Alternative Community Service, also know as waiver services designed to support families or individuals with severe disabilities as they try to remain in the community.  Also called Medicaid Waiver, the program allows the Day School to hire and train staff who go into the person’s home to provide the supports necessary to keep them out of an institution.  The goals of the alternative community service are to increase the person’s capacity for independence by training in skills which are useful and usable in the individual’s community environment, and to prevent institutionalization by supporting the individual or family of the person needing such services in order to remain at home or to live in the community. If case management services are provided, then the case manager’s goal is to make community linkages to other community services, as needed by the person served.