he proposed language within section 7.2 related to Sponsored Residential and Customized Rates contradicts itself and makes incorrect assumptions about the requirements of anyone living in the home of a Sponsored Residential Provider. Sponsored Residential Services do not require that a Sponsor be married or have another person who lives in the home that is not receiving services. Other adults who live in the home may work in jobs outside of the home and the Sponsored Service. They may not have any additional training and only have their backgrounds completed. Adults, other than the identified Sponsor, living in the home must be counted separately in the customized rate application if they choose to work in the home and are hired and trained by the identified Sponsor to provide DSP Services. This would include spouses, significant others, adult children of the sponsor or hired adults who live in the home and are trained to provide DSP Services within the setting. The criteria within this section forces the committee to count 2 or more people providing services and living in the home as one person within the Customized Rate Model. This proposed guidance could discount hundreds of hours of work being provided by other Direct Support Professionals living in the setting.
