Additional Assisted Living Program
On February 26, 2007, Touchstone received approval from Hennepin County Behavioral Health to develop additional assisted living apartments for up to 40 consumers with serious and persistent mental illness (SPMI). We hope to open in late 2010. We continue to work on their development in partnership with Project for Pride in Living (PPL).
We envision a setting similar in size and nature to our current program. Rather than sharing an apartment with two or three other people as residents do in our first program, most individuals will live in separate apartments. If someone desires a roommate, we will explore options for accommodating this request while supporting healthy relationships.
Like our current program, our new programs will not involve bricks and mortar. Residents will live in rental apartments in one self-contained unit, such as an apartment building, or in several smaller buildings on the same campus. We also will consider a larger apartment complex that our program shares with other unrelated tenants, if such a setting seems viable.
We recognize that residents will need some type of rental assistance to retain housing.
Touchstone Mental Health proposes to provide the majority of direct services to the residents of the new location. Like our current assisted living program, we will staff the new location 24 hours a day, seven days a week to provide services, monitor consumers’ symptoms and behaviors, and respond appropriately. In addition to on-site staffing, a nurse and mental health clinical staff will be on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week to support other staff in making appropriate decisions regarding medical and clinical care.
For more information, contact Glen Albert, Director of Assisted Living, at 763-536-8134 or galbert@touchstonemh.org
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