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The Lupus Foundation of America provides education and support services to people affected by lupus. The foundation collaborates with experts to provide clear, easy-to-use information, programs, and resources to help people navigate their journey with lupus. Programs offered:

• Health Education Specialists: Specialists are available to answer questions and provide caring support to people with lupus. Health Education Specialists are specially trained to provide people affected by lupus with non-medical counseling, disease education, information, and helpful resources. Spanish-speaking health education specialists are also available.

• The Expert Series: An educational podcast that features empowering conversations with leading lupus experts that focus on helping people live with lupus

• Local Support and Programs: There are opportunities to engage locally and participate in education events and support groups dedicated to improving the lives of people affected by lupus. Experts can help individuals find resources, support groups, and get involved in the fight to end lupus.

• LupusConnect: An online community where people can engage with others to share experiences, find emotional support, and discuss practical ways to live and cope with the disease

• Lupus & You: A free educational series where people with lupus, their family, and friends can learn more about the latest in lupus research and managing the disease. Provides advocacy and panelist events in-person or virtual formats.

• National Resource Center: A collection of up-to-date resources and information on lupus. The Resource Center educates, empowers, and connects individuals to resources, educational articles, and support services about lupus.

• Strategies to Embrace Living with Lupus Fearlessly (SELF): A free online self-management app program designed to help people with lupus live their best life. SELF is tailored to support people with lupus to manage symptoms, stress, medications, and working with their health care team.

• Take Charge: A weekly education email series designed to give people with lupus, and those recently diagnosed, tips, and resources that can help them better manage their lupus and it's everyday challenges

Find a local Lupus Foundation chapter at www.lupus.org/chapters.

Provides information and referrals to callers with questions about health insurance in general, COBRA, underwriting, and other health insurance related issues. Provides general information to the public on HMOs - Health Maintenance Organizations. Handles HMO complaints from the general public and health providers. The complaint form can be found online; along with more information about the complaint process.

A formal program providing employment and training services to workers laid off from their jobs due to no fault of their own. These and other services are available at no cost to program participants who meet eligibility requirements. A variety of services are available including: career planning and personal counseling for career decision making, developing job goals and personal planning, training and retraining resources to update skills or acquire skills in a new field, job-seeking skills workshops on preparing resumes and cover letters, learning and practicing interviewing skills and networking, job clubs to meet other job seekers to network, check current job openings, and discuss issues. Placement services are also available including leads developed by counselors and agencies. Support services in certain cases are available for expenses such as child care and transportation, to enable participants to achieve their employment or training goals.

Provides chore services for seniors who need help with lawn mowing, snow removal, and homemaker services

Energy Assistance Program (EAP): The Energy Assistance Program helps pay heat and electricity costs. Payments for energy bills are sent directly to the household's energy company or fuel provider for propane, fuel oil, or wood. Financial assistance varies depending on household income and fuel costs. Grants range between $200-$1400 based on household size, income, and fuel cost. The Energy Assistance Program provides additional grants for eligible households who need help with:

• Getting reconnected to heat and power after disconnections

• Paying for emergency fuel deliveries of propane, heating oil, or biofuel

• Preventing disconnection

• Repairs and energy-related crises may be determined for additional funding when available. Grants can be used to pay a past water bill, a broken furnace, or replace a furnace.

Applications are accepted starting in September, and the deadline is the following spring in May. Weatherization Program: Eligible homes are evaluated by an auditor. Once a home is evaluated, skilled workers will complete improvements to reduce heating costs. Services are free to low-income households who qualify. Additional services provided are client education, energy audits, exterior wall and attic insulation, air sealing, testing, repair, and/or repair of a home heating system to ensure efficiency and safety.

• SingleCare Prescription Drug Discount Card is free and enables people to save up to 80% on prescription drugs. This is not insurance. Rather, it is a program that offers immediate discounts on prescription drugs at participating pharmacies whether you are insured or not.

• Covers all prescription medicine, including pet medications purchased at a pharmacy, insulin and needles/test strips for diabetes, etc.

• Physical cards can be emailed, texted, printed, or accessed by the mobile app

• Card holders need to present their card or mobile app card with each prescription from the doctor to the participating pharmacy at the time of purchase to receive the discounts. If someone needs to transfer a prescription, they need to take the empty prescription bottle or label with them to the pharmacy.

