·State program
Family Home Health Aide Program
Program allowing family members or guardians to be trained and employed as home health aides to provide services for medically fragile children
What you get
Cash Stipend, Services, as recorded:
- $25/hour under Medicaid fee-for-service; managed care plans may negotiate rates with agencies
Questions that decide eligibility
GiveCare prepares the questions; the program makes the decision. Bring these to the call or the application:
- 01
Does the person receiving care live in Florida?
Residency is usually the first thing a program checks.
- 02
Does your relationship to the person — other relative or non relative — count for this program?
- 03
Is the person receiving care in the covered age range (null–21)?
- 04
What counts as a qualifying disability or level of care need, and what documentation shows it?
- 05
Does the VA disability rating meet the program’s minimum (our record lists null%)?
- 06
Do the work hours meet the minimum (our record lists null hours)?
- 07
Is there a caregiver-specific department, coordinator, or support line? Ask for it by name.
Many agencies have one that isn’t advertised on the website.
- 08
What documents do you need from us to start an application?
- 09
Is there a waitlist right now, and how long is it?
Who qualifies, in the source’s words
Where our record has a direct quote from the official source, here it is — otherwise, this is our best reading of the rule.
Age of the person receiving care
“medically fragile child (under 21)”
ahca.myflorida.com →Applicant age
“18 years or older, able to read/write at a basic level”
ahca.myflorida.com →Disability of the person receiving care
“Medically fragile and eligible for PDN”
ahca.myflorida.com →Minimum VA disability rating
Minimum VA disability rating: null%.
Work hours
Minimum work hours: null.
Relationship to the person receiving care
“A related provider, legal guardian, or caretaker relative of the child”
ahca.myflorida.com →
How to apply
- 01
Confirm PDN eligibility for your child, contact a participating home health agency, complete FHHA training and background screening, submit the FHHA SSN Request Form to DCF, then begin services as scheduled by the agency
Documents to bring
- Family Home Health Aide (FHHA) Social Security Number (SSN) Request Form