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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)

Empowers elders through a visiting advocacy coordinator to advocate for themselves and connect to support services which helps reduce isolation and increase independence.

Provides a wide range of in-home services such as medical care, assistance with everyday household activities, housekeeping, and shopping. Caregivers are licensed nurses, social workers, therapists, and certified aides. Home-based services include medical and non-medical options such as: - Home Health: Focuses on medical assistance including medication management, rehabilitation services, wound care, social work, and other medical treatments. Other specialized services include postsurgical rehabilitation and evaluation, physical speech, occupational therapies, disease or symptom management, catheter care, and IV therapy. - Home Care: Assists with daily living activities, light housekeeping, meal preparation, companionship, medication reminders, and more - Telehealth Services: In-home technology to let caregivers communicate with patients remotely. Telehealth devices include blood pressure monitors, pulse oximeters, medication management systems, and video calls with a care provider. - Hospice: Hospice care can be provided in the home, at an extended care facility, or inpatient hospice care facility. Provides quality of life to patients and caregivers who have a life-limiting illness. A team of professionals collaborates with the patient and their family in the decision-making process to manage symptoms so their last days may be spent with dignity.

Provides the following resources for seniors: Community Health Promotion - ??Diabetes Support Group - Laughter Yoga classes - Nurse-provided blood pressure clinics at various community locations - Tai Chi for Health exercise classes - Senior Art Classes (typically in the fall & spring) - Senior Social & Health Talks (held monthly) - Technology Clinic (1:1 help with technology) Individual Support Services - Caregiver support, respite, and education - Chore/shopping services (limited) - Companion services through "Friendly Visitor" volunteers - Fall prevention assessments - Foot and home care services - In-home nurse visits, including vision consultations, and low-vision products - Information, referral, and advocacy - Rapid Screen assessments - Rides to local medical appointments (based on volunteer availability)

Matches children who have a need for an additional supportive relationship with screened adult individuals, couples, or families. Once a match has been made, volunteers spend approximately one to four hours per week with the child for fun and enriching activities like going to the park, attending sporting events, sharing hobbies, baking cookies, or going to community events and cultural fairs. Volunteers make a one year commitment to the program. Provides quarterly group activities as well as passes to sporting events, local museums, and community attractions for mentor/child matches. Screening, training, and on-going support provided to all volunteers and youth. Volunteers make a one-year commitment to the child they are matched with though the average match length is three years and many relationships grow into life-long friendships.

Promotes youth development by instilling a sense of accomplishment, competence, belonging, and usefulness. Programs: - Academic success: Goal is for every member to graduate on time with a plan for their future, whether that plan is post-secondary or a career. Homework help, tutoring, mentoring, chess club, computer classes, and career exploration. - Character and leadership: Offers programs designed to help members practice and strengthen leadership and problem-solving skills. Community service and support groups. - Healthy lifestyles: Programs help members learn how to engage in positive behaviors, set personal goals and grow into self-sufficient adults who can make healthy choices. Yoga, exercise classes, gardening instruction, and gym time. - The arts: Offers a variety of arts programming so that members can learn to express themselves through visual arts, applied arts and performing arts in a safe space. Painting, drawing, and bracelet making.

Offers several services to the community, such as: - Cultural Preservation and Pride: Provides festivals, storytelling circles, and cultural showcases encompassing identity and culture - Economic Independence: Provide programs and tools to help families build economic independence including job training, business consulting, and financial literacy programs - First-Generation Student Scholarship and Mentorship: Offer academic and scholarship resources, college readiness support, and mentorship to help students achieve their educational goals - Information and Resources: Connect families to culturally competent resources in health care and mental health services - Immigration and Legal Education: Offers information to immigrant families about immigration and provide referrals to legal resources

