In-Home Therapy for Adults Near Minneapolis/St. Paul and greater Minnesota

Family Support Services, Inc. (FSSI) provides
Adult Rehabilitative Mental Health Services (ARMHS)

ARMHS is a program sponsored by the Minnesota Department of Human Services for individuals who have a mental health diagnosis and are on Medical Assistance or a Prepaid Medical Assistance Product.


The purpose of the program is to help individuals who have a mental illness function
independently in their homes or places of residence. Services are provided in three areas: Basic
Living and Social Skills, Community Intervention, and Medication Education. For further
information about types of services provided, refer to the information at the bottom of this page.


We have offices in New Brighton, MN, Otsego, MN, Apple Valley, MN, Eden Prairie, MN, Brainerd/Baxter, MN, and Duluth, MN to provide services in 28 counties. The current counties being served are:

Metro Area (New Brighton, Apple Valley, and Eden Prairie Offices): Anoka, Carver, Chisago, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Rice, Scott, Sherburne, Southern Pine, and Washington

Northern Metro (Otsego/Elk River Office): Anoka, Benton, Isanti, Sherburne and Wright.

Central Minnesota (Brainerd/Baxter Office): Aitkin, Beltrami, Cass, Crow Wing, Hubbard, Itasca, Mille Lacs, Morrison, Stearns, Todd and Wadena.

North Eastern Minnesota (Duluth Office): Carlton, Lake, Pine, and St. Louis.

Map

Additional counties are being added so if your county is not listed, check with us about whether
we will be adding it soon


Eligibility for Services:


  • Age 18 or over
  • Medical Assistance or a Prepaid Medical Assistance Product (GAMC not eligible)
  • Mental health diagnosis or Traumatic brain injury
  • The individual's mental health symptoms have reduced his/her ability to function.


To Request Services:
If you would like to receive services or would like to make a referral, contact Family Support
Services at one of the following offices:

Metro (New Brighton, MN Office) 651-628-4993
Northern Metro (Otsego, MN Office) 763-746-9492
Southern Metro (Apple Valley, MN Office) 952-997-3020
South Western Minnesota (Eden Prairie, MN Office) 952-746-2522
Central Minnesota (Brainerd/Baxter, MN Office) 218-829-9307
North Eastern Minnesota (Duluth, MN Office) 218-722-4379

After we get information about you or your client's needs, we will verify Medical Assistance
and one of our Mental Health Practitioners will call you within 2-3 days to set up an
appointment.

In-Home Therapy for Adults/
Adult Rehabilitative Mental Health Services (ARMHS)
--A Minnesota Department of Human Services Program--


I. Basic Living and Social Skills

ARMHS Basic Living and Social Skills are activities that restore a client's skills essential for managing his or her illness, treatment, and the requirements of everyday independent living. Basic living and social skills may be provided to maintain a recipient's functioning if the recipient is likely to significantly regress or is at significant risk to lose independent living. These skills need to be restored to prevent recipients from requiring inpatient or residential placement or to live independently in the community. Basic Living and Social Skills instruct, assist, and support a recipient in areas such as:

Interpersonal Communication Skills
Cooking and Nutrition Skills
Community Resource Utilization and Integration Skills
Transportation Skills
Crisis Assistance
Medication Monitoring
Relapse Prevention Skills
Mental Illness Symptom Management Skills
Health Care Directives
Household Management Skills
Budgeting and Shopping Skills
Employment-Related Skills
Healthy Lifestyle Skills and Practices
Transition to Community Living


II. Community Intervention
Community intervention is provided with the intent to alleviate or reduce a recipient's barriers to community integration or independent living or to minimize the risk of hospitalization or other more restrictive living arrangement.

In order to bring change into situations and allow the recipient to function more independently, Community Intervention may be conducted with:

an agency
an institution
an employer
a landlord
the recipient's family, with or without the presence of the recipient

Community Intervention is provided on an individual basis only and may be conducted in person or by telephone.

III. Medication Education Services

Services provided individually or in groups that educate a recipient about mental illness and symptoms, the role and effects of medications in treating symptoms of mental illness, and the side effects of medications. Medication education is coordinated with medication management services and does not duplicate it. Medication education services are provided by physicians, pharmacists, or registered nursed. Medication education is a separate billable service.