Local Intellectual & Developmental Disability Authority (LIDDA)
Overview
Metrocare is Dallas County’s Local Intellectual & Developmental Disability Authority (LIDDA). We serve as the front-door to coordinate all publicly funded Intellectual and Developmental Disability (IDD) programs.
Our goal is to help your loved one access the services needed to live in the community and achieve the highest quality of life. First, our team determines if your loved one is eligible to receive Texas IDD Services. Then, we help connect you to the right resources and supports across our extensive provider network and beyond.
We also help enroll your child on the State waitlists for Medicaid waiver programs, known as the “interest lists” Tip! Don’t wait to enroll.
Waitlists for these programs are often 10+ years. While the wait is long, receiving these services can make a huge long-term difference.
Who We Serve
To qualify for LIDDA services, the person must be a resident of Dallas County, at least three years of age and have either a:
- diagnosis of an intellectual and / or developmental disability (IDD) or other related condition
- pervasive developmental disorder, like Autism Spectrum Disorder
- nursing facility resident who is eligible for specialized services for IDD or a related condition.
Eligibility to receive services is determined by Metrocare’s Eligibility Determination Unit.
IDD Survey
As part of the Metrocare’ s efforts to identify existing and future needs of individuals receiving services from the Local IDD Authority, the survey below has been developed to gather input. The survey is intended for all stakeholders, such as people who have an IDD, family and friends of people who have an IDD, advocacy organizations, private provider organizations, MCOs, and other that provide services for individuals with IDD.
Please take a few moments and complete the survey by clicking on the link below.
- English: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/59TKK53
- Spanish: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/5YXG6K2
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Getting Started
Our Services
Specialized behavior interventions to help preserve in-home, family, or community living. Supports include:
- Developing a personalized behavior support plan from assessment findings.
- Training and consulting with family members or other providers for comprehensive care.
- Monitoring the success of the behavioral support plan and modifying if necessary.
Community First Choice (CFC) services are available to Medicaid recipients of specific Managed Care Organizations (MCO’s) with an institutional level of care.
Services Include:
- Personal Assistance for daily living activities, like eating, toileting, grooming, bathing, meal planning, financial management etc.
- Training for caregivers on how to select, manage, and dismiss attendants.
- Emergency Response Services
Metrocare’s LIDDA team provides service coordination for qualifying individuals 22 years of age and older.
Individualized activities provided in the person’s home and in the community, such as:
- habilitation and support of daily living activities;
- activities for the person’s family that help preserve the family unit and in-home placement;
- transportation between the client’s home and employment site, day habilitation, or community activities.
Crisis respite provides 24-hour supervision to a person in crisis for up to 14 days, either in the home or a facility. Crisis intervention specialists help families stabilize the individual and develop a crisis prevention plan
Assists with self-help, socialization, and adaptive skills needed to live successfully in the community. Often provided in a group setting and includes personal care by a registered nurse.
Helps individuals locate paid jobs and:
- identify employment preferences, job skills, work requirements, and work conditions;
- identify prospective employers who offer appropriate employment;
- provide support services, supervision, and training to help sustain employment;
- vocational training for industry-specific employment.
Metrocare helps you enroll. When your loved one receives a waiver slot, Metrocare provides service coordination and navigation.
Texas Health and Human Services releases waiver slots to individuals on the waitlist, also known as the “interest list.” The waitlist for these slots can be 10 to 15+ years so contact us today to ask about enrolling your child now. Funding from the waiver programs also follow the individual across any part of the state. If you have recently moved to Dallas from another part of the state, Metrocare can help you connect to local services.
HCS and TxHmL provide supports so that individuals can remain either in their home, at a family member’s home, or at a host-setting over a long period of time.
Services include:
- Residential Support Services (HCS only)
- Adaptive aids
- Minor home modifications
- Professional therapies
- Behavioral supports
- Dental treatment
- Nursing
- Respite
- Day habilitation
- Employment services
HCS & Texas Home Living Service Coordinators monitor services provided by HCS/TxHmL providers to ensure safety, coordination of services, and appropriate linkage to resources. Service Coordinators will assist the person in identifying and articulating personal goals and hopes for the future as well as the need for services and supports. The Service Coordinator will elicit the person’s feedback, coordinate, monitor the services for desires outcomes as identified in the Person Directed Treatment Plan (PDP).
Licensed nursing staff to provide treatment of health care procedures, prescribed by a physician.
A federally mandated program that is applied to all individuals seeking admission to a Medicaid-certified nursing facility, regardless of funding source or age. PASRR has three main goals:
- To identify people, including adults and children, with mental illness, and/or an intellectual or developmental disability or related condition;
- To ensure appropriate placement, whether in the community or the nursing facility;
- To ensure people receive specialized services for mental illness, and/or IDD, if eligible.
Have a loved one entering a nursing facility?
Learn more about PASRR here.
Planned or emergency short-term relief provided by trained staff to the person’s unpaid caregiver.
Once determined eligible for services, you and your loved one are assigned a Metrocare Service Coordinator. Your Service Coordinator helps you access medical, social, educational and other services and supports so that your loved one can achieve the highest possible quality of life and community participation.
Assessment and treatment by licensed or certified professionals. Therapies include:
- social work services
- counseling services
- occupational therapy
- physical therapy
- speech and language therapy
- audiology services
- dietary services
- behavioral health services other than those
- provided by a local mental health authority.