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Offers employment services at no cost, including job and career training, as well as employment and placement opportunities for youth. These programs are for youth who have nowhere else to turn for help to find employment, complete their education, and who need support to move forward.Services include paid internships, tuition to train for a new career, help finishing school or getting a GED, help with job hunting, and transportation assistance (such as bus fare cards).Participants in Avivo's youth and young adult employment programs can also access short-term credentialed training options for higher-wage jobs, such as:- Certified Nursing Assistance (CNA)- Forklift Operator, including Forklift Operators Certification- Culinary Arts and ServSafe certifications- Enrollment opportunities in credentialed training at Avivo Institute of Career and Technical Education

Voucher system, for food at Springfield Market (Springfield) and Mikes's Discount Foods (Comfrey)

Employment counselors help individuals with:- Budgeting- Guidance and support- May be able to provide funding to pay for housing, transportation, tuition, books, and other education expenses- Pursuing a GED, diploma, certificate, or degree- Seeking employment- Stress management skills

Cash-grant program for adults with low incomes experiencing a household emergency. Adults can receive assistance once every 12 months. The assistance received must resolve the crisis. Adults must use their own money first. The amount of assistance received depends on the household size and type of emergency. The amount of assistance provided might not cover the entire emergency, but it can help.- Provides assistance with past due rent for eviction, electric service payment assistance, gas service payment assistance, heating fuel payment assistance, and water service payment assistance due to a shutoff. Utility shut-off assistance is limited.- Vendor is paid directly. Does not help with late or application fees.

Rehabilitative mental health services that enable the recipient to develop and enhance psychiatric stability, social competencies, personal and emotional adjustment, and independent living and community skills, when these abilities are impaired by the symptoms of mental illness. ARMHS are also appropriate when provided to enable a recipient to retain stability and functioning, if the recipient would be at risk of significant functional decompensation or more restrictive service settings without these services. - Adult rehabilitative mental health services instruct, assist, and support the recipient in areas such as: interpersonal communication skills, community resource utilization and integration skills, crisis assistance, relapse prevention skills, health care directives, budgeting and shopping skills, healthy lifestyle skills and practices, cooking and nutrition skills, transportation skills, medication education and monitoring, mental illness symptom management skills, household management skills, employment-related skills, and transition to community living services. Basic living and social skills is a separately billable service as defined below. - These services may be provided to a recipient on a one-to-one basis in the recipient's home or another community setting or in groups.

Provides establishment and enforcement of child support orders. Services include:?- Collecting current and past-due support payments- Locating non-custodial parents- Establishing parentage- Establishing and enforcing child support orders for basic, medical, or child care support- Reviews and modifies court orders for supportNOTE: Child Support Services does not provide parenting time, custody, legal advice, divorce counsel, or spousal maintenance establishment. Child Support Services do not represent either parent in child support actions.

Foster parents provide a temporary home for children when they cannot remain in their own home. Care is given until the child's parents can resume this responsibility or until a permanent plan is made with relative or adoptive parents.Provides licensing, recruits foster parents, and training.Types of foster care:- Family foster careTreated as family members, these children, and teens receive full-time, short- or long-term care.- Kinship foster careRelatives, family friends, and those with a significant relationship with the child(ren) may be licensed to provide child foster care. - Respite careThis program provides birth parents and foster parents with relief care for a few hours and up to a few days at a time.

Provided to the recipient on a one-to-one basis or in group settings or by instruction within the recipient's home or in a community setting.An individual ARMHS worker is assigned to help the individual develop and reestablish psychiatric stability, social competencies, personal and emotional adjustment, independent living skills, community living skills, and to retain stability and functioning.ARMHS can assist with:- Budgeting and shopping skills- Community resource utilization- Cooking and nutrition- Crisis assistance- Health care directives- Healthy lifestyle skills- Household management skills- Interpersonal skills- Medication education and monitoring- Mental illness symptom management- Relapse prevention skills- Transition to community living- Transportation skills

Provides emergency food. Families are welcome to choose any food they need and can use, according to family size and may access the food shelf as often as they need. Services include:- Home Delivery: Non-perishable food items plus dairy, butter, milk, eggs, fresh produce, and frozen meat are delivered to individuals who are homebound- Must Go Produce: Extra food available for families for the weekend- Summer Bag Program: Provides additional kid-friendly food to families with school-age children during the summer. Weekend bags provide additional food for school-age children receiving free or reduced lunches but still struggle with hunger on weekends. Each bag includes healthy food options for kids such as canned fruit and vegetable; juice box; spaghetti and spaghetti sauce; potential extras like granola bars and fruit cups. 1 bag is available for every 2 children. 1 bag is available per month. Goal is to help compensate for kids who aren't getting school lunch during the summer.

Car sharing membership program. Cars are available in downtown Minneapolis and on the West Bank, East Bank, and Saint Paul campuses of the University of Minnesota.

Pays for room and board for seniors and adults with disabilities who have low incomes. Aims to reduce and prevent people from living in institutions or becoming homeless.All recipients receive assistance each month to help pay for rent and food. Some recipients also receive Housing Support supplemental funding to provide other services if they don't qualify for home and community-based waiver programs, including but not limited to:- Arranging for medical and social services- Arranging for meetings and appointments- Assistance with transportation- Medication remindersThe individual's housing provider receives payments to pay for rent, utilities, food, household supplies, and other necessities.

