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Services for people of all ages who have disabilities with maintaining and improving personal health, increasing independent-living skills and participating in the community. Tailored services are delivered in the home and during community activities including:

• In-home family support

• Personal support

• In-home respite care

• Contracted case management

• Saturday center based respite care

• 24-Hour Responder Service: On-call staff help with health and personal injuries. The service is often paired with Independent Home Support with Training program. Staff will respond by phone or in person depending on the level of services.

• Acute Behavioral Services for Children and Adults: Services provided to individuals with interfering behaviors and/or anti-social issues, who have a history of law enforcement involvement, have difficulty living with others and require high staffing needs, are in frequent crisis situations, or coming out of an institution.

• Case Management: Available to residents of Hennepin, Ramsey, and Wright Counties who receive funding through various waivers and/or programs. Assists navigating the social service system and provides information and advocacy.

• Integrated Community Supports: Provides support and training/habilitation in community living service categories to adults ages 18 and older who reside in a living unit of a provider-controlled ICS setting (e.g., apartment in a multi-family housing building). ICS can be delivered up to 24 hours per day in the person's living unit or in the community.

• Individualized Home Supports: Provides a blend of in-person and remote services that focus on support and training of a person who needs to maintain or increase independence for their continued experience living in the community. Also offers services to relatives working to support the person's goals.

• Residential Services: Operates residences for adults with significant behavioral, medical, or physical challenges including brain injuries. Residential group home programs are licensed as adult or child foster care, or a supervised living facility. Each site serves 2 - 6 people.

• Supportive Employment Services: Provides individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities assistance with initial stages of the employment assessment period, job search and development, job coaching, and working independently

• Vocational Rehabilitation Services: Offers a variety of services including job-seeking skills training, job coaching, social coaching, post-secondary education, and more. Also, supports student youth as they search for and find competitive employment and helps them explore post-secondary education.

• RUMI: Connects people with disabilities with a compatible supportive roommate who can earn up to 2x more than a typical direct care position, tax-free. Visit MeetMyRumi.com to learn more.

• Caregiver coaching/counseling

• Dementia empowerment service: Provides emotional support with dementia/early-stage memory loss, support system planning, goal setting, and community resources

• Educational workshops

• Support groups for caregivers

• Volunteer in home and out of home respite care

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

Home Health Assistance: Includes Home Health Aides (HHA), Personal Care Aides (PCA), and Community First Services, and Supports (CFSS program)

• Helps with bathing, grooming, dressing, and toileting, ensuring proper hygiene and dignity in daily routines

• Offers support with mobility, transfers, and safe ambulation

Homemaking:

• Provides light housekeeping, including vacuuming, dusting, laundry, and changing linens

• Handles meal planning and preparation, ensuring clients have nutritious, home-cooked meals that fit their preferences and dietary needs

Respite Care:

• In-home respite care providing home health and home making assistance

Skilled Nurse Visits:

• Home visits from by licensed registered nurses perform essential clinical tasks to monitor health, manage conditions, and support recovery

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 home health care with licensed home case services and skilled nursing, this services include:

• Home health aides
• RNs and LPNs
• Waivered services
• Homemaking
• Personal care attendants
• Developmentally disabled services
• In-home respite care for adults and children
• Supportive living
• Medicial equipment and supplies including hospital beds and incontinence supplies
• PCA Choice - statewide
• Independent living skills
• Adult foster care
• Case management
• Adult rehabilitation mental health services

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.

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.

• Home health care program provides continuity of care to individuals seeking health care services from area physicians

• Services are available to persons of all ages

• Does not need to have been hospitalized previously to receive this service

• Services are prescribed and directed by one's physician Professional services of: - Registered nurses/LPN's - Physical Therapy - Occupational Therapy - Speech Therapy - Medical social services - Home health aides - Homemakers - In-home respite Homecare Programs may allow a patient to stay in his own home and prevent unnecessary nursing home placement or hospitalization

Provides in-home support services for children with developmental disabilities and their families. Services may include:

• Consultation and support to the caregiver

• Development of independent living skills

• Interpersonal skills and communication development

• Respite care in the child's home

• Socialization

• Supervision and training in self-care

• 24-hour emergency assistance: On-call counseling and problem-solving and/or immediate response for assistance at a person's home due to a health/personal emergency

• Community residential services: Services that provide training and/or habilitation, ongoing residential care and supportive services to adults and/or children in a setting licensed by the lead agency. These services are individualized and based on the needs of the person, as identified in the support plan

• Companion services: Non-medical care, supervision and socialization to a person age 18 or older

• Crisis respite: Short-term care and intervention strategies provided to a person due to the need for caregiver relief, protection of the person or others living with the person, or the person's need for behavioral or medical intervention

