SERV provides in-home community-based habilitative services for eligible children, youth, adolescents, and young adults under age 21 with challenging behaviors and intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD).

These services aim to transfer the skills necessary to achieve and/or maintain the outcomes of increased independence, productivity, enhanced family functioning, and inclusion in the community.

ISS foster and increase the ability of the family/caregiver to provide the youth with needed support and training to remain home and in the community with their natural supports, requiring minimal, if any, outside intervention whenever possible.

A SERV Individual Support Technician comes to the youth’s home to assist him/her with acquiring, retaining, and improving the behavioral, self-help socialization, and adaptive skills necessary to function successfully in the home and community. Families are involved throughout the planning and treatment process in order to create successful life experiences for their children.

The parents/caregivers are trained in proactive teaching approaches designed to decrease inappropriate behaviors and prevent crisis situations from occurring. ISS is geared to augment services already being provided in the school and other settings; they do not supplant existing services. Services are authorized to youth who reside with an uncompensated caregiver.

Referrals for In-Home Individual Support Services must come from the New Jersey Department of Children and Families (DCF), Division of Children’s System of Care.

Prior to receiving ISS, the youth must have a documented Individualized Service Plan developed by an approved credentialed practitioner individually crafted to address identified behavior(s) and systemic barriers that impact the youth’s ability to function at home, school, or in the community; and the services to be delivered.

Parents and caregivers: If you think an individual between the ages of 11 and 20 with challenging behaviors and intellectual and developmental disabilities would benefit from these services, contact PerformCare or your CMO Care Manager.

Age Groups	Children Adolescents
Health Services	Behavioral / Mental Health ADHD / ADD Anxiety Behavioral Crisis / Safety Crisis / Safety / Prevention Intellectual and Developmental Needs Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (I/DD) Special Needs
Treatment Services	In-Community Services Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) Intensive In-Home (IIH) Services, Behavioral Treatment Setting Home
Payment Options	DCP&P Contracted Service Medicaid Medicare Self Pay

Last Updated: 10/18/23