Ramah Care Services, Inc.
SUPPORTED LIVING SERVICES
Ramah Care Services, Inc. (RCS) provides Supported Livings Services.  Our services are designed to increase and promote independence, and to prepare and teach individuals the necessary skills to live on their own in a non-residential setting.  Our Supported Living accommodate two to four individuals, each home is leased by RCS or owned by the individual.
Supported Living

  • Individuals are informed of their rights annually.
  • Individuals are supported in learning and exercising their rights.

  • Each individual has a lease or other legally enforceable agreement.
  • Indiviudals are provided advanced information about all costs including room and board, if paid to 
the provider. 
  • Individuals retain the right to have utilities/phone in their own name.

  • Individual needs and preferences are respected regarding housemates.
  • Individuals choose how to decorate their room and residence based on their own personal
preferences, within the lease or other agreement.
  • Individuals have their own bed and the right to share a bedroom.
  • Individuals have the right to own personal property.

  • Individuals have the right to pursue adult relationships, both intimate and platonic.
  • Individuals have the right to privacy in the home.

  • Toilets, tubs and showers provide for privacy and are designed or adapted for the safe provision of
personal care.
  • Individuals have privacy in their bedroom with the ability to lock bedroom doors.  The individual
and appropriate staff have keys to the doors as needed.

  • Individuals have free use of all common spaces in their residence, while respecting others' privacy,
personal possessions and individual interests.
  • Individuals have general control over when, if and where they move unless precluded by a situation
which presents an immediate risk to the person or others in the home.
  • Individuals have the right to assume risk.  (Dignity of Risk is balanced with the individual's ability
to assume responsibility for that risk and a reasonable assurance of
  • Individuals have access to food at all times, unless an HRC review determines a food has the
potential to be a danger.

  • Individuals have freedom and support to control their schedules and activities.

  • Individuals may have visitors at any time they choose.
  • The setting is physcially accessible to the individual.
Residential Service Managers and Direct Care Staff Assist With:

  • Activities of Daily Living (ADL) that support the person to live in the most integrated setting;

  • Adaptive skill development, shopping, social skill development, and money management;
  • Communication in the language or communication preference of the individual, including
communication systems utilized by the person (e.g., Dynavox);
  • Training in and assistance with community integration that includes access to and participation
in preferred activities;
  • Training in and assistance with developing and maintaining social, spiritual, cultural and
individual relationships, to include the development of generic and natural supports of the
include the development of generic and natural supports of
person's choosing;
  • Assistance with accessing training and educational opportunities related to self-advocacy and
sexuality (through the Friends and Relationship Class);
  • Ensuring readily available access to and assistance with use of a person's adaptive equipment,
augmentative communication and assistive technology (AT) devices, including monitoring and
support related to maintenance of such equipment and devices to ensure they are in working
order;
  • Working with the person's informal support system and other IDT members to initiate meaningful
meaningful community connections;
  • Implementation and monitoring of the effectiveness of the ISP to achieve Desired Outcomes;
  • Ensuring DSP are available to participate in Therapy and/or BSC appointments with the person on
a regular basis or as requested;
  • Coordination and collaboration with therapists and therapy assistants to receive training on the
implementation of WDSIs in accordance with the participatory approach;
  • Coordination and collaboration with the BSC to receive training on the implementation of the
PSBPs and any other applicable plans;
  • Coordination and collaboration with nurses to receive training on the implementation of HCPs,
MERPs and CARMPs;
  • Assisting with Medication Delivery and related monitoring, including skill-development activities
that potentially lead to the ability for the person to self-administer medications as appropriate;
  • Ensuring provision of nutritional counseling, if recommended by the IDT as clinically indicated;
  • Assisting the person as needed to attend health related appointments or services and to
communicate health needs by utilizing the Health Passport and Physician Consultation forms; and
  • Ensuring that practitioner recommendations are considered, implemented timely and carried out
until discontinued or a Decision Consultation and Team Justification Process has taken place.