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Before and after school program for students in grades K - 5. Services offered:- Before and after school on school days- Inclement weather care- Non-school daycare- Preschool learning program- Summer vacation care

Information about adoption and referrals.

Provides services to youth experiencing homelessness and runaway youth up to age 24. Assists in obtaining temporary and transitional housing. Provides a positive adult presence on the streets, offering counseling services, basic needs support, and access to community resources. Services are confidential and non-judgmental.

District 1 Elder Advocate: (218) 407-4395 District 2 Elder Advocate: (218) 368-8718 District 3 Elder Advocate: (218) 760-1793 Elder Advocates assist with:- Transportation - Food Shelf visits - Banking - Grocery shopping - County paperwork - Social Security - Health insurance information - Transportation to county appointments - Light house cleaning and a good listening ear - Mandated reporters of physical, emotional, financial and sexual abuse and neglect. Emergency assistance may be provided in extraordinary need - call for more information. Leech Lake Elders 55 years of age and older qualify for the eyeglasses, denture and hearing aid program - participants must utilize IHS. Elders and disabled band members may qualify for some medical equipment - a doctor's prescription may be required.

Provides habilitation services

Recovery support group for those recovering from substance abuse meet weekly and are facilitated by a trained volunteer. Participation is recommended for a minimum of one year. Fountain Center staff are present at every meeting to provide education and support.

Helps older adolescents who "age out" of out-of-home placement prepare for the transition to independent living. Group meets twice a month during the school year and weekly in the summer. The program provides:- Budgeting assistance and education- Career exploration and vocational assessment- College application fees- Driver's training- Employment skills training- Financial assistance for damage and utility deposits, or rent on apartments or dormitory rooms (only for youth who "age out" of placement at age 18 or older)- Group and individual life skills training- Household supplies for a first apartment- Retreats and wilderness trips

Preserves historic collections for the county and provides educational programming

Mental Health and Psychiatry Services:- Diagnostic Assessments- Genetic Testing: For the purpose of understanding about clients and the effectiveness of treatments. With genetic testing, providers can better understand the reasons, factors, and risks associated with individuals, including medication reactions, to better predict successful outcomes and basic concepts of genes and how they can influence the client's health and response toward particular treatments.- Individual, Family and Marriage Counseling- Medication Management: Provides monitoring of medications that a client takes to ensure that he or she is complying with a medication regimen, while also ensuring the client is avoiding potentially dangerous drug interactions and other complications.- Medication Therapy and Counseling: Offers a medication-assisted treatment program for alcohol and opiate addiction. The medication options administered along with a tailored therapy plan are Vivitrol and Suboxone, both of which are used to reduce withdrawal symptoms; decrease cravings; and prevent use of heroin, opioids, and alcohol.- Psychiatric Consultations: Provides comprehensive evaluations to individuals of psychological, biological, medical, and social causes of emotional distress.- Telehealth (available statewide)- Treatment Planning: Each individual enrolled in the program will create a treatment plan with a counselor. The treatment plan will be customized, compiled of goals and objectives based on an individual client's needs and wants.Substance Use Treatment Services:- Comprehensive Substance Use Assessments: The comprehensive assessment is done with a counselor to establish a better understanding of the individual's past and current substance use. The assessment screens for mental and physical health needs as well. In addition, the Rule 25 substance use assessment is performed by a certified assessor, which helps to determine placement and level of care.- Family Therapy (Group or Individual): This is counselor-facilitated therapy designed for spouses, family members, and friends of people who struggle with addiction to come together with clients and others who share similar experiences. This service is interactive and focuses on the role addiction plays in family dynamics. The goal of family therapy is for family members and clients to gain insight into the nature of addiction and how it affects the whole family. Family members will learn how to identify what behaviors support recovery and what behaviors inhibit recovery, along with learning tools and gaining resources on how to help them.- Group Therapy: Group therapy consists of being with peers that share many of the same struggles. During group therapy, clients share the objectives they have completed and receive feedback from the counselor and other group members. Everyone is counseled as an individual in a group. Group therapy is beneficial for a variety of factors: instillation of hope, universality, gaining knowledge through others experience, and having a sense of belonging, to name a few.- Individual Therapy: Individuals who are in group therapy will also receive individual therapy with an LADC. Individual therapy is beneficial for treatment planning and being able to work on core issues that are not appropriate or comfortable in a group setting.- Medication Therapy and Counseling: Medication therapy and counseling is a service or group of services that optimizes drug therapy with the intent of improved therapeutic outcomes.- Medication-Assisted Treatment Program: Offers a medication-assisted treatment program for alcohol and opiate addiction. The medication options administered along with a tailored therapy plan are Vivitrol and Suboxone, both of which are used to reduce withdrawal symptoms; decrease cravings; and prevent use of heroin, opioids, and alcohol.- Primary Day and Evening Group: Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday from (9:00am - 12:00pm or 5:30pm - 8:30pm) This is an intensive program designed to present information in a format that helps clients gain a fresh perspective in areas they have had difficulty internalizing and putting into practice in their daily struggle with addiction. This is an outcome-based program. Length of time is dependent upon the client's progress and special needs.?- Treatment Planning

