The Community Support Program of Itasca County provides a full continuum of supportive programs for adults with serious mental illness. The CSP mission is to enable our clients living with mental illness to maintain community living, reduce the risk of hospitalization, promote the development of healthy interpersonal, social, vocational and independent living skills. The following is the list of programs and services provided by the CSP. For general information regarding the services of the CSP please contact the director at 326-3490.

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  Case Management
  Adult Rehabilitative Mental Health Services (ARMHS)
  Day Treatment Program
  Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
  Applied DBT
  Adult Foster Care
  Kiesler Clubhouse
  Housing Support Program




Case Management
Northland Counseling Center has a team of 14 case managers that provide individual mental health case management services. Case managers meet with individual clients on an ongoing basis to assist in coordination of services, provide support and advocate for client's rights. Case Managers promote client self-reliance and self-sufficiency. They work closely with other community service providers to ensure that each client's individual needs are met and that successful community living is maintained.



Adult Rehabilitative Mental Health Services: ARMHS
Northland Counseling Center provides ARMHS including medication education, basic living and social skills, community intervention, and crisis stabilization. Services are provided individually or in a small group setting in the recipient's home, appropriate setting in the community, Kiesler Clubhouse, and Northland Counseling Center office locations. ARMHS services instruct, assist and support clients with basic living and social skills including: interpersonal relationships, community resource utilization and integration, crisis assistance, relapse preventions, health care directives, budgeting and shopping, healthy lifestyle skills, cooking and nutrition, medication education and monitoring, mental illness symptom management, household management, employment related skills and transition to community living skills. ARMHS service is flexible to meet the needs of clients and can take place in the evening and on weekends.



Day Treatment Program
A structured program of group psychotherapy and other intensive therapeutic services provided by a multidisciplinary team to stabalize a recipient's mental health status while developing and improving independent living and socialization skills.

Goals of Day Treatment:
* To reduce and relieve the effects of mental illness and provide training to enable the recipient to live in the community.
* To assist the recipient in maintaining their daily skills at the highest level possible, to decrease the specific symptoms produced by their mental illness and decrease or eliminate the need for hospitalization.

Eligibility Requirements:
* 18 years of age or older
* Mental Health Diagnosis
* Insurance Coverage
* A qualifying Diagnostic Assessment by a Licensed Mental Health Professional

Day Treatment Group:
The Day Treatment Program focuses on skill training and life management skills. Some topics consist of the following: Mental Health Awareness, Symptom Education and Management, Uncovering Automatic Thoughts, Changing Patterns of Limited Thinking, Identifying Triggers and Early Warning Signs, Building Self-Esteem / Assertiveness, Enhancing Day-to-Day Social Interactions, Boundaries, and Relationship Skills.

Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
DBT is based on a treatment model developed by Marsha Linehan, Ph.D. The objective of this approach is to help individuals learn skills to benefit their overall well-being with learning to regulate emotions. The 4 modules of DBT are Core Mindfulness, Emotion Regulation, Interpersonal Effectiveness and Distress Tolerance. DBT is provided with individual therapy, telephone coaching and group skills training and education. Individual therapists and group facilitators meet weekly. DBT is a yearlong commitment with Skills group being held every Wednesday from 1-3:30 pm.



Applied DBT
Individuals who graduate from DBT Program have an opportunity to continue to learn and expand their skill level by attending Applied DBT. Applied DBT is held weekly on Tuesdays for 1 hour.



Adult Foster Care
Adult Foster Care is a supportive housing option for adults with SPMI and/or traumatic brain injury. It is a small site residential service allowing up to four residents a private but supervised environment. Our homes are staffed with 24 awake staff to assist in providing care and program services. Our services include education and facilitation of independent living and social skills, assisting residents to participate in household, recreation and work activities, assisting residents with transportation, appointments, personal care, medications, daily needs and ensuring safety of all residents.



Kiesler House, Promoting Mental Health Recovery
 Kiesler House is a peer driven community support program for adults recovering from mental illness in Itasca County.   It is a place for member to gain self-esteem, job skills and a place to belong. Members and staff work side by side. Members have the opportunity  to socialize, gain work skills, build friendships and gain cooking skills. Kiesler House is a place where mental illness is supported and accepted. 

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Peer Support Specialist
Peer Support Services are self-directed and person-centered with a focus on recovery. The CPS will be able to model wellness, personal responsibility, self-advocacy, and hopefulness through appropriate sharing of his or her story, role modeling how the needs of individuals can be respectfully met, and how a belief in ones’ self and recovery is maintained. A Peer Support staff will be a community advocate for adults with persistent mental illness. As advocates, they will not only provide supportive insight and guidance to their peers but they will work to reduce social stigma about mental illness within our community. 


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Housing Support Program
The housing support program is designed to assist adults with mental illness in obtaining and maintain safe, affordable housing. Services available include: Bridges and Section 8 housing applications assistance, landlord assistance and various housing resources available in Itasca County. Midway Villa: is a 14-unit single room occupancy, public housing program operated and managed by Northland Counseling Center; funded by Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Midway Villa is a low income housing complex offering efficiency transitional housing units. Shelter Plus Care: is a housing program for adults with SPMI and/or CD diagnosis. Northland Counseling Center rents housing complexes from existing landlords and becomes the landlord to the tenant. The tenant is eligible for subsidized housing as well as a full continuum of mental health and supportive services. To be eligible, tenants must have a mental health case manager, must be documented homeless and must participate in their mental health treatment plan.