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Supports individuals with brain injuries in leading fuller, more independent lives through personalized services tailored to each person’s goals. Programs include:

- Community Integration and Inclusion: Structured day programs combining on-site skill development with community experiences to enhance independence, social engagement, and life skills.

- Vocational Services (VS): Comprehensive employment support, including assessments, job preparation, placement, employer education, and ongoing follow-up to help clients secure and maintain community employment.

Provides a comprehensive low vision evaluation to assess how vision loss impacts all areas of a person's life. The assessment allows Vision Loss Resources to give recommendations on lighting, training, and devices. Deaf-Blind Adults and Children: Provides one-on-one support to people with combined hearing and vision loss, from birth through adulthood Older Adults: Provides in-home assessments and individualized training to help seniors stay independent and age in place Professionals and Caregivers: Provides hands-on trainings and informative presentations for a workplace, senior residence, civic group, or community center Working-age Adults and Young Adults Transitioning Out of High School: Provides comprehensive vision rehabilitation training to help individuals adapt and thrive at home, work, or school. Classes include orientation and mobility, technology, typing, Braille, tasks of daily living, cooking, and more.

- Vocational training for adults with developmental disabilities and/or mental illnesses

- Work skills development

- Supported employment

- Community employment

Provides information about blindness and visual impairment. Provides assistance to individuals for accessing products, services, and trainings to assist with daily activities and adjustments to vision loss.

Provides case management for a range of services to people experiencing problems related to mental health issues. Services are provided to help people maintain the highest level of independence in community living. Available services include: 

- Adult Rehabilitation Mental Health Services (ARMHS): This service is rehabilitative and meant to enable the person to develop and enhance mental health stability, social competencies, personal and emotional adjustment, and independent living and community skills. ARMHS instructs, assists, and supports individuals regaining or starting skills to live independently.

- Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) Teams: ACT is an intensive, comprehensive, non-residential, and rehabilitative mental health service team model

- Case Management: Offers referrals to community mental health centers, community outreach programs, housing support options, local social clubs/drop-in programs, residential treatment facilities, and vocational services

- Community Support Program (CSP): Helps people manage their mental health symptoms, participate in their community, learn medication management, and develop daily living skills

- Individual Placement and Support (IPS): Helps people with mental illness find and keep a job through the IPS program. Program participants have the opportunity to work with a team of professionals to maximize the possibility of employment success.

Provides Independent Living and Skills Training (ILS) to adults and youth living with a disability the opportunity to make appropriate choices and learn the skills to assist them in improving independence. Services may include:

- Independent/Small Group Training Sessions: Training sessions can take place in the consumer's home, in the community, or at an Independent Living Center

- Needs assessments

Enables consumers to develop and enhance psychiatric stability, social competencies, personal and emotional adjustment, and independent living and community skills, when these abilities are impaired by the symptoms of mental illness. Support includes:

- Budgeting and shopping skills

- Community resource utilization and integration skills 5 Crisis assistance/Management skills

- Cooking and nutrition skills

- Employment-related skills

- Health care directives/skills

- Healthy lifestyle skills and practices

- Household management skills

- Interpersonal communication skills

- Medication monitoring skills

- Mental illness symptom management skills

- Relapse prevention skills

- Transportation skills

- Transition to community living skills

Offers independent living skills including:​

- Literacy

- Money management

- Nutrition

- Personal grooming

- Social fluency

Provide skills training for improving symptom management, medication education, improving work or educational status, housing, parenting skills, relationships, health, and quality of life

1:1 life skills training/coaching for individuals that need extra support to: - Maintain their home - Build healthy social relationships - Assist with attending doctor's appointments Helps participants learn the life skills required to become healthy, more independent, and to move forward in life. Trained staff helps each consumer develop an individualized care plan with personal goals.

