Intellectual and Developmental Disability Services
Supports Coordination for community support and linking to appropriate services etc., Community Living Supports (CLS) services.
Community Living Supports (CLS)
Community Living Supports (CLS) are activities provided by paid staff that helps adults with either serious mental illness or developmental disabilities live independently and participate actively in the community. Community Living Supports may also help families who have children with special needs such as developmental disabilities or serious emotional disturbance.
Supports Coordinator
Supports Coordinator is a staff person who helps write an individual plan of service and makes sure the services are delivered. His or her role is to listen to a person’s goals and to help find the services and providers inside and outside the local community mental health services program that will help achieve these goals. A supports coordinator may also connect a person to resources in the community for employment, community living, education, public benefits, and recreational activities.
Family Support Subsidy Program
Michigan has a program to help families who care for their children with severe disabilities at home. The Family Support Subsidy Program can pay for special expenses the family has while caring for their child with severe disabilities The financial support may help prevent or delay placements outside the home. In other cases, the program may provide the funds necessary to allow children to return from placements outside the home
Supporting families of children with severe disabilities in this way allows families to stay together. It gives them flexibility in purchasing special services and saves money by avoiding or reducing the need for more costly placements outside the home.
Who Is Elligible
Families may be eligble for this program if they have a child under age 18 who has been identified by Michigan’s public school system as having an educational eligibility category of:
Cognitive Impairment (CI) – children with an eligibility category of CI may be eligible if their development is in the severe range of functioning as determined by the public school system.
Severe Multiple Impairment (SXI)
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) – children with ASD much be receiving special education services in a program designed for students with autism or in a program designed for students with autism or in a program designed for students wit severe cognitive impairment or severe multiple impairments. Children who attend “Applied Behavior Analysis” (ABA) Centers do not qualify for this program.
In cases in which the child is not receiving special education services or if it is not known if the child is receiving special education services, parents may contact the director of special education at the local or intermediate school district. They can also call Early On at 1-800-EarlyOn or by email to eoreferral@edzone.net.
Families can be headed by birth parents, adoptive parents, or legal guardians. Foster parents who are also legal guardians are not eligible.
Under the law, the Michigan taxable income for the family may not exceed $60,000. In addition the family cannot receive reimbursement from the Medical Subsidy Program for adoptive children if they choose to apply for the Family Support Subsidy.
How To Apply
You can get and turn in applications for the subsidy program at local offices of Michigan’s community mental health services programs (CMHSPs). Your local CMHSP determines eligibility for this program.
CMHSPs are listed on this website or you can find contact info online at www.macmhb.org (click on “Looking for Services). If you cannot find the number call the Family Support Subsidy office in Lansing at 517-241-5774. The TTY number is 711.
You may get and turn in applications at any time. Renewals are required every year just before or during your child’s birth month.
The following papers must be turned in wiht your application
- Copy of the child’s legal birth certificate
- Your family’s most recently filed Michigan Income Tax Return (MI-1040).
Providing a copy of the child’s Social Security card is encouraged but not mandated. In addition, you must contract your child’s school and request that they send or fax directly to the CMHSP written proof that certifies the child’s educational eligibility category and programming if the classification is ASD.
Program Benefits
Many children with severe impairments may not be able to eat, walk, dress or talk on their own. They often have both mental and physical impairments and need round-the-clock care. Families that include children with severe disabilities have many expenses other families do not.
Uses for the subsidy might be the purchase of additional therapies, special equipment, special food, diapers, transportation costs, in-home specialized care, respite care, family counseling, support groups, general households expenses, family recreation and home remodeling to provide for the special needs of the child.
This list is not all-inclusive. A unique feature of the subsidy is that the family decides its use to suit their need.
Payments
Payments are just over $200 a month. They are the same for all families and are issued near the end of each month.
Call 517-263-8905 or 1-800-664-5005 to speak to our Customer Service staff.
If you’re in crisis, call this number 517-263-8905 or 1-800-664-5005
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Adrian, MI 49221