To be eligible for Caregiver Support Services, an individual being cared for must reside in the family home or with a legal guardian. He or she must have a developmental disability and meet level of care criteria including that the disability manifested before the individual was 22 years old and is likely to continue indefinitely. The individual must also demonstrate substantial functional limitations in at least three areas of major life activities including self-care, understanding and using language, learning, mobility, self-direction, capacity for independent living and/or economic self-sufficiency. The eligible person cannot also be receiving services through any other funded programs, including but not limited to:
- Bureau of Developmental Disabilities Services State Line Funding services
- Medicaid waiver services
- Vocational Rehabilitation Services
- Department of Child Services
- Community and Home Options to Institutional Care for the Elderly and Disabled
- First Steps
- Division of Mental Health and Addiction
- Residential services through the Indiana Department of Education
- Children’s Special Healthcare Services