- (1) Habilitation is the provision of intervention services designed for assisting a consumer to acquire, retain, and improve the self-help, socialization, and adaptive skills necessary to reside successfully at home and in the community.
(2) Habilitation services may include:
- (a) residential habilitation;
- (b) day habilitation;
- (c) prevocational services; and
- (d) supported employment.
- (3) Residential habilitation is habilitation provided in a licensed group home for persons with physical disabilities or a specialized licensed adult residential care facility.
- (4) Day habilitation is habilitation provided in a day service setting.
- (5) Prevocational services are habilitative activities that foster employability for a consumer who is not expected to join the general work force or participate in a transitional sheltered workshop within a year by preparing the consumer for paid or unpaid work. Prevocational services include teaching compliance, attendance, task completion, problem solving and safety.
- (6) Supported employment is intensive ongoing support to assist a consumer who is unlikely to obtain competitive employment in performing work activities in a variety of settings, particularly work sites where nondisabled persons are employed. Supported employment service includes supervision, training, and other activities needed to sustain paid work by a consumer.
- (7) An entity inclusive of its staff, providing habilitation services must be qualified generally to provide the services and specifically to meet each consumer's defined habilitation needs.
Authorizing statute(s): 53-2-201, 53-6-101, 53-6-113, 53-6-402, MCA
Implementing statute(s): 53-2-201, 53-6-101, 53-6-402, MCA
History: NEW, 1983 MAR p. 863, Eff. 7/15/83; AMD, 1986 MAR p. 2094, Eff. 1/1/87; AMD, 1988 MAR p. 1268, Eff. 7/1/88; AMD, 1991 MAR p. 470, Eff. 12/14/90; TRANS & AMD, from SRS, 2000 MAR p. 2023, Eff. 7/28/00; AMD, 2011 MAR p. 1722, Eff. 8/26/11.