Intensive Individual Support Services, or IISS, are one-to-one services provided in the participants home and community. According to COMAR 10.09.56.15(10), intensive individual support services (IISS) are intended to accomplish the following:
- Prevent or defuse crises;
- Promote developmental and social skills growth;
- Provide the participant with behavior management skills;
- Give the participant a sense of security and safety;
- Assist the participant with maintaining self-sufficiency and impulse control;
- Improve the participant’s positive self-expression and interpersonal communication;
- Improve the participant’s ability to function and cooperate in the home and community;
- Reverse negative behaviors and attitudes; and
- Foster stabilization.