• Day support services: Individualized home, and community-based services (HCBS) that provide opportunities for community-based training and support for people with disabilities. Day support services develop and maintain essential and personally enriching life skills to ensure that people with disabilities can fully access and participate in personally preferred activities within their community

• Day training and habilitation: Services that develop and maintain life skills for people with developmental disabilities or related conditions so they can fully participate in community life

• Family residential services: Services that provide training and/or habilitation, ongoing residential care and supportive services to adults and/or children in a setting licensed by the lead agency where the license holder resides in the home. These services are individualized and based on the needs of the person, as identified in the support plan

• Homemaker services: Eligible services range from light household cleaning to household cleaning with incidental assistance with home management and/or activities of daily living

• Individual community living supports (ILCS): For people who need reminders, cues intermittent/moderate supervision or physical assistance to remain in their own homes

• Individualized home supports without training: Services for adults or children when they need support, assistance and supervision in at least one of the community living service categories when living in their own home or family home. Community living service categories include community participation; health, safety and wellness; household management; adaptive skills

• Night supervision: Provides overnight assistance and monitoring by staff in the person's own home

• Respite care services: Short-term care due to the absence or need for relief of the family member(s) or primary caregiver normally providing the care.

Individualized home supports: Provides essential support for individuals with disabilities, enabling them to live independently in their own homes. Whether through a family member or a trained non-related worker, these services are tailored to meet specific needs and can be delivered remotely, ensuring comfort and safety. ? ?Respite care services: Provides essential support for caregivers and their loved ones. This service offers a much-needed break, allowing families to recharge, whether for a few hours or several days. The family decides who they want their respite professional to be, ensuring that they can step away knowing their needs will be met.??????

Volunteers attend to the non-medical needs of people and their families faced with the end stages of serious illness. During their visits, volunteers may play cards, share a movie, converse or listen to music with the patient; prepare a light meal; help with housekeeping tasks; or read to the patient. This gives the opportunity to family caregivers to take a break from their caregiving responsibilities. Volunteer caregivers help ailing people stay at home longer by eliminating caregiver burnout. Based on the patient's specific needs, on average, a person can count on two - four hours per week of their volunteer's time.

Provides services to adults and children who have developmental disabilities or related conditions, including persons with challenging behaviors, those who are mentally fragile, and those who are challenged by communication deficits and physical limitations. Included in this service: In-Home Support Home and community-based services for persons living in the family home. Programs are designed for individuals who may need skills enhancement for socialization, management of finances, housekeeping, and other activities of daily living. Also provide services to children, assist families with support, advocacy, transition, and maintenance of skills. Respite Care Services provide short-term relief from the demands which around-the-clock care places upon families who have disabled and/or chronically ill family members at home. Services are provided in the client's home or in a licensed foster home. Trained staff assume the care of these individuals for a matter of hours or days to allow the families time for rest and recreation. Semi-Independent Living Services Designed for persons living in their own home or apartment who require minimal supervision. Individual programs are tailored to provide assistance & training in paying bills, building socialization skills, accessing the community in which he or she lives. Supported Living Servicesclass="pasteContent_RTE">Provides residential services in homes for 1-4 persons. Programs provide up to 24-hour supervision. With increased structure and support, individuals are taught skills that will increase their use of community resources and enable them to live in a less restrictive environment.

Home Health Assistance: Includes Home Health Aides (HHA), Personal Care Aides (PCA), and Community First Services, and Supports (CFSS program)

• Helps with bathing, grooming, dressing, and toileting, ensuring proper hygiene and dignity in daily routines

• Offers support with mobility, transfers, and safe ambulation

Homemaking:

• Provides light housekeeping, including vacuuming, dusting, laundry, and changing linens

• Handles meal planning and preparation, ensuring clients have nutritious, home-cooked meals that fit their preferences and dietary needs

Respite Care:

• In-home respite care providing home health and home making assistance

Skilled Nurse Visits:

• Home visits from by licensed registered nurses perform essential clinical tasks to monitor health, manage conditions, and support recovery

Waivered Services:

• Available to individuals with a variety of disabilities

• CADI (Community Access for Disability Inclusion) Waiver supports individuals with disabilities to live as independently as possible in their communities

• Waivered services are flexible and can be tailored to meet individual needs in a variety of settings

Waiver Programs for Individuals Who Need a Nursing Facility Level of Care:

• AC (Alternative Care) Waiver supports older adults who do not qualify for traditional Medical Assistance due to assets but would otherwise require nursing home care. Services may include personal care assistance, independent living skills training, homemaking, respite, and in-home family support.