Offers a variety of support groups. - Abuse Tuesdays: Provides a safe place for those recovering from an abusive relationship. Provided at the Lakeville campus. - Cancer Support Group: For individuals with cancer or their loved ones. Provided at the Lakeville campus. - Codependency: Encourages the development of healthy boundaries for individuals who experience an emotional or psychological reliance on someone else, possibly due to an illness or addiction. Provided at the Lakeville campus. - Divorce Care: For individuals who are divorced, separated, or in the process of divorce. Provided at the Lakeville campus. - Freedom from Addictions and Abuse: Provides a safe place for individuals recovering from addictions related to gambling, drugs, alcohol, food, and more. Provided at the Lakeville campus. - Freedom from Anxiety: Support for people struggling with anxiety. Provided at the Lakeville campus. - GriefShare: Offers support and encouragement for those who are grieving the death of a loved one. Provided at the Lakeville, Shakopee, and Northfield campuses. - Grief's Road to Emmaus: Provides care and support for those experiencing the loss of a child. Provided at all campuses. - Hispanic Spanish Life and Faith Group: Provides a supportive environment for people looking to make healthier choices in life and their faith journey. Provided at the Lakeville campus. - Men's Purity group: Provides healthy steps toward freedom from pornography and sexual addictions. Provided at the Lakeville campus. - TreeHouse for Teens: Provides mentoring for youth ages 10 -18 to receive support, guidance, and practical skills in making better choices. Provided at the Lakeville campus. - Victory Over the Struggles of Life: Provides a supportive and encouraging environment for people encountering depression, emotional stress, boundary issues, mental health, and more. Provided at the Lakeville campus.

Offers traditional home care services. Services are flexible and designed to meet client needs. - Assisting with ambulation and helping to prevent falls - Bathing, toileting, and grooming - Cleaning the bathroom and kitchen after use, washing dishes after meals, and mopping the floor - Cleaning the client's home, which includes dusting and vacuuming - Driving and/or accompanying the client to the physician when necessary - Going on walks and encouraging and participating in stimulating activities - Helping with correspondence to family and friends - Making and changing the bed - Medication management - Preparing and serving meals according to the client's dietary needs - Providing hygiene assistance - Providing respite for family caregivers - Providing socialization, friendship, and support for the client - Reminding clients to take their medication - Shopping and performing other household errands - Taking care of personal laundry and bed linens for the client

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.

- 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

Provides or arranges support for older people to continue living at home as long as possible. Services include: - Foot care - Friendly visitors - Grocery shoppers - Social Activities ?- Transportation????????????????

Deployment Services - Coping With Deployments Course: Spouses, parents, siblings and significant others learn skill-building techniques that help them respond to the challenges of the deployment cycle - Mind-Body Workshops: Offer an alternative method of healing that engages both the mind and body to address common stress reactions that occur within military families and communities - Post-Deployment Support Resources: Information and workshops to help families re-adjust to being together after a loved one's deployment - Pre-Deployment Preparedness Tool for Family Members: Makes sure families are prepared with information they may need throughout the deployment - Reconnection Workshops: Enhance the likelihood of positive reconnections among family members and successful re-engagement of service members and veteran in civilian life Emergency Communications? - The American Red Cross independently verifies an emergency, enabling the service member's commander to make an educated decision regarding emergency leave and then provides transportation assistance and/or financial assistance if needed Financial Assistance? - The American Red Cross works in partnership with Military Aid Societies to provide financial assistance which includes funds for emergency travel, burial of a loved one, emergency food and shelter, etc. Aid Societies determine the financial assistance package that will be offered - a grant or loan. The Red Cross is the mechanism to expedite access to these financial resources. Information and Referral Services? - Offers confidential services to all members of the military, veterans and their families by connecting them with local, state and national resources through the network of American Red Cross chapters. Local chapters develop and maintain relationships with community partners. Military families rely on the local chapter to help them identify their needs and connect them to the most appropriate chapter and community resources. These services range from responding to emergency needs for food, clothing and shelter; referrals to counseling services (e.g. financial, legal, mental health, etc.); respite care for caregivers; and other resources. Military and Veteran Caregiver Network? - Peers engage to exchange experiences, empathy, education and encouragement - Connect Online: Connect with caregivers in a secure, custom, peer-moderated online community - Share With a Mentor: Share with caregivers in an understanding, one-on-one, peer mentor relationship - Join a Support Group: Join caregivers in confidential, peer-facilitated support groups in the community and online Veteran Services? - Veterans Claims for Benefits: Assists veterans and their families in preparing, developing and obtaining evidence to support applicants' claims for veterans' benefits. Also assists claimants seeking to appeal to the Board of Veterans' Appeals (BVA).

