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1516 Valley West Drive, West Des Moines, IA 50266
Offers a Disability Access Point, or "DAP", which helps individuals with disabilities, their families, and their caregivers find the services and support they need-both short-term and long-term. DAPs help by giving information, making plans, making referrals and checking in to make sure people are getting the right support to live healthy, independent lives.
Can help with the following services:
- Information and Assistance - Based on presented and identified needs, provides information about programs and services, and helps to connect individuals to service providers in their communities.
- Options Counseling - Provides guidance to individuals so that they may make informed choices about supports and services, typically over a period of 90 days or less. This includes benefits screening and application assistance for programs and services and follow-ups to make sure supports and decisions are assisting the individual.
- Short-term services and supports (STSS) - Include adaptive and assistive equipment, home and vehicle modifications, peer and parent support services, transportation assistance, and other basic needs (time- limited, not covered by insurance). For STSS, individuals will engage in a short-term person-centered plan around services and supports.
- Long-term services and supports - Includes adult day programs, consumer-directed attendant care (CDAC) (non-skilled and skilled), day habilitation, employment like job skills training, prevocational services, and supported employment, intensive residential services (IRSH), personal response systems, respite services like in-home, in-facility, and day camps, supported community living (SCL) and home-based habilitation (hourly), and residential living settings.
Nebraska 211 v2 Writer
Address Confidential, Des Moines, IA 50319
Provides opportunities for individuals in Iowa to move out of Intermediate Care Facilities for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities (ICF/ID) and into homes in the community of choice. Individuals living in nursing facilities, Psychiatric Medical Institutes for Children (PMIC), and inpatient hospital settings may also qualify. Grant dollars provide funding for the transition services and enhanced supports needed for the first year after a person transitions into the community. MFP assistance is available to individuals with a diagnosis of an intellectual disability or brain injury who have lived in a qualifying facility for at least 60 consecutive days. The individual must express an interest in moving from the facility setting into the community.
Nebraska 211 v2 Writer
2309 Euclid Avenue, Des Moines, IA 50310
Offers a Disability Access Point, or "DAP", which helps individuals with disabilities, their families, and their caregivers find the services and support they need-both short-term and long-term. DAPs help by giving information, making plans, making referrals and checking in to make sure people are getting the right support to live healthy, independent lives.
Can help with the following services:
- Information and Assistance - Based on presented and identified needs, provides information about programs and services, and helps to connect individuals to service providers in their communities.
- Options Counseling - Provides guidance to individuals so that they may make informed choices about supports and services, typically over a period of 90 days or less. This includes benefits screening and application assistance for programs and services and follow-ups to make sure supports and decisions are assisting the individual.
- Short-term services and supports (STSS) - Include adaptive and assistive equipment, home and vehicle modifications, peer and parent support services, transportation assistance, and other basic needs (time- limited, not covered by insurance). For STSS, individuals will engage in a short-term person-centered plan around services and supports.
- Long-term services and supports - Includes adult day programs, consumer-directed attendant care (CDAC) (non-skilled and skilled), day habilitation, employment like job skills training, prevocational services, and supported employment, intensive residential services (IRSH), personal response systems, respite services like in-home, in-facility, and day camps, supported community living (SCL) and home-based habilitation (hourly), and residential living settings.
Nebraska 211 v2 Writer