revised 11-02
SERVICES
TO FAMILY MEMBERS
The Department may provide services to members of a
consumer’s family when necessary as part of the consumer’s rehabilitation
program. "Family member" includes any relative by blood or marriage
and other individuals living in the same household with whom an eligible
consumer has a close interpersonal relationship. Services to family members are
to be recorded and justified in the IPE and progress notes in the same manner as
services to the consumer.
Services provided to a family member or members should be
based on a determination that:
- the eligible consumer would be unable to begin or
continue the IPE, and/or
- the program would be jeopardized to the
extent that employment would be delayed or could not be achieved, and/or
- needed services are not readily available and
feasible through existing community agencies.
Services to family members may include:
- homemaker services to prepare a family member to
assist a consumer in a program of independent living skills and to adapt
to new or altered methods of home management (e.g., daily personal care
and home maintenance provided by an outside resource during periods of
stress or illness);
- counseling with family members to help them
understand the needs of the eligible consumer;
- day care services for children to enable an eligible
consumer to complete the IPE;
- foster family care to enable the family to remain as
a unit to permit an eligible consumer to complete the IPE (e.g., services
to maintain all children within a family unit when an eligible consumer
must leave home temporarily for vocational training or other services);
- family planning or marital counseling services;
- assistance in locating adequate living quarters for
the family.
