Day Support Services

Day Support Services

Day support services: Individualized, community-based training and support services that help a person develop and maintain essential and personally enriching life skills so they can access and participate in activities they prefer in their community.

Day support services must teach and develop essential and personally enriching life skills that support a person’s community relationships, involvement and inclusion.

Day support services can provide training, supervision and support in essential life-skill areas, including, but not limited to:

1. Communication

2. Community access, mobility and safety, including:

• Self-preservation 
• Street safety
• Use of public and private transportation
• Use of various community resources

3. Independent living

4. Interest-based decision-making

5. Money management and budgeting

6. Personal health and wellness, including needed physical and medical care

7. Positive behavior and mental health support

8. Problem-solving and conflict resolution

9. Personal self-care, including:

• Hygiene
•  Grooming
• Physical appearance
• Dress/attire

10. Self-direction and goal-setting

11. Socialization (i.e., social skills development and relationship-building), including:

• Active listening
• Assertiveness
• Empathy
• Self-advocacy

12. Therapeutic intervention activities or accommodations that increase the person’s adaptive-skill functioning.

Personally enriching life skills

Day support services can provide learning opportunities and support in the person’s preferred life-enriching activities, including:

• Arranging and providing assistance with the person’s preferred volunteer experiences

                  •   Connecting with and teaching about the use of various community resources

•  Developing and strengthening personal relationships with people the person chooses in the community

                   •  Discovering and supporting the person’s participation in their preferred recreational and      

                        fitness activities

• Establishing informal supports in the community

                   •  Exploring community activities and discovering the person’s preferences

• Finding and supporting participation in the person’s preferred educational or training courses in the community
• Identifying and supporting the person’s participation in their preferred leisure and hobby activities
• Facilitating opportunities and supporting participation in community and civic events that interest the person.