View Search Results

Access to well-child checkups for children and teens up to age 21, including young parents, who are on Medical Assistance or MinnesotaCare. Services include: - Assistance in locating a medical or dental clinic - Assistance in making an appointment - Arranging for transportation to these appointments - Arranging for interpreters if needed at appointments - Connecting families to community resources Appointments may include: - A physical exam - Baby Tracks program to help parents and guardians stay up to date with infant and childhood immunizations - Developmental, growth, and mental health screenings - Hearing and vision checks - Lab tests - Regular dental appointments - Information about physical health, mental health, healthy habits, and nutrition Visit website to find a local Child and Teen Checkup Clinic.

Child protection services help protect children from physical abuse, neglect, and sexual abuse and help families get the services they need to change their behaviors.

Family Fun Nights are planned by teachers and staff in order to have safe, fun, yet educational things that families can do together. There is no cost to participate. They are held 3 times per year. - For families with children age infant to 8 years of age. - There are food, games, activities, crafts, etc. - Held at Remer Elementary gymnasium. - Dinner is served.

- Provides breast feeding promotion and support - Makes health referrals to registered dieticians, maternity and child health nurses, physicians and other providers. - Provides nutrition education and vouchers for food.

Provides child care services to children ages 6 weeks - 4th grade. Offers a curriculum to help stimulate children's cognitive, physical, social and emotional development such as: - Creative arts and crafts to foster creativity and build skills that lead to reading and writing - Constructive play for children to learn science and numbers - Dramatic and pretend play to help children use their imagination, explore and understand the world, learn how to work together, and learn behaviors - Healthy and nutritional meals - Read books and listen to recordings - Sand, water, play dough activities, and active play

Provides a short-term home visiting program. Visits include individualized guidance and assessments from a Public Health Nurse during pregnancy, birth, and postpartum. Assessments include infant weight checks and breastfeeding consultations.

- Support and information for parenting skills - Parents and children can attend activities together - Parent discussions - Certified teachers

- Infants to 10 years of age - Outside of facility children accepted - Drop ins accepted - Loving home atmosphere - Healthy meals and snacks - Reasonable rates - Fenced in yard - Large play area inside and out

- WIC is a program that provides nutrition education and special foods to: - Women who are pregnant, breastfeeding or have recently had a baby - Infants, newborn to 1 year - Children, age 1 - 5 years - Through WIC, mothers can obtain: - Assistance in finding regular health care from private doctors or other health agencies - Vouchers good for the purchase of specific foods at the grocery store to supplement the diet of mother and children

Provides outpatient mental health services such as: - Child Psychiatry Services: Performs a full range of medical laboratory, psychological tests, and medication management to help assess both the physical and mental aspects of the client's mental health. - Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT): Helps clients suffering from mood disorders and those with harmful behavior patterns to increase emotion regulation skills, decrease fluctuating emotions and moods, increase distress tolerance skills, interpersonal effectiveness skills, and mindfulness. - Infant to Child Outpatient Services: Offers diagnostic assessments, play therapy, relational therapy, parenting training, trauma-informed care psychotherapy, interaction therapy, in-home family therapy and skills, mental health behavior aide, care coordination for early childhood support, and referrals to occupational and physical therapies and special education resources.

A supplemental food and nutrition program for low-income pregnant, breastfeeding, and postpartum women, and infants and young children who area at a nutritional risk. The purpose of the WIC Program is to prevent health problems and to improve the health of program participants during critical times of growth and development. The WIC Program provides nutrition education, access to health services, referrals to health and other social services and vouchers for supplemental foods. The food vouchers list the types and quantities of WIC foods that are consistent with the participant's nutritional needs.

