Owen Health Care Individual Support Services (ISS) assists youth with acquiring, retaining, improving, and generalizing behavioral, self-help, socialization, and adaptive skills necessary to function successfully in the home and community. Owen Health Care Individual Support Workers provide services directly to the youth through evidence-based and data driven methodologies. Owen Health Care ISS are behavioral, self-care, and habilitative related tasks performed and may be supervised by a service provider staff in a youth’s family home, the home of a relative, or in other community-based settings, in accordance with approved treatment plans.
These supports include behavioral supports and training, adaptive skill development, assistance with activities of daily living, and community inclusion that assist the youth to reside in the most integrated setting appropriate to the youth’s needs. Services are provided in the youth’s own home, the home of a relative, or other community based living arrangement.
Owen Health Care ISS will support the acquisition, generalization, and maintenance of goal attainment in home and community settings, as well as build on adaptive functioning skills and pragmatic communication skills. The service focuses primarily on the use of positive behavioral supports; instruction in activities of daily living tasks such as, eating, toileting, grooming, dressing, bathing, and transferring; and instruction in instrumental activities of daily living which includes, but is not limited to, meal planning and preparation, managing finances, shopping for food, for clothing, and for other essential items, performing essential household chores, communicating by phone or by other media, and traveling around and participating in the community.
Positive behavior support accomplishes the following:
- Understand why the behavior is happening;
- Teach the individual how to act more appropriately; and
- Improve the individual’s quality of life.
Positive behavior support combines the assessment and intervention strategies of ABA with the social values of personal choice, independence, community integration, systems change, and quality of life.
Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) are defined as needed skills related to daily self-care activities within an individual’s place of residence, in outdoor environments, or both.
Basic ADLs skill building (all ages): Basic ADLs consist of self-care tasks, including but not limited to:
- Bathing and showering
- Dressing
- Eating
- Personal hygiene and grooming (including washing hair and brushing teeth)
- Toilet hygiene
Instrumental ADLs skill building (age 16 and over): Instrumental ADLs are not necessary for fundamental functioning, but they enable an individual to live independently in a community and include but are not limited to:
- Housework
- Taking medications as prescribed
- Managing money
- Shopping for groceries or clothing
- Use of telephone or other form of communication
- Using technology (as applicable)
- Transportation within the community
Referenced by the New Jersey Children’s System of Care (CSOC) – PreformCare
More information about Owen Health Care Individual Support Services: call 908-258-7796 or send a message online.