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Allows residents to select units from the private market. The subsidy moves with the resident, and the Housing Authority pays the balance of the rent directly to the landlord.

Support Within Reach is pleased to announce the start of our Itasca County Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE)Program in collaboration with Grand Itasca Clinic and Hospital, Bigfork Valley Clinic and Hospital, and Deer River HealthCare Center! What is a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE)A SANE is a specially trained medical provider with a minimum of an RN degree, who: Provides comprehensive care to the sexual assault survivor Conducts a forensic examination and collection of evidence Can be called as an expert witness in the courtroom Why should I see a SANE Nurse?Available 24/7 Non-threatening and sensitive exam and evidence collection Knowledgeable and can answer your questions Can address concerns regarding sexually transmitted infections and pregnancy Will review your options with you and respect your decisions Where can I find a SANE Nurse?SANE's are currently available 24-hours in the emergency departments of: Grand Itasca Hospital and Clinic Deer River HealthCare Center Bigfork Valley

Employment counselors help SNAP clients in gaining skills and abilities to obtain employment to gain self-sufficiency, including:

• Adult education

?- Budgeting assistance ?- Career planning ?- Computer classes ?- Interviewing skills ?- Job search assistance ?- Post-secondary education ?- Resume development ?- Short-term training ?- Support services ?- Transportation assistance ?- Vocational interest

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. 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

• Blood Donor Ambassador: Volunteers are needed to welcome visitors to Red Cross facilities or blood drives

• Facilities: Utilizes volunteers in a variety of roles, from groups who can assist with vehicle cleaning to individuals who help with front desk service or fix-it projects around the building

• Health and Safety: Volunteers are needed to be an integral part of teaching lifesaving skills. Volunteers teach hands-only CPR.

• Service to the Armed Forces: Volunteers support military members and their families. Volunteers assist with outreach (such as briefing on Red Cross services at pre-deployment events, or sorting and delivering holiday cards for active and veteran military members) and help in a variety of capacities at VA hospitals.

• Specialties: All departments at the Red Cross utilize volunteers. Professionals in the fields of photography, accounting, information technology and other specialized areas can contribute their talents.

Disaster Services Helps individuals, families, and communities prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters including:

• - Prepare: Volunteers are needed to support programming such as conducting workshops on the importance of preparedness, presenting at community events, participating in the Home Fire Campaign to educate around and install smoke alarms, and teaching youth coping skills and tools when faced with emergencies through the Pillowcase Project. Volunteers fluent in other languages (Hmong, Oromo, Somali and Spanish in particular) are needed in an effort to reach all community members.
• - Respond: Volunteers are needed to respond in-person, coordinate efforts behind-the-scenes (on-call disaster dispatchers for dispatching volunteer responders in a community), provide medical expertise, provide mental health expertise and provide public affairs expertise (press releases to media outlets). Most of these roles require on-call hours and that volunteers be at least ages 18 and older, commit to at least 1 year of service and attend approximately 20 hours of prerequisite training.
• - Recover: Volunteers are needed to assist clients with resources after a disaster has occurred

Provides medical assistance to refugees. NOTE: Refugees who are eligible for Medical Assistance are served through that program. Refugees receiving Refugee Cash Assistance (RCA) are automatically eligible for RMA if they are not already MA eligible.

Administers elementary and secondary schools in the district. Schools:

• Community and Family Education: 600 South 5th Street, Room 207 Saint Peter, MN 56082 (507)934-3048

• Early Learning Center: 100 Lincoln Drive, Saint Peter, MN 56082 (507)934-4211

• North Elementary School (K - 1): 815 North 9th Street, Saint Peter, MN 56082 (507) 934-3260

• Oshawa Learning Academy: 2001 Sheppard Drive, PO Box 89, Saint Peter, MN 56082 (507)934-9820

• Rock Bend ALC: 801 Davis Street, Saint Peter, MN 56082 (507)934-5892 ext 1026, Fax 507-934-5893

• Saint Peter Middle School: 100 Lincoln Drive, Saint Peter, MN 56082 (507)934-4210

• Saint Peter High School: 2121 Broadway, Saint Peter, MN 56082 (507)934-4212

• South Elementary School (2 - 4): 1405 South 7th Street, Saint Peter, MN 56082 (507)934-2754

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.

