Support Services

Mentors meet with individuals one-on-one to instruct, model, advise, or provide experiences to assist individuals with full participation in their communities.  Mentors can assist individuals with interviewing potential providers, understanding complicated health and safety issues, and with participation on private or public boards, advisory groups and commissions.  Mentors can assist with understanding medical information by reviewing forms or assisting individuals in communicating with medical professionals.  Mentors can assist individuals with finding resources in their families or in the community.  Mentors can assist with understanding leases and making housing decisions.

Homemakers provide the opportunity to learn household tasks such as cleaning, doing laundry, and some household maintenance.  Homemakers cue or prompt individuals through the skills they need to independently care for a household.

Support Partners provide the opportunity to learn personal care skills.  Support Partners cue or prompt individuals through the skills necessary to participate in daily activities including hygiene, bathing, eating, dressing, grooming, bowel and bladder care, and menstrual care.

Support Partners provide relief for caregivers so they may take time for themselves, work extended hours, or attend to personal medical needs.  Respite can be provided in the individual’s home, the Support Partners home, or in the community.

SCC provides assistance to support the abilities and skills necessary to enable the participant to access typical activities and functions of community life such as those chosen by the general population, including community education or training, or retirement and volunteer activities.  SCC provides a wide variety of opportunities to facilitate and build relationships and natural supports in the community, while utilizing the community as a learning environment to provide services and supports as identified in the SP.  These activities are conducted in a variety of settings in which participants interact with community members.  These types of services may include socialization, adaptive skills and personnel to accompany and support the individual in community settings, resources necessary for participation in activities and skill acquisition, retention, or development.  Supported Community Connections help to promote safety and independence, develop skills for participation in the community, and work toward personal goals.

Community Connector is provided on a one-to-one basis.  Community Connector provides a wide variety of opportunities to facilitate, build relationships and natural supports in the community while utilizing the community as a learning environment.  These activities are conducted in a variety of settings in which participants interact with non-disabled individuals (other than those individuals who are providing services to the participant). These types of services may include socialization, adaptive skills, and personnel to accompany and support the individual in community settings, resources necessary for participation in activities and supplies related to skill acquisition, retention, or improvement.

Youth day service is available for CES waiver participants ages 12 through 17. Its purpose is to provide supervision while the primary caregiver works, volunteers, or seeks employment. This service can be provided in the community, client’s home, or provider’s residence. Caregivers, with children over 12 years, can use Youth Day Services in addition to respite when youth have days off from school or anytime the caregivers are working.

Support Partners provide relief for caregivers so they may take time for themselves, attend to personal medical needs.  Respite can be provided in the individual’s home, the Support Partners home, or in the community.

Homemaker Basic services that consist of the performance of basic household tasks within the participant’s primary residence (i.e., cleaning, laundry, or household care) including maintenance which are related to the participant’s disability.

Services provided by a qualified homemaker that consist of the same household tasks as described under Homemaker Basic services with the addition of either habilitation or extraordinary cleaning.

NMCS Support Services is happy to hire family members or friends to provide services and supports.  Family members or friend referrals can contact Mayra Petrafeso, Associate Director at 303-255-6523

Family members or friend referrals are required to participate in all required trainings annually.  Required training includes but may not be limited to: First Aid and CPR, MANE / Legal Rights, Incident Reporting, Defensive driving and Preventing Disease Transmission.