Housing Stabilization Services

Housing Stabilization Services is a new Minnesota Medical Assistance benefit to help people with disabilities, including mental illness and substance use disorder, and seniors find and keep housing. Our goals with this service include:

• Support an individual’s transition to housing
• Increase long-term stability in housing
• Avoid future periods of homelessness or institutionalization

We offer supportive services to help individuals develop a housing transition plan, find suitable housing, and help them prepare and organize for their move. Our professional staff helps individuals identify the resources that they need to assist with the necessary expenses. In addition, we endure that their new living arrangement is safe and ready for occupancy. We offer the right support and assistance that individuals need to maintain living in their homes. We educate the tenants and the property managers about their roles, rights, and responsibilities. Added to that, we support the needs of each individual when it comes to their cultural practices. We also arrange for assistive technology when needed. Better Care, Inc. offers housing consultation services through a person-centered plan for people without Medicaid-funded case management for people with a:

• Disability or disabling condition
• Housing instability
• Need for services due to limitations caused by the individual’s disability

• Aged, blind, or disabled as described under Title II of the Social Security Act (SSI/SSDI)
• People determined by a medical professional to have any of the following conditions:
  • Long-term injury or illness
  • Mental illness
  • Developmental disability
  • Learning disability
  • Substance use disorder
• Proof of disability:
  • Professional Statement of Need
  • Medical Opinion Form
  • Proof of receipt of SSI or SSDI
  • Other forms of disability documentation to be determined

• Meets Minnesota’s definition of homelessness
• At the risk of homelessness
• Currently transitioning or have recently transitioned from an institution or licensed or registered setting
• Eligible for waiver services
• Housing instability can be documented by:
  • Professional Statement of Need
  • MnCHOICES Assessment or Long-Term Care Consultation (LTCC) (for persons with a need for Long Term Services and Support)
  • Coordinated Entry Assessment (for persons experiencing homelessness)

• Requires assistance due to their disability in one of the following areas:
  • Communication
  • Mobility
  • Decision-making
  • Managing challenging behaviors
• Assessed need for services can be documented by:
  • Professional Statement of Need
  • MnCHOICES Assessment or Long-Term Care Consultation (LTCC) (for persons with a need for Long Term Services and Support)
  • Coordinated Entry Assessment (for persons experiencing homelessness)

Better Care, Inc. helps determine the person’s need to find stable housing and select the options that align best with their goals. We offer planning, support, and person-centered services that meet the person’s exact needs to be able to successfully live within the community. Each person who receives Housing Stabilization Services from Better Care, Inc. is required to have a person-centered service plan, which must:

• Be driven by the individual
• Include the person’s strengths, interests, and wants, as well as what support they need
• Help the person make an informed choice about their Housing
• Stabilization Service provider.

Individuals can complete this plan with the assistance of key roles, such as:

• Waiver case manager – Coordinated Services and Support Plan
• Targeted case manager (Adult Mental Health, Child Mental Health, Vulnerable Adult/Developmental Disability, Child Welfare) – Housing Focused Person Centered plan
• Senior care coordinator – Coordinated Care Plan

Please don’t hesitate to contact us for more details about the different plan options available for each individual’s needs.

• Assessment
  1. Professional Statement of Need (PSN)
  2. MnCHOICES Assessment or Long-Term Care Consultation (LTCC)
  3. Coordinated Entry Assessment
• Select the Plan Needed
  1. Housing-Focused Person-Centered Plan (Housing Consultant/Targeted Case Manager)
  2. Coordinated Services and Supports Plan (Waiver Case Manager)
  3. Coordinated Care Plan (Senior Care Coordinator)
• The Housing Stabilization Services Provider Submits the following:
  1. Assessment
  2. Plan
  3. Documentation of disability/disabling condition
• Eligibility Review:
  1. The provider will be notified through MN-ITS that they can begin working with the person in need of services.