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Providing in home care to all individuals and families needing nonmedical assistance.

• Chores

• Companionship

• Home making

• Independent living skills

• In-home family support

• Personal care assistance

Provides 245D waivered services, which include:

• Homemaker Services: Provides light household cleaning, laundry, assistance with home management, and activities of daily living

• Individual Community Living Supports (ICLS): Offers assistance to older adults who need reminders, cues, intermittent/moderate supervision, or physical assistance to help them remain in their homes

• Individual Home Supports Without Training: Provide support, assistance, and supervision to adults or children who live in their own homes

• Night Supervision Services: Provides overnight assistance and monitoring in the client's home when the client is in need of assistance with activities of daily living, positive support programming, transition plans, and reinforcement of skills development

• Personal Support: Non-medical care, assistance, and supervision

Provides 245D waivered services, which include:

• Homemaker Services: Provides light household cleaning, laundry, assistance with home management, and activities of daily living

• Individual Community Living Supports (ICLS): Offers assistance to older adults who need reminders, cues, intermittent/moderate supervision, or physical assistance to help them remain in their homes

• Individual Home Supports Without Training: Provide support, assistance, and supervision to adults or children who live in their own homes

• Night Supervision Services: Provides overnight assistance and monitoring in the client's home when the client is in need of assistance with activities of daily living, positive support programming, transition plans, and reinforcement of skills development

• Personal Support: Non-medical care, assistance, and supervision

Offers traditional home care services. Services are flexible and designed to meet client needs.

• Assisting with ambulation and helping to prevent falls

• Bathing, toileting, and grooming

• Cleaning the bathroom and kitchen after use, washing dishes after meals, and mopping the floor

• Cleaning the client's home, which includes dusting and vacuuming

?- Dementia management and care to support clients who need personalized care

• Driving and/or accompanying the client to the physician when necessary

• Going on walks and encouraging and participating in stimulating activities

• Helping with correspondence to family and friends

• Making and changing the bed

• Medication management

• Preparing and serving meals according to the client's dietary needs

• Providing hygiene assistance

• Providing respite for family caregivers

• Providing socialization, friendship, and support for the client

• Reminding clients to take their medication

• Shopping and performing other household errands

• Taking care of personal laundry and bed linens for the client

Resource center assists with the following services:

• Advocacy: Includes areas of housing, civil and human rights, employment, transportation, and others. The Center advocates for state, local, and federal legislation.

• Aging in Place Program: Offers accessible modification assistance, ramp installation, and accessibility assessments for homes and businesses for safe access and increased independence.

• Assistive Technology Network: Assists individuals in the process of obtaining assistive technology devices.

• Homemaking Services: Assists individuals in managing household activities including housekeeping, laundry, meal preparation, and shopping.

• Independent living skills training

• Information and Referral: Provides up-to-date disability information and referrals to various agencies and individuals within the region.

• On-Demand Lending Library: Program will purchase the requested device and the individual can use it for as long as needed; the program retains ownership of the item. Eligibility requirements: first come, first served basis; funds are limited.

• Peer Mentoring: Assists individuals living with a disability to identify goals and create a unique plan to achieve those goals. Matches interested consumers with a peer mentor who provides support, problem-solving solutions, social skills, etc.

• Public Education: Provides information, resources, and materials on accessibility guides, ADA, disability laws, etc.

• Respite Care Services: Provides short-term in-home care and support when the primary caregiver or family members need to be absent from the home.

• Systems Advocacy: Works to implement changes where needed at a broader systemic level.

• Transition/Relocation Services: Assists individuals living with a disability in transitioning from nursing facilities and other institutions into community settings, with the goal of preventing institutionalization.

