Admission Criteria

Virginia Support Group, LLC admits only those individuals whose service needs are consistent with the service description, for whom services are available, and for which staffing levels and types meet the needs of the individuals served.       

 To be eligible for services, an individual must:

1. Individual must be over the age of 18 years of age.
2. Individual must be eligible for Medicaid, meet the Level of Functioning Survey criteria, have a diagnosis of Intellectual Disability/Mental Retardation (ID/MR), and an ID/MR waiver.
3. The individual must have significant limitations in adaptive skills in two or more of the following areas: communication, self-care, home living, social skills, community use, self-direction, health and safety, functional academics, leisure and work.
4. Individual is not known to have tuberculosis in a communicable form.
5. Individual does not have a history (within 2 years) of creating unsafe conditions such as fire abuse, sexual offenses, or history of abuse of illegal drug substance.
6. Individual’s active Behavior Management Plan does not require the use of procedures which would conflict with Virginia Support Group, LLC Residential Program Human Rights Plan: time out, seclusion, intrusive aversive therapy, or mechanical restraints or a need for restrictive behavioral interventions.
7. The individual’s service needs are available by Virginia Support Group, LLC Residential Program
8. Individual’s, who do not meet the characteristics described in 1 through 7, may not be admitted to the program.
9. If an individual’s status changes and he/she no longer meets the characteristics described in 1 through 7, the individual may be discharged from the program.

Admission Procedure

Please contact Sherry Ferebee, Executive Director at 757-962-9786 or by email at admissions@virginiasupportgroup.org to receive an application for services or arrange a program tour.

Once a completed application packet is received, an intake assessment will be conducted with the individual, case manager, and authorized representative.

Applicants will be approved if space is available and they meet eligibility requirement.



Residential Admission Packet