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Supplement C: Services and Supports Provided by Regional Centers

Supplement C: Services and Supports Provided by Regional Centers

The services and supports that regional centers provide include, but are not limited to, those listed below. This list is from section 4512(b) of the Lanterman Act. If you need a service not on this list, the IPP team may still authorize it.

  • Adaptive equipment services
  • Advocacy
  • Advocacy assistance or facilitation
  • Assessment
  • Assistance in finding, modifying and maintaining a home
  • Behavior Modification
  • Camping
  • Childcare
  • Community integration services
  • Community residential placement
  • Community support facilitation
  • Counseling for the consumer
  • Counseling for the consumer’s family
  • Daily living skills training
  • Day care
  • Development and provision of a 24-hour emergency response system
  • Development of unpaid natural supports
  • Diagnosis
  • Diapers
  • Domiciliary care
  • Education
  • Emergency and crisis intervention
  • Emergency housing
  • Emergency relief for personal care attendants
  • Evaluation
  • Facilitated circles of support
  • Facilitation, including outreach and education
  • Facilitation with a facilitator of the consumer’s choosing.
  • Financial assistance
  • Follow-along services
  • Foster family placement
  • Habilitation
  • Home location assistance
  • Homemaker services
  • Identification of circles of support
  • Infant stimulation programs
  • Information and referral services
  • Mental health services
  • Occupational therapy
  • Paid neighbors
  • Paid roommates
  • Parent training
  • Peer advocates
  • Personal care or assistance
  • Physical therapy
  • Protection of civil, service and legal rights
  • Protective services
  • Provision of circles of support
  • Recreation
  • Recruiting, hiring and training personal care attendants
  • Respite
  • Respite for personal care attendants
  • Self-advocacy training
  • Sexuality training
  • Sheltered employment
  • Short term out-of-home care
  • Social services
  • Social skills training
  • Sociolegal services
  • Special living arrangements
  • Specialized dental care
  • Specialized medical care
  • Speech therapy
  • Support services for consumers in homes they own or lease
  • Supported employment
  • Supported living arrangements
  • Technical assistance
  • Training
  • Transportation services
  • Travel training
  • Treatment
  • Vouchered services
  • Services and supports needed for families to maintain their children with developmental disabilities at home, when living at home is in the best interest of the child.
  • Services and supports needed to maintain and strengthen the family unit, where one or both parents is a person with developmental disabilities.
  • Other services and supports that would result in greater self-sufficiency for you and cost- effectiveness to the state.
  • If you are on the HCBS Developmental Disability Waiver (DD Waiver), you may be able to get other services under that Waiver. See Chapter 11 for more information.