The Itaskin Center & Cottage 35-Day Assessment Program is licensed by the Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS). This assessment program serves residents between the ages of 10-17 years old. Upon completion of the 35-Day Assessment Program, a Comprehensive Assessment is provided to the youth’s guardian and/or treatment team. The Comprehensive Assessment aims to identify child and familial strengths, resiliencies, and opportunities for growth via a multifaceted approach, while also providing diagnoses, recommendations, and a prognosis for recovery. This multifaceted approach involves a behavioral assessment, comprehensive assessment, wellness/recreation assessment, academic assessment, health screening/physical examination. Additional assessments, as requested by individual teams, include a psychiatric assessment and/or chemical use assessment. Upon completion of the program, the assessment team will also recommend a level of care believed to most accurately represent the current needs of the youth and how best to be supported. Opportunities for individual therapy and improving coping skills are provided throughout the 35-day assessment period.

Assertive Community Treatment (ACT): ACT is an evidence-based treatment for adults who have a severe and persistent mental health illness. Based on the severity of symptoms and impairments, clients work with the team on a long-term basis.

Adult Rehabilitation Mental Health Services (ARMHS): Adult mental health services that enable individuals to develop and enhance psychiatric stability, social competencies, personal and emotional adjustment, and independent living and community skills.

Behavior Health Home: Provides individuals with their care needs. The team works closely with the individual, their supporters, and providers to ensure comprehensive quality of care. Community Support Program (CSP): The Community Support Program is a coordinated care and treatment program that provides a wide range of individualized treatment, rehabilitation, and support services to persons with serious and persistent mental illness. The purpose of the community support program is to assist individuals to live as successfully and independently as possible in their own communities by supporting independent living and coping skills. Targeted Case Management: Helps adults with serious and persistent mental illness (SPMI) gain access to needed mental, medical, social, educational, vocational, and other necessary services as it relates to the person’s overall health needs.

Children's Therapeutic Services and Supports (CTSS) Skills Training: In-home and community-based therapy to address:

- Anger management

- Assertiveness, problem-solving, and conflict resolution

- Interpersonal and friendship-building skills

- Impulse control

- Social skills

Skills training is proven to reduce the risk of psychiatric hospitalizations and the need for residential treatment. Services are usually provided twice a week, with two hours of skills-based therapy per session; however, all treatment plans are individualized and may vary. Progress is evaluated every 90 days. Adoption Support Services Providing post-adoption attachment support and educating pre-adoptive parents about the effect of past abuse and neglect on their pre-adoptive child ​

​Sexuality-specific Services

​​Intended to address sexual behavior concerns, this includes individual, family, and group therapy, as well as a sexual health curriculum regarding boundaries and respect for children ages 4 -12 and teens age 13 - 19

Provides specialty medical services such as: - Augmented and Alternative Communication Clinic: Multidisciplinary assistance to provide communication systems for patients who otherwise are unable to communicate effectively - Craniofacial and plastic surgery - Feeding Clinic: Provides evaluation of children and treatment of difficulty in chewing and swallowing - Neurology: Manage medical treatment of disorders of the nervous system such as the brain, spinal cord, and nerves - Orthopedics: Treats routine and complex conditions that affect bones, muscles, tendons, and ligaments - Orthotics, Prosthetics, and Seating: Assistive technology team designs customized braces, prostheses, and other adaptive technology. Seating evaluation clinic for wheelchairs and other adaptive equipment - Pediatric Sports Medicine: Treat sports-related or soft tissue injuries - Pediatric and General Medicine: Treats a wide range of conditions which include digestive issues, endocrine issues, infectious diseases, nutrition and feeding, and respiratory needs - Radiology and Imaging: Perform tests for CT scans, bone density scans, MRI scan, ultrasound scan, fluoroscopy exam, x-rays, and EOS x-ray - Rehabilitation Medicine: Provides rehabilitative care and medical management of musculoskeletal conditions - Rehabilitative Therapies: Provides physical, occupational, speech, and language therapies for children. Other therapies include aquatic pool therapy, audiology assessments, comprehensive inpatient rehabilitation care, nutrition and feeding therapy, and virtual rehab therapy on a case-by-case basis - Therapy kitchen to help young people develop life skills such as cooking and washing dishes