Provides in-home or out-of-home community based services including: - 24-hour emergency assistance ?- Adult companion services ?- Homemaker services ?- Individual community living supports ?- Night supervision ?- Respite care

Supportive network linking individuals and families with similar challenges including: - Adults who have bleeding disorders - Adults who have bleeding disorders and are HIV positive or have AIDS - Families of children who have bleeding disorders - Individuals with bleeding disorders and Hepatitis C - Newsletter and brochures on bleeding disorders and its complications including HIV/AIDS and hepatitis

Provides basic and in home support services for older adults and people with disabilities in their homes or in a community setting to ensure the health and safety of the person and maintain their independence within the community. Basic Support Services - Individual community living supports (ILCS): For people who need reminders, cues intermittent/moderate supervision, or physical assistance to remain in their own homes. - 24-hour emergency assistance: On-call counseling and problem-solving and/or immediate response for assistance at a person's home due to a health/personal emergency. - Companion services: Non-medical care, supervision and socialization to a person age 18 or older. - Night supervision: Provides overnight assistance and monitoring by an awake staff in the person's home. - Respite care services: Short-term care due to the absence or need for relief of the family member(s) or primary caregiver normally providing the care. Intensive Support Services - Positive support services: Services to increase positive behavior and decrease or eliminate severe, challenging behavior. - Specialist services: Services designed to promote staff and caregiver competency to meet a person's needs in eligible areas. - Independent living skills training: Services that develop, maintain and improve the community-living skills of a person. - Semi-independent living skills: Services needed by an adult with a developmental disability or related condition(s) to live successfully in the community. - Residential-based habilitation: Including in-home family support and supported living services for adults in their own home: Supported living services provided in a licensed site, including a foster care home, a community residential setting, or a supervised living facility.

Memory Companions: Provides safe and nurturing support for people with memory loss while their caregivers take a break. Group Respite Activities: Provides group respite activities for the in-person Saturday Caregiver Education Series and Saturday Support Group. Friendly Visitors: Volunteers provide friendship to seniors and provide respite to caregivers. Visits occur once a week or every other week for 1 - 3 hours. Activities are determined by mutual interest and can include scrapbooking, reading, games, conversations, crafts, and more.

Youth in elementary and middle school are matched with adult and high school volunteers who serve as mentors, offering friendship, guidance, and support to build trust and key life skills. Mentors meet weekly with youth at their schools for fun and engaging activities. Program staff speak regularly with mentors, teachers, and youth to offer ongoing support and assistance. All mentors undergo background checks, interviews, and training before being matched based on location, personality, and preferences.

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.

- Defensive driving classes - Discussion Groups: Creative writing and book club - Exercise classes including yoga - Foot care provided by Mary T. Home Health - Health insurance counseling - Information and referral - Library including book loan, audio books, large print books, and video tapes - Parkinson's support group and AA meetings - Recreational and educational activities include defensive driving, woodworking, card groups, bingo, choir, and crafts - Senior Companion (friendly visiting) program - Senior dining provided by Volunteers of America - Trips to local attractions, theater events, breakfast and dinner outings, and extended trips - "Voice of Experience" newsletter

Weekly program providing girls and feminine youth with a safe space to discuss development, mental health, struggles, and triumphs. Discussions are supported with soothing activities, development of coping skills, and a focus on active participation and listening skills. Regular participants are recognized monthly with the opportunity to visit local restaurants, coffee shops, etc. for that week of programming.

ECFE is a parenting education program for all Minnesota families with children between the ages of birth to Kindergarten entrance. Learning opportunities through ECFE may occur in a variety of settings, such as the families' homes, district or community sites, and online parenting education and support. Programming and education services often include parents/caregivers and children but may just include parents/caregivers. Works to strengthen families and engage the ability of all parents to provide an environment that supports the healthy development of their child. Services may include: - Book and toy lending library - Dad and child programs - Early childhood screening for children ages 3 - 5 - Home visits - Information on community resources - Parent-child activities - Parent discussion groups - Play and learn activities for children - Programs for non-English language learners? - School readiness program for children age 3 1/2 - 4 - Single parent program - Special events for the entire family - Workshops on specific topics

Volunteer opportunities include: - Friendly visitor - Reading to residents, helping to write letters playing games, visiting or pet visits. - Assisting at Activities - Bingo, cards, crafts - Presenting programs- Special music - Assisting residents around the building and from activities or programs around the building. - Staff our Gift Shop and helping with coffee hour

Comprehensive geriatric assessment, case management, shopping, transportation, caregiver support and other services to help adults over 60 live safely and independently at home. Services include: - Care Planning and Consultation - Holocaust Survivor Support - Memory Café - Transportation for clients of the program, Monday - Friday, with at least two days' notice - Volunteers who provide friendly visiting and socialization

Friendly visiting for elderly or those in difficult life circumstances