An eligibility or enrollment result arrived
Choose the long-term care program
Use enrollment counseling to compare managed Family Care, Partnership, or PACE with self-directed IRIS before enrolling.
Official sources checked 2026-07-29
Start here
Apply for Family Care, Partnership, or PACEBefore you start
- Functional and financial results, eligible program options, health-care needs, desired control, employment and community goals, provider preferences, risk and backup needs, geography, MCO scorecards, and IRIS responsibilities.
Who to contact
Start with the local ADRC or Tribal ADRS. After enrollment, use the selected MCO care team or IRIS consultant agency and fiscal employer agent. For an adverse action, use the exact notice and program-specific rights route.
Step by step
- Confirm which programs and organizations are available in the person's location and circumstances.
- Compare managed care-team and provider-network support with IRIS participant responsibility, consultant support, fiscal-employer services, individual budget, and worker or vendor management.
- Complete the official enrollment choice and preserve the effective date and next orientation or care-team event.
Expected next
A signed enrollment choice, effective date, MCO assignment, IRIS orientation or consultant-agency selection, or request for more information.
Save this proof
Counseling notes, comparisons, scorecards, choice documents, confirmations, effective date, and next appointment.
If this stalls or the answer is no
Return to the enrollment counselor before signing if the available organizations, responsibilities, health coverage, self-direction, or effective date remain unclear.
Beyond Childhood planning aid
Choose the long-term care program checklist
A Beyond Childhood planning aid derived from the cited official sources.
- Owner and program
- Date started
- Documents supplied
- Written result or confirmation
- Current open dependency
- Next event and date
- Escalation contact
Derived from Apply for Family Care, Partnership, or PACE, Family Care, Partnership, and PACE member help, Being a Full Partner in Family Care and Partnership, Enroll in IRIS, IRIS manuals, service-plan policy, and participant resources
Official resources
Limits
Family Care, Partnership, and PACE are managed through MCOs. IRIS is self-directed. Self-directed supports may also be available within Family Care or Partnership, but they do not turn those programs into IRIS.
Beyond Childhood’s checklists and prompts are planning aids derived from official sources. They are not official forms, legal advice, eligibility decisions, or guarantees of funding, capacity, quality, or service.