Every Step Pathways provides community-based support for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) and traumatic brain injuries (TBI). We help people build everyday skills, become more independent, connect with their community, and work toward goals that matter to them.
We support adults with IDD and TBI who may benefit from help with everyday skills, work, relationships, and community life.
Services are based on each person’s goals, needs, eligibility, authorization, and available organizational capacity.We’re starting in Rowan and Cabarrus counties and will expand as our network, staffing, and service capacity grow.
Get ServicesEvery Step Pathways is built around a simple belief: support should start with the person—their strengths, choices, goals, interests, and what matters to them.
Our mission is to support adults with IDD and TBI in everyday life and community. We help people build skills, make choices, become more independent, connect with others, and work toward goals that matter to them.
Our vision is a future where adults with IDD and TBI are known for their strengths, have real choices, build meaningful relationships, and have opportunities to work, contribute, lead, and belong.
We believe support should help people move forward instead of simply filling their day.
That means creating real opportunities to learn, connect, try new things, build confidence, and take meaningful steps toward personal goals.
Our role is to listen, encourage, create opportunities, and help remove barriers while each person makes choices about their own life.
Our initial 1915(i) services support everyday skills, employment, caregiver relief, and transitions toward greater independence.
Support with everyday skills, choices, routines, and greater independence at home and in the community.
Explore this serviceEmployment support that helps people explore work, prepare for jobs, build workplace skills, and grow over time.
Explore this serviceShort-term support that gives caregivers planned relief while the person receives safe, individualized support.
Explore this servicePractical support for people moving toward greater independence and participation in community life.
Explore this serviceServices can begin only when eligibility and authorization requirements are met and ESP has the right service fit, staffing, and capacity.
Our support is built around the person, their choices, their strengths, and the progress they want to make.
Support starts with the individual—not the program.
We build skills in real places and everyday routines whenever appropriate.
We build from what a person can do, enjoys, and wants to learn.
We look at real progress toward the person’s goals and adjust support when needed.
The person’s voice, preferences, rights, and choices stay central to the support process.
Activities should connect to a useful skill, goal, relationship, experience, or next step whenever possible.
Every Step Pathways has received its first Medicaid provider network acceptance and contract offer. We are now completing the systems, compliance, staffing, and workflows needed before services can begin.
Network acceptance opened the door. We are now finishing the documentation, workflows, staffing, and operating steps needed before services begin.
We are putting the right tools, policies, workflows, and support systems in place so services can begin responsibly and serve people well from day one.
Every Step Pathways was founded on the belief that people should be known for who they are, what matters to them, and what they can achieve—not defined by a diagnosis or limitation.
We work alongside individuals as they build skills, exercise choice, connect with others, and take their next steps with greater confidence.
Whether you’re looking for services or referring someone, choose the next step that fits.
Learn about our services and how to start a service conversation.
Care coordinators, guardians, healthcare professionals, and other referral partners can start here.
Our initial 1915(i) services are Medicaid-funded. If you are unsure whether 1915(i) applies to you, you can still contact Every Step Pathways to learn about our services and the appropriate eligibility or authorization process. ESP does not determine Medicaid eligibility.
1915(i) is a Medicaid State Plan home- and community-based services benefit. Eligibility, assessment, authorization, and the services available to an individual are determined through the applicable Medicaid and care-management process.
When authorization is required, it must be in place before the applicable Medicaid-funded service begins. Service start also depends on service appropriateness, staffing, organizational capacity, and required onboarding steps.
Provider choice depends on the applicable Medicaid plan or network, authorization, service availability, and other requirements. We can discuss whether Every Step Pathways is an available option for your situation.
Our current launch focus is Rowan and Cabarrus Counties, North Carolina. If you are outside the launch area, you may still contact us to ask about future availability or next steps.
That is okay. Choose “Not sure yet” in the inquiry form and tell us what you are hoping to accomplish. We can explain our services and help identify the appropriate conversation to have next.
Your support helps us finish the technology, training, compliance, staffing, and startup systems needed before services can begin.
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Whether you’re exploring services, making a referral, considering a partnership, interested in joining the team, or supporting our launch, start here.
