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.
