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Hospice care is delivered through a team of professionals under St. Mary's Hospital Hospice. The mission of Itasca Hospice is to support and assure access for patients and families to quality Hospice services as provided by Itasca Hospice, and to educate the community on issues of dying, death and grief. Hospice offers a variety of support groups dealing with illness, death and grief.

Provides learning opportunities for adults who lack the basic skills to read, write, and speak English as well as compute and solve problems necessary to function on the job and in society. Includes:

• Adult diploma

• Basic skills

• English as a Second Language (ESL)

• Family literacy

• GED instruction

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 state-operated, secure mental health, substance use, and nursing treatment facilities for adults, including the following:

• Community Behavioral Health Hospitals (CBHHs): Provide inpatient behavioral health care for adults in six communities throughout the state. These 16-bed hospitals offer acute, short-term hospitalization services that include comprehensive assessment of mental, social, functional, and physical health; development of individualized treatment plans with medication management and 24-hour nursing care; and care delivered by multidisciplinary teams consisting of psychiatrists, general practice physicians, psychiatric nurses, psychologists, clinical social workers, addiction counselors, and occupational therapists. Services also emphasize illness management and recovery, as well as individualized discharge planning, care coordination, and aftercare planning to support a successful transition back to an appropriate community-based setting.

• Forensic Mental Health Services: Provides residential treatment services for adults in both secure and non-secure settings on a large campus in St. Peter, Minnesota. The program also operates a 32-bed North Campus facility on the north side of St. Peter and an additional 16-bed facility located off campus in St. Peter. FMHP primarily serves individuals who have been civilly committed by a court as mentally ill and dangerous, often following criminal charges in which a court determined they were not competent to stand trial or not guilty by reason of mental illness or cognitive impairment. Many patients are under more than one type of civil commitment. In addition, Community Integrated Services provides ongoing monitoring and support for FMHP patients who have been provisionally discharged by a court to live in less restrictive community settings. This statewide program serves individuals from all 87 Minnesota counties and supports patients in achieving stable, successful lives in a variety of community settings outside FMHP facilities.

• Forensic Nursing Home: Provides state-operated nursing home and provides nursing home-level care in a secure environment. The facility serves individuals who are civilly committed as mentally ill and dangerous, sexually dangerous persons, or sexual psychopathic personalities, as well as prison inmates on medical release from the Minnesota Department of Corrections. Care provided is consistent with that offered in other nursing homes and includes assistance with daily living, rehabilitation services, and end-of-life care.

• Intensive Residential Treatment Services (IRTS): Provide structured, short-term residential care for adults who no longer require hospitalization or other inpatient treatment but still need ongoing support before returning home. Clients typically have serious mental illness and may also have co-occurring conditions such as traumatic brain injury, addiction, or behavioral disorders. Services are available around the clock with support from mental health professionals and focus on improving psychiatric stability, personal and emotional adjustment, self-sufficiency, and independent living skills. Programs work collaboratively with clients to achieve individual goals and prepare them for a successful transition to home or to a less structured community setting, with an average length of stay of approximately 90 days before discharge.

• Substance Use Disorder Treatment Services: Community Addiction Recovery Enterprise (CARE) provides inpatient substance use disorder treatment services to adults at three locations statewide. The program offers specialized inpatient services for individuals who are chemically dependent and have co-occurring mental illnesses, along with relapse prevention services and comprehensive aftercare planning. All CARE facilities are locked, and clients stay an average of approximately 90 days before discharge, depending on their level of participation and responsiveness to treatment.

• Olmsted County usually receives allegations of welfare fraud either from case workers who regularly work with recipients of public assistance or from the general public

• Olmsted County investigates all clearly defined allegations. If the investigation finds the violation was intentional, the case is either referred to an administrative process or for criminal prosecution.

