Case Managers

Offer your consumers a private home, a family that wants to help and a community that cares.

What is Adult Foster Care?

Adult Foster Care allows a person with a disability to live in an adult foster family’s home and share life with their support. Each adult foster family is one that is reliable, responsible and able to build and maintain good social relationships. But above all, an adult foster family is completely willing to share their home and life with a person who has a disability. This service is funded by Indiana’s Developmental Disability (DD) and Autism waivers.

Why Refer Your Consumers to Adult Foster Care?

Adult Foster Care offers a more individualized, stable environment than other supported living models. Each of your consumers is cared for by his/her adult foster family every day, which encourages bonding and relationship-building. Your consumer also has the opportunity to make friends in the neighborhood, participate in community activities and contribute to daily household routines such as cleaning, grocery shopping and bringing in the mail. 

Adult Foster Care even offers the greatest value in supported living, as it costs less than other supported living models while providing more benefits, such as stronger legal and financial safeguards. 

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Who qualifies for Adult Foster Care? (Eligibility)

In order to receive Adult Foster Care under the Autism or DD waivers the person must be over 18, eligible for Medicaid and approved for either waiver. To be approved the person must be diagnosed with mental retardation, cerebral palsy, autism, a seizure disorder or another developmental disability. In addition, he/she must have deficits in major life areas such as communication, mobility, self-direction, self-help, and capacity for independent living.

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How does Adult Foster Care work?

  1. You arrange for a consumer and an adult foster family to share their personal information with each other. This will allow them to help you decide if they are a potential match, based on their compatibility.
  2. The adult foster family visits your consumer where he/she is presently living.
  3. Your consumer visits the adult foster family’s home for lunch, dinner or other casual meeting.
  4. Your consumer stays with the family overnight (or for a whole weekend).
  5. Your consumer’s support team meets to assist him/her in making an informed decision about living with the adult foster family.
  6. You create or update your consumer’s “cost comparison budget.”
  7. Your consumer’s support team develops his/her “community living budget.”
  8. The Adult Foster Care coordinator provides the adult foster family with appropriate training. During this training process the family is taught how to carry out your consumer’s “Individualized Support Plan” and daily activities, and they are also taught how to accommodate your consumer’s preferences as documented in the "Person-Centered Plan."
  9. Your consumer, his/her adult foster family and the Adult Foster Care coordinator all agree on the moving date, what consumer belongings need to be moved and any other moving details.
  10. Your consumer moves in with his/her adult foster family, and follow-along begins with weekly visits from you for the first 30 days (longer if needed). You will then monitor your consumer’s satisfaction in the quality and responsiveness of the services being provided every 90 days. 

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CareStar of Indiana ethics

As employees of CareStar of Indiana we will:

  1. Respect the integrity of the people with whom we work
  2. Respect the consumer’s right to be involved in all aspects of decision-making about his/her life
  3. Respect the privacy of the people we serve
  4. Respect, support and protect the civil rights of the people we serve
  5. Place the interests of the individual we serve above our own
  6. Ensure that we possess the knowledge, skills and experience necessary to support the individual
  7. Give people with disabilities the opportunity for a full life inclusive of work, learning, friendship and humor

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5 reasons to choose CareStar of Indiana for Adult Foster Care

  1. Private company benefits
    CareStar of Indiana is a private company which allows you, the case manager, to be the center of its focus. You are given personal attention and small, manageable caseloads. There is also a 24-hour around-the-clock response system available to you in the case of an emergency. 
  2. Experience
    The CareStar of Indiana staff has extensive knowledge in healthcare programs, service, waivers and benefits management. This was gained from 14 successful years of experience serving the people of Indiana.
  3. FBI Criminal Background Check
    Most Adult Foster Care providers only perform criminal background checks in the adult foster family’s county and state of residence. Although county and state background checks are important, they do not trace criminal records from states outside the family’s state of residence. In this age of travel and transportation, it is very possible that members of your consumer’s adult foster family previously lived outside their current state of residence. That is why CareStar of Indiana uses the FBI criminal background check-- a comprehensive search for any criminal records a family member has in the entire U.S.
  4. Adult Foster Family “Personal Profiles”
    An adult foster family is not automatically assigned to your consumer at CareStar of Indiana. Instead, you allow your consumer (or guardian) to pick the family of his/her choice from those available. You are given adult foster family “personal profiles” to aid in the selection process. These “personal profiles” are short, helpful descriptions that give you basic information about each family.
  5. Consumer “Personal Profile”
    You give the adult foster family your consumer’s “personal profile” to help them learn more about the individual and take better care of him/her. This can include your consumer’s likes, dislikes and basic information about his/her disability.

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