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Center for Transitional Living
Happy. Healthy. Home
Medicaid Services
Acquired Brain Injury Waiver (ABI)
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Homemakers perform light household duties such as cooking and meal preparation, general housecleaning and running errands. They also remind the patient when it’s time to take medication, and help the patient follow a prescribed diet. Their focus is on maintaining patient's households rather than providing hands-on personal care.
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Companions provide comfort and companionship to patients who, for safety or medical reasons, should not be left alone. Some may also assist with household tasks.
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Independent Living Skill Development (ILST) are individually assigned to improve or maintain the ability of the waiver participant to live as independently as possible in the community. ILST assists in assessment, training, and supervision of an individual with self-care, medication management, task completion, communication skills, interpersonal skills, socialization, sensory/motor skills, mobility, community transportation skills, reduction/elimination of maladaptive behaviors, problem solving skills, money management, pre-vocational skills and skills to maintain a household, assist a participant in returning to, or expanding the waiver participant's involvement in meaningful activities.
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ABI Recovery Assistants implement a comprehensive care plan developed by a licensed professional clinical social worker, physician or licensed care professional to implement. Services Include Medication cuing, and monitoring; develop, maintain or enhance independent functioning skills in the areas of sensory-motor, cognition, personal grooming, hygiene, toileting, etc.; Assist in developing and maintaining friendships of choice and skills to use in daily interactions; Provide support to explore job interests, retirement options; Provide opportunities to participate in community activities; Provide support to complete work or business activities; Training and supervision to increase or maintain self-help, socialization, and adaptive skills to participate in own community; Overnight care.
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Chore Services is a one-on-one hourly service that helps maintain a clean, sanitary, and safe living environment for persons with disabilities who are unable to complete chore activities on their own. Chore Services includes heavy household chores such as washing floors, windows, and walls; snow removal, lawn care, tacking down loose rugs and tiles; and moving heavy items of furniture in order to provide safe access and egress. ABI Waiver Request Form
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ABI and Medicaid Waiver Eligibility
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ABI and Medicaid Waiver Eligibility
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18 through 64 years of age
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Able to participate in the development of a service plan in partnership with a Department of Social Services social worker or have a conservator to do so
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Income and assets are reviewed for eligibility
Elder Care
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To be eligible for the Connecticut Homecare Program for Elders, applicants must be on Medicaid. The guidelines for Medicaid require applicants to be 65 years of age or older, be a Connecticut resident, be at risk of nursing home placement and meet the program’s financial eligibility criteria. To be at risk of nursing home placement means that the applicant needs assistance with critical needs such as bathing, dressing, eating, taking medications, toileting. The CHCPE helps eligible clients continue living at home instead of going to a nursing home. Each applicant’s needs are reviewed to determine if the applicant may remain at home with the help of home care services.​
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Homemakers perform light household duties such as cooking and meal preparation, general housecleaning and running errands. They also remind the patient when it’s time to take medication, and help the patient follow a prescribed diet. Their focus is on maintaining patient's households rather than providing hands-on personal care.​
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Companions provide comfort and companionship to patients who, for safety or medical reasons, should not be left alone. Some may also assist with household tasks.​
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Senior Personal Care Assistants play an integral role in allowing Connecticut seniors and the elderly to remain independent within a safe environment at home. The supportive care services that each personal care assistant provides focuses on the individual’s unique needs for personal health, safety and well-being in the home setting. Examples include Assistance with bathing, dressing and grooming, Providing medication reminders, Mobility assistance and transferring, Meal preparation and feeding, Incontinence care, Overnight care.​
Mental Health Waiver (WISE)
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The W.I.S.E. waiver program is for individuals with serious mental illness. The program incorporates the recovery orientation adopted by the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DMHAS), as well as displays new directions in the community treatment of people with serious psychiatric disabilities. W.I.S.E. waiver program emphasizes: Intensive psychiatric rehabilitation provided in the participant’s home, and in other community settings; wellness and recovery, attention to both psychiatric and medical needs; use of peer supports provided by people trained and certified in rehabilitative care, who know from first-hand experience about recovery from mental illness; and Person-Centered Planning leading to development of an individualized Recovery Plan.
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We offer the following services under the program.
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Recovery Assistant (RA) implements a comprehensive care plan developed by a licensed professional clinical social worker, physician or licensed care professional to implement. Services Include Medication cuing, and monitoring; develop, maintain or enhance independent functioning skills in the areas of sensory-motor, cognition, personal grooming, hygiene, toileting, etc.; Assist in developing and maintaining friendships of choice and skills to use in daily interactions; Provide support to explore job interests, retirement options; Provide opportunities to participate in community activities; Provide support to complete work or business activities; Training and supervision to increase or maintain self-help, socialization, and adaptive skills to participate in own community; Overnight care.
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Community Support Program (CSP) provide mental health and substance abuse rehabilitation services and supports necessary to assist the individual in achieving and maintaining the highest degree of independent functioning. The service utilizes a team approach to provide intensive, rehabilitative community support, crisis intervention, group and individual psycho-education, and skill building for activities of daily living. ILS includes a comprehensive array of rehabilitation services most of which are provided in non-office settings by a mobile team. Services are focused on skill building with a goal of maximizing independence. Community-based treatment enables the team to become intimately familiar with the participant’s surroundings, strengths and challenges, and to assist the participant in learning skills applicable to his/her living environment. The team services and interventions are highly individualized and tailored to the needs and preferences of the individual.
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Transitional Case Management services provided during the weeks prior to, and immediately following discharge from a nursing home, to help locate and set up a suitable living arrangement. services provided during the weeks prior to, and immediately following discharge from a nursing home, to help locate and set up a suitable living arrangement.
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Brief Episode Stabilization services designed to stabilize an individual in an emerging crisis stabilization. services designed to stabilize an individual in an emerging crisis stabilization.
MH Waiver Request Form
Adult Family Living Program
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"The Adult Family Living Program (AFL) - Foster Caregiver Program", is a program that helps pay for those that provide care and live with the elderly and individuals with disabilities. The State of Connecticut has created this unique program for individuals who are the primary caregiver of a friend or family member, making it possible for them to remain at home, involved in their community and avoid a nursing home.
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If you are the primary caregiver of a friend or family member, you could be eligible to get paid.
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To be eligible for the Adult Family Living Program, individuals that are receiving the care must be on the Connecticut Home care Program for Elders or the Personal Care Waiver Program and need home care. The Center for Transitional Living is an approved provider for the Adult Family Living Program and will be able to provide training and oversight as well as provide a tax free stipend up to $640 a week depending on level of care.
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If you or someone you know are interested in our home care services or have any questions regarding the Adult Family Living Program, please contact us at (800) 285-1135 or contact us here.
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We'll check to see if you're eligible to apply — then Medicaid and your health plan will determine your final eligibility.
Personal Care Assistant Waiver (PCA)
This Medicaid Waiver program provides access to resources to hire assistants to help with the activities of daily living. This includes eating, bathing, dressing, transferring and toileting. You must have a significant need for hands-on assistance with at least two activities of daily living and be without access to family and community support to meet your needs. You must also be able to direct your own care and supervise private household employees, or have a conservator to do so.
​​PCA Medicaid Waiver Eligibility
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​Connecticut residents who are eligible for all Medicaid-covered services
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​18 through 64 years of age
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​Able to participate in the development of a service plan in partnership with a Department of Social Services social worker or have a conservator to do so
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​Income and assets are reviewed for eligibility
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