• The Olmsted County Sheriff's Department is responsible for the Investigation of Potential Fraudulent Activity

• Callers can remain anonymous

• Culturally informed approach to foster care and adoption

• Provides foster-care and adoption support for American Indian children

• Offers foster-parent orientation and training on child welfare, cultural practices, and caring for children with special needs

• Works with American Indian families, tribes, and community resources to facilitate placement and adoption

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 provided might not cover the entire emergency, but it can help. Emergency General Assistance provides short-term, one-time assistance for persons in a financial crisis because of fire, flood, storm, illness, accident, theft, utility shut-off, eviction, foreclosure, or other emergency need.

After-school and summer youth programs offering mentoring, academic support, arts/entrepreneurship clubs, leadership development, and sports/recreational activities for younger kids.

Offers nutrition counseling and a free pantry of staples, such as canned vegetables, meat, and pasta. During the summer months, partners with local growers to provide free fresh produce.

Crosby area Ministry for those in need addressing:

• Heat bills
• Gas to go to a medical appointment or other emergencies
• The fund provides grocery or gasoline gift cards to families in need
• Food cards are also given at Easter and Thanksgiving

A small team evaluates each need and determines the gifting of donated funds

Helps individuals and families with low incomes (including temporary low incomes) get the food they need for nutritious and well-balanced meals. Provides extra support to help stretch a household's food budget - it is not meant to cover all the groceries a family needs. Monthly benefits are loaded on an Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) card, which looks and works like a debit card. The card can be used to buy groceries at authorized stores, farmers markets, and online retailers. Learn more about where to shop and what can be bought. The amount of benefits received is based on income, expenses, and number of people in the household. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Employment and Training (SNAP E&T) program provides free employment and education training and support for people getting SNAP benefits. SNAP E&T participants gain support, skills, training, or experience to reach their goals. Many organizations, including technical and community colleges, community-based organizations, county agencies, tribes, and CareerForce Centers provide SNAP E&T programs and services. Programs can include career planning, job search, training for in-demand jobs, student support, financial support, and continued support once a participant has a job.

Provides an all-inclusive mental health treatment approach where all areas of well-being become a part of one's treatment plan. Clients work with a team of providers, including therapists, case managers, vocational specialists, substance use specialists, and medication prescribers, to become independent and integrated into the community as they experience recovery. Treatment plans are centered around a client's own personal strengths, needs, and aspirations for the future. Comprehensive services offered by ACT include:

• Accompanying clients to doctor and dental appointments

• Assist with applications

• Case management

• Co-occurring disorders treatment

• Intervention and response to a crisis

• Learn daily living skills such as cooking, housekeeping, and finding transportation

• Money management and representative payee services

• Nursing services

• Planning and monitoring treatment

• Psychiatry and Therapy

• Supported employment

• Vocational rehabilitation

Deferred home improvement loans for low income home owners including emergency repairs

Provides a variety of individualized treatment approaches such as:

• Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART): A new form of eye movement therapy similar to Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)

• Air Water Earth (AWE) Therapy: Supports connection to self, nature, and others through positive emotions

• Group therapy

• Individualized psychotherapy

• Integrative health for assessment and treatment of the whole person

• Marriage/family therapy

• Occupational therapy

• Perinatal Clinic Therapy and Psychiatry: Provide evidence-based, family systems-based treatment for women and families affected by Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders (PMADs)

• Play therapy

• Psychiatry

• Psychotherapy: Offer Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), and much more

• Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: A non-invasive therapy for individuals living with Depression

Provides a safe and supervised environment for children. Program offers activities for both group and individual situations. Activities including:

• Arts and crafts

• Community exploration

• Creative and dramatic play

• Manipulative and construction toys

• Outdoor play

• Reading

• Recreational skills

• Science

• Special events

• Sports

Provides one book each month to children in Olmsted County from birth to age 5 whose parents register to receive them.

• Books are sturdy, colorful, age appropriate, and are delivered directly to the child.

