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<chapter num="06" heading="Family and Individual Support Services (FISS) Program Service Plan" title_num="10" subtitle_num="22">
  <regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".01" heading="Additional Regulatory Compliance.">
    <text>In addition to this chapter, a person who provides FISS to an individual shall comply with the following regulations of this subtitle:</text>
    <paragraph num="A.">
      <text>COMAR 10.22.01;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="B.">
      <text>COMAR 10.22.02, with the exception of COMAR 10.22.02.06;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="C.">
      <text>COMAR 10.22.03;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="D.">
      <text>COMAR 10.22.04;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="E.">
      <text>COMAR 10.22.05; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="F.">
      <text>COMAR 10.22.10, when applicable.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </regulation>
  <regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".02" heading="Rationale.">
    <paragraph num="A.">
      <text>Services are to be flexible and dynamic to meet the needs of individuals or families desiring specific areas of support and for those who have changing needs.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="B.">
      <text>Services are to be readily adaptable to the changing needs of the individual.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="C.">
      <text>The flexibility inherent in FISS lends itself to creative and innovative ways of supporting individuals and their families.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </regulation>
  <regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".03" heading="Scope.">
    <paragraph num="A.">
      <text>FISS cover a wide array of supports in the life of an individual.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="B.">
      <text>FISS are provided by making use of resources available in the community while, at the same time, building on the individual's existing support network.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="C.">
      <text>Supports are the assistance provided to the individual to enable participation in the community. Supports are integral to each individual or family's quality of life and often enhance the lives of those involved.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="D.">
      <text>FISS may include, but are not limited to, supports involving:</text>
      <paragraph num="(1)">
        <text>Budgeting;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(2)">
        <text>Medication administration;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(3)">
        <text>Counseling;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(4)">
        <text>Job coaching;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(5)">
        <text>Helping an individual to access and complete the individual's education;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(6)">
        <text>Participating in recreational and social activities;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(7)">
        <text>Accessing community services;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(8)">
        <text>Grocery shopping;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(9)">
        <text>Respite, behavioral, and other services and supports needed by the family of the individual; and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(10)">
        <text>Developing relationships.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
  </regulation>
  <regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".04" heading="Staffing and Training.">
    <paragraph num="A.">
      <text>The individual's plan determines the amount of staff time, pattern of supports, and type of staff training needed to support each individual or family.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="B.">
      <text>The licensee shall ensure that staff:</text>
      <paragraph num="(1)">
        <text>Have the necessary skills to carry out the individual's plan; and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(2)">
        <text>Receive training in accordance with COMAR 10.22.02.11.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
  </regulation>
  <regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".05" heading="Setting and Location.">
    <paragraph num="A.">
      <text>The licensee shall provide FISS within the context of each individual or family's life style in the least intrusive manner possible.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="B.">
      <text>The licensee shall provide FISS consistent with each individual's IP.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </regulation>
  <annotations>
    <annotation type="Authority">Health-General Article, §§7-703, 7-708, and 7-904, Annotated Code of Maryland</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Effective date: March 7, 1980 (7:5 Md. R. 474)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Regulations .01 — .09, Respite Care Services in Public Residential Care Facilities Serving the Mentally Retarded, repealed effective June 13, 1988 (15:12 Md. R. 1445)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Regulations .01 — .08, Respite Care Services in State Residential Centers Serving Individuals with Mental Retardation, adopted effective June 13, 1988 (15:12 Md. R. 1445)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Chapter, Respite Care Services in State Residential Centers Serving Individuals with Mental Retardation, repealed and new chapter, Family and Individual Support Services Program Service Plan, adopted effective July 26, 1999 (26:15 Md. R. 1148)</annotation>
  </annotations>
</chapter>