Delaware
What are Personal Assistance and Personal Attendant Services?
Personal Attendant and Personal Assistance Services (PAS) empower individuals with disabilities to maintain their independence at home and remain active in their community. Individuals receive service coordination and financial management services, which support them in the process of hiring their own personal care attendant. Individuals can hire a friend, neighbor, or relative to help them with their personal care needs. Our experienced staff can also assist individuals in finding personal care attendants who can work at the participant's requested days and times.
Are you 18 or over with a disability and want control of your own services?
Do you want the choice to hire your own personal attendant to provide your personal care?
JEVS Supports for Independence can help. We tailor your services to meet your needs!
Service Coordination Includes
- An experienced Coordinator to support you in creating an individualized service plan (ISP)
- Assistance with setting you up as an employer so you can hire personal care attendants to meet your needs
Your Personal Attendant can help you with
- Bathing, dressing, grooming, toileting, meal preparation, and transferring
- Light housekeeping such as cleaning and doing laundry
- Errands and tasks such as food shopping and visits to the pharmacy
Financial Management Services Include
- Orientation to the program for you and your employees
- A competitive pay rate for your employees
- Human Resources support that helps you find a personal attendant to fit your needs
- Completing reference and background checks.
- Assistance with establishing and maintaining workers’ compensation accounts
- Assistance with payroll
- Assistance with managing employment taxes
- A phone activated time and attendance system to ensure accuracy in recording hours worked
- A convenient call in system to confirm the hours your personal care assistant has worked
Would you like a FREE one of a kind training to help you in your role as an employer?
JEVS Supports for Independence offers a free Consumer Directed Training Series for all individuals enrolled in our Self-Directed Services Programs.
Consumer Directed Training
The JEVS SFI Consumer Directed Training Series supports program participants in their role as employers. This one of a kind training consists of video and written components that cover 11 topics essential to creating an effective relationship between the participant and his or her attendant. This training is the result of a team effort involving important contributions from self-directing participants, attendants, and SFI staff.
Eligibility for Personal Attendant Services
- A Delaware State Resident who is 18 years of age or older
- Applicant must possess a severe, chronic disability that significantly impairs his or her ability to perform the essential activities of daily living in an independent manner either at home or in the community
- Disability must be medically verified and expected to last for a continuous period of no fewer than 12 months
Enrollment for Personal Attendant Services
Eligibility and enrollment are determined by the Division of Services for Aging and Adults with Physical Disabilities (DSAAPD).
TF: 1-800-223-9074
TTY: (302) 453-3837
Email: DSAAPDinfo@state.de.us
Eligibility for Personal Assistance Services
- A Delaware state resident who is at least 18 years of age
- Applicant must possess a severe, chronic physical, mental or developmental disability which significantly impairs the applicant's ability to perform the essential activities of daily living in an independent manner at home and in the community
- The applicant's chronic disability must be medically verified and expected to last for a continuous period of no fewer than 12 months
Enrollment for Personal Assistance Services
Eligibility and enrollment are determined by the Division of Medicaid and Medical Assistance (DMMA) or a Contracting Agency.
TF: 1-800-372-2022
TEL: (302) 255-9500
We Speak Your Language
JEVS Supports for Independence is dedicated to meeting your needs in a variety of languages. Our bilingual staff will create a supportive environment in which participants with limited English proficiency can have questions answered and their needs met.
Cost
Personal Attendant Services may be available at no cost or through cost sharing. Cost sharing, if applicable, is determined by the enrolling agency.
Personal Assistance Services are available at no cost for eligible participants.