Provides preschool experience child care for ages birth - 5-year-olds, focusing on social, self-help, and family development

Providing after-hours emergency veterinary care at locations throughout Minnesota. Services provided:- Diagnostic imaging- Emergency medicine- Post-surgery recovery- Veterinary services to treat conditions such as trauma, Sepsis, respiratory distress, Pneumonia, shock, accidents, injuries, bleeding, bloating, collapse/unresponsiveness, complications from chronic diseases, and more conditions

Administers federally funded rental assistance programs for all of Blue Earth County through the following programs:- Housing Choice Voucher- Housing Stability Voucher- Mainstream Voucher- Emergency Housing Voucher- Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing- Project-Based Voucher- Family Unification Voucher ProgramsParticipants receive a voucher that can be used to rent a unit in the private rental market. Program participants pay about 30% of their income toward their rent and utilities. Before assistance is paid, the unit is inspected to ensure it is safe, decent, and sanitary.

Rental voucher program that moves with the participant; housing must meet HRA inspection and fair market rates.320 housing choice vouchers available to be used in the community with private landlords who choose to accept them as payment.- The unit selected must pass an inspection- Program participants pay no more than 40% of their adjusted gross income for rent and utilities- HRA vendor pays the balance of the rent directly to the landlord

Provides emergency disaster management and planning, rescue, prevention, and public education

Affordable housing campus, which provides one- and four-bedroom apartments, studios, and shared living rooms for rent.Hilltop Units:Four bedroom unfurnished units are accessible by stairs. Rent includes utilities and internet. Laundry is coin operated and onsite. Parking for one car is on the street in front of the building. Additional cars have a monthly fee.All units are income restricted.One Bedroom Units:One bedroom unfurnished units are accessible by stairs. Rent includes utilities and internet. Laundry is coin operated and onsite. Parking for one car is on the street near the three-story building. Additional cars have a monthly fee. All units are income restricted.Studio Apartments:Newer construction, unfurnished units. Street level and without stairs. You will hear the noise of water in pipes. Rent includes utilities and internet. Laundry is coin operated and onsite. Parking for one car is on the street in front of the building. Additional cars have a monthly fee.

