Proudly serving people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. 

The following is a list of the services offered by
Unity Care.

Supported Living (SL)

 Supported Living (SL) Supported Living (SL) is a type of residential service selected by the person supported having individualized services and supports that enable the person supported to acquire, retain, or improve skills necessary to reside in a home that is owned or leased by the residents and which supports each resident’s independence and full integration into the community, ensures each resident’s choice and rights, and comports fully with standards applicable to HCBS settings delivered under Section 1915(c) of the Social Security Act, including those requirements applicable to provider-owned or controlled homes, except as supported by the individual’s specific assessed need and set forth in the person-centered Individual Support Plan (ISP).

All individual goals and objectives, along with needed supports will be established through the person-centered planning process and documented in the person-centered ISP and will include opportunities to seek employment and work in competitive integrated settings, engage in community life, and control personal resources, as applicable based on the needs and preferences of the individual.

Supports may include direct assistance as needed with, participating in, and learning how to complete independently activities of daily living (e.g., bathing, dressing, personal hygiene, eating, meal preparation (excluding cost of food), household chores essential to the health and safety of the person, budget management(which will include supporting the person in managing his/her personal funds, as appropriate), attending appointments, and interpersonal and social skills building to enable the person to live in a home in the community.

Supports will be provided in a manner which ensures an individual’s rights of privacy, dignity, respect and freedom from coercion and restraint; and which optimizes individual initiative, autonomy, and independence in making life choices.

Supported Living may include medication administration as permitted under Tennessee’s Nurse Practice Act and performance of other non-complex health maintenance tasks, as permitted by State law.


Community Participation Supports

 Community Participation Supports are services which coordinate and/or provide supports for valued and active participation in integrated community opportunities that build on the person’s interests, preferences, gifts, and strengths while reflecting the person’s goals with regard to community involvement and membership. This service involves participation in one or more integrated community settings, in activities that involve persons without disabilities who are not paid or unpaid caregivers. Community Participation Supports are designed to promote maximum participation in integrated community life while facilitating meaningful relationships, friendships and social networks with persons without disabilities who share similar interests and goals for community involvement and participation.  

Community Participation Supports enable the person to increase or maintain his/her capacity for independent participation in community life and to develop age-appropriate social roles valued by the community by learning, practicing and applying skills necessary for full inclusion in the person’s community, including skills in arranging and using public transportation for individuals aged 16 or older.   


Intermittent Employment and      Community Integration
Wrap-Around Supports

These supports are expressly designed to support waiver participants in engaging in integrated community participation and integrated community employment when sustained, all-day participation in these opportunities outside the home is not possible for the individual due to intermittent needs related to personal care (where this care requires certain environments and/or equipment to perform, which is not otherwise available to the individual in any integrated community setting), personal assistance with preparing and eating a meal, and/or regaining stamina (physical and mental readiness and/or motivation for integrated community participation and/or employment occurring later on the same day). This service is also expressly designed to avoid the need for people to attend a facility-based day service setting in order to have these intermittent needs met, and to enable people with these needs to use their home as the base from which they routinely access their neighborhood and broader community.

4. Supported Employment - Individual Employment Support

Services provided to a person who, because of his or her disabilities, needs support not available to the person through a program funded under Sec. 110 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 to obtain, maintain and/or advance in competitive integrated employment, including customized or self-employment, for which the individual is compensated at or above minimum wage. The expected outcome of these services is individualized integrated employment (IIE) or self-employment (SE), consistent with the individual’s personal and career goals.


Semi-Independent Living (SIL)

Semi-Independent Living Services (SILS) are services selected by the person supported that include training and assistance in managing money, preparing meals, shopping, personal appearance and hygiene, interpersonal and social skills building, and other activities needed to maintain and improve the capacity of an individual with an intellectual disability to live in the community, and which supports the person’s independence and full integration into the community, ensures the person’s choice and rights, and comports fully with standards applicable to HCBS settings delivered under Section 1915(c) of the Social Security Act, except as supported by the individual’s specific assessed need and set forth in the person-centered Individual Support Plan (ISP).

The service also includes oversight and assistance in managing self-administered medication and/or medication administration as permitted under Tennessee’s Nurse Practice Act and performance of other non-complex health maintenance tasks, as permitted by State law. 


Family Model Residential Support

Family Model Residential Support will mean a type of residential service selected by the person supported, where he or she lives in the home of a trained caregiver who is a not family member in an “adult foster care” arrangement.

A family member(s) of the persons supported will not be reimbursed to provide Family Model Residential Support services. Family member is interpreted to mean the mother, father, grandmother, grandfather, sister, brother, son, daughter, or spouse, whether the relationship is by blood, by marriage, or by adoption.  

Personal Assistance (PA)

Personal Assistance is a type of service, selected by the person supported, offering individualized services and supports that enable the person to live in the community in a setting of their choice and which supports each person’s independence, rights, and full inclusion in the community; and ensures each resident’s choice and rights.

Supports may include of direct assistance as needed with, participating in, and learning how to complete independently activities of daily living (e.g., bathing, dressing, personal hygiene, feeding/assistance with eating, meal preparation excluding cost of food, toileting and incontinence care, assistance with transfer and mobility), household chores essential to the health and safety of the person supported (e.g., washing dishes; personal laundry; general housecleaning in areas of the residence used by the person supported); budget management (which will include supporting the individual in managing his/her personal funds, as appropriate), supervising and accompanying the person supported to medical appointments if needed, and on personal errands such as grocery shopping, picking up prescriptions, paying bills; and trips to the post office.

Supports will be provided in a manner which ensures an individual’s rights of privacy, dignity, respect and freedom from coercion and restraint; and which optimizes individual initiative, autonomy, and independence in making life choices.