Our Mission
Our Mission is to support people with developmental disabilities in living meaningful lives.
Our Vision
Our Vision is people with developmental disabilities are playing, learning, working and living as valued community members.
Core Values
- CARING: We are helpful, understanding, respectful and attentive to well-being.
- INTEGRITY: We are ethical, trustworthy, reliable and follow through on our word.
- CHOICE: We provide information and opportunities for individuals and families to make decisions based on what is important to them.
- TEAMWORK: We collaborate with our trusted partners including individuals, families, coworkers, volunteers, private providers, school districts, governmental agencies, and local businesses.
- RESOURCEFUL: We enhance the lives of individuals with developmental disabilities and their families through creative problem solving, networking, and sharing information.
Our Services
Family Support Services
The Family Support Services program assists families caring for a loved one with a disability in their home. The purpose of the program is to provide funding for disability related goods and services which enable the individual with a disability to be an active member of the family and to remain in the family home.
Early Intervention
The Holmes County Board of Developmental Disabilities works with the Holmes County Department of Health/Help Me Grow to provide services to infants and toddlers, birth-2 years, who have a developmental delay. The Board provides Evidence Based Early Intervention Services through Developmental Specialists, an Occupational Therapist, a Physical Therapist, and a Speech Therapist. Our aim is to support families in achieving the outcomes they have identified for their child. Board staff act as a coach to parents in the child’s natural environment as they go through typical family routines. To see if your child is meeting their developmental milestones, please go to https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/actearly/milestones/index.html
School Age (ages 5-22)
The Board operates a school under the authority of the Ohio Department of Education for students in Kindergarten – Grade 12. Students who attend our school require individualized special education intervention and intensive therapies which include: Music therapy, Occupational therapy, Physical Therapy, and Speech Therapy. Our school has a full-time, on-site RN who provides medication administration, seizure monitoring, and tube feeding. The Board provides transportation to students enrolled in the school. On average, 38 students attend classes.
Adult Day Services/Employment
Adults have more options than ever before! An individual's interests and goals are discovered to find the situation that best meets their needs. Adults can select the Training Center's Adult Day program, Lynn Hope Industries, or Community Employment. Holmes County adults with Medicaid waiver funding can also attend programs in neighboring counties.
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Waiver Services
When Board resources allow, individuals have the opportunity to enroll on a Medicaid Waiver. Medicaid waivers (Individual Options, Level 1, and SELF waiver) provide a wide variety of services including homemaker/personal care, respite, adapted equipment, environmental modifications, adult day services, and transportation to name a few. With the support of their SSA, waiver recipients choose an Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities certified provider for each service that is required to meet their desired outcomes. For more information, go to http://dodd.ohio.gov/IndividualFamilies/ServiceFunding/Pages/WaiverTypes.aspx
Transportation
The Board provides door-to-door transportation in wheelchair accessible busses and vans to students enrolled in the Board's School and adults who attend day services at our location. During the school year more than 3,500 rides are provided each month.
Service & Support Administration
All individuals who receive services from the Board have a Service and Support Administrator, SSA. An SSA assists the individual and their family, friends and care providers to develop an Individual Service Plan (ISP). The ISP is the driving force behind all of the services an individual receives. What is IMPORTANT TO and IMPORTANT FOR the individual is identified along with the individual's desired outcomes. SSAs and teams work with individuals to design and create a life that is meaningful to them.
Monthly Spotlight
Our Early Intervention team feels fortunate to work in Holmes County for 2 reasons. One is that the families who live in Holmes County are wonderful to work with. We do not have as many challenges as those in metropolitan areas. Two, HCAHC, our parent program has provided adaptive equipment which is loaned to families. Some of the equipment has lasted several decades, passing through many homes, saving Holmes County families thousands of dollars.
Renee Spencer
Early Intervention Coordinator
Monthly Spotlight
March is DD Awareness month! This year’s theme is Celebrate CommUNITY. One of the most effective ways of increasing awareness of the gifts, talents, and abilities of individuals with developmental disabilities is to encourage and support community involvement by people with developmental disabilities. The more everyone interacts with individuals with special needs, the more comfortable they feel around each other. People are accepting and welcoming to the people they regularly see….at the grocery store, church, school, work, restaurant and on the trail. The whole community benefits when everyone is included!
Marianne Mader
Superintendent
Monthly Spotlight
Thank you Delta Dental for our new water bottle filling stations/drinking fountains! We are Rethinking our Drink and choosing water instead of sugary beverages for our overall health and to prevent tooth decay.
Rhoda Mast
Principal