• Assistance with personal care

• Certified diabetic educator

• Discharge planning

• Help with a home exercise program and use of adaptive equipment

• Home health aide

• IV therapy

• Light housekeeping and meal preparation

• Physical, occupational and speech therapies

• Respite

• Skilled nursing

• Ventilator care

Child Protection Services: Conducts child protection investigations on all neglect and abuse complaints within the Band's jurisdiction. The program provides ongoing child welfare case management and prevention services to Band members, first-generation descendants, and American Indians within the Band's designated service area. The Indian Child Welfare program monitors the welfare of all Band children and first-generation descendants outside the Band's designated service area under the Indian Child Welfare Act. Foster Care: Licenses and trains foster care providers within the Band's designated service area. Any American Indian or community member with strong ties to the Mille Lacs Band may apply to become a licensed foster care provider. Independent Living and Life Skills program: Provides child welfare support services to Band members, first-generation descendants, and American Indians who are 14 - 21 years old and live within the designated service area of the Band. It also provides independent living assistance to Band members, first-generation descendants, and American Indians who are 16 - 21 years old and live within the Band's designated service area. Additional support services offered: ?- Benefits assistant: Assists families who need to enroll in Medicaid and Medicare ?- Crisis stabilizer: One-on-one crisis support ?- Homemaker: Assists with general and light homemaking needs ?- Independent life skills coach: One-on-one formal assistance in developing independent life skills ?- Job coach: One-on-one formal employment assistance ?- Mentor: One-on-one positive role model for youth ?- Parent assistant: One-on-one parenting assistance using the Positive Indian Parent Model ?- Transporter: Assists with transportation requests ?- Tutor: One-on-one educational assistance

Home Care Services

• After-hospital care
• Blood pressure monitoring
• Cancer care management
• Care for respiratory illness
• Diabetes monitoring and management
• Home infusion therapy
• Home safety evaluation and modification
• Medication management and teaching
• Nutrition counseling
• Orthopedic patient care
• Physical, occupational, and speech therapies
• Post-partum care
• Social work and long-range planning
• Wound care

Personal Care Services

• Bathing, dressing, and grooming
• Exercise and mobility assistance
• Light housekeeping
• Meal preparation

Home Support Services

• Care management
• Companionship and emotional support
• Foot care
• Functional and cognitive assessments
• Homemaker services and meal preparation
• Home maintenance
• Home management services and errands
• Laundry assistance
• Medication management
• Personal care assistance (dressing, bathing and hygiene care)
• Shopping and errand assistance
• Transportation and escort to physician appointments
• Travel companion and escort for trips or events
• Wellness and safety monitoring

Provides home health care services including:

• All waivered services

• Homemakers

• Personal Care Attendants

• Registered Nursing Supervision

• Skilled Registered Nurses and Licensed Practical Nurses

Offers holistic care in the following areas: Medical services:

• Disease management

• Medical social work

• Occupational therapy

• Recovery and wellness

• Rehabilitation services

• Physical therapy

• Speech and language rehabilitation

Private care services:

• 24 hour/7 days a week care

• Companions

• Light housekeeping

• Home health aides

• Homemakers

• Meal preparation

• Medical reminders

• Shopping

Helps seniors live safely and as independently as possible Services include:

• Case management
• Companionship
• Free customized information and referral for senior housing options
• Home Health Aides
• Laundry and light housekeeping
• Life care management
• Meal planning, preparation, and grocery shopping
• Nursing care
• Personal care
• Service coordination
• Transportation for appointments and outings

Contract for services with local providers:

• Home health aides

• Homemakers provide homemaking assistance which may include light housekeeping, laundry, grocery shopping, and running errands

• Skilled nurse visits to provide technical procedures, assessments, appropriate interventions, teaching, and medication monitoring

Provides homemaking services that include laundry, cleaning, meal preparation, shopping and errands, socialization, assistance with paying bills, and reading mail.

