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Offers a comprehensive range of services tailored to meet the unique needs of individuals who are deaf, deafblind, or hard of hearing. Provides the following services to people with hearing loss:

• Aftercare planning

• Assessment and stabilization

• Care coordination

• Community placement assistance

• Counseling services and treatment

• Crisis intervention

• Individual and family consultation

Provides a broad range of counseling, referral, and other services to help veterans, service members, and their families in a non-medical setting.

• Bereavement counseling

• Community engagement (provides education on the Veteran community and military culture, and builds referral networks to expand support for Veterans, service members, and their families)

• Couples and family counseling

• Group counseling

• Individual counseling for spouses, children, and significant others

• Intimate partner violence support

• Military sexual trauma counseling

• One-on-one counseling for issues including PTSD, depression, grief, anger, or trauma

• Referral services to appropriate resources in the community, including addiction and substance use, homelessness, suicide prevention, and veteran connections

• Significant others support group

• Telehealth

• Transitional counseling

• Workshops and classes (Veterans recreational groups)

Allows individuals directly affected by crime to actively participate in dealing with the consequences by giving victims, offenders, and the community an opportunity to speak with one another. The mediator can also determine restitution or community service hours if ordered by the court.

Pays for room and board for seniors and adults with disabilities who have low incomes. Aims to reduce and prevent people from living in institutions or becoming homeless. ?All recipients receive assistance each month to help pay for rent and food. Some recipients also receive Housing Support supplemental funding to provide other services if they don't qualify for home and community-based waiver programs, including but not limited to: ?- Arranging for medical and social services

• Arranging for meetings and appointments

• Assistance with transportation

• Medication reminders

?The individual's housing provider receives payments to pay for rent, utilities, food, household supplies, and other necessities.

GRH is an income supplement program that helps pay for lodging and raw food costs for low-income adults who have been placed in a licensed or registered setting including adult foster care, board and lodging establishments, supervised living facilities, non certified boarding care homes and various forms of assisted living settings.

ECFE is a parenting education program for all Minnesota families with children between the ages of birth - 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. Current classes and events vary. Call for information. Services may include:

• Book and toy lending library

• Dad and child programs

• Early childhood screening for children ages birth to kindergarten

• 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 birth to kindergarten

• Single parent program

• Special events for the entire family

• Workshops on specific topics

• Adoptable animals are provided with veterinary care including spay and neuter services if the animal is old enough (usually around four months) before they are available for adoption

• Foster homes for animals awaiting placement and animals that are too sick or injured to be placed

• Placement of lost, unwanted, and abandoned animals

• Rescues cats and dogs

• Community classes
• Field trips
• GED
• Adult basic education
• Recreation programs
• Youth development
• Wadena County Historical Society
• Book club

Provides religious education

The program serves American Indian and Alaskan/Hawaiian Natives in a 71-county service area within Minnesota. NOTE: The service area excludes Hennepin County. Participants do not need to be enrolled in a tribe, but must provide proof of American Indian ancestry. Offers employment and training services including:

• Assistance with GED

• Classroom training

• Counseling and Case management

• Job development/placement

• On-the-job training

• Orientation to the work world

• Work experience

Provides law enforcement and community services.

• Provides family practice specializing in general health and procedures

• Manages patients health by referral to specialty services within the healthcare system Corporate Headquarters: Cook Area Health Services, Inc. 20 5th Street SE Cook, MN 55723

?The assessment helps determine public programs that might pay for an individual's long-term services and supports or help them learn about other options if they don't qualify for publicly funded programs. It is required to determine eligibility for: Community First Services and Supports - CFSS (formerly known as Personal Care Assistance - PCA) Home and Community-Based Services Waivers based on age:

• Individuals Over 65 Years Old: Alternative Care (AC); Elderly Waiver (EW)

• Individuals Under 65 Years Old: Brain Injury Waiver (BI); Community Access for Disability Inclusion Waiver (CADI); Community Alternative Care Waiver (CAC)

Intellectual and Developmental Disability (IDD) Services (also known as Rule 185 Case Management) Family, friends, or others can attend the assessment. The assessment is in person at the individual's home or at a place of their choice, and it lasts about two hours.

