Community Living Group Home

Our alternative living unit or group home is licensed by the Maryland Developmental Disabilities Administration and the Office of Health Care Quality. We have trained and certified staff members to support patients and ensure their overall well-being.

We work closely with family members, Coordinators of Community Services, and other professionals to identify the needs and wants of everyone in the program. Our team also conducts food preparation, money management, and self-care training.

  • Adhere to the community settings rule
  • Intake/nursing admission assessment with regular 45-day nursing reviews by the PHR delegating nurse
  • Enforce all requirements of probation as ordered for court-committed individuals
  • Behavioral assessment and support plan
  • 1:1 awake supervision
  • Awake overnight AON staffing
  • Psychiatric and psychological services
  • Community safety/survival skills training
  • Scheduling for mental health appointments, including psychotherapy
  • Transportation to medical appointments
  • Promoting activities of choice to reduce social anxiety and promote positive social Interactions

Employment Services

Our program helps individuals explore career opportunities, earn a living wage, and engage in work that makes sense to them. We partner with local businesses and state funding sources to develop employment opportunities.

Individuals with limited work skills/histories can gain real-world experience and improve their skills to become valued employees.

  • FCCI’s Employment Services provides the client/individual with a variety of flexible support to help the client/individual identify career and employment interests.
  • FCCI’s DDA-Approved Employment Services program offers discovery, job development, ongoing job support, follow-along support, self-employment development support, and co-worker employment support.
  • Discovery offers time-limited comprehensive, person-centered, and community-based employment planning support services to identify the client/individual’s abilities, conditions, and interests delivered in three milestones.
  • Job Development activities identify individual job opportunities in competitive integrated settings and include customized employment and self-employment options. Individual skills are assessed and matched to local employment needs.
  • Ongoing Job Support: A job coach assists the individual in securing the position and provides necessary support on the job as needed.
  • Follow-Along Support: Occurs after the client/individual has transitioned and is stable in their job and is designed to provide coaching and assistance to ensure that the client/individual successfully maintains employment
  • FCCI will adhere to all DDA-approved employment services milestones and service requirements.

Community Development Services

Our program allows individuals to participate in community-based activities that promote socialization, personal development, employment, and lifelong learning recreation. We provide them with opportunities to meet new friends and volunteer with nonprofits.

  • Assist all individuals with learning socially acceptable skills
  • Learn self-advocacy skills
  • Promote growth and develop skills necessary to gain, retain, or advance competitive integrated employment opportunities
  • Provide travel training
  • Transportation to and from activities
  • Participation in the local community event

Personal Support Services

Faith Clinical Care assists people with disabilities who live in their own homes by teaching them how to cook, clean, and do laundry. We also help them with public transportation and encourage them to become members of community organizations.

For personal support, we pair your loved one with a one-on-one staff member to help them achieve their goals. Schedules are determined on a case-by-case basis in conjunction with the individual/family.

  • Provide support to enhance opportunities for community participation
  • Assist with increased integration, interdependence, and productivity
  • Enhanced development of participant natural support

Respite Care

We offer short-term care for individuals whose family members or primary caregivers will take a break from their daily care responsibilities. Our trained staff can care for patients in their homes or at our licensed ALU.

  • Provide short-term temporary care to foster rest and renewal to family caregivers
  • Relieve the demands and stresses of caregiving responsibilities
  • Provide participants with new opportunities, experiences, and self-determination, benefiting both the participant and natural caregiver

Nursing Support Services

A DDA-certified nurse supervises our direct care staff members. Our delegating nurse coordinates care and referrals with physicians and designs and implements nursing care plans. We strive to ensure that the health and safety needs of those in our care are met.

  • Comprehensive nursing assessment for all participants
  • Assure that the client with HRST level 3 or above is given the required annual reviews
  • Assure care plans and nursing protocols as needed
  • Complete medication administration screening tool in the event of significant changes in the health of the client
  • Assure that the RN and the healthcare team are available for the individual
  • Delegation of nursing tasks as per MBON

Shared Living

We arrange a shared living program that allows individuals, couples, or families in the community to share life experiences with persons with disabilities. This arrangement may occur in the shared living provider's or participant's home/apartment or a shared home with a roommate.

  • Emphasize the long-term sharing of lives and forming caring households and close personal relationships between participants in need of support and the host home
  • Work with CCS to search for a couple/family as a host home in the community
  • Assure that shared living supports all participants to be safe and free from harm
  • Assure a mutually satisfying and meaningful relationship between the host home and the individual served

Remote Support Services

At Faith Clinical Care, we help individuals with disabilities maintain healthy and safe lives while also allowing them to become more independent. We provide them with education and technical support for their remote electronic monitoring systems.

  • Support individuals to exercise greater independence over their lives
  • Assist with installation, repair, and maintenance of electronic support systems for individuals supported
  • Provision of training and technicalities in accessing, using, and operating the electronic support system for individuals supported
  • Oversight of electronic support systems, intervention by notifying emergency personnel
  • Assure the privacy of the individual
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How To Apply for Our Services

  • 1 You must have applied and been approved for funding through the Developmental Disabilities Administration (DDA). You may check our resources for links to DDA Applications for services.
  • 2 All those eligible for services are assigned a coordinator of community services (CCS), also known as a service coordinator. The CCS assists in locating and accessing needed services.
  • 3 Service Options:

a. Live in your home with family while receiving services from FCC Inc.

b. Live in another person’s home while receiving services from FCC Inc.

c. Live with other individuals in an ALU owned or rented by FCC Inc.

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Nurse woman takes blood from a senior african patient at home for the diabetes exam while wearing surgical face mask for coronavirus outbreak