how to get coordinated family support through your regional center.
Coordinated Family Support, known as CFS, gives adults who live in the family home something the system never offered before: a dedicated coordinator who aligns every service, benefit, and resource around the life they want. Here is how to get it.
first, what CFS actually is
Coordinated Family Support is a regional center funded service, service code 076, created for adults age 18 and over who live in the family home. It exists because most adults with developmental disabilities in California live with family, and until CFS, the deepest coordination support was reserved for residential settings.
With CFS, a dedicated coordinator works with the adult and the family together: mapping goals, connecting services and benefits like IHSS, Medi Cal, and SSI, navigating paperwork, preparing for IPP meetings, and planning ahead for transitions. The adult stays at home by choice, with real infrastructure behind that choice.
When CFS is authorized in the IPP, the regional center pays the vendored provider directly. There is no cost to the family. bttr Living is vendored for CFS with both RCEB and GGRC.
CFS or ILS? different jobs.
Families ask this constantly, and the answer is simple: one coordinates, one coaches. Many people benefit from both.
Coordinated Family Support
coordinatesA dedicated coordinator aligns services, benefits, and resources around an adult living in the family home. The work is navigation, connection, and planning, for the adult and the family together.
Independent Living Services
coachesA coach teaches daily living skills one to one: cooking, budgeting, transportation, home management. The work is hands on skill building toward greater independence.
read the ILS guide →the six steps to CFS
The path runs through your regional center and your IPP. Here is how it works, and how to keep it moving.
Confirm you qualify
CFS is for adults 18 and over who are regional center consumers and live in the family home. Not yet a consumer? Contact the regional center for your county and request intake under the Lanterman Act.
Ask for CFS by name
Tell your service coordinator you want Coordinated Family Support, service code 076, and ask for it to be discussed at your IPP meeting. You can request a meeting any time, not just at the annual review.
Write it into the IPP
Describe what coordination would change: benefits that need aligning, systems that need navigating, transitions that need planning, goals that need a champion. When the team agrees, CFS goes in the plan.
Choose your provider
You have the right to choose among vendored CFS providers. Ask for the vendor list and interview agencies about their coordinators, approach, and language capacity. bttr Living is vendored with RCEB and GGRC.
Build the support plan
Once the purchase of service authorization is issued, your coordinator meets the adult and family, learns goals and routines, and builds a person centered plan mapping every service and resource.
Coordinate and review
Your coordinator stays with you: connecting services, troubleshooting benefits, preparing for IPP meetings, and adjusting as life changes. Progress is reviewed so support keeps matching reality.
coordination that feels like family, runs like a system.
CFS is one of the newest services in California, and bttr Living was built for it: vendored with RCEB and GGRC, bilingual in English and Spanish, and person centered from intake to every check in.
One coordinator, your whole picture
Your family works with one named coordinator who knows your goals, your services, and your story.
English y Español
Coordination, documents, and meetings in the language your family actually speaks at home.
ILS and SDP under one roof
If skill building or Self Determination enters the picture, bttr Living already serves both, so nothing falls between providers.
frequently asked questions
CFS, service code 076, is a regional center funded service that gives adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities who live in the family home a dedicated coordinator. The coordinator aligns regional center services, generic resources, and public benefits around the person's own goals, supporting both the adult and the family.
Adults age 18 and over who are regional center consumers and live with family. CFS was created so adults can keep living at home, by choice, with real coordination behind them.
ILS, code 520, is skill building: a coach teaches daily living skills. CFS, code 076, is coordination: a coordinator aligns services, benefits, and resources. They can be authorized together when each supports its own IPP goal. See our full guide to getting ILS.
Nothing out of pocket. When CFS is authorized in the IPP, the regional center pays the vendored provider directly through a purchase of service authorization.
bttr Living is vendored for CFS, code 076, with the Regional Center of the East Bay (RCEB) and the Golden Gate Regional Center (GGRC). Self Determination Program participants at any California regional center can also work with bttr Living. Explore more codes on our service codes page.
You have appeal rights under the Lanterman Act: a written Notice of Action, then an informal meeting, mediation, or fair hearing. The Office of Clients Rights Advocacy and Disability Rights California provide free help. See DDS appeals information.
Use the DDS lookup by county. Alameda and Contra Costa counties are served by RCEB; San Francisco, San Mateo, and Marin are served by GGRC. bttr Living is vendored for CFS with both.
your family deserves
a coordinator.
If your adult family member lives at home and the systems feel like a maze, CFS is the service built for exactly that. We will help you ask for it, and we would be honored to provide it.
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