Community First Services and Supports (CFSS)

The Community First Services and Supports (CFSS) Program is funded through Minnesota Medical Assistance and state funds, with little to no cost to our clients. CFSS is intended to be more accessible and flexible than the PCA program. CFSS works to prevent or delay future institutional admissions and support community living. CFSS will assist our clients to recover and/or gain skills to increase and maintain community stability, use technology or home modifications to decrease the need for human assistance when appropriate, maximize independence, and increasingly direct their own services. Similar to PCA Choice, the CFSS waiver is supportive of clients choosing their own helpers, which is one more way family caregivers can get paid.

If Community First Services and Supports may benefit you or someone you look after, please do not hesitate to contact Global Health Link to discuss qualifications and services.

Personal Support Services

Services vary according to individualized service plans.

• Assistance with instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs), such as meal planning, preparation, and cooking; shopping for food, clothing, or other essential items; laundry; housecleaning; assistance with medications; managing finances; communicating needs and preferences during activities; arranging supports; and assistance with traveling around and participating in the community
• Assistance with health-related procedures and tasks that can be taught or assigned by a state-licensed health care or mental health professional and performed by a support worker
• Expenditures for items, services, supports, environmental modifications, or goods, including, assistive technology
• Adaptive skills training and techniques taught to maximize the independence of our clients
• Assistance with activities of daily living, including eating, toileting, grooming, dressing, bathing, mobility, positioning, and transferring
• Observation and redirection for behavior or symptoms when there is a need for assistance
• Back-up systems or mechanisms, such as the use of pagers or other electronic devices, to ensure, continuity of the participant’s services and supports
• Services of up to 40 hours per seven-day period provided by a support worker who is a parent, step-parent, or legal guardian of a participant who is under age 18, or who is the participant’s spouse, regardless of the number of parents providing services, combination of parents and spouses providing services, or number of children who receive MA services
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