Community Based Support Services

Family and Individual Support Services

The Alliance, Inc. Family and Individual Support Services program provides all four of the following support services to individuals with development disabilities:

Family Support Services

These services are designed to help families stay together. Families with children with developmental disabilities typically experience emotional, physical and financial demands because the care and attention their children require tends to be intensive and indefinite. Family Support services are flexible and responsive to what the family needs, when they need it.

Individual Support Services

Individual Family Services are support services (other than Residential and Day Habilitation care) for adults living with their families or on their own. Included are respite services, transportation, environmental modifications, adaptive equipment, money management and home skills.

Community Supported Living Arrangements

Community Supported Living Arrangements (CSLA) provide individuals with the support necessary to enable them to live in their own homes, apartments, family homes, or rental units with:

• No more than two other non-related recipients of these services; or
• Members of the same family regardless of the family size.

Community Supported Living Arrangements provide full range of community based support, including friends and neighbors, for the delivery of supervision and other necessary interventions.
To access to the above three services, contact Central Region of  the Maryland Developmental Disabilities Administration 410 902-4500 or your Service Coordinator for referral.

Rolling Access Funding (This is a self-referred service.)

Families and/or individuals in need of low intensity support services may access them directly through one of the local agencies providing DDA funded Family and Individual Support Services (FISS). Low level supports, referred to as "rolling access", are those supports that may be provided for less than $3,000 annually; however, these supports are limited by the extent to which resources are available. Because funding availability is limited, not all requests are funded at the maximum amount.  Rolling Access funds help families and individuals receive support quickly without going through the full eligibility process.  For services that cost over $3,000 annually the family and/or individual must go through the full DDA application and eligibility process.

Please note that the FISS Service Providers listed can change at any point throughout the year based upon funding availability at the time an individual or family request for Rolling Access Funds is made.  Funding is renewed at the start of the fiscal year and FISS Providers may change.

For Rolling Access Funding Contact:
Darlene Anderson 410 282-5900 Extension 3015

For further information about any of the above:
Contact Lynn Edwards, Program Manager
410 282-5900 Extension 3061