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Helps youth who need support to thrive in the community. Services included: - Bus cards to get around - Case management - Clothing items - Financial counseling classes include bank accounts, budgeting, credit counseling, and savings - Food Resources - Hygiene products - One on one individual mentoring and goal planning - School needs such as school supplies and advocating on for children at school - Shoes - Young teen pregnancy (resources to help adolescents who dropped out of school go back and get their High School diploma or GED)

Employment counselors help SNAP clients in gaining skills and abilities to obtain employment to gain self-sufficiency, including: - Adult education ?- Budgeting assistance ?- Career planning ?- Computer classes ?- Interviewing skills ?- Job search assistance ?- Post-secondary education ?- Resume development ?- Short-term training ?- Support services ?- Transportation assistance ?- Vocational interest

Offers person-centered support services to individuals living with a disability or mental health condition. Services provided: - Case management to assess gaps in services to develop a goal plan to resolve the individual's housing crisis and prevent them from becoming homeless - Develop life skills including self-sufficiency planning, establish independence, and housing skills - Help individuals secure and maintain stable housing. Services include house searching, application assistance, budgeting, landlord communication, and ongoing stability planning. - Meeting with staff for information about housing resources for rapid re-housing, transitional housing, permanent supportive housing, and eligibility. Provides referrals and resources to programs as needed.

Offers person-centered support services to individuals living with a disability or mental health condition. Services provided: - Case management to assess gaps in services to develop a goal plan to resolve the individual's housing crisis and prevent them from becoming homeless - Develop life skills including self-sufficiency planning, establish independence, and housing skills - Help individuals secure and maintain stable housing. Services include house searching, application assistance, budgeting, landlord communication, and ongoing stability planning. - Meeting with staff for information about housing resources for rapid re-housing, transitional housing, permanent supportive housing, and eligibility. Provides referrals and resources to programs as needed.

- Confidential right to life counseling on pregnancy options - Pregnancy testing - Maternity/baby clothes, furniture, and items (Accepts donations that are clean and in good condition) - LIFE Classes (Lessons In Family Education) Parenting: Classes to help moms and dads learn prenatal & parenting skills, baby and toddler development - Men's Mentoring: Individual classes with a male mentor with topics covering budgeting, rights and responsibilities, parenting, and relationships - Abstinence presentations presented in schools and churches to help teens understand the value of choosing abstinence, how to resist peer pressure, how to say no, and physical and emotional consequences of premarital sex using illustrations and skits - PACE (Post Abortion Counseling and Education) support group - Presentations in schools on Fetal Development, Adoption, and Parenting - Limited ultrasound services

Services provided in person as well as by phone counseling and internet. Services include: - Budget and Debt Counseling: Counselors work with clients on an in-depth review of their living expenses and debts combined with counselor guidance in debt management, goal planning strategies, or suggestions of alternate ways of handling particularly difficult financial concerns. - Counselor on Call: Counselors provide brief Q & A to address consumer questions. The counselor can provide the caller with information about credit and debt, make referrals to community resources, or schedule an appointment with staff for other financial counseling services. - Debt Management Plan: Consolidates monthly bills into one simple payment, often with lower payments and interest rates - Financial Education: Workshops and classes for all age groups are geared to help individuals control their finances and provide resources on various financial topics; delivered to schools, churches, employers, and community groups. - Housing Counseling: Pre purchase homebuyer, post purchase, foreclosure prevention, and reverse mortgage couseling, provided. HUD approved housing counseling agency. - Student Loan Counseling: Helps individuals navigate repayment options for federal, state, and private loans. Helps individuals determine eligibility for repayment options, contact lenders, and can assist in developing a plan that considers the individual's financial situation.

Provides one-on-one assistance to help individuals navigate their finances, improve their financial goals, and navigate the financial systems. Services include: - Create and improve credit - Financial coaching by appointment - Financial management skills - Help navigate financial processes and applications - Home Stretch Homebuyer Workshop: An 8-hour workshop that educates and informs future homeowners to help them understand the homebuying process. The training includes information about the process of buying a home and access to down payment programs. - Gain access to supplemental resources such as the Lending Circles (Tandas) program. The Lending Circles program provides a secured loan, without cost or interest, to establish or build credit and improve the way individuals manage money. - Small business support for entrepreneurs or those interested in becoming business owners. Offers support to business owners by evaluating and organizing their finances. - Tax preparation for people with low or medium income during the tax season

