DD Waiver Support Services

What is Support Coordination?

Person-centered Support Coordination serves individuals with developmental disabilities ages three years and older.

Support Coordination activities are designed to assist individuals in accessing needed social, educational, vocational, residential, psychiatric, and medical supports essential for living in the community in the most integrated and least restricted setting.

How does The Arc provide Support Coordination?

In Virginia, Community Services Boards (CSBs) are the local public entities that determine eligibility for the DD Waivers and that provide DD Waiver case management services, also known as support coordination. The CSBs are required to offer a choice of Support Coordination providers to individuals with active DD Waiver Services.

The Arc of Northern Virginia is a Support Coordination contractor for several regional CSBs, to offer support coordination services to individuals who are actively receiving a Medicaid Waiver. The Arc of Northern Virginia’s support coordination service area consists of Fairfax-Falls Church, Prince William, Loudoun, Alexandria, and Arlington counties.

What Support Coordination services do we provide?

• Coordinating initial and annual assessment of the individual served
• Developing Person-Centered Plans (PCP) with input from the individual and support team
• Linking individuals to community-based services and supports specified in the PCP
• Assisting individuals with locating, developing, or obtaining services and resources
• Enhancing community integration, increasing individual’s community access and involvement
• Making collateral contacts to promote implementation of the PCP
• Monitoring the implementation of the PCP through regular contacts with service providers, as well as 30 to 90-day home and site visits
• Monitoring the quality of services, as well as individual and/or guardian satisfaction of services
• Collaborating with Public School Systems for transition services to assist graduates receiving special education services in transitioning from school to adult programs and services
• Educating and providing guidance about waiver and community services that could support the individual, and develops a supportive relationship with the individual, so that the individual can achieve outcomes written in their ISP

How do I select The Arc of Northern Virginia as my Support Coordinator for the DD Waiver?

If interested in choosing The Arc of Northern Virginia as your DD Waiver Support Coordinator for active waiver services, contact your current CSB Support Coordinator, the Support Coordinator’s supervisor, or director overseeing DD services for the CSB. This excludes individuals with a diagnosis of an Intellectual Disability.

Please note that while preference is important, our ability to support new cases is based on our capacity in each locality.