Minneapolis Community First Services and Supports (CFSS) Provider
Community First Services and Supports is a new service in Minnesota that is replacing Personal Care Assistance and the Consumer Support Grant. CFSS will offer residents of Minnesota who qualify the same benefits of PCA and CSG. Global Health Link is accepting referrals for CFSS Consultation Services to help educate, write Service Delivery Plans for, assist, and support individuals as they transition into CFSS.
If Community First Services and Supports may benefit you or someone you look after, please do not hesitate to contact Global Health Link to discuss qualifications and services.
Consultation Service Provider Role
● Review MnCHOICES Assessment information completed by lead agency
● Collect information from the assessment to inform the CFSS Service Delivery Plan
● Meet with clients to create service plan and educate individuals on CFSS
● Attach service plan to person’s record in MnCHOICES
● Notify the lead agency the plan is completed
● Provide ongoing Support to individual
Minneapolis CFSS Provider:
Services
Qualifications for CFSS
An individual must meet the following requirements in order to qualify for CFSS:
- Support an individual’s transition into housing
- Increase long-term stability in housing in the community
- Avoid future periods of homelessness or institutionalization
Personal Support Services
Services vary according to individualized service plans.
- Assistance with instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs), such as meal planning, preparation, and cooking; shopping for food, clothing, or other essential items; laundry; housecleaning; assistance with medications; managing finances; communicating needs and preferences during activities; arranging supports; and assistance with traveling around and participating in the community
- Assistance with health-related procedures and tasks that can be taught or assigned by a state-licensed health care or mental health professional and performed by a support worker
- Expenditures for items, services, supports, environmental modifications, or goods, including, assistive technology
- Adaptive skills training and techniques taught to maximize the independence of our clients
- Assistance with activities of daily living, including eating, toileting, grooming, dressing, bathing, mobility, positioning, and transferring
- Observation and redirection for behavior or symptoms when there is a need for assistance
- Back-up systems or mechanisms, such as the use of pagers or other electronic devices, to ensure, continuity of the participant’s services and supports
- Services of up to 40 hours per seven-day period provided by a support worker who is a parent, step-parent, or legal guardian of a participant who is under age 18, or who is the participant’s spouse, regardless of the number of parents providing services, combination of parents and spouses providing services, or number of children who receive MA services
- And more
The CFSS End-to-End Process
Our Services
- Adult Rehabilitative Mental Health Services (ARMHS)
- Personal Care Assistant (PCA)
- Housing Stabilization Services (HSS)
- Integrated Community Services (ICS)
- Assisted Living
- Children's Therapeutic Services and Supports (CTSS)
- Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention - (EIDBI)
- Employment Services
- Behavioral Home Health (BHH)
- Community First Services and Supports (CFSS)
