Who Can Use Supported Living?
Supported Living services are paid for through NC Medicaid Innovations Waiver. Receipients of this service are required to meet NC Medicaid and Innovations Waiver criteria, and be awarded Innovations Waiver services.
When people with disabilities are not currently receiving Innovations Waiver services but still want to receive supports while living in their own dwelling, contact the local LME/MCO to find out if the person may qualify.
Supported Living is not only a service, but also a concept, and for those who do not receive NC Innovations Waiver services, other services or supports may be used to assist people with living in their own homes.
Supported Living Service Definitions
Per NC Medicaid Clinical Coverage Policy 8P Supported Living services are defined as:
A flexible partnership that enables a NC Innovations beneficiary to live in their own home with support from an agency that provides individualized assistance in a home that is under the control and responsibility of the beneficiary.
The service includes direct assistance as needed with activities of daily living, household chores essential to the health and safety of the beneficiary, budget management, attending appointments, and interpersonal and social skills building to enable the beneficiary to live in a home in the community.
Training activities, supervision, and assistance may be provided to allow the beneficiary to participate in home life or community activities.
Other activities include assistance with monitoring health status and physical condition, and assistance with transferring, ambulation and use of special mobility devices.
Copies of these specific service definitions can also be found here: https://medicaid.ncdhhs.gov/8-p-north-carolina-innovations/download?attachment
Supported Living Principles
People with intellectual/developmental disabilities own or rent their home.
People choose the type and frequency of support they receive, who they live with (if anyone) and how their days are structured.
Supported living assumes that all people with intellectual/developmental disabilities, regardless of the level or type of disability, can make choices about how to live their lives even if the person needs support to make decisions or does not make choices in conventional ways.