Coordinated Family Support (CFS) is designed to support consumers aged 18 and older who reside in the family home, along with their families, by offering ongoing support and service coordination. This includes helping families access necessary services, develop personalized care plans, and manage transitions in care or living arrangements. Each service is tailored to meet the unique needs of both the family and the consumer, ensuring comprehensive, individualized support.

1. Talk to Your Service Coordinator
Let your Service Coordinator know you're interested in CFS. They’ll help decide if it’s a good fit and start the referral process.

2. Bring It Up at Your IPP Meeting
Mention CFS during your IPP meeting. Your team will explore how it can support your goals and daily needs.

3. Complete the Referral Form
Work with your Service Coordinator to fill out the CFS Referral and Service Needs Assessment. This helps identify the kinds of support your family needs.

4. Submit the Referral and Schedule a Visit
Once the form is complete, it’s sent to Sunset Lotus (or another CFS provider). We’ll then schedule an in-home visit to begin your assessment and create a support plan.

5. Review and Approve the Plan
Your Service Coordinator will review the plan, approve services, and authorize hours through your IPP.

6. Start Services
Once approved, Sunset Lotus will begin working with your family. We stay flexible and collaborative to ensure your support continues to meet your needs.

Coordinated Family Support (CFS) is designed for individuals receiving Regional Center services who live with their families and would benefit from additional support to maintain stability, connection, and long-term well-being.

CFS may be the right fit for your family if:

✔️ Your loved one is a Regional Center consumer living in a family home.
✔️ Your family needs help navigating and coordinating services to ensure your loved one’s needs are fully supported.
✔️ You want assistance with building a care team, accessing resources, or creating sustainable long-term plans for the future.
✔️ You are a caregiver seeking respite coordination, behavioral support connection, or future transition planning.
✔️ Your loved one would benefit from support with daily living activities, skill development, or meaningful community integration.

How CFS Complements Other Supports

Coordinated Family Support (CFS) is not a replacement for existing services — it works alongside medical, behavioral, and community-based supports to create a more connected, person-centered care system.

At Sunset Lotus, we collaborate closely with Service Coordinators, families, and other providers to bridge gaps, strengthen natural supports, and ensure that care remains aligned with each individual's unique needs, values, and goals.

If you’re unsure whether CFS is the right fit, we encourage you to contact your Regional Center Service Coordinator to discuss your family's needs and explore available options.

Note: CFS services may vary by vendor. The services listed below reflect the offerings provided by Sunset Lotus.

🌸 Accessing Services & Bridging Connections
Helping families navigate systems and connect with essential supports and resources.

🌸 Care Team Integration & Collaboration
Building strong, coordinated networks by connecting providers, caregivers, and natural supports.

🌸 Skill Development & Daily Living Support
Empowering individuals to build independence, communication, and self-advocacy skills.

🌸 Healthcare & Benefits Navigation
Helping families understand and access healthcare systems, public benefits, and long-term care options.

🌸 Community Integration & Advocacy
Fostering meaningful inclusion and promoting equitable access to community life.

🌸 Respite Coordination
Assisting families in accessing and scheduling respite care to provide essential relief and renewal for caregivers.

🌸 Emotional & Practical Caregiver Support
Providing education, stress management tools, and hands-on support for caregivers managing complex needs.

🌸 Assistive Technology & Adaptive Equipment Guidance
Connecting individuals with tools and technologies that enhance communication, mobility, and independence.

🌸 Advocacy & Rights Education
Equipping individuals and families with tools to understand their rights and advocate for appropriate services.

🌸 Housing & Long-Term Care Planning
Exploring housing options, residential supports, and sustainable long-term care solutions.

🌸 Financial & Legal Resource Navigation
Supporting access to financial planning, special needs trusts, conservatorship resources, and legal assistance.

🌸 Sibling & Family Support
Offering guidance and resources to help siblings and extended family members navigate their supportive roles.

🌸 Advanced Care Planning
Guiding families in documenting healthcare wishes and preparing for future medical decisions.

🌸 Future & End-of-Life Planning
Supporting aging caregivers and loved ones with transition planning, continuity of care, and long-term security.

🌸 Grief & Bereavement Support
Holding compassionate space for individuals and families navigating loss and life transitions.

🌸 End-of-Life Caregiver Preparation
Assisting caregivers with legacy planning, future care coordination, and meaningful decision-making.

At Sunset Lotus, we believe that meaningful, person-centered care begins with intentional, hands-on support — while honoring the natural rhythms of family life.

Our services are primarily provided in person, allowing us to build strong relationships, understand each family's unique needs, and ensure the highest quality of care. While some aspects of our work — like consultations, check-ins, or documentation — can be completed virtually when needed, we prioritize presence when it best serves the family.

Alongside direct support, we are steadily working behind the scenes on behalf of the families we serve — submitting benefits applications and renewals, drafting and filing appeal letters, coordinating with healthcare providers, working with insurance companies to maximize coverage, following up with community agencies and service providers, and ensuring families access all available generic resources before using Regional Center funding.

We also assist with housing applications, IHSS navigation, long-term care planning, healthcare benefit coordination, preparation for IPP meetings, future care planning, and bridging communication between families, providers, and Service Coordinators.

This blend of visible and behind-the-scenes support allows families to stay focused on their loved ones, confident that essential advocacy, care coordination, and resource management are moving forward with compassion, clarity, and respect.

At Sunset Lotus, we are deeply committed to the principle of "Nothing about me without me."

We believe that every individual deserves to be seen, heard, and honored as the expert of their own life. Their voice, preferences, and goals are not just considered — they are central to every conversation, every decision, and every plan we create together.

Throughout the entire process, we actively engage your loved one in ways that are meaningful and accessible to them, ensuring their wishes shape the services and supports they receive. Whether it’s building a care team, planning for future transitions, or navigating day-to-day needs, we prioritize their participation, dignity, and self-determination.

Our role is not to direct or override — it is to walk beside each individual and family, offering guidance, advocacy, and tools to empower their choices, uphold their rights, and honor the life they are choosing to live.

Yes, at Sunset Lotus, we recognize that enhanced behavioral support needs are an important part of many individuals' experiences — and honoring those needs is central to the work we do.

We approach each person with compassion, respect, and a deep commitment to understanding their unique communication styles, sensory needs, and emotional landscapes.

With training in both holistic and clinical approaches, we provide person-centered care that fosters growth, healing, regulation, and connection — without ever reducing an individual to a diagnosis or behavior plan.

Whether supporting complex behavioral needs, facilitating emotional regulation, or strengthening family and care team understanding, we ensure every individual receives thoughtful, inclusive, and comprehensive care rooted in dignity, collaboration, and love.

Families receiving services from a Regional Center outside of Alta California Regional Center (ACRC) may still request our support. To initiate this process, the Service Coordinator at your designated Regional Center must evaluate available service options.

If no equivalent provider is available within your Regional Center’s vendor network, your Service Coordinator may submit a Courtesy Vendorization Request to ACRC. If the request is approved and the necessary agreements between Regional Centers are established, we will be able to provide services to your family under the terms outlined by the approval process.

For guidance on initiating this request, please contact your Service Coordinator directly.