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Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe

Home Delivered Meals

6530 US 2 NW, Cass Lake, MN, 56633

(218) 335-8314

Website

https://www.llojibwe.org/health/enp.html

Service Details

Description

Meal delivery programs prepare and deliver nutritious meals to older adults and people with disabilities who are unable to make the food for themselves or travel to a meal site.


About This Location

Learn more about this service when paid for under the waivers, the Alternative Care Program, and the Essential Community Supports program in the Community-Based Services Manual.

When receiving this service under waiver programs, you can receive up to one home-delivered meal per day.

Eligibility
To receive this service under the Alternative Care (AC), Essential Community Supports (ECS) and Elderly Waiver (EW) programs:
* The person must have an assessed need for the service that is documented in their support plan
* The service must be the most cost-effective method to provide the person with a nutritionally balanced meal

To receive this service under the Brain Injury (BI), Community Access for Disability Inclusion (CADI), Community Alternative Care (CAC) and Developmental Disabilities (DD) waivers:
* The person must be age 18 or older
* The person must be unable to prepare their own meals due to their disability
* The person must have an assessed need for the service that is documented in their support plan
* The service must be the most cost-effective method to provide the person with a nutritionally balanced meal
* No one else is available to prepare the meals

If you have waiver funding, the support plan (based on an assessment of your needs) determines which services are funded through your waiver.

Features

  • Area Served by County
    • Aitkin County 
    • Beltrami County 
    • Cass County 
    • Crow Wing County 
    • Hubbard County 
    • Itasca County 
    • Morrison County 
    • Todd County 
    • Wadena County 
  • Payment
    • Alternative Care Waiver (AC) 
    • Brain Injury Waiver (BI) 
    • Community Access for Disability Inclusion Waiver (CADI) 
    • Community Alternative Care (CAC) Waiver 
    • Developmental Disabilities Waiver (DD) 
    • Elderly Waiver (EW) 
    • Essential Community Supports (ECS) 
  • Specialization
    • Native American Community 

Eligibility

Title III Home Delivered Meals


Recipients must be 60 years of age or older, home bound by reason of illness, disability or functional need, and unable to prepare their own meals. Meals may be made available to individuals with disabilities who reside in a non-institutional household with and are accompanied by an individual eligible for congregate meals.
Proof of age and proof of residency requested


Title VI Home Delivered Meals


Eligibility will include enrolled members of any recognized tribe aged 55-59 years or over within the program service area. Eligibility will include spouse, handicapped or disabled individual in the same household of the eligible participant who accompany participant to a congregate site.


Proof of age and proof of residency requested


Application Instructions

Walk-in or call for more information.


Area Served

Leech Lake Reservation


Websites

https://www.llojibwe.org/health/enp.html

https://www.llojibwe.org

Phone Numbers

Type Number Hours
Main (218) 335-8280
Toll Free (800) 442-3909

Last Update

12/5/2024

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