AFC Information for Consumers / Case Managers
 What is Adult Foster Care?
Adult Foster Care (AFC) is program funded by Indiana’s Developmental Disability (DD) and Autism waivers that allow a person with a disability to live in a family’s home and share life with their support. Each adult foster family is reliable, responsible and able to build and maintain good social relationships. Above all, an adult foster family is completely willing to share their home and life with a person who has a disability.
Why Refer Your Consumers to Adult Foster Care?
Adult Foster Care offers a more individualized, stable environment where the adult foster family cares for consumers every day. This encourages bonding and relationship building where the consumer has the opportunity to make friends in the neighborhood, participate in community activities and contribute to daily household routines. Adult Foster Care 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.
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.
CareStar of Indiana, LLC ethics
As employees of CareStar of Indiana, LLC our case manager’s our paramount focus is to respect the integrity of the people with whom we work. Furthermore, respecting the consumer’s right to be involved in all aspects of decision-making about his/her life coincides with our mission to give people with disabilities the opportunity for a full life.
5 reasons to choose CareStar of Indiana, LLC for Adult Foster Care
Private company benefits
CareStar of Indiana, LLC 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 with our 24-hour around-the-clock response system available to you in the case of an emergency.
Experience
The CareStar of Indiana, LLC staff has 14 successful years of extensive knowledge serving the people of Indiana in healthcare programs, service, waivers and benefits management.
FBI Criminal Background Check
County and state background checks are important however, they do not trace criminal records from 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, LLC uses the FBI criminal background check-- a comprehensive search for any criminal records a family member has in the entire U.S.
Adult Foster Family “Personal Profiles”
An adult foster family is not automatically assigned to your consumer at CareStar of Indiana, LLC. 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.
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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