A New Kind of Program, JUST FOR YOU!
Every person possesses a unique potential; a potential to create, grow, learn, and adapt. We focus on empowering each person served, and to enjoy a fulfilling and meaningful lifestyle. Our program provides opportunities in self-advancement and community integration.
- We offer a personalized schedule designed to fit the needs and interests of each person.
- We guide and provide support for people in gaining the skills needed to find employment, improve health and wellness, and learn essential social skills.
- We provide each person with the opportunity to become self-reliant and a contributing member of their community.
- We help to enhance social and communication skills among peers and community members and encourage individual choices and active self-advocacy that leads to a happy and healthy lifestyle.
- We encourage full and healthy lifestyles and want everyone to have the opportunity to experience the life they choose–their “Best Life”!
Services Offered
The Stone County Developmental Disability Board is a certified DMH Medicaid provider, authorized to provide the following services through our ACES! program:
Day Habilitation
Part Facility/part Community-based program to assist with skills acquisition and development.
Day Habilitation (DH) services are designed to assist the individual to acquire, improve and retain the self-help, socialization and adaptive skills that enhance social development and develop skills in performing activities of daily living (ADL) and community living. DH services may also be used to provide supported retirement activities.
DH services focus on enabling the participant to attain or maintain their maximum potential and shall be coordinated with any needed therapies in the individual’s person-centered service plan, such as physical, occupational or speech therapy. DH may not provide services that are vocational in nature. Activities and environments are designed to foster the acquisition of skills, building positive social behavior, interpersonal competence, greater independence and personal choice.
Activities should be appropriate to the setting and occur in the most natural setting possible to maximize transference of skill acquisition. This should not only occur in the facility, but on a regular basis in the community to use in a real life situations..
Medical Day Habilitation
Individuals with exceptional medical support needs may be granted a medical exception for Day Hab services. Exceptional medical supports require services from the following:
- A certified nursing assistance (CNA), a licensed practical nurse (LPN) within their scope of practice as prescribed by the state law,
- A registered nurse (RN),
- Or for mobility, by appropriately trained staff.
The process must include the identification and rationale for staffing ratios and the level of direct care provided to meet the identified needs and be clearly documented in their support plan.
The intent of the medical exception day service is to provide an enhanced level of services and supports to individuals requiring one of both of the following:
- Direct care, assessment, care coordination and/or planning by a RN or an LPN (under the direct supervision and oversight of an RN) within their scope of practice
- Nursing tasks that are delegated by a RN and performed by unlicensed health care personnel under the direct supervision and oversight of a RN
