Each person receiving Developmental Disabilities Services Division (DDSD) Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) Waivers is assigned a case manager who ensures that individual needs are met through linkage, assessment, brokerage, advocacy, and monitoring activities.  The DDSD case manager:

• (1) completes or arranges necessary assessments to identify service recipient needs;
• (2) has overall responsibility for developing and updating the service recipient's Individual Plan (IP), per OAC 340:100-5-50 through 340:100-5-58, and Plan of Care;
• (3) describes service options in sufficient detail to ensure the service recipient, or parent or guardian, as applicable, is able to make an informed choice regarding services;
• (4) assists service recipients in gaining access to needed medical, social, educational, and other services and supports;
• (5) coordinates and monitors services delivered to determine their effectiveness in meeting the service recipient's needs;
• (6) has the authority to implement approved services prescribed in the service recipient's IP and access emergency or crisis services, per OAC 317:40 and OAC 340:100; and
• (7) documents case management services in Client Contact Manager (CCM).