A library of resources on developmental disabilitiesLIFE Mower County works one to one with individuals and families dealing with issues relating to full inclusion in the community

Offers a nurse line available 24 hours/7 days a week for individuals who may need to speak with a nurse about medical care and where to go for care. Nurses can provide medical advice on what potential options are available such as virtual care, primary care, urgent care options, or seek emergency care if needed at a Sanford Health Systems location.

Offers an outreach center. Services provided:- Community resource information- Meals on Wheels program

Halfway house facility:- Provides supervised living for chemically-dependent Native American males and females- Provides a homelike atmosphere where men and women can get support and structure in an AA-based program to begin to assimilate themselves back into the mainstream- Educational and vocational counseling- Introduction to co-dependency and Adult Children of Alcoholics issues- Aftercare planning and referrals

The purpose of the Advisory Committee on Aging is to represent the views of older adults, conduct public hearings, review and recommend local proposals for funding under the Older Americans Act, review and comment on policy, and advise and assist AAA staff in planning. ?Plans and develops with local partners a variety of home- and community-based services for older people so that older people can stay in their own homes and communities- Consults on a wide range of topics from demographic changes and needs of older people to programs and services for a variety of organizations, individuals, and businesses- Leverages resources and grant or contract funds to local providers- Provides demographic and service need analysis that informs policymakers, the public, and media

Offers comprehensive neuropsychological, general psychological, and psychoeducational testing from young age children to adults for the following issues:- Attention- Autism- Complex trauma- Disordered attachment- Fetal alcohol effects- Learning disorders- Mood disorders- Personality disordersPsychological Testing service only available to internal clients upon the provider's recommendation

Pays for room and board for seniors and adults with disabilities who have low incomes. Aims to reduce and prevent people from living in institutions or becoming homeless.All recipients receive assistance each month to help pay for rent and food. Some recipients also receive Housing Support supplemental funding to provide other services if they don't qualify for home and community-based waiver programs, including but not limited to:- Arranging for medical and social services- Arranging for meetings and appointments- Assistance with transportation- Medication remindersThe individual's housing provider receives payments to pay for rent, utilities, food, household supplies, and other necessities.

Offers a range of treatment options for people who want to stop using tobacco, including counseling, medication, behavioral therapies, residential treatment programs, and relapse prevention strategies.

The assessment helps determine public programs that might pay for an individual's long-term services and supports or helps them learn about other options if they don't qualify for publicly funded programs. It is required to determine eligibility for:Community First Services and Supports - CFSS (formerly known as Personal Care Assistance - PCA)Home and Community-Based Services Waivers based on age:- Individuals Over 65 Years Old: Alternative Care (AC); Elderly Waiver (EW)- Individuals Under 65 Years Old: Brain Injury Waiver (BI); Community Access for Disability Inclusion Waiver (CADI); Community Alternative Care Waiver (CAC)Intellectual and Developmental Disability (IDD) Services (also known as Rule 185 Case Management)Family, friends, or others can attend the assessment. The assessment is in person at the individual's home or at a place of their choice, and it lasts about two hours.

Comprehensive primary care, services provided:- Care for the whole family in disease prevention, family planning, health education, wellness visits, and more- Diabetes education- Family medicine to diagnose and treat acute illnesses such as cold, flu, ear infections, and similar conditions- Lab work for blood tests, pap smears, pregnancy, STI testing, urinalysis, and other tests- Management of chronic conditions such as asthma, anxiety, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), depression, diabetes, hypertension, thyriod dysfunction, and more- Pediatrics- Physical examinations- Podiatry- Vaccines for adults and children- Virtual visits available

Provides outpatient psychotherapy in the following areas:- Attachment issues- Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)- Adolescent transitions- Ambivalence- Anxiety- Career issues- Child defiance, problematic behaviors and school refusal- Conduct disorder- Conjoint family therapy- Coping with relationship difficulties and divorce- Court-ordered diagnostic assessments- Depression- Emotional regulation problems- Gender-identity issues- Intrusive thoughts- Living with traumatic experiences- Loss- Men's issues- Obsessive compulsive disorder- Parent-child relational therapy- Parental self-care, early childhood parental guidance and LGBTQ parenting- Personality disorders- Rape and sexual abuse- Sexual problems, communication, and intimacy issues- Serious and persistent mental illness- UncouplingGroup therapy offers:- Support to help overcome life's struggles- Perspective and feedback from others- Connection with members to not feel alone- Practice and learn skills to help improve relationshipsTelehealth Services available via video conferencing or telephone as an alternative option to meet client needs

Provides a variety of services to artists, including:- Art job, opportunities, and paid internships listings for those seeking employment in the arts- Attorney referrals for artists through the Minnesota chapter of the Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts- Career consultations for artists; information on copyright law, marketing, career planning, taxes, grants and funding to artists- Fiscal Sponsorship and Incubator Program: Provides fiscal sponsorship for arts groups who are not ready to become nonprofits and assists them in managing their financial affairs professionally- Free scanner access and photo documentation equipment onsite in the resource center for artists by appointment- Work of Art Business Skills for Artists Workshops with topics such as Career Planning for Artists, Time Management for Creative People, Professional Presentation, Marketing for Artists, Legal Considerations for Artists, Recordkeeping, and Financial Management for Artists