Essential Living Support, LLC provides Adult Day Services in Cheyenne for eligible Wyoming DD Waiver participants age 18 and older. Adult Day Services offer structured, person-centered daytime support that helps participants remain engaged, maintain abilities, build relationships, and pursue goals identified in the Individualized Plan of Care (IPC).
Families sometimes search for “day habilitation” when looking for this type of support. Wyoming’s official service terminology is Adult Day Services. ELS uses the official name while recognizing that day habilitation is a common search term for structured daytime disability services.
What Adult Day Services Provide
Adult Day Services may include meaningful activities that support engagement, choice, safety, and independence. Depending on the participant’s authorization and goals, support may involve:
- Daytime routines and activities selected around the participant’s interests
- Social interaction, relationship building, and leisure pursuits
- Opportunities to maintain or strengthen existing skills and abilities
- Community participation and connection
- Protective oversight and permitted health-maintenance support within service scope
- Activities that help maintain flexibility, mobility, strength, or independence when identified in the IPC
The purpose is a meaningful day that reflects the participant’s choices and plan—not a generic activity schedule.
Who May Benefit
Adult Day Services are intended for adults age 18 and older whose Wyoming DD Waiver planning process identifies a need for structured daytime support. The service may fit participants who benefit from consistent engagement, social opportunities, leisure activities, community connection, oversight, or support maintaining abilities.
Eligibility, assessed need, authorization, and applicable limits are determined through the participant’s waiver process. ELS reviews referrals for service fit, schedule, setting, and current capacity.
How Adult Day Services Are Authorized
Adult Day Services must be authorized in the participant’s IPC. The plan identifies the participant’s choices, goals, support needs, schedule, setting, and documentation expectations. ELS delivers support within the approved service scope and coordinates questions or changes with the case manager and team.
Personal care may be included only within the Adult Day service’s permitted limits and when it aligns with the participant’s plan. Adult Day Services are not presented as nursing, therapy, or a separate clinical program.
Setting, Community Participation, and Transportation
Adult Day Services may include activities in service or community settings. In-home delivery may be considered only when the participant or legally authorized representative and plan-of-care team determine that the home is more appropriate and document that choice in the IPC.
Transportation associated with authorized Adult Day Services is a component of the service rather than a separate transportation benefit. ELS coordinates the schedule and setting with the participant’s team.
How Adult Day Differs From Related Services
Community Support Services are habilitation services focused on authorized training objectives and skill development in varied community settings separate from the residence. Adult Day Services provide meaningful daytime support and are not a habilitation service.
Companion Services center on supervision, socialization, and assistance within that service’s authorized role. Life Skills Development has a different skill-development purpose. A participant may need one or more services, but the case manager and planning team determine which authorized service matches each need.
Coordination With the IPC and Support Team
ELS works with participants, guardians, case managers, families, and legally authorized representatives before and during service delivery. Coordination includes understanding participant choice, authorized support needs, the preferred setting, schedule, communication preferences, and required documentation.
When needs or preferences change, ELS communicates with the appropriate team members and follows the approved planning process rather than informally changing the service.
Why Essential Living Support
ELS is a Cheyenne-based Wyoming DD Waiver provider serving adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Our approach emphasizes dignity, participant choice, meaningful engagement, reliable follow-through, and communication with the participant’s support team.
Frequently Asked Questions
Are Adult Day Services the same as day habilitation?
Adult Day Services is the official Wyoming DD Waiver term used by ELS. “Day habilitation” is a common search phrase, but it should not be used to rename or misrepresent the authorized service.
Who can receive Adult Day Services?
Eligible Wyoming DD Waiver participants age 18 and older may receive Adult Day Services when the service is assessed as appropriate and authorized in the IPC.
Can Adult Day Services include community activities?
Yes. Activities may occur in community or service settings when they fit the participant’s choices, goals, support needs, and approved plan.
Can Adult Day Services be provided at home?
Only when the participant or legally authorized representative and the plan-of-care team determine the home is more appropriate and document that decision in the IPC.
Is transportation separate from Adult Day Services?
No. Transportation connected to authorized Adult Day activities is treated as a component of the service, not a stand-alone transportation benefit.
How does a referral begin?
A case manager, guardian, family member, or authorized referral partner can contact ELS to discuss the participant’s IPC, support needs, preferred setting, schedule, and provider capacity.
Talk With ELS About Adult Day Services
Contact Essential Living Support or call 307-369-1030 to discuss authorized Adult Day Services in Cheyenne.