• Each book is selected for the developmental benefits it brings

• 2 bilingual English/Spanish available books per year

A 12-bed Intensive Residential Treatment Services (IRTS) program to provide support for individuals experiencing significant mental health challenges. Services are provided in a residential, community-based setting, and aim to stabilize symptoms, develop skills, and transition individuals to a less restrictive environment or independent living. Typical length of stay is approximately 45 days in IRTS beds, while crisis beds are 10 days. Services provided:

• 24 hours/7 days a week support

• Assessment to develop intervention plans or a crisis relapse plan

• Crisis stabilization and residential treatment

• Dual disorder programming to address mental health and co-occurring substance issues, with both group and individual therapy tailored to specific needs

• Family education

• Medication monitoring, management, and education

• Personalized care plans with a focus on holistic recovery

The Child Support Division assists with: Adjusting court orders based on the cost-of-living index Collecting and processing payments Establishing and enforcing court orders for child support, medical support, and child care support Establishing parentage Locating parents Reviewing and modifying court orders for support Works with other states to enforce support when one parent does not live in Minnesota Minnesota Child Support Online: http://www.childsupport.dhs.state.mn.us/ Minnesota Child Support Online is an interactive web site developed by the State of Minnesota to provide child support participants with information about their case(s). NOTE: Either parent of a child may get certain child support services. Parents who do not receive public assistance can apply for services at their county child support office for a one-time $25 service fee. Parents who receive public assistance for a child whose other parent does not live with them are automatically referred for services and are not charged a service fee.

• In-school programs and residencies

• Theatre/acting classes and workshops for youth ages 2 - 17

Provides income tax preparation through Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) for both federal and state tax returns. Tax preparation offered:

• In-person appointments
• Self-preparation with assistance via URL link
• Virtual appointments

NOTE: VITA cannot prepare taxes for businesses, partnerships, rental/multiple properties, farm properties, international returns, and/or inheritances.

Dental clinics provide a variety of clinical services for all ages and offer preventative education programs through the Program to Improve Community Oral Health (PICOH). Clinical services include:

• Crowns, bridges, partial and full dentures
• Fillings and extractions
• Minor orthodontic procedures
• Oral health education
• Preventive dental care such as exams, teeth cleaning, and fluoride treatments
• Root canal treatment
• Teeth whitening
• Root canal treatment

Emergency care: Emergency visits are meant to examine a specific area of concern or pain and to determine necessary treatment. Treatment services after an emergency exam may be same day, though Community Dental Care cannot guarantee same-day treatment for walk in emergencies.

Under contract with Blue Earth and Steele counties, MRCI the Employment Services Provider for recipients of Minnesota's Family Investment Program (MFIP), Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and Refugee Services in Blue Earth and Steele counties.

• Community work experience programs

• Coordination with other community resources

• General Education Development (GED) and English as a Second Language (ESL) training

• Individualized customized employment plans

• Job placement services

• Job retention follow up

• Job tryouts

• Skills training

• Structured job search classes

• Support services and programs

• Work try-out opportunities

NOTE: Financial assistance may be available to clients under this program

Offers 1-bedroom units with subsidized rent

The program is a voluntary, early intervention program that focuses on a family's strengths and needs through support systems. Once enrolled in the Parent Support Outreach Program, help is provided to at-risk families to avoid future incidents of child maltreatment and to enhance child and family well-being, including:

• Comprehensive assessments, early intervention, in-home parenting education, outreach, and supportive and therapeutic services

• Connect families with county and community-based services

• Family circle meetings and support

• Limited financial assistance for families to meet basic needs

Offers the following mental health services:

• Adolescent/youth and child therapy
• Adult and child sexual assault counseling
• Anger management
• Cultural transition counseling
• Disability counseling
• Disaster counseling
• Divorce counseling
• Employment transition/retirement counseling
• Gender identity counseling
• Grief counseling
• Health problems counseling
• Individual,couple and family therapy
• Intergenerational therapy
• Juvenile delinquency diversion
• Marriage counseling
• Mental health presentations
• Parent counseling
• Play therapy
• Postabortion counseling
• Premarital counseling
• Psychiatric assessment
• Psychiatric disorder counseling
• Runaway counseling
• Sexual orientation counseling
• Sexuality counseling
• Terminal illness counseling
• Therapeutic services for children, adolescents, families and adults