Developing the Community Integration Plan for ICS - Virtual Classroom

Integrated Community Supports is becoming quite the popular service types covered by MN Statute, Chapter 245D. Are you licensed to provide ICS or are interested in this service type? If so, then you know the very key to providing amazing Integrated Community Supports is inclusion! ICS providers have high expectations on them to have a comprehensive Community Integration Plan (CIP) developed, implemented, and maintained. Many providers are required to have a CIP which largely includes strategies to reduce the potential effects of isolation. This is vital in ensuring that your setting and your supports are integrated into the community and that people have every opportunity to be a part of the community.

This class will explore:

• What true community integration is
• Why community integration is so important
• How to gather the information you need to create a quality Community Integration Plan
• Tools you need to create a plan unique to your ICS setting and the people you support

This course will be faciliatated by a consultant with extensive experience in writing CIPs and supporting ICS providers to write their individual, unique CIP.

CEU Contact Hours: 1.2 for Nurses, 1 for Social Workers