Services for People With Development Disability

Youth & Family Services

1. Medicaid Service Coordination – Medicaid Service Coordination is a person-centered program providing individualized case management services for people with developmental disabilities.
2. Respite Services – The EOC of Suffolk’s Respite/Recreation Programs are designed to enhance the quality of life for individuals with developmental disabilities. It does this by involving individuals in activities that are both fund and education.
• Respite/Recreation – Through participation in recreational activities, individuals have the opportunity to increase their socialization skills.
• Summer Fiesta – This is an innovative program. The summer fiesta program is a 2-week minicamp session that runs during the last week in July and first week in August.
3. Community Habilitation Service –is a HCBS Waiver Service that provides individuals with supports and services that focus on developing life skills and community integration.
4. Individual Support Services (ISS) – ISS is a higher level of residential opportunity provided to individuals with developmental disabilities. This grant offers monthly subsidy to individuals who need minimal supports and afford them opportunity to live more independent lives in their community.
5. Non-Medicaid Service Coordination- Assists individuals with developmental disabilities and their families in obtaining service and assistance in securing all government entitlements and benefits and other OPWDD services for which they are eligible.
6. Group Day Habilitation Services- Group Day Habilitation Program assists individuals with developmental disabilities to acquire skills through volunteerism, educational opportunities, hobbies and social/recreational activities.  This service is intended to help each member become an involved, contributing member of the community at large.

Eligibility for Service

• To meet eligibility for these programs an individual must meet the OPWDD criteria for services:
• A medical report and a diagnosis of a named developmental disability
• Psychological report including assessment of intellectual functioning reporting intelligence scores and for people with IQ’s above 60, assessment of adaptive behavioral reporting scale and summary scores that fall below 70.