Our Center-Based, Home Supports, and Shared Living Provider Programs are offered throughout central Maine.  

The Assistance Plus Direct Support Professional (DSP) program offers home and center-based services to clients with developmental or intellectual disabilities. In each context, trained and certified DSP staff support each client as they each strive to becoming active members of their own communities.

 

All clients work on goals developed in the treatment plan, which may include:

• Accessing and utilizing community resources
• Community integration
• Community volunteer opportunities
• Cooking and cleaning
• Coping skills
• Exercise and recreation
• Laundry
• Maintaining a healthy lifestyle
• Medical appointments
• Medication management
• Money management
• Other individualized skills, as determined
• Safety
• Shopping skills to meet wants and needs
• Socialization

Each client is carefully matched with an experienced DSP who supports their individual work on treatment goals.

Direct Support Professionals (DSPs) receive certification through Assistance Plus. All staff are trained in crisis intervention techniques and CPR/First Aid. In addition to these trainings, staff are provided with ongoing one-to-one supervision to assist with their support of the consumers we serve and promote successful working relationships with them and their families.

 

 

1:1 | 1:2 | 1:3 Home Supports 

Assistance Plus offers home-based and community-based support services to clients with developmental and/or intellectual disabilities and Autism aligned with Section 21 and/or 29 Waivers

DSP staff support each client or small group of clients on a 1:1, 1:2, OR 1:3 ratio as they work to become active household and/or community members.

All clients are supported in alignment with their treatment plans and each person’s individual goals for:

• Self-Care/ADLs
• Mobility
• Medication Administration
• Independent Living Skills
• Accessing Community Events & Activities
• Accessing Community Resources
• Job Preparedness
• Interpersonal Skills
• Safety Skills
• Activity & Physical Exercise
• Communication
• Spiritual / Religious Activities
• Personal Development & Learning
• Building Unpaid Relationships

 

Home and Community Support Services are available in Franklin, Somerset, Kennebec,  Androscoggin, Oxford, Penobscot, and Waldo Counties.

1:3 Center-Based Community Support Services in Kennebec County located in Waterville.

 

Center-Based Community Supports 

Assistance Plus has a Center-Based Community Supports Program at our Waterville location at 3 Michael Lane. The program is geared towards providing education on-the-job preparedness skills such as cooking, gardening, and general tasks that will help with day-to-day living. The program offers instruction on appropriate social skills to assist with creating lasting relationships with peers, vendors, and other members of the community. Community integration is very important, and through the use of creative and innovative activities, skills can be learned and maintained through consistent practice. This program will also assist in developing and providing additional education in regards to safety skills in the community, at home, and while accessing technology. Discussion times, role play, and activities will be used to assist the participant with becoming better educated on what to do. This program will offer several different opportunities to become more involved in the communities surrounding us by attending local museums, parades, community suppers, trips to the theater, trips to visit our state capital, botanical gardens, and many more fun activities. This program will also offer education on exercise, healthy eating, meal preparation, cleanliness in the kitchen, and how to use the tools that are provided to them to build a meal.

 

Eligibility:

Active MaineCare insurance coverage

• Private pay
• 18 years of age or older
• Diagnosed with an intellectual disability or autism spectrum disorder
• Must be receiving adult case management
• Current Section 21 or 29 waiver
  
  

Shared Living Provider Program