Admission criteria:
- Individuals must be at least 10 years of age.
- Individuals must have a primary diagnosis of a developmental disability (IQ and may have a secondary diagnosis of mental illness).
- Individuals must be tuberculosis-free.
- PLAUSIBLE CARE, INC, can manage individual service needs.
- The individuals must have significant limitations in adaptive skills in two or more areas: communication, self-care, home living, social skills, community use, self-direction, health and safety, functional academics, leisure, and work.
- Only individuals eligible for DD waiver funding and funds are available.
EXCLUSIONARY CRITERIA
- Persons who use wheelchairs.
- Anyone diagnosed with tuberculosis or Hepatitis A, B, or C.
- Individuals with primary mental health diagnoses.
- Individuals who require intrusive behavioral therapies, seclusion, or mechanical restraints.
- Individuals with a history (within 1 year) of creating unsafe conditions such as fire setting.
- Individuals who are actively suicidal or homicidal with a plan means and a suicide attempt within ninety (90) days before admission.
- Individuals actively addicted to or abusing alcohol or drugs require detoxification and medical intervention.
- Individuals who are actively psychotic and cannot be safely treated in the community.
- Individuals who have primary medical or healthcare needs requiring primary nursing care.
- Those who do not meet the criteria noted in the admissions criteria.
Continued Stay:
Individuals who continue to meet admissions criteria and do not meet any exclusion criteria elements.
Discharge/Termination:
Individuals are discharged from our program when they/their family/authorized representative, support coordinator, or program administrative staff requests a discharge or when they age out of our program (primarily determined by medical needs).
The following are grounds for involuntary termination from the program:
- Individuals with any weapons on the premises (e.g., guns, personal knives, pocketknives, or any item that may be construed as a weapon).
- Individuals who wander or require care from a skilled nursing facility or nursing home.
- Individuals no longer meet the admissions or continued to stay criteria.