Personal Assistance

Empowering People with Self-Sufficiency In Integrated Communities

Counties Served in this program include: Anderson, Campbell, Knox, Morgan, Roane and Scott.

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Independent Living Skills Training

This service provides education, skill development, and training to improve the person’s ability to independently perform routine daily activities and utilize community resources.

Support staff will:

  • Develop the person’s daily living skills (i.e. personal hygiene, meal preparation, home upkeep, money management, using community resources, community mobility, parenting, computer use, and/or driving lessons, etc.)
  • Prepare and follow a specific plan and strategy for teaching specific skills identified in the person-centered support plan.
  • Identify progress toward achieving each skill identified in the person’s person-centered support plan.

Personal Assistance

This service assists people with performing activities of daily living at the person’s own home, on the job or in the community.

Support staff will:

  • Support, assist and engage people to participate in everyday tasks including cooking, cleaning, laundry, running errands, and additional daily living activities
  • Educate the person’s social network to provide assistance
  • Identify ways to increase the person’s independence

Supportive Home Care (SHC)

This service is provided by a paid caregiver (not living in the family home) to a person living with their family.  It is similar to our Personal Assistance service and assists the person at home and in the community.

For more information contact:

Residential Director, Layla Fisher 865-813-0557