True North Supports provides a great number of varied services intended to help people with disabilities participate more fully in their communities and lead more self-determined lives. Some of the more common categories of services are listed here, with a brief explanation, and can often be tailored to each individual’s unique situation.
Behavior Supports
Behavior supports address serious behavior problems for people with disabilities. By focusing on sound principles of applied behavior analysis and on positive behavior supports, these services provide personalized behavior consultation to families and staff who support people with a range of serious to the most complex behavior problems that a person may exhibit.
Chore Services
Chore services help maintain a clean, sanitary, and safe living environment for persons with disabilities who are unable to complete chore activities on their own. This includes heavy household chores such as washing floors, windows, and walls; snow removal, lawn care; tacking down loose rugs and tiles; and moving heavy items of furniture in order to provide a safe living environment.
Companion Services
This is a non-medical care, supervision, and socialization service for functionally impaired adults. Companions assist or supervise such tasks as meal preparation, laundry, and shopping, but do not perform these services as discrete services. Companions do not provide hands on nursing care but may perform light housekeeping tasks that are incidental to the care and supervision of a person.
Day Services
Day Services include daytime supervision and support to develop and maintain self-help skills, community living skills, social skills, and communication skills. These services are intended for those who need more supervision and support developing work and community living skills.
Environmental Adaptations
Environmental Adaptation services allow families to make physical alterations and adaptations to their home as needed to ensure the health and welfare of the individual, or enable the individual to function with greater independence in the home.
Host Home Services
Host homes are out-of-home placements for a short or extended period of time within the private home of a trained individual or family. This is an alternative to an institutional or group home setting and may include additional services depending on individual needs.
Professional Budgeting Assistance
Personal Budget Assistance (PBA) provides hourly and daily one-on-one support with financial matters, fiscal training, supervision of financial resources, savings, retirement, earnings, and funds monitoring, monthly check writing, bank reconciliation, budget management, tax and fiscal record keeping and filing and fiscal interaction on behalf of the individual. Generally, this service is provided along with another support like residential habilitation or supported living. A PBA contractor often manages the personal finances on behalf of a person in services and may also act as the Social Security Administration, Representative Payee, conservator or the person’s voluntarily appointed personal funds manager.
Professional Parent Supports
Professional Parent Supports are available for clients under 22 years old, who prefer living in a private residence with a family or caregiver (non-related; parent or guardian), who may need out-of-home placement for either a short or an extended period of time. Professional Parent Supports are established to give children and youth with disabilities an alternative to institutional or community living settings, such as group homes and apartments. This program allows a child or youth to be placed with a family or caregiver who has received specific training regarding disabilities.
Residential Habilitation Supports
Residential Supports help a person to gain or maintain skills to live as independently as possible and fully participate in a community setting of their choosing. It provides up to 24 hours of support, supervision, training, and assistance to maintain the person’s health and safety while remaining in the community.
Respite Care
Respite care is care provided by a trained person that temporarily relieves parents or caregivers from the day-to-day care they provide to the individual with disabilities. It can be provided in the family’s home, in the home of the respite provider or in a specialized facility, depending on the needs and preferences of the family or individual.
Supported Employment
Supported Employment includes job development, placement, intensive on-the-job training, and supervision by a job coach. It is intended for those people who may not be able to work in the community without some form of support, but does not rise to the same level of supervision as Day Services.
Supported Living
Supported living provides support, supervision, socialization, personal care, training and assistance in order to help people live as independently as possible. This service is often for those who live alone in their own homes, with roommates, or a spouse and includes help with various activities of daily living necessary for an individual to maintain a self-directed life within the community.
Transportation Services
TNS provides a number of transportation options and other community services, activities and resources. These may come in the form of helping a person obtain UTA passes or para-transit to name a few and can often be modified to meet a person’s individual needs.
Please contact us if you have any questions about any of the support services that we offer!