Individualized Home Supports with Family Training - Services for people who live in their family home that provide support and/or training in the following community living service categories:

• Community participation
• Health, safety, and wellness
• Household management
• Adaptive skills

*Designed to provide training to the person as well as their family members Individualized Home Supports with Training - Services for people who live in their own home or family home that provide support and/or training in the following community living service categories:

• Community participation
• Health, safety, and wellness
• Household management
• Adaptive skills
• Formal person-centered outcomes
• Completion of skill assessments

*Designed for adults in need of support and training in one of the above-mentioned service categories. Individualized Home Supports without Training - Services for people who live in their own home or family home that provide support in the following community living service categories:

• Community participation
• Health, safety, and wellness
• Household management
• Adaptive skills
• Complimentary support plan (SP)
• Informal and formal person-centered outcomes

*Designed for adults or children who require support in one of the above-mentioned service categories. Specialist Services - Provision services that extend past the scope and duration of available waiver and state plan services including:

• Assessments/individual program plan and program development
• Training and supervision of staff
• Monitoring of specific program implementation

Respite - Short-term care services provided to a person when their primary caregiver is absent or needs relief. Services include:

• In-home respite: Service is provided to a person in their home or the family home.
• Out-of-home respite: Service is provided to a person in a licensed or unlicensed setting that is not the person's home.
• Respite level A: Active, out in the community
• Respite level B: Stay at home and local outings only
• Respite level C: Sleep in
• Respite level D: 24-hour period

Homemaker Services - Services that help a person manage general cleaning and household activities. Services include:

• Cleaning: light housekeeping tasks, laundry services
• Home management: cleaning, transportation arrangement, meal preparation, shopping for food, and household items
• Assistance with ADLs: cleaning, assistance with ADLs (ambulating, bathing, dressing, eating, grooming, toileting)

*Training is not covered under this service. To receive homemaker services, homemaker cleaning must be the primary service provided. County-Funded Semi-Independent Living Services (SILS) - Services needed to maintain and improve an adult's capacity to live in the community. Supports people in ways that enable them to achieve personally desired outcomes and lead self-directed lives including:

• Money management
• Meal preparation
• Shopping
• Obtaining and maintaining a home
• Self administration of medication
• Formal skill building

Provides resources for older adults living alone as well as caregivers needing support. Services are designed to help maintain independence as long as feasible. Home-based services are provided according to the availability of volunteers and staff:

• Homemaking: Indoor light housekeeping services include mild laundry services, floor care, kitchen/bathroom cleaning, and other indoor help. Light "fix it" services (i.e., changing light bulbs, smoke detector batteries, etc.), meal preparation, menu planning, picking up groceries and medications, help with organizing bills, etc.

Supportive programs:

• Caregiver Consulting: Helps caregivers manage and live their lives while caring for another person, develop individualized plans, and connect with resources in the community

• Caregiver Support Groups: Professionally facilitated, confidential environment for caregivers to share concerns, feelings regarding their role as caregiver, and to learn from each other

Provides home nursing services and home health aides Service also includes homemaker and chore services such as laundry, meal preparation, housekeeping, or teaching home management skills to families

Provides in-home or out-of-home community based services including:

• 24-hour emergency assistance

?- Adult companion services ?- Homemaker services ?- Individual community living supports ?- Night supervision ?- Respite care

Provides advocacy and referrals to local services

• 55 Alive driver's education

• Chore program for residents of Clarkfield and Granite Falls, including yard work, one-time housekeeping, and other household tasks.

• Exercise

• Field trips/excursions

• Tax assistance is available during tax season

Provides the following services:

• Home health aides

• Homemaker/companion care

• Personal care attendant

• Rehabilitative services (physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, medical social services)

• RN, LPN, skilled care

Resource center assists with the following services:

• Advocacy: Includes areas of housing, civil and human rights, employment, transportation, and others. The Center advocates for state, local, and federal legislation.

• Aging in Place Program: Offers accessible modification assistance, ramp installation, and accessibility assessments for homes and businesses for safe access and increased independence.

• Assistive Technology Network: Assists individuals in the process of obtaining assistive technology devices.

