Everyday help, so home stays home.
Meals, medications, overnights, a safe clean house. When that daily work gets too heavy for a family to carry alone, we carry it with you. Here is each service, in plain words.
Individualized Home Supports
One caregiver, one client, working on the life that client actually wants: at home and out in the community.
IHS comes in three forms. Without training is support: a caregiver alongside for cooking, errands, and community life. With training is teaching: building skills toward independence, with progress we measure and report. With family training coaches the household too, so everyone gets stronger.
- Learning the bus route to a job, until the caregiver isn't needed on it
- Cooking dinners together, then watching from the counter
- Groceries, prescriptions, and appointments kept on track
- Real independence, built skill by skill
- Progress case managers can see on paper
Night Supervision
Night is when thin coverage breaks: falls on the way to the bathroom, wandering, medications that can't wait until morning.
Our caregivers stay in the client's home overnight, awake and on duty, with every shift documented like any other.
- Safety checks on a schedule built from the support plan
- Late and early medications, on time, logged
- A morning handoff note the family reads over coffee
- The client stays home, safe
- The family finally sleeps
Respite Care
Most family caregivers are running on empty. The care never stops, so they never stop.
Respite is short-term care, in the client's home or another approved setting, planned ahead or arranged fast. It's how the person holding everything up gets a real break.
- Every Saturday off, standing
- A week of coverage for the first vacation in years
- Fast coverage when the family suddenly needs it
- Caregivers get their life back, so care at home lasts
- A trusted backup before it's ever urgent
Homemaker Services
A cluttered floor is a fall waiting to happen. An empty fridge is a hospital visit with a nicer name.
Homemaker services keep the household itself healthy: cleaning, laundry, meals, and home management, done with the client whenever they want to do it themselves.
- Meals cooked for the week, and actually eaten
- Laundry, dishes, and clear paths through the house
- Groceries stocked before the fridge goes empty
- Fewer falls, better meals, fewer ER trips
- Family visits go back to being visits
How it gets paid for.
Not Medicare. Medicare covers short-term care after a hospital stay, then it stops.
Minnesota's Medicaid waivers pick it up from there: CADI, Brain Injury, DD, and the Elderly Waiver. They pay for everyday help at home, and for most families it costs nothing out of pocket.
Ask your county or tribal agency for a MnCHOICES assessment. It's free.
A case manager builds the support plan with you.
You choose the provider. That choice is yours by law.
Beyond these four, we provide most basic and intensive services under chapter 245D. We do not provide community residential services, crisis respite, integrated community supports, or ICF/DD services. If you're not sure where a client fits, ask us and we'll tell you straight.