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Sue Korman subscibes to a simple philosophy in helping individuals with mental illness: "Having someone who believes in you can all the difference." Korman is the Clinical Supervisor for CCRI's Adult Rehabilitative Mental Health Services (ARMHS). The objective of ARMHS is to enable the recipient to develop and enhance psychiatric stability, personal and emotional adjustment, and independent living skills in cases where these abilities are impaired by traumatic brain injury or symptoms of mental illness. Email: Sue Korman.

In addition, ARMHS can help to create a change in a recipient's environment to imporve independent functioning, reduce a recipient's barriers to community integration or independent living and also help to minimize the risk of hospitalization or placement in a more restrictive living arrangement. Korman describes an ARMHS success story in the following way: "They'll feel better and that their quality of life has improved. They'll be more involved with their family, friends, and community and less restricted by their illness."

A recovery principal provides for the driving force for ARMHS, based on the fact that two-thirds of individuals with Serious and Persistent Mental Illness get much better over the long term. Recovery involves the development of new meaning and purpose as one grows beyond the effects of their illness. Also, recovery can occur even though symptoms may continue.

Partnership and respect are central to delivering ARMHS, which are individually designed to meet the recipient's needs and provided on a one-to-one basis in the recipient's home or in another community setting and sometimes in groups. The wide array of services includes but is not limited to interpersonal communication skills, cooking and nutrition skills, medication education and monitoring, employment related skills and mental illness symptom management skills.

In order to be eligible for ARMHS a person needs to be receiving Medical Assistance or Minnesota Care. Also, evidence needs to exist that the individual experiences functional impairment, as a result of mental health symptoms or traumatic brain injury. A recipient also needs to be 18 years of age or older.

Hello, I am Carmel Froemke, Adult Rehabilitative Mental Health Services (ARMHS) Director. ARMHS is the newest program offered by CCRI. I came on board as the treatment director in Jan. 2007, joining Sue Korman, ARMHS Clinical Supervisor. I graduated from NDSU with a degree in Family Services, and have worked in the field of human services for more than 15 years. I knew at a relatively young age that I wanted to help people. Supporting individuals who have Mental Illness has given me the opportunity to fulfill my passion. In past years, I have worked with Community Living Services and Southeast Human Service Center in Fargo, and Community Education in Buffalo, MN. I joined CCRI in 2003 and am very happy to be a part of this creative environment. I reside in Dilworth with my husband Dave and our 2 children, Lydia and Avery.