Provides legal representation in immigration related legal matters throughout the state of Minnesota. These may include deportation defense, family based petitions, applications for lawful permanent residency, visa processing, waivers, TPS, asylum, U Visa, T Visa, VAWA, and SIJS cases, DACA renewals, citizenship, and naturalization. ILCM does not represent tourist or student related visas, nor employment based or religious worker visas.

HIV Education and Support Services for Youth:

• Case Management: Offers support and referrals to community resources for HIV+ youth ages 13 - 30 and their families

• Free HIV testing for all ages

• Group Education and Consultation: Provides education and training to professionals, community members, and schools about AIDS and HIV-related health issues in individuals who identify as LGBTQ+ youth

• HIV prevention, sexual health education and counseling for young men and women ages 13 - 30 and high-risk people of any age who report having sexual and needle-sharing partners between the ages of 13 - 30

Provides a medical clinic offering compassionate care on a variety of health care services. Services include:

• Annual wellness visits such as screenings for vitals, weight, height, medical history update, depression screening, cognition screening, mobility, and prevention

• Cancer care such as addressing concerns, monitor patients' treatment, and one-on-one physical rehabilitation

• Cardiology to address and treat heart disease, heart failure, blood pressure issue, and high cholesterol

• E-Care services providing online visits for minor health concerns such as allergies, COVID-19, cold/flu, dermatology concerns, minor rashes, pink eye, shingles, tick bites, and urinary tract infections

• Family medicine such as preventative care, anxiety/depression, chronic disease management, immunizations/flu shots, prescriptions/medication management, internal medicine, pediatrics, and follow-up care

• General surgery

• Mammography

• Medical weight loss through a medically supervised approach for weight loss and weight management

• Oncology and hematology for treating cancer and blood disorders such as iron deficiency, anemia, hemophilia, sickle cell disease, leukemia, lymphoma, and myeloma

• Orthopedic and sports medicine

• Pharmacy offering mail service for delivery prescriptions to a patient's residence and fills and dispenses medication orders

• Vascular surgery and treatment

• Well-child visits and immunizations

Provides coats, hats, mittens, scarves, snow pants, snowsuits, that are distributed to families in need. Accepts donations of winter clothing that is clean and in good condition. Donations are accepted and distributed during October distribution days only.

Provide case management to adults with mental illness to help them obtain necessary mental health services, financial assistance, and other supports

Provides law enforcement and community services. Provides early advanced life support with a supply of drugs and medical equipment not normally available until an ambulance arrives. Also offers a crime-stoppers group that helps in the fight against crime by reporting information about crimes.

Provides general information on child care assistance programs to help families pay for child care for children up to age 12 and for children with special needs up to age 14. Child care costs may be paid for families while parents work, look for work, or attend school.

Mayor and City Council Members Member Contact Information City Administrator Building Department:

• Building inspection information

• Construction permit information

City Attorney:

• (507)834-6818, 1042 1st Avenue

City Clerk:

• Animal Control

• Election information

• Local government information including mayor and city council members

Emergency Management Engineering Department:

• Street construction/repair information

• Water quality assurance information

Planning Department Public Works Division:

• Parks, trails, playgrounds, ball fields, and ice rinks information

• Recycling information

• Sewer maintenance information

• Snow removal information

• Street cleaning and street construction/repair information

• Water department information Utilities

• Water and Garbage

• Renville-Sibley Sanitation (a Gibbon-based company) can be contacted for dumpsters at (507)834-6168.

• Natural Gas: call Fairfax City Clerk at (507)426-7255

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. 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

The deadline to apply for this program was May 31, 2024. Applications for the 2024-2025 heating season will be accepted starting September 2024. Other services may include Weatherization Program and help with heating system emergencies. The program allows the agency to repair or in some cases replace heating units when they are determined to be unsafe such as a cracked heat exchanger or other issues. The Weatherization Program is a one-time grant to assist with weatherization-related repairs. The program helps reduce fuel and electric costs for low-income renters and homeowners.