• Savings average up to 80% on 10,000 or more prescription medications, unlimited uses, and additional member savings

• The cost for medication will be the discount price offered through this program, or the pharmacy's usual retail price, whichever is lower. This means someone is assured the lowest price in that store.

Provides the licensing for adult foster care homes and child foster care. Services include:

• Information about licensing requirements and standards

• Inspections and investigations on certifications for adult foster care and child foster care licensing

• Orientation, licensing, re-licensing of adult foster care and child foster care certification

Confidential assistance:

• Accompaniment during the court process

• Focuses on shifting legal and protective responsibility away from victims of domestic violence to the criminal justice system and provides options and accountability for those who are abusive

• Information and referral to legal, medical, and social service agencies

• Provides immediate intervention and coordination with law enforcement to assist victims at times of crisis

• Offers accompaniment through the justice system and strives to keep victims informed

Reede Gray Elementary School:

• Address: 201 McPhail Drive, Redwood MN

?- Phone: (507)644-7628 Redwood Valley Middle School and High School:

• Address: 100 George Ramseth Drive

• Phone: (507)644-3511

Provides low cost immunization services to the public and prints out immunization records

Provides primary care services including:

• Annual exams

• Chronic disease management

• Family medicine

• Preventive care

• Vaccinations

Commissioners by district:

• District 1: Corek Sik [email protected] (507)368-4504

• District 2: Mic VanDeVere [email protected] (507)247-5833

• District 3: Dean Nielson [email protected] (507)275-3514

• District 4: Joe Drietz [email protected] (507)694-1830

• District 5: Steve Hauswedell [email protected] (507)828-6033

Offers an array of parks and recreational facilities:

• Bunker Hills Regional Park: CSAH 14/Main Street and Foley Boulevard in Coon Rapids provides a playground, biking, hiking, golf, camping, picnicking, disc golf, and cross-country skiing and ski rental. Bunker Hills Activities Center provides meeting and banquet facilities.

• Bunker Beach Water Park: 701 County Parkway A Coon Rapids, MN 55433 provides swimming and a sand volleyball court

• Bunker Hills Golf Course: 12800 Bunker Prairie Road Coon Rapids, MN 55448 provides golf and meeting space. Call (763)755-4141 for more information

• Bunker Park Stables: 550 Bunker Lake Boulevard NW Andover, MN 55304 provides horseback riding, day camps, hay and sleigh rides, and carriage rides. Call (763)757-9445 for more information

• Chomonix Golf Course: 700 Aqua Lane Lino Lakes, MN 55014 provides golf and cross-country skiing with skis available to rent. Call (651)482-8484 for more information

• Coon Lake County Park: 5450 197th Avenue NE Columbus, MN 55092 provides a boat launch, fishing, a lake, picnic shelters, canoeing, hiking trails, a playground, volleyball and swimming beach

• Coon Rapids Dam Regional Park: 9750 Egret Boulevard Coon Rapids, MN 55433 provides cross-country skiing, picnicking, fishing, inline skating, boat launch, lake and bicycling. Coon Rapids Dam Visitors Center provides bike, GPS unit with virtual geocaching, cross-country ski and snowshoe rental; meeting facilities. Coon Rapids Dam Regional Park Performance Pavilion provides concerts. Call (763)757-3920 for pavilion reservations.

• Islands of Peace County Park: 200 Charles Street NE Fridley, MN 55432

• Kordiak County Park: 1845 49th Avenue NE Columbia Heights, MN 55421

• Lake George Regional Park: 3100 217th Avenue NW Oak Grove, MN 55011 provides volleyball, swimming, biking, picnicking, trails and boating

• Locke County Park: 840 71st Avenue NE Fridley, MN provides picnic pavilions, playground, paved hiking/biking trail and dog park

• Manomin County Park: 6666 East River Road Fridley, MN 55432 provides a picnic gazebo and fishing. Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts provides classes in drawing, painting (oils, acrylics and watercolors), photography and more.

• Martin-Island Linwood Lakes Regional Park: 22480 Martin Lake Road NW Linwood Township, MN provides nature trails, a picnic area, beach, and group camp

• Mississippi West Regional Park: 13900 Traprock Street Ramsey, MN provides a boat launch

• Rapids Archery Club: 1255 133rd Avenue Andover, MN 55304 provides archery?

