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The Individualized Skills and Socialization Provider page is an online source of information for providers of Individualized Skills and Socialization. This page allows providers to complete and review trainings, find and review provider letters, and link to rules and other services.

Information for Texas providers of  Peer Re-entry Pilot Program provides community-based peer services.

Information about Texas Child Day Care Provider licensing and regulation.

Information for Texas providers of Peer Support Services on becoming certified for Peer Support as a Medicaid Benefit.

The benefits of Peer Support Services are listed.

A peer is a person with lived experience of recovery from mental illness or addiction. By combining this experience with skills learned in formal training, peer specialists deliver services in behavioral health settings to support long-term recovery.

Peer support is when someone with lived experience gives encouragement and assistance to help someone with mental illness or a substance use disorder achieve long-term recovery.

Texas Health and Human Services contracts with licensed agencies to provide personal assistance services to people who have physical disabilities who are mentally and emotionally competent and willing to supervise their attendant or have someone who can supervise the attendant for them. The individual interviews, selects, trains, supervises and releases their personal assistants. Health-related tasks are prescribed by physician.

HHSC Long-term Care Regulation is offering a webinar on April 26 from 1:30–3 p.m. covering the recently revised “Individualized Skills and Socialization Survey Process and ANE Overview” course.

HHSC Intellectual and Developmental Disability Services has published a memo to the local IDD authorities outlining their role after Long-term Care Regulation identifies a potential threat.

Long-Term Care Regulation staff and program providers are invited to attend the following in-person classes hosted in April, May and June

HHSC Long-term Care Regulation will host a webinar for Individualized Skills and Socialization, HCS and TxHmL providers regarding the latest information from LTCR.

Long-Term Care Regulation staff and program providers are invited to attend the following webinar trainings hosted in April.

Long-Term Care Regulation staff and program providers are invited to attend the following in-person classes hosted in April.

Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) Long-term Care Regulation (LTCR) is currently accepting feedback from stakeholders regarding proposed revisions to Texas Administrative Code, Title 26, Chapter 559, Subchapter H – Licensure rules for Individualized Skills and Socialization.