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. 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

The deadline to apply for this program was May 31, 2024. Applications for the 2024-2025 heating season will be accepted starting September 2024. Other services may include Weatherization Program and help with heating system emergencies. The program allows the agency to repair or in some cases replace heating units when they are determined to be unsafe such as a cracked heat exchanger or other issues. The Weatherization Program is a one-time grant to assist with weatherization-related repairs. The program helps reduce fuel and electric costs for low-income renters and homeowners.

Assists the community by preparing for, responding to, and recovering from natural and man-made disasters. Services include coordination with agencies to deliver critical support, such as emergency response and hazard mitigation, ensuring recovery and resilience, planning, public education, and training.

Works with families on growth and developmental issues. Head Start promotes school readiness by enhancing the social and cognitive development of children.

• Offers preschool classroom and home visit experience with a special focus on developing the early reading and math skills needed to be successful in school.

• Programs are offered center-based, home-based, or combination

• Transportation provided when available. Staff assists families in obtaining transportation.

Educational Program - Programs provided by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs to help with business skills, connections, and potential growth, including workshops and training. For current programs, click here Loans and Advising - Loans with no-cost advising. Loans offered:

• City of Cook Economic Recovery Fund: Loan for local business in the city of Cook who are recovering from the summer 2024 flood

• Gap Financing: Loan covers the "gap" between various sources of funding and the total cost of the project. Used for commercial real estate projects, such as mortgage or major renovation and has more flexibility than traditional lenders

• Healthy Food Fund: Specialized loan for local food retailers and producers that helps with replacing dated equipment, investing in technology, expanding business, purchasing inventory, hiring staff, updating building, purchasing new or existing store, and more

• SBA Microloan: Start up loan for working capital, inventory, or equipment purchase

• Working Capital Loan: Loan provides access to cash for various projects and investments such as marketing campaigns, purchased inventory, upgrade equipment, or expand business operation.

• Classes, activities, and day trips for elementary and secondary grade youth

• Athletics: Pre-K and Kindergarten baseball and soccer; elementary soccer, volleyball, baseball and basketball, summer junior high baseball, junior high lacrosse, open gyms, and summer clinics

Nutritious meals are provided via:

• Diner's Clubs: Local restaurants offer meals for older adults ages 60 and older throughout the day or over the lunch hour with no reservations required.

• Community Dining Centers: Community dining locations offer well balanced, hot meals. Meals include milk and are served daily around noon. Special diets such as diabetic, controlled sodium, and low-fat/low-cholesterol can be accommodated through meals. Upon request, hot or frozen carryout meals are provided.

• Food Vendor Services: Registered dietitians create diverse, fresh, nutritious meals to comply with federal guidelines childcare, schools and older adults. Offers a wide range of menu items to satisfy a wide range or customers.

• Meals on Wheels: Volunteers deliver locally prepared hot meals Monday - Friday and perform a safety check for older adults unable to leave their homes. Frozen meals available for weekends, holidays, and other closure days.

• Meals to Go: Provides shipped frozen homestyle meals. Each shipment includes 14 frozen meals.

In addition to a nutritious meal, Senior Nutrition provides seniors:

• Activities and friendly interaction
• Connections with area professionals?- Information about other community senior services

Find meal locations by zip code here: https://www.lssmn.org/contact?keywords=LSS+Meals&category=All&field_geolocation_proximity_center%5Bcoordinates%5D%5Blat%5D=&field_geolocation_proximity_center%5Bcoordinates%5D%5Blng%5D=&field_geolocation_proximity_center%5Bzip_code%5D=&field_geolocation_proximity=25

Provides school-based resources and social services for families and students at Minneapolis Public Schools, including: Health Related Services:

• Assistance applying for medical assistance and emergency medical assistance
• Assistance applying for assured access and other sliding fee programs
• Help getting needed immunizations and physicals
• Help navigate the medical system for assessments and chronic disease care
• Help with eye glasses vouchers

Mental Health Services:

• Build collaborations to bring community providers into school buildings for group and individual mental health services

??- Help connect families with community-based mental health providers

• Help families navigate medical systems for assessments
• On-site mental health clinic run by Mental Health Collective

Community Resources:

• Connect families with basic need resources including: housing, furniture, household items, food, clothes, etc.
• Connect families with job search tutorials, after-school education programs, community-based tutoring programs, school registration and summer programs, etc.

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 computer classes, defensive driving classes, field trips, gym access, recreational activities, swimming pool, and more.