Adult Rehabilitation Mental Health Service

What is a Rehabilitative Mental Health Services (ARMHS) services. Adult Rehabilitative Mental Health Services: As defined by the Minnesota Department of Human Services:

• The ARMHS means mental health services which are rehabilitative and enable the recipient 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. Adult rehabilitative mental health services are also appropriate when provided to enable a recipient to retain stability and functioning, if the recipient would be at risk of significant functional decompensation or more restrictive service settings without these services
• Adult rehabilitative mental health services instruct, assist, and support the recipient in areas such as: interpersonal communication skills, community resource utilization and integration skills, crisis assistance, relapse prevention skills, health care directives, budgeting and shopping skills, healthy lifestyle skills and practices, cooking and nutrition skills, transportation skills, medication education and monitoring, mental illness symptom management skills, household management skills, employment-related skills, and transition to community living services
• When the symptoms of mental illness get in the way of an individual’s ability to live a meaningful life, Hope Behavioral Health’s Adult Rehabilitative Mental Health Services (ARMHS) can help.

Location of Service:

Hope Behavioral Health can provide you ARMHS in:

• Your home
• The home of a relative or friend
• Hope Behavioral Health offices
• Social and other community settings like the library, coffee shops, community centers, etc.

ARMHS will help you:

• Coordinate and deliver high quality mental health services in natural settings.
• Prevent mental health relapse or crisis, thus reducing the risk of hospitalization
• Deliver services in a culturally competent manner.

Who is eligible?

• 18 years of age or older MA (Medical Assistance) or Prepaid, Medical Assistance (PMAP) coverage
• Have a primary diagnosis of a serious mental illness

Together we can address many issues: Hope Behavioral Health personalized services to address your Mental Health and Housing needs. The role of Hope Behavioral Health’s mental health practitioner (MHP) is to model, encourage, coach and teach skills so you are able to develop a belief in your own ability to achieve what may have seemed unattainable before. ARMHS are designated by the State of Minnesota and support you in developing skills in areas such as, but not limited to:

• Interpersonal communication skills
• Community resources use and integration skills
• Relapse prevention skills
• Crisis planning/symptom management
• Transportation skills
• Independent living skills
• Household management skills
• Healthy lifestyle skills and practices
• Medication education
• Mental illness symptom management and relapse prevention
• Transition to community living skills
• Employment-related skills
• Other important aspect of your life

Hope Behavioral Health staff will create a personalized plan to help guide you toward developing the skills you need to reach your specific objectives and goals. The time you will spend with a MHP varies from person to person, and typically decreases as you achieve your personal goals.