Disability Means Possibility

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Comprehensive services for children and adults with Intellectual Developmental Disabilities and Mental Health diagnoses across North Carolina

NC INNOVATIONS WAIVER

NC Innovations Waiver Services

  • Community Living and Supports

    Is a periodic service is provided in a member’s home and the community to assist with the development of Activities of Daily Living, building personal preferences and experiences, and increasing social integration. Community Living and Supports encourages staff support that is person-centered and based on the member’s preferred schedule.

  • Respite Services

    Is a service provided periodically (as needed) that gives a reprieve for caregivers and natural supports needing a break from the responsibilities of daily care-taking. Respite is offered for both periodic and residential support services.

  • Community Networking

    Is a weekly service that is driven by volunteer activities and membership in community activities and organizations that are fully integrated with all populations of people. Community Networking is a service provided in the community where members can choose volunteer activities that assist with pre-vocational skills and vocational goals. Members can contribute their gifts and skills in volunteer settings around North Carolina. Members can also take integrated classes of their choosing to help build preferences and find meaningful ways to socialize with community peers.

  • Supported Employment

    Is a weekly service that is driven by employment skills and retention, this service also focuses on pre-employment skills and training, such as filling out job applications, mock interviewing, preparing for job interviews and workplace interactions, understanding accommodations/requesting accommodations, etc. Supported Employment provides 1:1 staffing support in employment settings and takes the place of Vocational Rehabilitation for those members who need 1:1 staffing while in a job environment. Staff members are meant to promote independence and job site training.

  • Alternative Family Living Levels 1–4

    A service performed in a staff’s home where individuals are free to live in a family setting with chosen staff. Members are given choices and options for residential support settings, including their bedroom preferences, furniture, and environmental preferences, and the freedom to create their daily schedules. Alternative Family Living staff members are responsible for daily care giving and goal running for members in their homes, and 3M’s Services staff take this honor very seriously. AFL is an alternative to the group home residential model and ICF/institutional settings, providing meaningful social integration and membership in the community.

  • Supported Living Levels 1-3

    A service for individuals living in their family home or with a desire to live in their own home with staff support of their choosing. Supported Living members are responsible for paying rent/mortgages and utilities in their own home or a Supported Living home of their choosing. Supported Living members can live with other Supported Living members or roommates of their choosing. 3M’s Services will help develop roommate agreements between the individuals. 

Peer Support

This service is identified in the following stages: Recovery is a process of change through which a beneficiary improves their health and wellness, lives a self-directed life, and strives to reach their full potential; to live, work, learn, and participate fully in their communities. Self-Determination is the right of an individual to direct his or her own services, to make decisions concerning their health and well-being, and to have help to make decisions from whomever they choose. Self-Advocacy is identifying and purposefully asking for what one needs. Health is learning to overcome, manage or more successfully live with the symptoms and making healthy choices that support one’s physical and emotional well-being. Lastly, community is relationships and social networks that provide support, friendship, love, and hope.

1915(i) WAIVER

1915(i) Waiver Services

Specialized support services for individuals with I/DD, Traumatic Brain Injury, and other qualifying conditions

  • 1915(i) Community Living and Support

     focuses on skill  practice/acquisition and provides supervision/assistance for activities.  This service is available for members with an I/DD or TBI.

  • 1915(i) Community Transition

    It provides funds for adult members moving from an institutional setting into their own private residence. This service is available for members with an I/DD, serious mental illness (SMI), severe substance uses disorder (SUD), or TBI.

  • 1915(i)  Individual and Transitional Support

    The services supports in acquiring, retaining and improving self-help, social and  adapting skills to reside successfully in the community. This service is  available for some members with a serious emotional disturbance (SED),  SMI or severe SUD.


  • 1915(i) Respite

    provides periodic or scheduled support and relief to the primary caregiver(s) from the responsibility and stress of caring for beneficiaries. This service is available for some members with I/DD, SED, severe SUD, and TBI.

  • 1915(i) Supported Employment

    provides initial job development, training.

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