• Homemaking Services: Assists individuals in managing household activities including housekeeping, laundry, meal preparation, and shopping.

• Independent living skills training

• Information and Referral: Provides up-to-date disability information and referrals to various agencies and individuals within the region.

• On-Demand Lending Library: Program will purchase the requested device and the individual can use it for as long as needed; the program retains ownership of the item. Eligibility requirements: first come, first served basis; funds are limited.

• Peer Mentoring: Assists individuals living with a disability to identify goals and create a unique plan to achieve those goals. Matches interested consumers with a peer mentor who provides support, problem-solving solutions, social skills, etc.

• Public Education: Provides information, resources, and materials on accessibility guides, ADA, disability laws, etc.

• Respite Care Services: Provides short-term in-home care and support when the primary caregiver or family members need to be absent from the home.

• Systems Advocacy: Works to implement changes where needed at a broader systemic level.

• Transition/Relocation Services: Assists individuals living with a disability in transitioning from nursing facilities and other institutions into community settings, with the goal of preventing institutionalization.

Provides 245D waivered services, which include:

• Homemaker Services: Provides light household cleaning, laundry, assistance with home management, and activities of daily living

• Individual Community Living Supports (ICLS): Offers assistance to older adults who need reminders, cues, intermittent/moderate supervision, or physical assistance to help them remain in their homes

• Individual Home Supports Without Training: Provide support, assistance, and supervision to adults or children who live in their own homes

• Night Supervision Services: Provides overnight assistance and monitoring in the client's home when the client is in need of assistance with activities of daily living, positive support programming, transition plans, and reinforcement of skills development

• Personal Support: Non-medical care, assistance, and supervision

Comprehensive geriatric assessment, case management, shopping, transportation, caregiver support and other services to help adults over 60 live safely and independently at home. Services include:

• Care Planning and Consultation

• Holocaust Survivor Support

• Memory Café

• Transportation for clients of the program, Monday - Friday, with at least two days' notice

• Volunteers who provide friendly visiting and socialization

Offers traditional home care services. Services are flexible and designed to meet client needs.

• Assisting with ambulation and helping to prevent falls

• Bathing, toileting, and grooming

• Cleaning the bathroom and kitchen after use, washing dishes after meals, and mopping the floor

• Cleaning the client's home, which includes dusting and vacuuming

?- Dementia management and care to support clients who need personalized care

• Driving and/or accompanying the client to the physician when necessary

• Going on walks and encouraging and participating in stimulating activities

• Helping with correspondence to family and friends

• Making and changing the bed

• Medication management

• Preparing and serving meals according to the client's dietary needs

• Providing hygiene assistance

• Providing respite for family caregivers

• Providing socialization, friendship, and support for the client

• Reminding clients to take their medication

• Shopping and performing other household errands

• Taking care of personal laundry and bed linens for the client

Home maintenance and chore services are provided to senior citizens to enable them to live safely and independently in their own homes. Services may include:

• Assistance with clutter elimination

• Home maintenance

• Housekeeping - kitchen and bathroom cleaning

• Household chores

• Lawn care and yardwork

• Relocation assistance

• Snow removal

Provides resources for older adults living alone as well as caregivers needing support. Services are designed to help maintain independence as long as feasible. Home-based services are provided according to the availability of volunteers and staff:

• Homemaking: Indoor light housekeeping services include mild laundry services, floor care, kitchen/bathroom cleaning, and other indoor help. Light "fix it" services (i.e., changing light bulbs, smoke detector batteries, etc.), meal preparation, menu planning, picking up groceries and medications, help with organizing bills, etc.

Supportive programs:

• Caregiver Consulting: Helps caregivers manage and live their lives while caring for another person, develop individualized plans, and connect with resources in the community

• Caregiver Support Groups: Professionally facilitated, confidential environment for caregivers to share concerns, feelings regarding their role as caregiver, and to learn from each other