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Show By ROSELYN KIRK A contract to provide Homemaker services to 30 to 35 low income families in Davis County was signed late last week by Davis County Commissioners. The program will be administered through the Council on Aging. THE contract will provide that $27,300 in federal funds will be available to Davis County to administer the program, which will make home management services, chore services and respite care available to those who qualify. Alice Johnson, administrator administra-tor of the Council on Aging, said the contract signed with the Utah State Department of : Social Services, specifies that the families receiving the homemaker service must be certified by the Division of Family Services (DFS) to meet the requirements for low income families. ALTHOUGH the service has been administered in the past by DFS, last spring when DFS decided to forfeit that administration, the county had the choice of allowing a private agency to administer homemaker services or turn the administration over to the Weber County Council on Aging. Ag-ing. Mrs. Johnson was concerned con-cerned with continuing the services available since two-thirds two-thirds of the recipients who receive the services are over 55. The contract specifies that fees for the homeniaker teaching services and the chore service will be paid to the county at the ratio of $4.03 an hour. MRS. Johnson said the employees who provide the services will be paid $2.60 an hour, plus benefits. The rest of the money will be used to rent county office space, hire a part time supervisor and rent secretarial help for 10 hours each week. Mrs. Johnson said that those who are not within the low income criteria may contract to receive the service by paying pay-ing $4.03 an hour. She said that, in addition to families that have been provided services ser-vices in the past and still remain on the current list, five are on a waiting list to receive services. THE contract specifies that the Council on Aging will provide services in four areas: short term homemaker services, long term homemaker services, chore services and homemaker teaching services. ser-vices. The short term homemaker service is provided on a 24-hour 24-hour per day live-in basis in a crisis or emergency situation. Short term service is provided provid-ed only when the crisis is expected ex-pected to be resolved in 14 days or less and is geared to keep the person receiving the services in his home instead of requiring institutionalization. institutionaliza-tion. LONG term homemaker services are provided to a 24-hour 24-hour basis to assist in chronic situations where continuous care over a long, period of time is felt to be feasible. Chore services include the performance of household tasks and essential shopping to allow individuals or families to remain in their own home when they can't perform the tasks for themselves. them-selves. The contract specifies that chore services will be limited to 120 hours of service per month when the eligible family consists of two individuals in-dividuals or less. SERVICE will be provided by employees who h no less than 20 hour malized class time p About seven employ been trained previous county to pron. homemaker services Mrs. Johnson said tract with the Div Family Services w; Oct. 1, 1977 and through June 30, 197; the money is gone. THE CONTRACT i: that the purpose homemaker progra: resolve problems? severely handicap: . or disabled who can'1, rr i in their homes wnfe . -service. In addi!:: I program provide! children and adults i -i protective servicf a eliminates the high -I institutionalizing people. |