Employment - Partners with the Minnesota Department of Human Services - Refugee Assistance Program to provide assistance developing job skills and finding employmentHealth - Grant-funded through UCare to provide education regarding diabetes, child and teen check-ups, and mental health - Partners with Minnesota Care Counseling to provide linguistically appropriate trauma counseling - Works with the Governor's Council on Developmental Disabilities to provide leadership training to people with disabilities in the Somali and Latinx communities - Works with the Minnesota Department of Health to assess Somali communities throughout southern Minnesota for suicide prevention readiness and come up with plans to increase prevention measuresResettlement - Assistance with health care access, legal protection, education, training for income generation skills, and other services - Assists new arrivals with documentation paperwork and in navigating the American system - English as a Second Language (ESL) classes are taught at Faribault site through partnership with Faribault Adult Basic Education - Southern Minnesota Regional Legal Services assists with legal issues and documentation - Works with Rice County Social Services to connect transportation and childcare resources, and provide job search assistanceYouth and Elders - Programming for health and socialization is provided for elders in partnership with UCare - Provides work experiences and supported employment to older workers through the Senior Community Supported Employment Program - Through partnerships with the Minnesota Department of Human Services and the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development, leadership, soft skills training, and assistance with job searching is providing to youth

Provides family health services through various programs. Services provided:- Car Seat Program: Car seats are distributed to families who meet qualifying guidelines. A Child Passenger Safety Seat Technician is available to assist any families within the community with how to properly buckle up their children in car seats as well as how to install car seats correctly.- Family Home Visiting Program: Offers a home visiting program to pregnant women and families with young children to help families raise healthy children to succeed in school and life. A public health nurse will visit the family's home or another place of the family's choosing to offer support. - Follow Along Program: A program that follows children aged birth - 3 years by having parents fill out questionnaires about their child.

Nursing home for long-term care and short-term rehabilitation (intense physical, occupational, or speech therapy, depending on the need, so that the client can return back home within 3-4 weeks.)Oak Hills has set aside rooms to provide hospice care. The Hospice team and the staff at Oak Hills will provide medications, equipment, and supplies to support the hospice diagnosis.

Provide investigation and intervention services on behalf of vulnerable adults who are unable to act on their own behalf, manage their own affairs, or who are in immediate danger of abuse. Types of abuse may be physical, emotional, sexual abuse, unsafe or hazardous living conditions, exploitation, neglect, or abandonment. Services include:- Taking reports and investigating abuse and/or maltreatment- Removal of the individual to safer surroundings- Services necessary to remove the conditions which have created a threat to lifeNOTE: Complaints, questions, or concerns involving incidents in facilities licensed by the Health Department, such as hospitals, nursing homes, boarding care homes, supervised living facilities, assisted living, and home health agencies can be referred to the Minnesota Board on Aging Ombudsman for Long-Term Care.

Provides medical care exclusively for children; visit the website for listings of services and specialty clinics.Services include:- Ambulatory surgery center- Ear, Nose, Throat (ENT), Facial Plastic Surgery, and Plagiocephaly services - Special diagnostics - radiology, ultrasounds, etc.- Specialty clinics for pediatric gynecology, neurosurgery, diabetes, endocrinology, nephrology, orthopedics, Down syndrome, genetics, and mental health- Rehabilitation: For children with autism spectrum disorder, a speech impediment, developmental delays, who are recovering from an accident or living with a chronic condition, will work with the parents and the child to continue moving forward.

Medicare Savings Programs have four sub-programs:Qualified Disabled and Working Individuals (QDWI): Helps pay for Part A premiums only.Qualifying Individual (QI): Helps pay for Part B premiums only.Qualified Medicare Beneficiary (QMB): Helps pay for Part A and B premiums as well as deductibles, coinsurance, and copayments.Specified Low-Income Medicare Beneficiary (SLMB): Helps pay for Part B premiums only. ??Monthly income and countable resource limits apply. Countable resources include any checking or savings funds, stocks, and bonds. A home, one car, a burial plot, $1500 in burial expenses (if the amount is set aside), furniture, and other household items are not applied toward the resource limit. Participants pay for Medicare services that aren't covered, such as routine physicals and prescription drugs.??Generally, under these programs, premiums are put back into the monthly Social Security check, increasing participants' monthly income.