Offers person-centered, wraparound services for adults with intellectual and physical disabilities, including:

- Employment Services: Finding and maintaining employment with continuous support

- Day Support Services: Building essential life and community skills in a supportive learning environment

- Admissions and transportation: Ensuring accessible, reliable transportation, whether through their services or public options

Assists individuals living with a mental illness to increase independence at home and in the community. Provides opportunities for program participants to increase socialization, work toward or increase independent living, and enjoy a healthy lifestyle. Services include:

- Coaching and side-by-side assistance in independent living

- Communication and social skills

- Completing paperwork

- Connecting to community resources

- Monthly peer support and activity

- Socialization with peers and mental health staff - including art, bingo, and other activities

Provides basic needs such as:

- Case Manager Assistance: Offers case managers on-site to help connect youth to education, employment opportunities, health and wellness programs, stable housing, and more

- Center Services: Hot meals, grab and go foods, clothing, laundry facilities, a shower, and more

- Housing Hub: Connects youth ages 18 - 24 experiencing homelessness or are at risk of being homeless in Anoka County with a Housing Specialist. Housing Specialists provide housing problem solving and can assist youth with practical solutions, identify resources, alternatives, and mediate conflict resolution between landlords, friends, or family. The initial process point to be connected with a Housing Specialist is short-term with a 30-day timeframe. After 30-days initial contact, households with no other pathways identified who meet eligibility requirements can be connected to a Housing Assessor and complete a Housing Needs Assessment. Individuals and families who complete a Housing Needs Assessment will be added to the Housing Registry.

- Transitional Housing: Manages a 12-unit transitional housing facility in Coon Rapids that offers supportive services

Rehabilitative services and outreach for individuals with a serious and persistent mental illness Instruction in interpersonal communication skills, including: - Budgeting - Community resource utilization and instruction assistance - Cooking and nutrition skills - Employment related skills - Health care directives - Household instruction - Mental illness symptom management skills - Relapse prevention skills - Transportation skills - Transition to community living skills

Provides the following PCA services:

- Homemaker service

​​- Independent living skills training

- Personal home care assistance

- Respite care​- Independent living skills training

Offers a structured sober living home for women transitioning out of or recently completing inpatient treatment. Residents work with a case manager to set goals, access community resources, build life skills, and prepare for independent living. The program provides a supportive, home-like environment with guidance and accountability.

Case Management

Supportive and personalized services

24/7 on-call support

Easy access to our full continuum

Access to respite care

Licensing

Assigned Licensor to each home

Help throughout the licensing process

Virtual and in-person support groups

Annual training opportunities provided at no cost

Outpatient counseling for children who are suffering from depression, behavioral issues, anger, or other types of problems: - Anger management - Children’s Therapeutic Services and Supports (CTSS) - Co-dependency - Coping with depression/anxiety - Coping with grief and loss - Crisis management - Group psychotherapy - Healthy lifestyle choices - Independent living skills (budgeting, shopping, cooking, and nutrition) - Interpersonal communication strategies - Stress management and relaxation

Provides personalized assistance for in-home basic living skills classes and one-on-one programs. Staff members work with clients in their home on everyday tasks such as money management, housekeeping, personal care, cooking, and the development of other life skills depending on each client's needs. Offers recreational activities that provide stimulation and connection to the community.

24-hour intensive residential treatment service intended to serve the needs of adults who have been diagnosed with a mental illness. Services include:

- Crisis intervention

- Independent living skills development

- Inter-agency case coordination

- Integrated dual diagnosis treatment

- Individualized assessment and treatment planning

- Medication management

- Nursing services

- Transition and discharge planning

- Vocational skills

Offers home health care with licensed home care services and skilled nursing. These services include:

- Adult foster care

- Adult rehabilitation and mental health services

- Case management

- Developmentally disabled services - Home health aides

- Homemaking

- Independent living skills

- In-home respite care for adults and children

- Medical equipment and supplies including hospital beds and incontinence supplies

- Personal care attendants

- RNs and LPNs

​- Supportive living

- Waivered services​