Empowering Community Lives, INC

Empowering Community Lives, Inc (ECL) was established in 2016. Empowering Community Lives, Inc provides support and services to individuals with disabilities and the elderly. The mission of ECL is to assist participants with living rich and fulfilling lives as independently as possible while living in the community of their choice. ECL strives to provide quality services while fostering choice, independence and inclusion. ECL provides Nursing Home Transition Diversion and Traumatic Brain Injury services to individuals in Nassau and Suffolk Counties.

Nursing Home Transition Diversion Services

Service Coordination (SC)-Assistance with the development and implementation of a person-centered individualized service plan that will lead to the waiver participant's independence, integration into the community, health and welfare.

Community Integration Counseling (CIC)- Counseling service provided to waiver participants who are coping with altered abilities and skills, revisions in long term expectations and/or changes in their roles in relation to significant others.

Community Transitional Services (CTS)-Assistance in transitioning from a nursing home back to the community, including the cost of moving, essential furnishings, deposits for utilities, security deposits or one-time cleaning services prior to occupancy.

Congregate and Home Delivered Meals-Meals for waiver participants who cannot prepare or obtain nutritional adequate meals for themselves, or when the provision of such meals will decrease the need for more costly supports to provide in-home meal preparation.

Independent Living Skills Training (ILST)-Training to improve or maintain the waiver participant’s ability to live as independently as possible by focusing on essential community living skills such as task completion, money management, interpersonal skills, sensory/motor skills, problem solving skills and the ability to maintain a household. ILST assists in recovering skills that have decreased as a result of onset of disability. Also, ILST will primarily be targeted to those individuals with progressive illnesses to maintain essential skills. ILST may be provided in the waiver participant’s residence and in the community.

Moving Assistance-Moving Assistance Services are individually designed services intended to pack and/or transport a waiver participant’s possessions and furnishings within the state of New York when he/she must be moved from an inadequate or unsafe housing situation to a viable environment that more adequately meets the waiver participant’s health and welfare needs. Moving Assistance may also be utilized when the waiver participant is moving to a location where more informal supports will be available, thus allowing the waiver participant to remain in the community.

Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS)-Services intended to decrease the frequency or intensity of the waiver participant’s significant behavioral difficulties that may jeopardize his/her ability to remain in the community of choice due to inappropriate responses to events in his/her environment. PBIS should be provided in the situation where the significant maladaptive behavior occurs.

Traumatic Brain Injury services

Service Coordination (SC)-Provides ongoing assistance with a person–centered individualized Service Plan. The Service Coordinator assists the prospective participant to become a waiver participant and coordinates and monitors the provision of all services in the Service Plan. The goal is to increase the participant’s independence, productivity and integration into the community while maintaining the health and welfare of the individual.

Community Integration Counseling (CIC)-CIC is an individualized service designed to assist the waiver participant to more effectively manage the emotional difficulties associated with adjusting to and living in the community. It is a counseling service provided to a participant coping with altered abilities and skills, the need to revise long term expectations, and changed roles in relation to significant others.

Community Transitional Services (CTS)-Community Transitional Services (CTS) provide funding for the reasonable costs of one–time set–up expenses for individuals transitioning from a nursing home to their own home or apartment in the community. Reasonable costs are defined as necessary expenses for an individual to establish his/her living space.

Independent Living Skills Training and Development (ILST)- ILST services may include assessment, training, and supervision of, or assistance to, an individual with issues related to self–care, medication management, task completion, communication skills, interpersonal skills, socialization, sensory/motor skills, mobility, community transportation skills, reduction/elimination of maladaptive behaviors, problem solving skills, money management, pre–vocational skills and skills to maintain a household.

Positive Behavioral Intervention and Supports (PBIS)- PBIS services are provided to participants who have significant behavioral difficulties that jeopardize their ability to remain in the community of choice due to inappropriate responses to events in their environment. The primary goal of PBIS services is to decrease the intensity or frequency of targeted behaviors, and to teach more socially appropriate behaviors.