ARMHS

As a provider of mental health services, Unique Family Service Inc. strives to help mental health patients regain their independence and community living skills, which are impaired by the symptoms of mental health illness. As such, we provide Adult Rehabilitative Mental Health Services (ARMHS).

These services are tailored to help our clients cope with the symptoms of their mental health illness and become successfully independent in the community. In addition, ARMHS also enables them to improve their psychiatric stability in various areas of their lives.

Who is Eligible for ARMHS?

• Adults age 18+
• Patients who have received a recent diagnostic assessment by a qualified mental health professional that indicates ARMHS services are medically necessary.
• Patients who have a substantial disability and functional impairment in three or more areas, thus markedly reducing self-sufficiently.
• Patients who have the cognitive capacity to engage in and benefit from rehabilitative services techniques and methods.
• Patients who have Medical Assistance or a Prepaid Medical Assistance Product.

Basic Living and Social Skills: Skills Techniques involves activities that restore a client’s skills essential for managing his or her illness, treatment and the requirements of everyday independent living.

What Basic Living and Social Skills are Taught?

• Mental illness symptom management
• Healthy lifestyle decisions
• Interpersonal communication
• Household management
• Community resource utilization and integration
• Crisis management
• Relapse prevention
• Cooking and nutrition
• Transportation access
• Medication education and monitoring
• Employment-related skills
• Transition to community living service

Skills ARMHS can help Teach

• Anger management
• Anxiety and stress reduction
• Budgeting and financial management
• Conflict resolution
• Decision making
• Parenting skills
• Self-Advocacy and Self-Empowerment
• Motivational Skills
• Re-entering Community after Treatment
• Self-esteem and Self-Improvement
• Mindfulness and Self-Awareness

Community Intervention: Community Intervention helps to alleviate or reduce a recipient’s barriers to community integration or independent living, or to minimize the risk of hospitalization or another more restrictive living arrangement. This is provided on an individual basis and may be conducted with an agency. institution, employer, landlord, and recipient’s family, with or without the presence of the recipient.

Medication Education Services: Medication education services are provided individually or in groups that focus on educating the recipient about mental illness and symptoms; the role and effects of medication 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, physician assistants, or registered nurses. 256B.0623 subdivision 2(b).

Transition to Community Living Services: These are services that maintain continuity of contact between the rehabilitation services provider and the recipient and which facilitate discharge from a hospital, residential treatment program under Minnesota Rules, chapter 9505, board and lodging facility, or nursing home. Transition to community living services is not intended to provide other areas of skills therapy.

Current Counties Served:
Anoka, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey and Washington