Stabilization for Children and Youth

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Home and Community

  • Specialized Habilitation

    This home and community-based waiver service helps people handle complicated situations and changes, problem-solve when things don’t go well, build and maintain healthy relationships, learn safety skills, self-advocacy and more. It’s a goal-based service with action steps based on the person’s core values. This service may be provided more frequently, up to 90 days, for those with an urgent need for Specialized Habilitation. Stabilization is intended to help an individual return to a more typical level of support provided by standalone Specialized Habilitation.

  • Staff and Family Consultation

    This home and community-based waiver service helps a person’s family and support staff understand how to better support their needs, learn techniques on how to use new equipment or technology for safety, learn parenting skills, get on the same page with each other and more. This service may be provided more frequently, up to 90 days, for those with an urgent need for Staff and Family Consultation. Stabilization is intended to help an individual return to a more typical level of support provided by standalone Staff and Family Consultation.

 

Out-of-Home 

  • Enhanced Respite Services (up to 30 days)

    Enhanced Respite Services provide community-based short-term respite (up to 30 days per calendar year) as an alternative to using respite services in an institutional setting. Enhanced Respite Services provide families with:

  • A break in caregiving.
  • The chance for behavioral stabilization of the child.
  • The ability to partner with the state to create an individualized service plan.

Enhanced Respite Services are designed to give DDA enrolled children and youth access to short term respite in a DDA contracted, and Division of Licensed Resources licensed, staffed residential setting. Enhanced Respite Fact Sheet

 

  • Intensive Habilitation Services (up to 90 days)

    The IHS program provides short-term stabilization services (up to 90 days) that are based on a client’s most prominent behavioral support needs, as identified by the client’s family in conjunction with the DDA case manager and IHS staff. IHS program staff are trained in positive behavior support principles and de-escalation techniques to support a client to acquire, retain and/or improve upon self-help, socialization and/or adaptive skills based upon the family’s identified goals. Successful outcomes are achieved when a consistent approach is applied to meeting the client’s support needs and parents are actively engaged in obtaining new strategies to support their child. The facility is certified by DDA and serves up to three children at a time. It is located in Lakewood, Washington. To learn more about IHS, please refer to Intensive Habilitation Services for Children.