IHSS Overview & Q & A with Public Benefits Consultant

In-Home Support Services (IHSS) may be available to people receiving MediCal, including Regional Center (RC) consumers. Your child or young adult may live in your home or in their own home and be eligible for IHSS.
Have you been thinking about applying for IHSS for your youth as they enter transition to adulthood and move toward independent living?
Or is IHSS already in place, and you’re wondering how IHSS works with the regional center’s assisted living benefits (if eligible) when your young adult/adult moves out of your home?
No matter where your family is on their IHSS journey, you probably have questions.
Please join us as benefits consultant Jim Huyck of Huyck Consulting answers your questions after giving a brief overview of the IHSS program.
Jim has served as Executive Director of Alta California Regional Center in Sacramento and has served the needs of the disabilities community for over 40 years. He has assisted families and their loved ones with disabilities as they navigate through Special Needs Trusts and various public benefits.
This is a Connections California event. Connections California, a project of Parents Helping Parents - Silicon Valley
About Parents Helping Parents (PHP):
Parents Helping Parents, www.php.com/, supports and trains you to help your family members with special needs, including learning differences, chronic illness, mental health challenges, developmental or intellectual disabilities, physical disabilities, and more, at all stages of a person’s life.
Serving families in Santa Clara, San Mateo, Santa Cruz, Monterey & San Benito counties in California. Multilingual staff is always available by contacting [e-mail]. PHP is a non-profit 501(c)3 agency. Most services are free.
If you live outside the Silicon Valley area, there are similar parent centers in California and every state in the US. Find a parent center near you: www.parentcenterhub.org/find-....
Parents Helping Parents (PHP) is a nonprofit organization that provides information, training, individual assistance, and resources. PHP is not a law firm or legal service agency, and as such, the information contained in this video is provided to inform the viewer, but should not be considered legal advice. For legal advice, you should consult an attorney.

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As an IHSS provider, you do not have to be part of the Union, I just got my orientation a few days ago; the first 50 minutes were about selling the union, the benefits, and so on. The union representative always talked about the benefits, he never mentioned that there is no obligation to enroll. When I gave him my empty form he got mad. Thank you so much for all the information you provided.