Our Programs

Community Care Services Program (CCSP)

• Elderly and Disabled Waiver
• May have a cost share if SSI is over $781/ month
  
  • • Personal Support Services
    • Assisted Living Services
    • Home Delivered Meals
    • Emergency Response System

Service Options Using Resources in Community Environments (SOURCE)

• Elderly and Disabled Waiver
• For adults ages 65 and older, unless disabled
• Must have a chronic condition that has been present for at least 3 months and must meet nursing home level of care.
• Must be eligible for SSI coverage not exceeding $781/ month
  • • Personal Support Services
    • Assisted Living Services
    • Home Delivered Meals
    • Emergency Response System

Structured Family Caregiving

The Structured Family Caregiving program (SFC) with FEHE offers financial and support services to Georgia families that deliver care at home for a senior or disabled person. You may meet SFC requirements and be eligible for financial compensation if:

• • You live with the person as the primary caregiver
  • Are related biologically as a daughter, grandson, etc. or are related through marriage as a daughter-in-law, son-in-law, etc.
  • The person you take care of is Georgia Medicaid-eligible and participates under the CCSP or SOURCE waiver program
  • Please note that spouses of waiver participants or legal guardians are not eligible for compensation.

Comprehensive Support Waiver (COMP)

• Formerly Community Habilitation Support Services (CHSS)
• Serves individuals’ with intellectual and developmental disabilities who choose to remain the community
• Individual should be diagnosed before the age 22 and the diagnosis should be indefinite with an IQ <70
• Individual should have 3 or more functional impairments:
  

   

  • •  Self-Care
    •  Learning
    •  Mobility
    •  Self-Direction
    • Capacity for independent living
    • Requiring 24 hour care
• Services Provided:
  • • Adult PT/OT/ST
    • Behavioral Supports
    • Community Living Supports
    • Community Access
    • Prevocational Services
    • Supported Employment
    • Specialized Medical Supplies

New Options Waiver (NOW)

• FORMERLY Mental Retardation Waiver Program (MRWP)
• Serves individuals with intellectual or developmental disability
• Individual should have 3 or more functional impairments:
  • • Self-care
    • Learning
    • Mobility
    • Self-direction
    • Capacity for Independent living
• Individual is diagnosed before age 22 with an IQ of <70
• Services Provided:
  • • Adult PT/OT/ST
    • Behavioral Supports
    • Community Living Supports
    • Community Access
    • Prevocational Services
    • Supported Employment
    • Specialized Medical Supplies

Community Access Group (CAG)

• FEHE Day Program
• For individuals with the NOW and COMP Waivers
• Individual comes to the day center based on allotted budget