CWP targets persons with intellectual disabilities (ID) not currently receiving services through the current HCBS waivers, including the persons currently on the waiting list for the existing Intellectual Disabilities or Living at Home waivers. This waiver program offers services in five (5) enrollment groups, based on age and relative independence, each with a set of services designed particularly to serve them. CWP focuses on maintaining family relationships and promoting community inclusion and competitive employment, which are of utmost importance to an individual’s health, well-being, and happiness, by providing the needed supports that can enable individuals with developmental disabilities to continue to live with family or in their own homes.

The goals of the CWP include, but are not limited to the following:

•         Improve access to care by reducing and eventually eliminating the current waiting list for HCBS.
•         Keep families together, support independent living, and provide increased opportunities for self-direction.
•         Adopt a strategy for delivering HCBS that aims to prevent crisis and escalation of needs for individuals who do not currently require an institutional level of care.
•          Support the capacities that individuals with ID must contribute to their community through participation in integrated community employment, while also better ensuring their financial stability in continuing to live in the community.