Section 6500.4. Definitions

The following words and terms, when used in this chapter, have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:

Agency—A person or legally constituted organization administering one or more family living homes.

Content discrepancy—A difference between what was determined at the ISP meeting by the plan team and what is documented in the written ISP.

Department—The Department of Human Services of the Commonwealth.

Direct service worker—A person whose primary job function is to provide services to an individual who resides in the provider’s family living home.

Documentation—Written statements that accurately record details, substantiate a claim or provide evidence of an event.

Family living home or home—

(i) The private home of an individual or a family in which residential care is provided to one or two individuals with mental retardation, except as provided in § 6500.3(f) (relating to applicability).

(ii) The term does not include a home if there are more than two individuals, including respite care individuals, living in the home at any one time who are not family members or relatives of the family members.

(iii) If relatives of the individual live in the home, the total number of people living in the home at any one time who are not family members or relatives of the family members may not exceed four.

ISP—Individual Support Plan—The comprehensive document that identifies services and expected outcomes for an individual.

Individual—

(i) A person with mental retardation who resides, or receives residential respite care, in a family living home and who is not a relative of the owner of the family members.

(ii) The term does not include family members.

Mental retardation—Subaverage general intellectual functioning which originates during the developmental period and is associated with impairment of one or more of the following:

(i) Maturation.

(ii) Learning.

(iii) Social adjustment.

Outcomes—Goals the individual and individual’s plan team choose for the individual to acquire, maintain or improve.

Plan lead—The family living specialist, when the individual is not receiving services through an SCO.

Plan team—The group that develops the ISP.

Provider—An entity or person that enters into an agreement with the Department to deliver a service to an individual.

Relative—A parent, child, stepparent, stepchild, grandparent, grandchild, brother, sister, half brother, half sister, aunt, uncle, niece or nephew.

Respite care—Temporary family living care not to exceed 31 calendar days for an individual in a calendar year.

SC—Supports coordinator—An SCO employee whose primary job functions are to locate, coordinate and monitor services provided to an individual when the individual is receiving services from an SCO.

SCO—Supports coordination organization—A provider that delivers the services of locating, coordinating and monitoring services provided to an individual.

Services—Actions or assistance provided to the individual to support the achievement of an outcome.

The provisions of this § 6500.4 amended August 27, 2010, effective August 28, 2010, 40 Pa.B. 4935. Immediately preceding text appears at serial page (251474).

Notation

Authority

The provisions of this § 6500.4 amended under sections 911 and 1021 of the Public Welfare Code (62 P. S. § § 911 and 1021).

Cross References

This section cited in 55 Pa. Code § 6500.12 (relating to waivers).