Clinical overview
What ARMHS is
ARMHS is a Medicaid rehabilitation service for adults whose mental illness significantly affects daily functioning. It focuses on learning, practicing, and retaining skills—not simply completing tasks for someone and not replacing psychotherapy.
What services may include
- Symptom-management, relapse-prevention, and crisis-planning skills
- Communication, healthy relationship, and community-participation skills
- Budgeting, shopping, nutrition, transportation-use, and household-management skills
- Support for healthy routines, appointments, employment-related readiness, and parenting skills when tied to treatment goals
- Medication education and coordination when provided by qualified staff
- Community intervention with family, guardians, employers, or providers when directly connected to the client's treatment
- Transition support when moving from a hospital or residential setting back into community life
Where services happen
ARMHS is commonly provided in a person's home or another community setting where the identified skill can be practiced. Individual, group, and telehealth delivery may be used when clinically appropriate and allowed by the person's plan and coverage.
Assessment and planning
A recent diagnostic assessment must document the mental-health condition, functional impairments, and medical necessity. The ARMHS team completes a functional assessment and level-of-care assessment, then works with the client on an individualized treatment plan with measurable goals. Progress is reviewed and documented over time.
What ARMHS does not cover
ARMHS does not pay for transportation, housekeeping, moving, grocery shopping performed for a client, recreation without a rehabilitation goal, on-call time, or job-specific training. It is not crisis response, psychotherapy, medication prescribing, or case management.