PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
Companion Care offers direct care services management and acts as a
paraprofessional "service bureau"; hiring, training and
retaining part-time workers to provide a variety of care hours to
diverse populations in the Merrimack Valley area.
SPECIALTY SERVICES
Companions - Homemakers - Mentors
REFERRAL PROCESS
Most services are accessed by a closed referral process through the
Purchasing Unit or Funding Source. Exceptions to this closed referral
are Private Pay (self-referral) consumer services and Foundation
Grant consumer services (referrals received from community agencies -
subject to income/geographic restrictions and availability of slots).
FUNDING SOURCE
Direct Reimbursement for Hour of Service provided. Services are
purchased by individual funding or purchasing agents and include such
sources as: DSS, HES children's Programs and CRS, Elder Services of
the Merrimack Valley, MRC, Private Foundation Grants, and Private Pay Consumers.