Special education services to students ages 0 - 22 with special needs

- Emotional support - Information and referral to appropriate resources for families of missing children - Information on prevention - Public education

- Substitute care when it serves the best interest of the child - May be court ordered or voluntary

Provides outpatient mental health services such as: - Child Psychiatry Services: Performs a full range of medical laboratory, psychological tests, and medication management to help assess both the physical and mental aspects of the client's mental health. - Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT): Helps clients suffering from mood disorders and those with harmful behavior patterns to increase emotion regulation skills, decrease fluctuating emotions and moods, increase distress tolerance skills, interpersonal effectiveness skills, and mindfulness. - Infant to Child Outpatient Services: Offers diagnostic assessments, play therapy, relational therapy, parenting training, trauma-informed care psychotherapy, interaction therapy, in-home family therapy and skills, mental health behavior aide, care coordination for early childhood support, and referrals to occupational and physical therapies and special education resources.

- Provides a developmental program for children with disabilities birth to 6 years of age. This includes early childhood special education, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech/language therapy and adaptive physical ed. This service also goes into homes of children with disabilities to provide educational services.

Provides early and regular well child care and immunizations by pediatric and family health specialists. Offers information that parents need to support their growing families.

Provides early and regular well child care and immunizations by pediatric and family health specialists. Offers information that parents need to support their growing families.

KOOTASCA Headstart/Early Head Start works in conjunction with, School Readiness, School Districts - 316, 317, 318, 319, Invest Early, to provide comprehensive early childhood programing for children 6 weeks to Kindergarten Together We Provide: High Quality Pre-School Instruction with licensed teachers, Parent Education, Support and parent involvement, Full day and part day options, Early Head Start Home Base in Koochiching County, Services to children with disabilities, wrap around care and year round programing at some locations, a focus on health and nutrition and services for Teen Mothers LOCATIONS: - Deer River 218-246-3321 or 218-246-3333 - King School 218-246-8860 ext. 421 - Itasca Resource Center,Grand Rapids 218-327-6734 Classroom 218-327-6727 or 218-327-6726 - Keewatin 218-778-6581 Classroom 218-885-1280 ext. 52102 - Marble 218-247-7306 - Northome 218-897-5240 Classroom 218-897-5273 - Taconite 218-245-2101 Classroom 218-245-2923 - ICC 218-327-4478 - Grand Rapids Early Childhood Center 218-327-5701 ext. 3128 - International Falls 218-286-5394 classroom 218-283-5227 or 218-283-5228 - Director 218-999-0810 - Health Nutrition Manager 218-999-0812 - Education Manager 218-999-0811 - Teen Parent Program Coordinator 218-327-5551 - Operations Coordinator 218-999-0814 - Special Needs Manager 218-999-0813 - For Koochiching County 218-283-9491, 218-283-5233 or 800-559-9491

Provides early and regular well child care and immunizations by pediatric and family health specialists. Offers information that parents need to support their growing families.

- Children First is a collaboration of Itasca County organizations and community members committed to creating community-based initiatives that will actively educate, nurture and care for all children in Itasca County.

Provides outpatient mental health services such as: - Child Psychiatry Services: Performs a full range of medical laboratory, psychological tests, and medication management to help assess both the physical and mental aspects of the client's mental health. - Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT): Helps clients suffering from mood disorders and those with harmful behavior patterns to increase emotion regulation skills, decrease fluctuating emotions and moods, increase distress tolerance skills, interpersonal effectiveness skills, and mindfulness. - Infant to Child Outpatient Services: Offers diagnostic assessments, play therapy, relational therapy, parenting training, trauma-informed care psychotherapy, interaction therapy, in-home family therapy and skills, mental health behavior aide, care coordination for early childhood support, and referrals to occupational and physical therapies and special education resources.

Child protection services help protect children from physical abuse, neglect, and sexual abuse and help families get the services they need to change their behaviors.

Periodic health checkups for children ages birth - 20 who are enrolled in Medical Assistance or MinnesotaCare Assistance in finding medical/dental providers, interpreters, and transportation for those same families - Medical - Dental referral, phone follow-up

- Program involving 13 counties in Northwestern Minnesota - Free to pregnant women and to children aged 1 - 5 - Prenatal care; promotes; not provided directly - Well-child exams; promotes - Immunizations - Education for communities on importance of preventive health measures - Newsletters - Telephone contacts - Public speaking by public health nurses