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Offers a personalized service for individuals who are facing decisions and challenges associated with Alzheimer's and other dementias. Care Consultation is an opportunity to receive education about the diagnosis, learn how to make challenging decisions about care, and develop plans on how to live a full life with dementia. Helps individuals develop a road map to navigate through the thoughts, emotions, and questions around memory loss and dementia, including:

• Available community and financial resources

• An overview of legal and financial considerations

• How to build a care team

• Role changes in the family

• Partnering with the health care provider

• Safety Planning

Academic Wellness and Success Program: School-linked program designed to increase the availability of mental health services to children in pre-K - 12th grade of African descent who are uninsured or underinsured in their homes, schools, communities, and in the African American Child Wellness Institute offices through the use of face-to-face and telehealth platforms. Provides approximately 8-10 hours of direct mental health services including mental health screenings, diagnostic assessments, and psychotherapy treatment including individual, group, and family sessions through the use of cultural specific providers. Counseling, Outreach, and Public Education Campaign: Addresses COVID-19 prevention and vaccine hesitance within the African-American community. Services include a 24-hour Community Mental Health and COVID-19 hotline, individual, and group crisis counseling (within multi-family settings and outside of the home), individual and group outreach services, as well as brief educational or supportive contact, public education, assessment, and referral to community resources. Healing Circle, The: Provides a sacred space where community-based challenges are addressed in an orderly manner. Life and death issues such as COVID-19, community violence, and systemic racism are discussed. Provided in collaboration with the Conversations with Al McFarlane program which airs of KFAI Radio Station and is streamed live on Facebook and YouTube. Mura Moms: Pre-meditated pregnancy and motherhood project which provides alternative methods of engaging African American women in the process of examining how their stress, depression, anxiety, and substance use are harmful to their own well-being as well as that of their baby, and to allow them to learn culturally appropriate stress reduction techniques and coping mechanisms in supportive environments. Overall goal is to improve birth outcomes among low-income African American women struggling with chemical use and/or mental health issues. To accomplish this, both parents are invited to develop knowledge, partnerships, skills, and behaviors that promote wellness, safety, and respect in their homes and in the community. Provides intensive support including intake, education, mentorship, and wellness coaching services to up to 15 women per class. Project Mura: Pre-meditated parenting BootCamp which provides three intensive BootCamp trainings annually for parents who are raising uninsured or underinsured children of African descent ages 0 - 18. Services include diagnostic interviews, individual psychotherapy, family therapy, group therapy, crisis intervention, and other services. Clinicians provide cultural consultations and care coordination services with other mental health providers, schools, medical personnel (such as nurses, primary care providers, personal care attendants, pediatricians, and psychiatrists) as well as other entities such as religious and social service organizations to provide multi-systemic support. Individual wellness coaches facilitate the development of family wellness plans for each program participant.

Helps people develop skills and knowledge to improve their lives and communities. Offers a variety of programs for learners of all ages. Class offerings include child care, driving classes, early childhood screening, a lending library, recreational activities, a swimming pool, and more.

Behavioral Health Therapists provide a wide range of services for individuals ages 6 and older, including:

• Individual, family, and youth counseling and therapy for issues of depression, anxiety, grief and loss, controlling anger and moods, physical and sexual abuse, fear and obsession, parenting, and relationships

• Chemical health therapy and counseling

?- Support groups for NorthPoint patients

Provides therapy, crisis services, and education to victims of sexual assault and teens through a range of services:

• Telephone crisis response

• Short-term counseling

• Responds to local hospital emergency rooms

• Legal advocacy

• Safe at Home application assistance for address confidentiality

• Support group for individuals who have experienced sexual abuse designed to help people begin to recover from the effects of trauma and to help them find ways to grow, flourish and enjoy healthy relationships and happier lives. Individuals receive support from peers and advocates. Individuals learn about dynamics and the culture surrounding sexual violence, common reactions and feelings, as well as coping skills that may aid in the healing process.

