Integrated Community Support (ICS)
Services that provide support and training/habilitation in community living service categories to adults age 18 and older who reside in a living unit of a provider-controlled ICS setting (e.g., an apartment in a multi-family housing building). ICS can be delivered up to 24 hours per day in the person’s living unit or in the community.

This covers training/habilitation and support to meet the person’s individualized assessed needs and goals in at least one of the community living service categories:

• Community participation
• Health, safety, and wellness.
• Household management
• Adaptive skills

Community Participation

This category may include:

• Community mobility and pedestrian safety (e.g., safely getting in and around the community)
• Community resource use and access
• Community safety and awareness
• Informal support system and network development
• Interpersonal communication skills
• Leisure, recreation, and socialization planning
• Skill-building to meet transportation needs

Health, Safety, and Wellness

This category may include:

• Collaboration with the person to arrange health care (e.g., physical, mental, chemical), meaningful activities, social services, meetings, and appointments.
• Training or support to complete self-care activities, including ADLs.
• Health services support
• Help for the person to activate and build resiliency factors
• Support for the person to design and meet individualized strategies to reach their health, safety, and wellness goals.

Household Management

This category may include:

1. Cueing, guidance, supervision, training, or instructional support to complete routine household care and maintenance.
2. Household safety knowledge and skills.
3. Tenancy support and advocacy.
4. Training, assistance, support, and/or guidance with:

• Budgeting and assistance to manage money
• Cooking, meal-planning, and nutrition
• Healthy lifestyle skills and practices
• Household chores, including minor household maintenance activities
• Personal-needs purchasing

Note: The person is responsible for the cost of the maintenance replacement items or products.