Offers individual, couples, marriage, and family counseling services for: - Addictions - Anger management - Anxiety - Communication difficulties - Conflict - Couple and marriage therapy - Depression - Dissociation - Divorce - Emotion regulation - Family issues - Finances - Grief/loss - Health - Infidelity - Intimacy - Parenting/co-parenting - Personal growth - Phobias - PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) - Relational conflicts - Relationships - Self-esteem - Sexual, physical or emotional abuse - Shame - Sibling and parental issues - Spiritual/religious beliefs - Stress - Transitions - Trauma Approaches:: - Daring Way Groups - DBT (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy) training - EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) - Expressive therapies - Prepare-enrich - Sand tray and art therapy - Solution focused - Strength-based - Systems focus - TFT (Thought Field Therapy)

Representative payee services help with: - Daily money management - Encourage savings - Establishing a financial base A veteran administration fiduciary service helps with: - Creating a budget - Establishing financial goals and financial base

Provides one-on-one assistance to help individuals navigate their finances, improve their financial goals, and navigate the financial systems. Services include: - Create and improve credit - Financial coaching by appointment - Financial management skills - Help navigate financial processes and applications - Home Stretch Homebuyer Workshop: An 8-hour workshop that educates and informs future homeowners to help them understand the homebuying process. The training includes information about the process of buying a home and access to down payment programs. - Gain access to supplemental resources such as the Lending Circles (Tandas) program. The Lending Circles program provides a secured loan, without cost or interest, to establish or build credit and improve the way individuals manage money. - Small business support for entrepreneurs or those interested in becoming business owners. Offers support to business owners by evaluating and organizing their finances. - Tax preparation for people with low or medium income during the tax season

Provides a network of local churches that partner to link resources and services to help community members in need, while also offering opportunities to engage personally with those they serve. Resources and services provided include: - Appliances - Clothing - Financial counseling - Furniture - Household items - Information and referral to community resources - Mentoring - Minor car repairs - Transportation to appointments - Vacuums - Winter clothing ?All services are dependent on volunteer availability and donations; there is no guarantee of receiving services or assistance. Donation accepted are both monetary and personal care items, kitchen items, storage and garbage supplies, and laundry soaps and detergent.

Provides the following services: - Financial assistance with rent, utilities, rent and utilities arrears, transportation, basic needs, food, application fees, time-limited housing subsidies, emergency shelter, household necessities, etc. NOTE: Financial assistance may vary and is not guaranteed for every applicant. - Information and coordination related to public benefits, veterans' benefits, housing stability, employment, and legal issues - In-House Services: Housing stability case management, rental subsidies, legal, employment, justice-involved coordination, healthcare navigation, landlord engagement, outreach, documentation specialist, financial coaching, and free voluntary representative payee services

Assistance with case management including: - Benefits - Budgeting - Education - Employment - Housing - Medication management - Psychiatry

Provides financial literacy workshops, knowledge, and skills to build and keep assets. Assist individuals to make informed judgments and effective decisions about money management. One-on-one financial literacy counseling and budgeting are also available.

Provides the following financial counseling services: - Budget counseling - Credit counseling - Credit report review

Financial Education program which offers individuals the opportunity to learn the basics of creating a budget, banking, building credit, and the importance of saving. Services include: - Financial Coach: Provides one-on-one service to help individuals create a budget, review credit reports, work on financial goal planning, and learn how to move toward financial stability and independence - Home Stretch: Partnership with MN Housing and MN Homeownership Center; an 8-hour class that walks through all of the steps of purchasing a home. Individuals will hear from realty, lending, and home insurance professionals.

Community education programs and classes: - Archery - Ballroom, Hawaiian, Tahitian and square dancing instruction - Basketball, softball, volleyball and football - Business consulting services - Computer classes - Cooking classes - CPR/First Aid - Day camps with drawing instruction, sculpture instruction, skateboarding, ice hockey, acting instruction and chess - Field trips - Fishing - Foreign language instruction - Golf - Gym games - Knitting instruction - Mature driver training - Painting classes - Parenting classes - Parenting skills development - Personal finance instruction - Photography instruction - Sewing instruction - Sign language instruction - Swimming lessons, aquatic exercise and lifeguard training - T'ai Chi Ch-uan, swimming, exercise classes/groups and aerobics - Woodworking instruction - Writing instruction - Youth Development/Youth Service: Programs involving high school youth in service learning opportunities in the community. Portion of funding is used to provide integration support to youth with disabilities into existing community education programs.