Provides state-funded food assistance to legal noncitizens ages 50 or older who do not qualify for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly called Food Stamps or Food Support) because of their citizenship status. 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.

Provides temporary financial assistance for refugees and eligible entrants while they are in the process of resettling in the United States. NOTE: Able-bodied RCA recipients are required to participate in an employment and training program. RCA recipients who are disabled or 65 years of age or older are required to apply for SSI.

Public Works office provides information and services on the following:

• Agricultural inspector

• County Parks

• County road and bridge services

• Household hazardous waste disposal

• Landfill operations

• Public ditch maintenance

• Recycling programs

• Solid waste

Provides law enforcement and community services.

Provides specialty medical services including:

• Cardiology

• Dermatology

• Mammography

• Medication Therapy Management

• Obstetrics and Gynecology

• Pediatric Endocrinology

• Radiology

• Sleep Medicine

The Child Support Division assists with: - Locating parents.

• Establishing parentage.

• Establishing and enforcing court orders for child support, medical support, and child care support.

• Reviewing and modifying court orders for support.

• Adjusting court orders based on the cost-of-living index.

• Works with other states to enforce support when one parent does not live in Minnesota.

• Collecting and processing payments. Minnesota Child Support Online: 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.

• The library maintains a subscription to Westlaw, providing access to a large repository of legal publications, including Minnesota and select federal materials. Library patrons have access to a free computer and printer.

?- A law clerk may be available to offer limited assistance in finding information and determining areas of interest. Law clerks cannot provide legal advice. Some books may be checked out by attorneys practicing within Martin County.

Residents are provided means to recycle through the Solid Waste Management Program provided by Waste Management of Bemidji. They provide recycling areas at both Bemidji and Blackduck Solid Waste Transfer Stations. There are rural sites located at strategic points throughout the county. Transfer Stations: - Bemidji Solid Waste Transfer Station 751 Industrial Drive SE Bemidji, 56601 (218)755-1440 8 am - 5 pm Monday - Friday 8 am - 1 pm Saturday

• Blackduck/Kelliher Transfer Station 33003 Highway 72 NE Blackduck, 56630 (218)835-6961 8 am - 5 pm Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday Wednesday Closed 8 am - 1 pm Saturday Transfer Stations will accept: Appliances(i.e. white goods), stoves, refrigerators, washers, dryers, freezers, dish washers, water heaters, air conditioners, de-humidifiers, fluorescent tubes less than 4 feet in length, tires, engine oil, used oil, anti-freeze, automotive batteries and household hazardous waste Rural Sites: - Ten Lakes Site 23170 Power Dam Road NE Bemidji, 56601

• Waskish Site 5537 Hillman Drive Waskish, 56685 8 am - 6 pm Monday - Saturday

• Nebish Site 4934 Lumberjack Road NW Puposky, 56667 8 am - 6 pm Monday - Friday 8 am - 3 pm Saturday

• Pinewood Site 12921 Centerline Road NW Pinewood, 56664 8 am - 6 pm Monday - Friday 8 am - 3 pm Saturday

• Fourtown Site 63063 Fourtown Road NW Fourtown 9 am - 8 pm Monday - Sunday Additional drop-off sites within the City of Bemidji & Northern Township: - Young & Davis 170 Anne Street NW

• North of Herberger's 2815 Ridgeway Avenue NW

• Tom's Stop 8000 Irvine Avenue NW

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.

Outreach workers are on call to meet with and talk to individuals who are experiencing homelessness and staying outside or in places not fit for human habitation. Outreach workers provide supplies such as winter clothing and camping gear (when possible) to meet individual's basic needs and connect them to appropriate services to improve their quality of life. Accepts donations of winter clothing and camping gear. Outreach workers can provide information on how to schedule a housing assessment for Coordinated Entry transitional or permanent supportive housing.

Provides substance use disorders comprehensive assessments. A qualified licensed drug and alcohol counselor conducts the assessment and provides referrals to treatment if needed.

An early childhood and child development bookstore. Publishes and distributes curriculum, management, and business resources for early childhood professionals. Represents a broad range of topics designed to assist early childhood professionals in providing a stimulating, child-centered curriculum based on sound and accepted theory.