What services does AFC provide?

We are an organization that provides Home and Community-based Services (HCS) and Texas Home Living(TxHML) waiver services for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. We Service ALL of Texas.

Available service based programs:
•Community-based Housing: This is an HCS service that provides a home in the community for three to four persons per home with 24 hour supervised care, training, support and community integration.
•Host Home Companion Care (Foster Care): This HCS service is provided by an individual or family who house and assist special needs individuals with activities of daily living and promote independence and community integration.
•Community First Choice (CFC): This HCS and TxHML service is for special needs individuals who live with their family or on their own.
•Respite: This HCS and TxHML service is designed to give the primary caregiver(s) a break from their care-giving duties. Respite is short term care provided to an individual in their home or outside their home.
•Individualized Skills & Socialization: This HCS and TxHML service is a group setting taken place at our AFC Connection Center that assists individuals to acquire skills to reside, integrate and participate successfully in the community.
•Supported Employment: This HCS service is the provision of support needed by an individual to sustain paid employment.
•Adaptive Aids: This HCS and TxHML service is an item or service that enables an individual to retain or increase the ability to perform their activities of daily living or to control their environment.
•Minor Home Modification: This HCS and TxHML service is a physical adaptation to an individual's residence that is necessary to address the individual's specific needs and that enables the individual to function with greater independence in the individual's residence or to control his or her environment.
•Social Work: This service provides the promotion of quality of life to the individual and assists in the development of their full potential.
•Nursing: This HCS and TxHML service provides professional nursing to an individual with a medical need.
•Dietary: This HCS and TxHML service promotes healthy eating, being physically active and making healthy lifestyle choices.
•Behavioral Supports: This HCS and TxHML service utilizes numerous practical ways to positively influence how one interacts and adapts to various environments at home, in school, amongst the community, while at play, in organizations, at work, in personal relationships, and more.
•Speech Therapy: This HCS and TxHML service is available to individuals with communication disorders. Communication skills can be enhanced through Speech Services
•Occupational Therapy: This HCS and TxHML service focuses on enabling an individual to participate in the activities of everyday life.
•Physical Therapy: This HCS and TxHML service is the art and science of physical care and rehabilitation. Physical Therapists focus on developing, maintaining, and restoring maximum movement and functional ability.
•Dental: This service is provided by both HCS and TxHML and includes emergency dental treatment, preventive dental treatment, therapeutic dental treatment and orthodontic dental treatment. HCS maximum is $2,000 and TxHML maximum is $1,000.
•Audiology: This HCS and TxHML service aims to determine whether someone can hear within the normal range, and if not, which portions of hearing are affected and to what degree. If an audiologist determines that a hearing loss is present, he or she will provide recommendations to a patient as to what options may be of assistance.
•Transportation: This HCS and TxHML service provides transportation through the Community First Choice program.

For more information on any services listed or not listed please contact us.