Provides personalized financial services including: - Financial counseling: Offers a one-time counseling session for individuals who want to build their credit or are first-time home buyers - Financial Coaching: Educates and guides individuals in financial matters through one-on-one in-person meetings with a trained Financial Coach

Employment counselors help SNAP clients in gaining skills and abilities to obtain employment to gain self-sufficiency, including: - Adult education ?- Budgeting assistance ?- Career planning ?- Computer classes ?- Interviewing skills ?- Job search assistance ?- Post-secondary education ?- Resume development ?- Short-term training ?- Support services ?- Transportation assistance ?- Vocational interest

Offers services for veterans including: - Behavioral health and counseling - Caregiver support and respite - Case management - Financial counseling - Home delivered nutritious meals

Financial coaching is an individualized process that helps individuals take action to reach their financial goals. Money Mentors is a six month program where individuals meet one-on-one virtually, with a volunteer financial coach to develop action steps to reach financial goals. Goals may include boosting savings, controlling spending, eliminating debt, or improving credit.

- Adult Enrichment Classes: Computers, cooking, money management, fitness, personal development, and more - Aquatics Programs: Swimming lessons for ages 6 months and older, open swim activities, lap swim, water exercise, water safety education, pool rental, Automated External Defibrillator training, and CPR instruction - Facilities Scheduling: Manages use of district facilities, indoor and outdoor, outside of regular school day for community usage - Family/Youth Enrichment: Works to strengthen families by providing parenting skills, spending time in positive activities together in classes, on tours, in fitness sessions, music and other social events; after-school programming; additional evening and weekend opportunities for children preschool age - high school to develop new skills and build new friendships - Summer Programs: Enrichment classes including painting, public speaking, entrepreneurial training, hiking, mature driver training, cooking, musical instrument instruction, tap dancing instruction, ballet dancing instruction, band/orchestra groups, golf, day camps, and gymnastics. Summer math and language arts correspondence programs offered. - Trips and Tours: Educational trips/tours for adults and families with children - Youth Services and After School Youth Enrichment: Enrichment classes including basketball, karate, Tae Kwon Do, volleyball, volunteerism, leadership training and opportunities for youth to connect with their communities. Also facilitates Youth Connection Council, a youth-adult advisory board that addresses issues and needs related to school-age youth in the district and provides opportunities to serve the community.

Offers person-centered support services to individuals living with a disability or mental health condition. Services provided: - Case management to assess gaps in services to develop a goal plan to resolve the individual's housing crisis and prevent them from becoming homeless - Develop life skills including self-sufficiency planning, establish independence, and housing skills - Help individuals secure and maintain stable housing. Services include house searching, application assistance, budgeting, landlord communication, and ongoing stability planning. - Meeting with staff for information about housing resources for rapid re-housing, transitional housing, permanent supportive housing, and eligibility. Provides referrals and resources to programs as needed.

Family Services: - Bimaadiziwin Mikana (The Path of Life): Parent mentor program designed around healing and connecting families with community and elders. While focusing on traditional cultural lifeways, resiliency, and strengths, positive Indian parenting values are incorporated into the program. - Ombi'Ayaa Anishinabe Ininiiwug (Rise Up Original Men): Provides a place for American Indian men who want to practice spiritual, cultural, and intergenerational engagement. Activities include: Cultural events, including sugar bush and ricing Men's softball and basketball recreational leagues Traditional ceremonies, including sweat lodge Weekly father and men's group and weekly drumming group - Thinica Owichakiyapi Thipi (Helping the Homeless Build): - For individuals and families experiencing homelessness and who are not currently in housing or have not found housing: Provides resources and support for those experiencing homelessness. Services may include assisting the client with housing search assistance, tenant education, budgeting assistance, life skills training/coaching, etc. - For individuals and families experiencing homelessness or on the verge of becoming homeless that are currently in housing or have found housing: If eligible Family Homelessness Prevention and Assistance Program - FHPAP may help with rent, security deposit, utilities, and utility deposit assistance. - Note: Funding comes from a variety of sources including the Family Homeless Prevention and Assistance Program - FHPAP as well as others. Youth Services: - Waaban Ogimaawag (Tomorrow's Leaders): Provides youth with an opportunity to become engaged in traditional American Indian service learning. Also provides tutoring to American Indian youth on diverse subject areas, including test preparation, skill building, and success strategies.

Provides financial resources to individuals and families who face barriers with stable housing, including: - Connection to behavioral health, dental, and medical care ?- Family Homeless Prevention and Assistance Program - FHPAP application assistance only for eligible individuals and families in Hennepin County seeking rent assistance. Does not provide direct financial assistance. Hennepin County is responsible for determining eligibility and distributing rent assistance funds. ?- Financial wellness classes ?- Referrals to other NorthPoint programs ?- Renters' rights education To access financial resources for rent or mortgage assistance, participants must complete 2 financial wellness classes.