• Works with victims of sex trafficking and sexual exploitation

• Workshops and Education: Offers community education speakers on a range of topics such as bullying, cyberbullying, sexting, healthy relationships, impact of domestic violence on child witnesses, media violence, sexual assault awareness and prevention, and teen dating violence

Coordinates a variety of maintenance and home-based services to ensure that individuals can safely stay in their homes. Services include:

• Annual clean-ups

• Cleaning

• Family therapy

• Handyman services

• Housekeeping

• Lawncare

• Moving

• Occupational therapy

• Physical therapy

• Snow removal

Orientation and overview of Community Action Duluth's programs and offerings

Various volunteer opportunities for individuals, families and groups:

• Partake in projects to make infant and newborn clothing for infants of needy families

• Volunteer work groups set up throughout area

Provides state-certified adult and child mental health services, including:

• Adult residential services

• Children's mental health targeted case management

• Counseling

• Consultation and contracted services

• Diagnostic assessments

• Infant and early childhood mental health services

• Mental health behavioral aides (MHBA)

• School link mental health (SLMH)

• School-based children's therapeutic services and supports (CTSS)

• Reflective supervision

Phone line and text answered 24 hours a day for youth and parents in crisis

Provides a separate men's and women's residential program of guidance and support to those seeking to establish a foundation of recovery from alcohol or drug dependency grounded in the spiritual principles of Alcoholics Anonymous.

Non-profit organization that sells and accepts donations of gently used clothing, furniture, and household items

• Offers employment opportunities for individuals with disabilities

• Volunteer opportunities available

??All sales proceeds help fund employment for adults with disabilities. Call to ask about donations.

Provides full and part-time child care options for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. Services vary based on location.

Low rent public housing units

Provides a variety of classes and activities for community members of all ages including:

• Adult enrichment classes

• Adult recreational sports

• Exercise classes

• Youth enrichment program

• Youth sports

Fire and rescue services:

• Provide advanced life support care for people who are ill and/or injured and, when necessary, to transport patients to a health care facility.

• Fire prevention: Conducts regular inspections of commercial, industrial, and multi-family residential structures to ensure continued compliance with Minnesota fire and building codes.

• Investigates all fires in Gibbon to determine cause and origin

• Works with the police department to investigate arson

Provides individual advocacy services to individuals living with a disability to solve problems related to their legal, civil, and human rights. Members practice the following skills:

• Encouragement and support of others in their own advocacy efforts

• Self-advocacy

Provides individual advocacy services to individuals living with a disability to solve problems related to their legal, civil, and human rights. Members practice the following skills:

• Encouragement and support of others in their own advocacy efforts

• Self-advocacy

Provides faith-based housing and aftercare services for individuals who have been incarcerated or are transitioning from jail or prison. Participants may stay a minimum of one year, with the option to extend for an additional year.

• Men's Reentry: Operates two residences known as The Discipleship Homes

• Women's Reentry: Operates one residence known as The Lighthouse

Contract for services with local providers:

• Home health aides

• Homemakers provide homemaking assistance which may include light housekeeping, laundry, grocery shopping, and running errands

• Skilled nurse visits to provide technical procedures, assessments, appropriate interventions, teaching, and medication monitoring

Home health care services include:

• Aide services

• Fall prevention

• Occupational therapy

• Physical therapy

• Skilled nursing

• Speech therapy

Provides the following housing services:

• Housing rehabilitation loans

• Loan referrals

• Small business assistance

Provides more support than traditional assisted living but ideal for individuals who do not require around-the-clock skilled nursing care in a home-like setting. Services provided:

• 24 hours/7 days a week tailored assistance

• Advanced medical support

• Complex medication management

• Diabetes and chronic disease management

• Help with daily activities

• Opportunities to stay active and engaged

• Personalized care

• Transfer assistance and mechanical lifts

Self advocacy group for people with developmental disabilities Focuses on issues related to self advocacy such as increasing knowledge on different topics, educating themselves and their rights as citizens, being independent, speaking for themselves, making their own decisions

Steve O'Neil Apartments provide permanent supportive housing for families who have experienced long-term or recurrent homelessness. Services include:

• 44 units of family permanent supportive housing and case management

• 6 units of family emergency shelter accessed by referral through the Emergency Family Shelter services of the Drop-In Center