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Types of Admissions

  • Regular: Provides long-term (generally longer than 30 or 45 days) residential and day services that promote responsible personal independence, social skills, stable health, and employment development.
  • Respite: Provides a time-limited (often repeated) residential service to eligible North Dakotans younger than 22 years of age, to preserve home living arrangements when short, out-of-home placements are beneficial for the individual and/or family. This is only available pending space resources and a lack of other alternatives.

Accessing Services

In general, people served by the Life Skills and Transition Center have needs that exceed the supports and services currently available in their home communities. This includes serious medical or behavioral concerns.

A North Dakota citizen is eligible for admission if he or she meets the admission criteria.

Admission criteria

  • The person has been determined eligible for developmental disabilities services and has been referred for admission by a regional developmental disabilities program administrator.
  • The superintendent determines that a comprehensive evaluation establishes the appropriateness of services of the Life Skills and Transition Center, and services are available (or will be available by the time the person would arrive).
  • The person has been evaluated for and offered all reasonable alternatives for service within the state, and those services have been deemed inappropriate by the person/guardian, regional developmental disability program administrator, and LSTC superintendent.

For more information, contact a developmental disabilities program administrator who is located in each of the state's eight regions. Their staff determine eligibility for developmental disabilities services and make referrals to the Life Skills and Transition Center, if appropriate.

People may also contact the Life Skills and Transition Center's Director of Social Services for assistance and information.