Overview
Home-Enabling Supports are available for people who live in non-certified settings and are enrolled in the OPWDD Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) Waiver as a sub-component to the Assistive Technology benefit. Home-Enabling Supports help address a person's needs in a way that promotes, maintains, or improves a person's abilities, improves interactions, supports meaningful relationships, and supports their ability to live independently and meaningfully participate in their community. Home Enabling Supports assist a person to be more independent and less reliant on physically present support staff.
Devices or supports received through Home-Enabling Supports may include but are not limited to: Assistive Devices/Technology, Remote Supports, and Health Assessment and Coordination Services (HACS).
Home-Enabling Supports for people with developmental disabilities promote access to opportunities available to everyone else in the community.
Selected not-for-profit agencies will have the ability to purchase Home-Enabling Supports technology on a person’s behalf when a reasonable expectation has been identified that access to the service(s) will increase, maintain, or improve the person’s safety, independence, health outcomes, and/or meaningful participation in the community.
OPWDD has awarded the eight not-for-profit service providers below with the approval to deliver Home-Enabling Supports (HES) services to people with developmental disabilities who are living independently and are enrolled in the OPWDD Home and Community Based Services Medicaid Waiver. Services are expected to be available in early summer 2025.
Region 1
- ARC Chemung-Schuyler
Region 2
- Exceptional Family Resources
Region 3
- Human Care Services
- Braverhood
Region 4
- ADAPT Community Network
- Center for Family Support
- Person Centered Care Services
Region 5
- AHRC Nassau
- Center for Family Support
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