Community Based Services
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Community Based Services Division Informational Presentation
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Brain Injury Services Coordination Unit
The Brain Injury Services Coordination (BISC) Unit, located within the Community Based Services Division in the Richmond Central Office, manages numerous programs/services, contracts, and a federal grant that provide brain injury services throughout the Commonwealth. The BISC Unit serves as a point of contact for customers seeking general or agency-specific information about brain injury resources and rehabilitation.
Community Rehabilitation Case Management Services
The DRS Community Rehabilitation Case Management Services (CRCMS) Program assists people with severe physical and sensory disabilities to build a quality of life of their choosing through self-direction, support, and community resources. CRCMS Rehabilitation Specialists provide individualized long-term case management to people across the Commonwealth, as well as outreach and support services to residents of nursing facilities. CRCMS also provides Support Coordination Services to recipients of Virginia's Development Disabilities Medicaid Waiver.
Disability Services Boards
A partnership of consumer, local government, and business working to increase access and develop consumer-oriented, community-based services for persons with physical and sensory disabilities.
Funding
DRS Funding services include loans and funds todevelop community programs for people with physical and/or sensory disabilities, address the need to improve the treatment and care of Virginians with traumatic spinal cord and brain injuries as well as help individuals with physical and/or sensory disabilities access a service or device that cannot otherwise be funded through existing programs to name only a few. There are many funding and loan programs that can be accessed through DRS.
Independent Living Centers and Services
This program provides technical assistance oversight and compliance to Centers for Independent Living (CILs). CILs provide services and advocacy to promote the leadership, independence, and productivity of people with disabilities. CILs work with both individuals, as well as the local communities, to remove barriers to independence and ensuring equality of persons with disabilities.
Personal Assistance Services
Personal Assistance Services (PAS), sometimes called attendant care, is a range of non-medical services provided by one or more persons, designed to assist a consumer with a significant physical disability with daily living activities. These consumer directed services include transferring, bathing, eating, dressing or other physical activities. DRS manages three PAS programs: Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) PAS, State-funded PAS, and PAS for Individuals with Brain Injury. Each program has general and program specific eligibility criteria
Useful Links
There are several Prescription Drug Assistance Programs available to Virginians. The link above will take you to the Virginia Department for the Aging website for more information.
