Help with the everyday, at home.
CFSS pays for a support worker to help with what daily life asks of you, in your own home and your own community.
- Who pays
- Medical Assistance
- Where
- Your home and your community
- Who helps
- A worker you choose, even family
Four kinds of help
Daily living.
The care that makes a day possible, done with patience and respect.
- Bathing
- Dressing
- Grooming
- Meals
- Moving safely
- Medication reminders
Health-related tasks.
Some health tasks can be part of your plan, once your worker has been trained to do them.
- Routines from your plan
- Exercises
- Positioning
- Watching for changes
Life in the community.
Support to get out, stay connected and keep the parts of life that matter to you.
- Appointments
- Shopping
- Errands
- Visits
- Your place of worship
Watching and redirecting.
For people who need someone nearby to notice and calmly redirect behavior, as the assessment allows.
- Observation
- Calm redirection
- Keeping safe
- Company
We employ your worker. You choose them.
Mira is a CFSS agency-provider. We hire, train, pay and support your worker, and we handle the paperwork with the state.
Choose someone you already trust, or let us introduce someone.
Spouses and parents of minor children can be paid workers, within limits set by DHS.
A paid legal guardian cannot be the worker. We will explain the other rules on the first call.