(Clarification of Client Privacy and Confidentiality Policies). Verification of Provider Qualifications Provider Type: Entity Responsible for Verification: Frequency of Verification Homemaker/Personal Care ASAPs Every 3 years agencies Health Care Agencies ASAPs Every 3 years Home Health Agencies ASAPs Every 3 years Individual Occupational ASAPs Every 3 years Therapist Service Specification Service Type: Statutory Extended State Plan Other ☐ ☐ Service Name: Peer Support Alternative Service Title (if any): Service is included in approved waiver. There is no change in service specifications. ☐ Service is included in approved waiver. The service specifications have been modified. ☐ Service is not included in approved waiver. Service Definition (Scope): Peer Support is designed to provide targeted recovery services to older adults with behavioral health diagnoses. Peer Support assistance includes mentoring participants about self-advocacy and participation in the community, including, but not limited to, such activities as accessing a senior center, getting to medical appointments or a hospital for a medical procedure, assisting with care transitions, and housing paperwork, accompanying for walks to various community locations, and generally engaging to reduce isolation. Peer support may be provided in small groups or peer support may involve one peer providing support to another peer, the waiver participant. Peer support promotes and assists the waiver participant's ability to participate in self-advocacy. The service utilizes trained peers as coaches who have lived experience with mental illness to promote centered care and attainment of measurable personalized recovery goals. Specify applicable (if any) limits on the amount, frequency, or duration of this service: Not to exceed 16 hours per week.
(Clarification of Client Privacy and Confidentiality Policies). Verification of Provider Qualifications Provider Type: Entity Responsible for Verification: Frequency of Verification Homemaker/Personal Care agencies ASAPs Every 3 years Health Care Agencies ASAPs Every 3 years Home Health Agencies ASAPs Every 3 years Individual Occupational Therapist ASAPs Every 3 years Service Specification Service Type: ☐ Statutory ☐ Extended State Plan Other Service Name: Peer Support Alternative Service Title (if any): ☐ Service is included in approved waiver. There is no change in service specifications. ☐ Service is included in approved waiver. The service specifications have been modified. Service is not included in approved waiver. Service Definition (Scope): Peer Support is designed to provide targeted recovery services to older adults with behavioral health diagnoses. Peer Support assistance includes mentoring participants about self-advocacy and participation in the community, including, but not limited to, such activities as accessing a senior center, getting to medical appointments or a hospital for a medical procedure, assisting with care transitions, and housing paperwork, accompanying for walks to various community locations, and generally engaging to reduce isolation. Peer support may be provided in small groups or peer support may involve one peer providing support to another peer, the waiver participant. Peer support promotes and assists the waiver participant's ability to participate in self-advocacy. The service utilizes trained peers as coaches who have lived experience with mental illness to promote care and attainment of measurable personalized recovery goals. Specify applicable (if any) limits on the amount, frequency, or duration of this service: Not to exceed 16 hours per week. centered
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