Customized In-Home Supports
Customized In-Home Supports designed to increase independence & strengthen interpersonal skills.
Customized In-Home Supports (CIHS) is one of Alta Mira Specialized Family Services Inc.’s Family Support Services (FSS). CIHS are supports designed to assist individuals with the acquisition, improvement, and retention of skills to achieve personal outcomes, instruct or enhance home living and community skills to address health and safety as needed by providing individuals the opportunity to design and manage the services and supports needed to live in their own home or their family home. CIHS are intended for individuals that do not require the amount and intensity of paid direct care support and consists of two types of living arrangements: Living independently and living with paid or unpaid families or natural supports. CIHS is not a residential service with 24 hours a day, seven-days-a-week coverage.
Questions about CIHS?
Services provided intermittently include a combination of instruction and personal support activities when they would normally occur to assist the individual with activities of daily living (ADL), health-related supports, meal preparation, household services, and money management. Supports also include providing support to acquire, maintain or improve interaction skills in the community.
Services are provided in Bernalillo, Sandoval, Torrence, and Valencia counties.
Are you interested in learning more about Alta Mira’s Customized In-Home Supports? Please contact our Family Support Services (FSS) Referral Team for more information.
FSS Referral Team
Phone 505-366-2160 | FSSReferral@AltaMiraNM.org
Annalisa Ratuita
Family Support Services | Program Director
Phone 505-730-8277
EVV
Many DDS Waiver Services began a new requirement called Electronic Visit Verification (EVV) on January 1, 2021. EVV is federally mandated as part of the 21st Century Cures Act and requires six data points to be collected when services are provided. For more information, please click here.