Educational guides for participants, families, caregivers, and referral partners exploring home and community-based support in Nebraska and Indiana.
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Our resources are general education—not eligibility decisions, individualized advice, or a promise that services will be authorized or available.
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Nebraska AD Waiver Personal Emergency Response Systems: A Family Planning Guide
Understand how PERS alerts work, what the device cannot replace, connectivity and outage planning, testing, privacy, costs, service coordination, and response-plan questions.
Nebraska Prevocational Services: A Family Guide to Building Work-Readiness Skills
Understand general work-readiness skills, differences from job search and job coaching, time limits, community-based learning, transition planning, and provider questions.
Nebraska LRI Personal Care: What Families Should Confirm Before Applying
Understand the LRI relationship definition, Extraordinary Care assessment, authorized hands-on tasks, agency employment, EVV, and questions to ask before applying.
Nebraska AD Waiver Chore Services: A Family Guide to Heavy Household Help
Understand heavy household health-and-safety tasks, service boundaries, renter responsibilities, other available resources, and planning questions before work begins.
Nebraska Independence Skills Building: A Family Guide to Learning Daily Routines
Distinguish training from task assistance and prepare participant-led questions about goals, the training plan, progress, boundaries, family involvement, and provider fit.
When Indiana Home-Care Needs Change: How to Request a Service-Plan Review
Prepare factual observations, identify the right coordinator and provider contacts, ask about reassessment, and clarify follow-up while a request is pending.
Electronic Visit Verification (EVV): A Nebraska and Indiana Family Guide
Understand visit check-ins, privacy and technology questions, reporting inaccurate records, and why verification is separate from service authorization.
Nebraska Family Caregiver Training vs. Family and Peer Mentoring: What Families Should Ask
Compare two Family Support Waiver services, separate education from employment, and prepare questions about goals, authorization, providers, and costs.
Nebraska Independent Living vs. Supported Family Living: A DD Waiver Guide
Compare where each service occurs, the skills it teaches, participant responsibilities, person-centered planning, documentation, EVV, and provider questions.
HCBS Service Coordinator vs. Provider: A Nebraska and Indiana Family Guide
Learn what an HCBS service coordinator or case manager does, what a direct-service provider does, and how participants and families can keep both roles working together.
Nebraska Shared Living Services: A Family Guide to Choosing a Home and Provider
Understand Nebraska's Shared Living model, agency oversight, person-centered planning, home compatibility, participant rights, and questions to ask before choosing an arrangement.
How to Become a Paid Family Caregiver in Nebraska or Indiana: Questions to Ask First
Learn what to confirm about program eligibility, caregiver relationships, authorization, hiring, documentation, and service-specific family-caregiver rules.
Nebraska Aged and Disabled Waiver Services: A Family Guide to Getting Started
A plain-language guide to the AD Waiver, person-centered planning, preparing for an intake call, provider questions, and family-caregiver considerations.