Remedial Services 

This funding method is available for persons with a Chronic Mental Illness diagnosis.  Community Living Skills Training and Employment-Related Services are provided by NPI.  Persons interested in pursuing this funding mechanism must start with their Medicaid or County Case Manager or DHS Service Worker.   

Remedial services must be “rehabilitatively necessary” according to Iowa Administrative rules, which includes the following:

*      Reasonable and necessary;

*      Rehabilitative in nature and not primarily habilitative;

*      Designed to promote an individual’s integration and stability in the community and quality of life; and

*      Designed to promote an individual’s ability to obtain or retain employment or to function in non-work settings and address the symptoms of mental and functional disabilities and behaviors resulting from chronic mental illness that interfere with these activities.