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Transitional Services is a waiver service that assists qualified individuals acquire Items and Expenses necessary and reasonable for a person to transition from an eligible setting to their own home or an integrated community supports setting. Transitional Services provides $3,000 per transition and can only be accessed once every three years from when the person last moved.

ELIGIBILITY
A person is eligible to receive transitional services if they meet all the following criteria:

  • Age 18 or older
  • Enrolled on the Brain Injury (BI), Community Access for Disability Inclusion (CADI), Community
  • Alternative Care (CAC) or Developmental Disabilities (DD) waiver, or reasonably expected to enroll within 180 days
  • Moving from an eligible setting to their own home or an integrated community supports setting
  • Moving to a setting where these items and expenses are not normally furnished
  • Not able to access transitional services from other funding sources (e.g., community nonprofit organizations)

ELIGIBILITY
A person can use transitional services to move to their own home or an integrated community supports setting from any of the following eligible settings:

  • Adult foster care home (corporate and family)
  • Hospital
  • Alternative Care (CAC) or Developmental Disabilities (DD) waiver, or reasonably expected to enroll within 180 days
  • Institution for mental diseases (IMD)
  • Intensive rehabilitation treatment or rule 36 setting
  • Intermediate care facility for persons with developmental disabilities (ICF/DD)
  • Nursing facility
  • Registered housing-with-services establishment (e.g., customized living)
  • Unlicensed setting (e.g., person’s own home, family home or integrated community supports setting)

COVERED SERVICES
Transitional Services covers

  • Essential furniture (e.g., bed frame, box spring, mattress, dining table and chairs, dressers, lamps, sofas)
  • Household supplies (e.g., cleaning supplies, dishes, drinking glasses, flatware, pots and pans, sheets, towels)
  • Lease or rental deposits
  • Moving expenses (e.g., moving vehicle rental, packing, unpacking)
  • Pest and allergen treatment of the home
  • Utility set-up fees and deposits
  • Window coverings

NON-COVERED SERVICES
Transitional services do not cover:

  • Clothing
  • Food
  • Items, expenses or supports that duplicate other waiver services (e.g., chore services, homemaker, environmental accessibility adaptations, specialized equipment and supplies)
  • Recreational and diversionary items (e.g., computers, DVD players, televisions, cable access)
  • Rent or mortgage payments
  • Services for a person moving into a home that does not meet the definition of a person’s own home
  • Supports to move (e.g., assistance from people to arrange for utilities or locate and secure a home; see DHS – Housing Stabilization Services)

SERVICE AMOUNT
Per person, transitional services cover a maximum of:

  • $3,000 per transition
  • One transition every three years from when the person last moved/used transitional services
  • The cost of essential furniture may not exceed $1,000 of the $3,000
  • The cost of household supplies may not exceed $300 of the $3,000
  • There are no exceptions to these limitations

Call us at 612-399-9987 or email us at caremarknursing@gmail.com or fill the attached Referral Form to get started.

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