Community Foundations
Community Foundations is an Intensive Residential Treatment Services program for adults with serious and persistent mental illness. It is a 16 bed facility, with both single and double rooms. Prior Authorization by Ramsey County is required. Community Foundations focuses its services on clients for whom maintaining stability in the community has been challenging. Issues such as the severity of the disability, treatment non-adherence, criminal history, substance use, and medical concerns all complicate the ability of clients to be successful in the community, and serve as priority treatment issues. Residents are encouraged to use Community Foundations for Aftercare, and are eligible to drop in, participate in groups or activities, have a meal, to socialize, or to get assistance in a crisis.

Services provided by Community Foundations:

• Diagnostic Assessment, Functional Assessment, Nursing assessment, chemical health assessments.
• Treatment planning in coordination with Ramsey County designated case manager.
• Supervised medication administration in collaboration with residents’ community psychiatrist.
• Individual Therapy by Masters level Mental Health Therapists.
• Group Therapy including Illness Management and Recovery, Integrated Dual Disorder Treatment, and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy in conjunction with the SMHS Clinic.
• Community Integration activities that function to build social skills and apartment living skills.
• Supervision of residents around the clock by Bachelor’s level Mental Health Practitioners
• Crisis prevention, assessment and intervention in collaboration with Ramsey County.
• Discharge planning in coordination with Case manager.
• Aftercare services.

All referrals come directly from Ramsey County.

Extended Care Apartments
Community Foundations utilizes housing subsidies to lease apartments and provide ongoing services to those who cannot lease on their own either due to criminal history or due to record of unlawful detainers. Clients requiring a particularly high level of supervision may be considered for Extended Care services. The Community Treatment Team, housed at Community Foundations, provides a combination of housing and mental health services.

Corporate Adult Foster Care
Corporate Adult Foster Care provides a combination of housing and supports for adults with serious and persistent mental illness. An eligible recipient is an individual who: has been screened for the CADI waiver or is on the CADI waiver, and has been approved for Corporate Adult Foster Care services by the County in which the individual resides.

Corporate Adult Foster Care Consists of:

• Eleven houses scattered throughout the East Metro area.
• Houses are located in Ramsey, Washington, Dakota and Anoka counties.
• Houses are staffed 24 hours per day, with awake overnight staff.
• Houses are typically split-level houses in suburban or residential neighborhoods.
• Each client has their own bedroom.
• Four individuals reside in each house.
• Medication is dispensed by staff.
• Staff coordinate services prescribed by clients’ various medical and psychiatric providers.
• Several houses are tailored to meet the needs of individuals who have Borderline Personality Disorder.  These houses have staff who have received training in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, the treatment modality of choice for people with this illness
• Staff provide meals and snacks to clients; we also accommodate some special dietary needs and assist clients in maintaining healthy dietary choices.
• Clients receive comprehensive treatment planning upon intake. Treatment plans, including goal setting initiated by the client, are reviewed at least quarterly by a Mental Health Professional.
• Clients are encouraged to participate in regularly scheduled recreation activities, and to engage in structured work or treatment inside or outside of the foster care home.

Interested individuals can call 651-291-1979 for information on how to obtain an intake for this service.

Main Street Housing Partnership
Main Street Housing Partnership provides transitional housing for individuals with SPMI, CD issues, or both, and who meet a definition of homelessness. Clients who have often been homeless for a long time or repeatedly, struggle with mental illness and addiction, and for whom traditional service models have failed. Main Street is a 40 bed residential program for men and women existing within and in cooperation with Catholic Charities’ Mary Hall. The Main Street Housing Partnership consists of private rooms, and Mental Health Practitioners are on-site from 9 am to 10 pm, 7 days per week. Mary Hall services are provided by mental health professionals, mental health practitioners, and mental health rehabilitation workers who are trained and experienced in providing treatment to frequently homeless adults with mental illness and/or chemical dependency issues.

The Main Street Housing Partnership program assists individuals in a residential setting with:

• Mental illness treatment, management, and stabilization; substance use reduction or relapse prevention; crisis intervention, utilizing the principles of Harm Reduction and Motivational Interviewing.
• Transition to community living from facility or hospital, community services utilization, finding mental health/medical/dental providers, legal issues.
• Household management skills, organization, cleaning, set up, home safety, cooking skills, meal planning, grocery shopping skills, nutrition and diet personal hygiene, memory and scheduling skills, medication monitoring and education.
• Communication and relationship skills, self-advocacy, social and leisure functioning, transportation skills, community orientation, safety.
• Budgeting and money management skills, obtaining and maintaining financial assistance, employment or school related skills.

Referrals to Main Street use a universal housing referral via Ramsey County Mental Health.

Saint Paul Residence Supportive Housing program assists individuals with:

• Mental illness treatment, management, and stabilization; substance use reduction or relapse prevention and crisis intervention using the principles of Harm Reduction and Motivational Interviewing.
• Transition to community living from facility or hospital, community services utilization, finding mental health/medical/dental providers, legal issues.
• Household management skills, organization, cleaning, set up, home safety, cooking skills, meal planning, grocery shopping skills, nutrition and diet, personal hygiene, memory and scheduling skills, Medication monitoring and education.
• Communication and relationship skills, self-advocacy, social and leisure functioning, transportation skills, community orientation, safety.
• Budgeting and money management skills, obtaining and maintaining financial assistance, employment or school related skills.

Assisted Living - Redeemers Arms

Redeemers Arms is an apartment complex owned and operated by the Wilder Foundation which provides safe, affordable and supportive housing for older adults and younger disabled people. In partnership with Wilder, South Metro Human Services employs a Case Manager to support individuals diagnosed with a mental illness that live at Redeemers Arms.