• Rice Creek Chain of Lakes Park: 7401 Main Street Lino Lakes MN 55038 and provides Rice Creek Campground, Centerville Lake beach, picnic areas, boat launch facilities, biking and hiking trails, playgrounds, and a fishing pier

• Riverfront Regional Park: 5100 East River Road Fridley, MN 55421 provides trails and picnic pavilions. Riedel Farm Estate provides meeting space.

• Rum River Central Regional Park: 17955 Roanoke Street NW Ramsey, MN 55303 provides canoe camping, a picnic pavilion, horseback riding trails and cross country skiing trails

• Rum River North County Park: 23100 Rum River Boulevard Saint Francis, MN 55070 provides picnic pavilions, a playground, fishing pier, canoe camping and meeting facility

• Rum River South County Park: 3000 Ferry Street North Anoka, MN 55303 provides a picnic pavilion

• Wargo Nature Center: 7701 Main Street Lino lakes, MN 55038 provides an outdoor learning center day camp and bike trail. Canoes, kayaks, snowshoes and kick sleds are available to rent. Call (651)429-8007 for more information.

Minnesota's Medicaid program for people with low income. Most people who have MA receive health care through health plans. Members who do not receive health care through a health plan receive care on a fee-for-service basis, with providers billing the state directly for services they provide. MA pays for a variety of services like doctor visits, prescriptions, and hospital stays. Some services and prescriptions may require prior approval. MA pays for medical bills going back three months from the month the application is received. NOTE: People with disabilities who work, even if they're over the income or asset limits of MA,, may still qualify for a program called Medical Assistance for Employed Persons with Disabilities - MA-EPD.

• Nutritious snacks are provided on regular after-school days

• Provides after-school care for children in full-day preschool through Grade 5 during the school year

• Parents must provide lunch and a beverage on in-service days, conference days, and during the full-day summer program

Early Learning Scholarships help individuals pay for child care and early education to help children get ready for school. A scholarship must be used at a Parent Aware-Rated program. Parents Aware is a rating tool to help parents select child care and early education programs. Early Learning Scholarships increase access to early childhood programs for three-and four-year old children with the highest needs to improve school readiness for all young children.

Cash-grant program for families with low incomes experiencing household emergencies. Families can receive assistance once every 12 months. The assistance received must resolve the crisis. Families must use their own money first. The amount of assistance provided might not cover the entire emergency, but it can help. Emergency assistance provides short-term, one-time assistance for households in a financial crisis because of fire, flood, storm, illness, accident, theft, utility shut-off, eviction, foreclosure, moving expense, necessary home repairs, or need for furniture or appliance replacement or repair.

Provides information about blindness and visual impairment. Provides assistance to individuals for accessing products, services, and trainings to assist with daily activities and adjustments to vision loss.

Offers brief legal advice and/or brief services, not representation, provided by culturally competent volunteer attorneys for LGBTQ individuals seeking help with legal matters, including:

• Name/gender marker changes

• General civil legal advice, including adoption, child custody, child support, and marriage/divorce. Volunteer attorneys are not experts in civil law but can provide general advice and referrals.

Minnesota's version of TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families). Statewide MFIP helps families work their way out of poverty by providing temporary cash and food benefits to eligible families. Statewide MFIP has a 60-month limit, there are some limited exceptions and extensions to the time limit. Participants are required to follow certain work rules. Failure to meet work rules will result in their MFIP grants being sanctioned or reduced. In addition:

• Child support will be pursued in those situations where one or both parents are absent

• A woman expecting a baby may receive assistance for herself during her pregnancy

• Children who are being cared for by certain relatives may receive assistance

NOTE: MFIP recipients may be eligible for Emergency Assistance, Child Care Assistance, Medical Assistance, and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).

One time, up to a 4-month, monthly cash payment for newly arrived single adult or married couples without children who have certain humanitarian protections

Offers one-way and round-trip rides locally and out-of-town for seniors, able to be used up to twice a week, or three times a week for medical appointments

Provides financial assistance to help with rent, deposit, or utility shut-offs and other one-time emergency needs