IDD Intake/Enrollment

Intake and enrollment staff test adults and children for intellectual and/ or developmental disabilities. Staff connects eligible individuals to resources.

General Revenue Service Coordination(GR)

These services help adults and children with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities stay in their own home or family’s home through respite and service coordination.

TEXAS HOME LIVING (TXHML)

Integral Care provides adults and children with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities service coordination and connection to a TxHmL program. The TxHmL program provides services and supports so that people with IDD can continue to live with their family or in their own homes. Services include funding for nursing care, respite, staff to help with daily activities, mental health support, adaptive aids, minor home modifications, help finding and keeping a job, day programs, dental care, and specialized therapies like physical, occupational and speech therapies.

HOME AND COMMUNITY BASED SERVICES (HCS)

This program helps adults and children with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities who live with their family, in their own home, in a host home/companion care setting, or in a home with no more than four people who also receive services. Services include funding for nursing care, staff to help with daily activities, mental health support, adaptive aids, residential assistance, minor home modifications, help finding and keeping a job, day programs, dental care, and specialized therapies like physical, occupational and speech therapies.

Community First Choice

Federally mandated program, that enables Texas Medicaid to provide the most cost effective approach to basic attendant and habilitation service delivery. The services available in CFC are:

• Personal assistance services

• Habilitation services

• Emergency response services

• Support management

Crisis Intervention Specialist (CIS) Team

The CIS Team helps people ages 3-99 with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities who have experienced a crisis or who are at risk of experiencing one. It provides crisis prevention support and services for up to 90 days. The goal is to help people stay safe and in the community.

Community-Based Crisis Support (CBCS) Team

This program helps adults who live with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities and a mental illness, who may also be experiencing a crisis. Staff help clients create plans to help them stay safe and prevent crises. The goal is to keep clients in the community and out of hospitals or jail. Staff connect clients to resources and help them work towards long-term health and wellness.

Outpatient Behavioral Health Services for People with IDD (OBI)

The OBI pilot project serves individuals diagnosed with Intellectual and/or Developmental Disabilities (IDD) and a mental health and/or substance use diagnosis who are experiencing crisis, or have a history of crisis events. This may present as: psychiatric hospitalizations, incarcerations, behavioral challenges or involvement with crisis teams and first responders. The pilot will provide intensive and collaborative crisis prevention services to eligible participants between November 2020 and August 2021.

Care Coordination Program

Care Coordination is a mental health support system using a wraparound approach to services for children and youth, with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities and a mental health diagnosis. To be eligible for Care Coordination, a child/youth must be between five and seventeen (5-17) years of age; be multi-system involved or at risk of multi-system involvement; and enrolled in ID/DD Services with a mental health diagnoses.

POSITIVE ASSISTIVE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT (PACE)

This program supports adults and children living with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities who may be experiencing a crisis. Staff provide hourly in-home relief to help ease client and caregiver stress. Services include help managing stress, family and caregiver support like coping skills and de-escalation techniques and connection to other services.