Health and Human Services has said that all group home residents who have been staying away from their group homes during the pandemic must now decide what their status will be going forward by November 1st. They must either return to their group homes or change status. We have decided, as guardians, that we are not ready to send R back. The dayhab that she used to go to five days a week is not going to be opening back up anytime soon, and the house staff will not be taking her out for walks or drives, which we can do, so there is no sense putting her right back in the situation she was in last March, feeling bored and trapped. Our status is now as a "host home". She will still receive all her benefits and HCS funding will pay us to take care of her at our home. We are having to provide some documentation to the provider company and they will send us paperwork that we will need to use to keep records. Then we will turn those records in monthly. The down side is that they cannot guarantee that her room will still be available when she is ready to go back. That fact is very upsetting to her because she very much likes her situation. The economics of the whole thing is understandable though, and the provider has been very accommodating to us. They have done the best they can for her, and we appreciate that.
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