants with increasing their skills to do so.
Community
“a social group whose members have something in common, such as a shared government, geographic location, culture, or heritage.”-

At HLS we believe in the value and importance of the connections to be made within communities and we assist individuals with making and maintaining them.
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