Integrated Community Supports (ICS)

Integrated Community Supports (ICS) include services that provide support and training in community living service categories to adults age 18 and older who reside in a living unit of a provider-controlled ICS setting (e.g., apartment in a multi-family housing building). ICS can be delivered up to 24 hours per day in the person’s living unit or in the community. In our ICS program, we emphasize community participation, household management, adaptive skills, along with health, safety, and wellness.

What’s Included in Integrated Community Supports (ICS):

Community Participation

  • Community mobility and pedestrian safety (e.g., safely getting in and around the community)

  • Community resource use and access

  • Community safety and awareness

  • Informal support system and network development

  • Interpersonal communications skills

  • Leisure, recreation and socialization planning

  • Skill-building to meet transportation needs.

Health, Safety, and Wellness

  • Collaboration with the person to arrange health care (e.g., physical, mental, chemical), meaningful activities, social services, meetings and appointments

  • Training or support to complete self-care activities, including ADLs

  • Health services support, as defined in Minn. Stat. §245D.05

  • Help for the person to activate and build resiliency factors (e.g., whole health action management)

  • Support for the person to design and meet individualized strategies to reach their health, safety and wellness goals.

Household Management

  • Household safety knowledge and skills

  • Tenancy support and advocacy

  • Training, assistance, support and/or guidance with:

  • Budgeting and assistance to manage money

  • Cooking, meal-planning and nutrition

  • Healthy lifestyle skills and practices

  • Household chores, including minor household maintenance activities
    (Note: The person is responsible for the cost of the maintenance replacement items or products)

  • Personal-needs purchasing.