Experienced & Empathetic Support Coordination Empowering
You To Achieve More
The supports coordinators who work at Achieving More come from diverse backgrounds, but they have several characteristics in common. First, they all are truly motivated by the opportuning to make tangible, lasting, positive impacts on people’s lives. Second, they all bring significant experience, expertise, and pertinent educational focuses to their jobs. Finally, they all are instrumental in accomplishing the Achieving More mission of supporting individuals’ independence and reinforcing presumed competence.
“We spend the time and offer personal attention to help you move forward in the waiver process. We don’t just tell you what to do; we explain how to operate within the systems of support coordination, so you end up with the most appropriate assistance to achieve your goals,”
- Erin McDevitt
Achieving Mores Founder
The Supports Coordinator’s Role
Achieving More considers our supports coordinators the lynchpin of our supports team. They function as facilitators, implementers, and liaisons. They manage all discussions surrounding the best methods for resolving the needs of the individuals under their care. Supports coordination includes locating, scheduling, and monitoring services and supports waiver participants receive.
Supports coordinators assume critical roles in connecting people with intellectual or developmental disabilities with the services they are entitled to:
- Identifying appropriate services and supports
- Advocating for the best interests of the participant based on his or her needs, preferences, and goals
Supports coordinators assure compliance with Medicaid Waiver Requirements:
- Monitoring participants’ the health and welfare
- Ensuring individuals receive all services prescribed in the ISP as outlined in the Waivers and AE Operating Agreement
- Maintaining current documentation
Their duties are varied and comprehensive:
- Supports Intensity Scale & PAPlus assessments
- Participant data collection through PUNS, the prioritization for urgency of need for services
- Service notes and billable and non-billable service delivery documentation and maintenance
- Incident management
- Independent service quality monitoring
- Due process for waiver and non-waiver funded services
- Preferred service delivery
- Home and Community Services Information System utilization
- Individual support plan facilitation and completion
- Documentation and follow-up
Additional supports coordinator roles
- Participating in Supports Intensity Scale & PA Plus
- Completion of PUNS: Prioritization for Urgency of Need for Services
- Documentation & Service Notes, Billable and Non-Billable supports coordination services
- Incident Management
- Independent Monitoring for Quality
- Due process rights for Waiver & Non-Waiver funded services
- Service Delivery Preference
- Utilizing Home and Community Services Information System
- Facilitating and completing Individual Support Plan
- Documentation and follow-up
