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family support services
Diana Glenn
Carroll Hills Family & Children's Program Center
2167 Kensington Rd. NE
Carrollton, Ohio 44615
Phone: 330-627-7651
Fax: 330-627-6606
E-mail - dglenn@carrollhills.com
A program that provides supports, services, and helps to enable family to care for their family member with disabilities at home enhancing the quality of life for that family, including the individual with developmental disabilities.
If you have a family member with mental retardation or other developmental
disability (MR/DD) living at home, he or she may be able to receive FSS. The family
member with disabilities must be eligible for county MR/DD services, even if he or she
is not receiving county board assistance.
Items and services that are provided are:
Respite care by specially trained providers or persons chosen by the family
Adaptive equipment
Home modifications to accommodate the family member with disabilities
Special diets
Other services individualized to each family's needs such as counseling, wheelchair repair, educational software, television closed captioning, sign language books, exercise bicycles and more.
Families are required to make co-payments based on the sliding scale below:
Annual Taxable Income Co-payment- $27,258 or less 0%
- $27,259 to $37,759 10%
- $37,760 to $48,260 30%
- $48,260 to $62,261 50%
- $62,262 to $79,762 75%
- $79,765 and above 100% of cost
The FSS program is administered through the county boards of MR/DD. The funds are provided through the state legislature and distributed by the Ohio Department of MR/DD. Some counties supplement the state funds with local funds.
County boards of MR/DD will fund a family request if the families are eligible for
services, funds are available, items or services are available, the item or services
cannot be funded by other sources, and the request is consistent with county board's
plan and Family Support Services philosophy.