Individualized Home Supports with Training in Minnesota
Practice everyday skills with support at home and in the community. Explore IHS with training in the Twin Cities for goals such as meals, budgeting, routines, and getting around.
What is Individualized Home Supports with Training?
IHS with training helps adults practice skills they want to develop, retain, or improve for everyday life. At Clemens Health, the starting point is a goal that matters to you. That might be preparing a familiar meal, keeping track of spending, or planning a trip to the library. A worker practices the steps with you, and your support team reviews how the approach is working. Progress can mean needing a different prompt, keeping an existing skill, or feeling more comfortable with a routine.
Compare the three IHS options
- IHS without training
- Assistance to use or maintain current skills during everyday activities.
- IHS with training
- Practice toward an adult's skill goals, with support during the activity.
- IHS with family training
- Training for the person and/or family when the person lives in the family's home.
Turn a laundry goal into a practice plan
A goal such as doing your own laundry can start with sorting one load, choosing a setting, and deciding when to move it to the dryer. You might prefer pictures to spoken instructions. A useful review asks which steps you completed, where help was needed, and whether the instructions made sense to you.
This is a planning example, not a client story or a promised outcome.
Read the IHS comparison guideQuestions to bring to the conversation
- What do you want to practice, and why does it matter to you?
- Would a picture guide, demonstration, or written list help?
- What would useful progress look like in your own words?
How to check service eligibility in Minnesota
IHS with training is an adult service under the BI, CAC, CADI, and DD waivers. It requires an assessed training need and an authorized plan. The person's living arrangement also matters. A case manager can help determine the appropriate IHS option.
Minnesota's IHS service definitions and eligibilityAlready have a case manager? Ask whether this service matches the needs in your plan. If you are starting without one, contact your county or tribal agency about an assessment. Choosing a provider and receiving service authorization are separate steps.
Program sources checked September 8, 2026. Eligibility and service authorization are determined by the responsible agency.
Who is Individualized Home Supports with Training for?
Adults who want to practice a daily routine at a manageable pace
Young adults preparing for greater independence at home or in the community
People who need to retain or rebuild an everyday skill
Case managers arranging support that focuses primarily on training
What to expect
How Individualized Home Supports with Training comes together, from the first conversation to ongoing care.
Choose a practical goal and describe what already works for you.
Review the assessment, authorized training, and proposed schedule with your case manager.
Discuss the worker match and the way you learn best, such as demonstration, written steps, or repetition.
Practice the agreed steps in everyday settings, with support adjusted to the task.
Review progress with your support team and discuss whether the goal or approach needs to change.
How services are funded
Funding depends on the service, eligibility, and authorization. Ask your case manager which support is covered and whether you have any financial responsibility. Clemens Health confirms the service arrangement with you before care begins.
MA Waiver programs
Medicaid-funded waivers that cover a range of home and community-based services.
Learn more about MA Waiver programsPrivate pay
Ask whether the requested service is available privately and request the rate and terms before agreeing to care.
Not sure which program applies? Contact us and we will help you figure it out.
Frequently asked questions
Practical ihs with training guides
Turn a person's priorities into useful conversations about goals, practice, and progress. Each guide includes an editable worksheet.
- Writing useful IHS skill goals
Turn a broad wish for independence into a skill-goal discussion with the person, case manager, and IHS provider.
- Planning IHS skill practice around the person
Prepare questions about practice opportunities, tools, pacing, and feedback for an agreed IHS learning goal.
- Reviewing progress in IHS with training
Use observations and the person’s feedback to prepare an IHS goal review without reducing progress to attendance.
- Preparing money-management goals for IHS training
Discuss everyday budgeting skills with a worksheet that keeps learning goals separate from control of someone’s money.
- Planning transportation skills with IHS training
Organize questions about route planning, practice support, access, and travel responsibilities before setting a transportation goal.
Talk with our Bloomington team
Clemens Health is based at 7800 Metro Pkwy, Suite 110-11, Bloomington, MN 55425. Tell us your Twin Cities location, the service you are considering, and the days or nights you need. Ask us to confirm coverage and staffing for your address.
Ask about supportFor case managers
Send the requested service, city or ZIP code, county, waiver type, hours, and timing through our referral form. Identify what is already authorized and what still needs discussion. An inquiry does not reserve staff or confirm a start date.
View the referral checklist and formView the Minnesota DHS record for license 1115332