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Developmental Care Services
Child Developmental Home (CDH)
(CDH ) Child Developmental Home is when a provider opens their home to provide a foster home setting to a child or children from 0 to 17 years of age) in need of care. CDH providers can support up to three children in their homes at one time. The children who are placed in a CDH are receiving services through DES/DDD and have been diagnosed with a developmental disability. Developmental Disabilities can include, but are not limited to Cognitive Disability, Epilepsy, Cerebral Palsy, and Autism. Children who are placed in CDHs can be temporary or long-term, depending on the children's care plan. when you become a CDH provider you are expected to follow and support the care plan of the child or children placed in your home.
Adult Developmental Home (ADH)
(ADH) Adult Developmental Home is when a provider opens their home to provide a foster home setting to an adult or adults between the ages of 18 and older in need of care. As an ADH provider, you can support up to three adults in their home at one time. All adults placed in ADHs are receiving services through DES/DDD and have been diagnosed with a developmental disability. Developmental Disabilities can include, but are not limited to Cognitive Disability, Epilepsy, Cerebral Palsy, and Autism. Adults placed in an ADH are usually long-term placements. unless it is respite care.
Habilitation Services
Supported Developmental Home with Room and Board. Direct care workers will provide this service with a variety of interventions designed to maximize the functioning of persons with developmental disabilities. Services are designed to assist individuals in acquiring, retaining, and improving the self-help, socialization, and adaptive skills necessary to reside successfully in home and community-based settings. This service may be provided in the individual’s home or the community. Habilitation tasks may include assistance and training related to personal and physical needs and routine daily living skills, implementing strategies to address behavioral concerns, ensuring that the health needs of the individual are being met, providing opportunities for training and/or practice in basic consumer skills help, such as shopping, banking and money management and assisting individuals in utilizing community transportation resources to support the consumer in all daily living activities and life skills.
