The Contractor(s) will offer Levels I and II in-home aide services as outlined above to adults in Buncombe County for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2025. The aide services include but are not limited to: • personal care • light housekeeping • meal preparation • transportation and errands The Contractor is expected to assist adults by performing personal care essential to activities of daily living, with some home management tasks possibly included as incidental to the personal care. Such personal care and home management tasks are performed to enable individuals to remain in their own homes when they are unable to carry out these activities for themselves and when no responsible person is available for these tasks. The Contractor is obligated to provide these in-home aide services for the Agency in accordance with the requirements of the N.C. Division of Health Service Regulation and the service policies and procedures of the NC Division of Aging and Adult Services. This would include a working knowledge of the State standards and policies and procedures for in-home aide services as well as competency, training and oversight, assessment and service planning, service priorities, and documentation and quality assurance funded under both the Home and Community Care Block Grant Funding and the Social Services Block Grant: a. Home and Community Care Block Grant: https://www.ncdhhs.gov/daas-homeaide-policies-and-procedures/open b. Social Services Block Grant: https://www.ncdhhs.gov/ssbg2007/download#:~:text=Only%20those%20who%20earn%20less,the%20Social%20Services %20Block%20Grant. The Contractors must assure the use of in-home aides who are qualified and appropriately supervised.