• EW (Elderly Waiver) supports older adults who would otherwise need to live in a nursing facility, helping them remain in their homes or community-based settings

• MR/RC (Developmental Disabilities) Waiver provides services to individuals of all ages with developmental disabilities or related conditions, supporting them in living meaningful and inclusive lives

• TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury) Waiver supports individuals who have experienced a significant brain injury due to accident, stroke, illness, or other causes, helping them live as independently as possible in the setting of their choice

Personal Care Assistants (PCAs):

• PCAs assist individuals with daily living activities such as bathing, dressing, taking medications, light housekeeping, and meal preparation

• PCAs may also provide support with behavioral needs, helping individuals manage challenges in positive and supportive ways

• PCAs can support individuals in a variety of settings, including their own homes, family homes, or foster care placements

Other Services:

• Individuals who are not eligible for the Developmental Disabilities Waiver may still qualify for similar supports through the CADI or PCA programs

• In-home family support services help individuals build daily life skills such as self-care, communication, social interaction, sensory and motor development, and community living skills

• In-home family support and respite services provided by RSI (or other organizations) offer valuable assistance to caregivers and families supporting individuals with disabilities

• Respite services offer caregivers a temporary break, from a few hours to several days, either in the family home or in other supportive settings

• Respite and in-home family supports are often part of waivered service programs and can be personalized to fit the needs and preferences of the individual and their family

Supports and cares for individuals who are dying of incurable disease so that people may live as fully and comfortably as possible. Services provided in the hospital or in a patient's home include:

• Companionship from volunteers

• Education

• Family support

• Medical supply, equipment, and medication management

• Nursing care

• Nutritional support

• Pain and symptom management (also known as palliative care)

• Physical, occupational, and speech therapy

• Spiritual counseling

Support for caregivers:

• Education and information to make difficult end-of-life decisions

• Emotional support

• Help caring for a loved one at home or in the hospital

• Respite services

Offers services to people with intellectual disabilities living in their own homes or apartment settings with activities of daily living, and community integration, and includes:

• 24-hour emergency assistance

• Individualized Home Supports (IHS)

• Individualized home supports with training

• Respite services

• Semi-independent Living Skills (SILS)

Programs teach and assist children and adults with developmental and intellectual disabilities in skills of independent living, activities of daily living, and community integration.

Waivered Services:

• Available to individuals with a variety of disabilities

• CADI (Community Access for Disability Inclusion) Waiver supports individuals with disabilities to live as independently as possible in their communities

• Waivered services are flexible and can be tailored to meet individual needs in a variety of settings

Waiver Programs for Individuals Who Need a Nursing Facility Level of Care:

• AC (Alternative Care) Waiver supports older adults who do not qualify for traditional Medical Assistance due to assets but would otherwise require nursing home care. Services may include personal care assistance, independent living skills training, homemaking, respite, and in-home family support.

• EW (Elderly Waiver) supports older adults who would otherwise need to live in a nursing facility, helping them remain in their homes or community-based settings

• MR/RC (Developmental Disabilities) Waiver provides services to individuals of all ages with developmental disabilities or related conditions, supporting them in living meaningful and inclusive lives

• TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury) Waiver supports individuals who have experienced a significant brain injury due to accident, stroke, illness, or other causes, helping them live as independently as possible in the setting of their choice

Personal Care Assistants (PCAs):

• PCAs assist individuals with daily living activities such as bathing, dressing, taking medications, light housekeeping, and meal preparation

• PCAs may also provide support with behavioral needs, helping individuals manage challenges in positive and supportive ways

• PCAs can support individuals in a variety of settings, including their own homes, family homes, or foster care placements

Other Services:

• Individuals who are not eligible for the Developmental Disabilities Waiver may still qualify for similar supports through the CADI or PCA programs

• In-home family support services help individuals build daily life skills such as self-care, communication, social interaction, sensory and motor development, and community living skills

• In-home family support and respite services provided by RSI (or other organizations) offer valuable assistance to caregivers and families supporting individuals with disabilities

• Respite services offer caregivers a temporary break, from a few hours to several days, either in the family home or in other supportive settings

• Respite and in-home family supports are often part of waivered service programs and can be personalized to fit the needs and preferences of the individual and their family

• Personal care attendants are available for persons with disabilities allowing them to stay in their homes, rather than go to a nursing home. Offer respite care, assistance is frequently provided for physically and mentally disabled children, adults and seniors. Also provide, Home Health Aides and Homemaking.

Provides temporary relief for families caring for children with emotional or behavioral disturbances. Respite care allows parents or caregivers a much-needed break while ensuring the child receives appropriate care in a safe environment.

Provides general information and licensing for persons interested in becoming foster care providers. Training and support for foster care providers on emergency, short-term, and long-term placement.