As used in KRS 210.770 to 210.795, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) "Mental impairment" includes an intellectual disability, organic brain syndrome, emotional or mental illness, and specific learning disabilities; (2) "Person with a disability" means someone with a physical or mental impairment and includes individuals who have a record or history of an impairment, or are regarded as having a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one (1) or more major life activities; (3) "Physical impairment" means any physiological disorder or corrective, cosmetic disfigurement, or an anatomical loss affecting one (1) or more of the following body systems: neurological, musculo-skeletal, special sense organs, respiratory including speech organs, cardiovascular, reproductive, digestive, genito -urinary, hemic and lymphatic, skin, and endocrine; (4) "Substantial limitation of a major life activity" includes limiting such things as walking, talking, seeing, hearing, caring for oneself, or working; (5) "Hart-Supported Living Program" means grants which provide a broad category of highly flexible, individualized services which, when combined with natural unpaid or other eligible paid supports, provide the necessary assistance to do the following: (a) Provide the support necessary to enable a person who is disabled to live in a home of the person's choice which is typical of those living arrangements in which persons without disabilities reside; (b) Encourage the individual's integrated participation in t he community with persons who are members of the general citizenry; (c) Promote the individual's rights and autonomy; (d) Enhance the individual's skills and competences in living in the community; and (e) Enable the individual's acceptance in the communit y by promoting home ownership or leasing arrangements in the name of the individual or the individual's family or guardian; (6) "Hart-Supported Living Program" does not include any services that support the following arrangements: (a) Segregated living mod els such as any housing situation which physically or socially isolates people with disabilities from general citizens of the community; (b) Segregated programs or activities which physically or socially isolate people with disabilities from general citizens of the community; (c) Congregate living models such as any housing situation which groups individuals with disabilities as an enclave within an integrated setting; (d) Any model where the individual, as an adult, does not have maximum control of the home environment commensurate with the individual's disabilities; and (e) Any single living unit where more than three (3) people with disabilities live; (7) "Hart-Supported Living Council" means a supported living council appointed by the Governor and recognized by the secretary; and (8) "Hart-supported living services" include but are not limited to: (a) Hart-supported living community resource developers; (b) Homemaker services; (c) Personal care services; (d) In-home training and home management assistance; (e) Start-up grants; (f) Transportation; (g) Home modifications; (h) Adaptive and therapeutic equipment; and (i) Facilitation by an indepen dent and trained facilitator to develop and implement individualized life planning.
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