Street Voices of Change

08/31/2024

Seeking additional hours as a CADI waiver individual home support specialist or housekeeper in Minneapolis st paul area. I'm Department of Human Services-approved background checked and can work with your home services provider or mine. With 17 years of experience as a licensed practical nurse, I provide community access, organization, and task assistance, and have experience with mental health concerns.

INDIVIDUAL HOME SUPPORTS (IHS)
IHS service is for individuals that are on the CADI waiver. Caring and compassionate individuals that believe in supporting you in your home and community. The IHS worker can take you out in the community for important appointments or out for leisure. They can also help you in your home to keep you organized and on task.

IHS staff have experience with individuals with mental health concerns and/or they have gone to college and have a 4-year college degree.

All of our IHS specialists are given monthly training by our licensed clinical supervisor and are properly vetted and criminal background checked through the State of MN prior to working.

IHS (INDIVIDUAL HOME SUPPORTS) PROVIDES:
HHHC provides services to a wide variety of clientele’, many of which include but are not limited to:

Nutritional Management: support in planning, preparing meals; preparing and use of grocery store and list
Household Management: support in paying monthly bills and maintaining checkbook; sorting of mail; and support with overall concerns within the home
Purposeful Activity: plan and schedule of social activities; finding community resources to participate in
Community Orientation and Mobility: support in accessing banks, cash machines, dentist, doctors, post office, stores; support in setting up transportation (including providing transportation by ILS)
Time Management: support in maintaining a calendar and schedule
Safety and Self Defense: educate on the use of 911 and what to do in case of an emergency
Service Provider Management: support communication and conflict resolution with service providers
Personal and Health Care Maintenance: support in maintaining good personal hygiene skills and routines; support to/from doctor’s; support in advocating at the doctor
Interpersonal Relationships and Communication: support in managing anger and learning to be assertive; conflict resolution skills with various relationships
Civic Awareness/Public Assistance/Legal Rights: support to understand and utilize the voting process; support with navigating the public assistance program; support in finding resources regarding legal rights, laws and public programs
Problem Solving: support in identifying barriers/problems on a regular basis; provide resources in assisting to problem resolution
Mental health and Independent health services, Home Health through the CADI waiver program.

Contact me if you need help.
Candace

11/17/2023

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09/14/2023

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07/24/2023

https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/nonprofit-prepares-help-unhoused-during-incoming-heatwave/89-fcc8605d-06f5-4d67-8b1d-16f661af38eb

I found this article about those out there and the extreme temps the next few days. I thought I would share this with those who need assistance. Stay cool and hydrated.
💯SVOC.
💜Candace Vaith

Temperatures are expected to climb upwards of 15 degrees above average across the region, leaving those unhoused especially vulnerable to the heat.

12/02/2021

This is a change to policy that Street Voices of Change members had direct impact on. SVoC be proud, families no longer will be forced to give up all their income to shelters!

02/17/2021

This morning at 10:30 watch folks from Street Voices of Change testify to creating a statewide task force where the voices of people with lived experience of homelessness are more than tokenized. Ask your state representatives to support HF 900 and your state senators to support the companion bill SF 1120. We can shape the Shelter Residents Bill of Rights to protect the rights of every unhoused person in the state.

Preventing Homelessness Division at 10:30am.

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02/09/2021

After years of work at the city and county level today the first of two bills were introduced in the MN House of Representatives that will help ensure that people with lived experience of homelessness have a voice all across this state about what happens in shelters. It’s only a beginning, but one we have worked so hard to start!

A bill for an act relating to homelessness; establishing a task force on shelter resident rights and shelter provider practices; requiring a report; appropriating money.

11/14/2020

Save the date. We will gather (safely). Masks will be provided.

SAVE THE DATE -Thursday, December 17, 2020 - for the 36th Annual Homeless Memorial March & Service. We are modifying the evening to ensure safety and social distancing. Details will follow soon. If you know someone who was homeless, formerly homeless, or an advocate for the homeless community who passed away in 2020, please click here: https://bit.ly/2K1o3zo

08/11/2020

Folks at Street Voices are helping change this policy and have a seat at the table for what a new policy might look like. Good work, folks!

The decades-old policy asks families at two major shelters to pay for their stay at the shelter.

08/01/2020

Street Voices of Change is mentioned as a catalyst for the new shelter for people who identify as women at the Gordon Center. Good work, folks!

Over the last few weeks, my office has received communications related to a specific shelter project, located at the Gordon Center in North Minneapolis. In today’s statement, I will: Share the values with which I am approaching shelter conversations Outline the shelter approach approved within

07/23/2020

This is what Street Voices of Change has been working on for years: a culturally specific shelter, a shelter exclusively for people who identify as women and a medical respite facility. We are excited to be able to shape the rest of the response at this time quickly so that we can get folks what they need and what they’ve been asking for.

One built for Native Americans could open by the end of the year.