Funding Guidelines for Childbirth Education and Preparation Services

Childbirth education and preparation training during the prenatal period is designed to prepare the person with a developmental disability for pregnancy and childbirth.

Purchase of such services may be provided under the following conditions:

• The specific service to be purchased is not available through any publicly funded source; and
  
• there is evidence of impaired reasoning and/or decision making and/or other conditions or impairments that would require enhanced training and support; and
  
• appropriate support systems are not in place; and
  
• the individual service plan has been presented for Prenatal Review Staffing.

Typically, such support services are authorized at a level of up to 15 to 20 hours per month for a period of six months.

ADOPTED BY BOARD OF DIRECTORS: DECEMBER, 1996