What is ARMHS and how can it help?

What Is ARMHS?

  • ARMHS stands for Adult Rehabilitative Mental Health Services.
  • ARMHS is an in home and community service that focuses on providing rehabilitative support for people experiencing impairments due to a mental health diagnosis.

What Are The Criteria To Qualify For ARMHS?

  • Must be at least age 18.
  • Must qualify for at least 1 mental health diagnosis.
  • Must be able to identify 3 different goals to work on.

What Issues Can ARMHS Help Me With?

ARMHS is able to work with you with almost any issue that is impacted by your mental health symptoms. A few examples of what ARMHS can teach you how to do are:

  • How to navigate and benefit from medical, dental, mental health, and substance use services.
  • How to handle your basic life tasks and activities of daily living or get services you need for them.
  • How to find and maintain stable housing, financial supports, and manage a budget.
  • How to feel safe going out into the community, getting food/goods, and handling transportation.
  • How to develop healthy relationships and communication skills.
  • How to overcome barriers to pursuing education or work.
  • How to overcome any other issues that are impaired by your mental health symptoms.

Insurance Plans That Will Pay For ARMHS:

  • Straight Medical Assistance (MA)
  • Blue Cross Blue Shield (Blue Plus)
  • Health Partners
  • Hennepin Health
  • Itasca Medical Care
  • Medica
  • Prime West
  • South Country Health Alliance
  • UCare
  • United Behavioral Health

The Difference Between Traditional Therapy And ARMHS?

  • Traditional therapy focuses on talking about and processing your experiences, thoughts, and feelings to help you change and improve your quality of life.
  • This generally occurs in an office or by Telehealth.
  • Sessions are generally limited to 1 time a week for 60 minutes total.

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  • ARMHS focuses on teaching you to resolve immediate problems to help you change and improve your quality of life.
  • This generally occurs in your home, community or by Telehealth.
  • Sessions can occur multiple times a week for a total of up to 5 hours a week.

How Does ARMHS Work?

In a typical session, an ARMHS worker will arrive at your home and spend anywhere from 30 minutes to 3 hours working with you to achieve your goals. During this time ARMHS will coach you to do things like:

  • Identifying and understanding your mental health symptoms and the impairments caused by them.
  • Learning and practicing skills to address the impairments caused by your mental health symptoms.
  • Applying those skills in real life situations to achieve your personal goals.
  • Assessing what worked and what didn’t work with you to do better next time.

Important things to remember about ARMHS.

  • The success of ARMHS is largely determined by the quality of the relationship between you and your ARMHS worker. It is important for both parties to feel comfortable and have respect for each other.
  • ARMHS is not a crisis service, case management, or direct care services. ARMHS works to support your learning to handle problems independently or to connect you with services to address needs you can’t address yourself.
  • If the relationship with your worker is not comfortable and respectful, please contact our Treatment Supervisor to address the issue directly or find a new worker for you.