Program: CALAIM COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES

Offers the following CalAIM Community Support services to residents of Ventura County:

• Asthma Remediation: Provides support with physical modifications to the member's home to avoid acute asthma episodes caused by environmental triggers like mold. Modifications can include filtered vacuums, dehumidifiers, air filters, and ventilation improvements.
• Housing Deposits: Provides assistance with housing security deposits, utilities set-up fees, first and last month's rent, and first month of utilities. Members can also receive funding for medically necessary items like air conditioners, heaters, and hospital beds to ensure their new home is safe for move-in.
• Housing Tenancy and Sustaining Services: Provides support to maintain safe and stable tenancy once housing is secured, such as coordination with landlords to address issues, assistance with the annual housing recertification process, and linkage to community resources to prevent eviction.
• Housing Transition Navigation Services: Provides help to find, apply for, and secure housing to members experiencing homelessness or at risk of experiencing homelessness.
• Personal Care and Homemaker Services: Provides in-home support, such as bathing or feeding, meal preparation, grocery shopping, and accompaniment to medical appointments to members who require assistance with Activities of Daily Living or Instrumental Activities of Daily Living.
• Recuperative Care (Medical Respite): Provides short-term residential care for members with unstable housing who no longer require hospitalization, but still need to heal from an injury or illness. The residential care includes housing, meals, ongoing monitoring of the member's condition, and other services like coordination of transportation to appointments.
• Respite Services: Provides short-term relief for member caregivers. Members may receive caregiver services in their home or in an approved facility on an hourly, daily, or nightly basis as needed.
• Short-Term Post-Hospitalization Housing: Provides short-term housing (up to six months) for members who do not have a residence, and who have high medical or mental health and substance use disorder needs so they can continue recovery. To receive this support, members must also have been discharged from an inpatient clinical setting, residential substance use disorder treatment or recovery facility, residential mental health treatment facility, correctional facility, nursing facility, or recuperative care.
• Environmental Accessibility Adaptations (Home Modifications): Members receive physical modifications to their home to ensure their health and safety and allow them to function with greater independence. Home modifications can include ramps and grab-bars, doorway widening for members who use a wheelchair, stair lifts, or making bathrooms wheelchair accessible.
• Community Transition Services/Nursing Facility Transition to a Home: Members transitioning from a nursing facility to a private residence where they will be responsible for their own expenses, receive funding for set-up services, such as security deposits, set-up fees for utilities, and health-related appliances, such as air conditioners, heaters, or hospital beds.
• Nursing Facility Transition/Diversion to Assisted Living Facility Services: Members living at home or in a nursing facility are transferred to an assisted living facility to live in their community and avoid institutionalization in a nursing facility, when possible. Assisted living facilities provide services to establish a community facility residence, such as support with daily living activities, medication oversight, and 24-hour onsite direct care staff.
• Medically Supported Food: Provides deliveries of nutritious, prepared meals and healthy groceries to support the member's health needs. Members also receive vouchers for healthy food and/or nutrition education.