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Offers financial services including speaking with a financial counselor or account representative about cost-of-care estimates, and helps in determining whether an individual qualifies for financial assistance. Financial counselors or an account representative can help individuals understand patients' responsibilities and may offer no-interest payment plans. An account representative may:

• Guide through the medical billing process and determine if financing options are available

• Offer assistance in resolving unpaid balances

• Share resources to determine insurance coverage

Helps women and men who have been the primary caretaker at home and lost their primary income, suddenly needed to provide for their family. Helps participants find worthwhile employment and livable wage jobs to support their families. Services include personal assessments, individual counseling, education and training, job search and placement support, networking and support, and other short-term assistance.

Medicare Savings Programs have four sub-programs: Qualified Disabled and Working Individuals (QDWI): Helps pay for Part A premiums only. Monthly income limits for individuals and married couples apply. Qualifying Individual (QI): Helps pay for Part B premiums only. Monthly income limits for individuals and married couples apply. Qualified Medicare Beneficiary (QMB): Helps pay for Part A and B premiums as well as deductibles, coinsurance, and copayments. Monthly income limits for individuals and married couples apply. Specified Low-Income Medicare Beneficiary (SLMB): Helps pay for Part B premiums only. Monthly income limits for individuals and married couples apply. Monthly income limits and countable resource limits apply for individuals and married couples. Countable resources include money in the checking or savings account, stocks, and bonds. A home, one car, a burial plot, $1,500 in burial expenses (if the amount if put aside), furniture, and other household and personal items do not apply for the resource limit. Generally under these programs, premiums are put back into the monthly Social Security check making participants' monthly income increase, which takes a couple months to process.

Law enforcement services:

• Civil Process

• County Communication Center 911

• Court Security

• Criminal investigation

• Permit to carry/purchase a handgun

• Prisoner transport

• Records

• Search and rescue

• Victim/witness support

• Warrants

• Water Safety

Virtual middle school and high school program offering:

• Access to school supplied laptop computers and Internet access

• All courses online available anywhere there is a computer and internet access

• Enrolled students have 24/7 access to the material and can complete assessments at any point

• Individualized attention from support staff including certified teachers

• Teachers are available during regular school hours or by appointment

Provides housing assistance for individuals and families with low income who include at least one adult with a serious mental illness while they wait for a Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) or another rental subsidy. Eligible use for Bridges funding includes application fees, financial assurance/risk mitigation program fees, damage claims, rental assistance payments, security deposits, utility connection fees, and vacancy payments paid directly to the landlord on behalf of qualified participants. ?The rental subsidy is temporary and is intended to bridge the housing gap between exiting institutions, segregated settings, supervised release, and homelessness to a permanent, affordable housing option.

Shelters homeless animals until they are placed in new homes

• Dogs and cats are adopted out to appropriate homes

• Pets are vetted and spayed or neutered before adoption

• Lost and found animal services referral

• Accepts donations and volunteers

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

Accepts and responds to and/or investigates reports of child abuse, neglect, or abandonment. Services may include:

• Accepting reports of abuse

• Assessment of the initial referral

• Consultation to individuals who suspect abuse

• Consultation with the family to determine the nature of the problem

• Dependency investigation

• Ongoing support services for children and their families

?- Temporary placement of children who are removed from the home

• Works with the family toward unification or reunification

NOTE: In addition to taking reports, child protection screeners are available to explain the reporting statutes, answer questions regarding agency practices and discuss other resources and strategies when reports do not meet criteria for assignment for child protection investigation.

One-to-one mentoring program which matches volunteer adult mentors to young people

The program helps people with disabilities learn new and healthy independent living skills. Staff teach new skills with hands-on instructions and assistance, delivered in the home or community with transport provided.

Provides investigation and intervention services on behalf of vulnerable adults who are unable to act on their own behalf, manage their own affairs, or are in immediate danger of abuse. Types of abuse may be physical, emotional, sexual abuse, unsafe or hazardous living conditions, exploitation, neglect, or abandonment. Services include:

• Taking reports and investigating abuse and/or maltreatment

• Removal of the individual to safer surroundings

• Services necessary to remove the conditions which have created a threat of life

NOTE: Complaints, questions, or concerns involving incidents in facilities licensed by the Health Department, such as hospitals, nursing homes, boarding care homes, supervised living facilities, assisted living, and home health agencies can be referred to the Minnesota Board on Aging Ombudsman for Long-Term Care.

Educational programs that help participants learn basic activities of daily living. Services instruct, assist, and support clients in areas such as medication management, basic social and living skills, mental health management, household management, and employment-related or community living transitions. Services

• Budgeting and financial management

• Community resource utilization and integration

• Daily structure and time management

• Employment-related skills

• Healthy lifestyles

• Household management

• Illness management

• Interpersonal communication

• Mental illness management

• Nutrition and cooking

• Relapse prevention

• Shopping skills

Provides assistance to individuals who are dislocated or unemployed, struggling to navigate the job market. This includes:

• Personal one-to-one career counseling

• Access to computers for your job search

• Occupational and job search skills training

• Help finding work

• Tuition assistance

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.

Guide to tax preparation assistance sites available by phone or online. Per AARP guidelines, sites will only help with property tax filings for those who are also getting their income taxes done. To find a local tax site, visit the website for more information about appointments and times

• Healthy Movement Programming includes:
• Athletic programs: Individual/teams including basketball, flag football, soccer and baseball
• Open gym and physical activities
• Outdoor and environmental education

• Conflict resolution

• Counseling

• Education/Computer Learning Center includes computer driving stimulation program to practice safe driving, basic instruction, and avoiding risky behaviors while driving

• Nutrition program includes:
• Healthy meal/snack served daily
• Nutrition education and meal preparation
• Gardening opportunities

• K - 8 Reading and literacy enrichment program for youth who have been assessed as needing focused reading support, and numeracy enrichment to assist youth in transition from "learning to read" to "reading to learn" skills with a focus on building math proficiencies

• K - 12 Academic enrichment program for youth to promote academic growth Offers 1:1 academic support including tutoring, skills to become self-directed learners, STEM focused activities and Mentoring program

• Leadership/citizenship groups

• Life skills education

• Teen Pathways College Readiness Program: Individualized support and assistance preparing youth for ACT/SAT exams, college applications, college visits and other assistance as needed to ensure student's progress

• Teen Pathways Employment Readiness Program: Individualized and mentoring support to enhance working and life skills including managing a checking account, creating a budget, saving and investing, career plans and mentoring, vocational exploration, interviewing techniques and additional services as needed to ensure a student's success beyond high school

• "Smart Moves" drug and alcohol use prevention program and premature sexual activity prevention

• Alley beautification program which promotes neighborhood cooperation, includes spring and fall plant shares and annual awards

• Coordinates block clubs/leadership and crime prevention activities

A fund for people who have recently experienced a crisis within the last 90 days and have exhausted all other options. This fund is trying to help people out of poverty by giving out a helping hand.

• Level IV Trauma Center

• Mental Health Crisis Assessment and Referral: Individuals undergo an assessment by a mental health clinician. Once the assessment is done, a plan is made with Emergency Department health care providers to help the individual. Care may include:

• Admission to the hospital

• Information about additional resources

• Referral to a day treatment or partial hospital program

• Referral to a mental health provider at an outpatient clinic

• Return home with a crisis plan in place

• Transfer to another hospital

Provides investigative and intervention services for child abuse, neglect, and/or abandonment. Services include:

• Accepts reports of abuse

• Assessment of the initial referral

• Consultation with individuals who suspect abuse

• Consultation with the family to determine the nature of the problem

• Dependency investigation

• Explanation of reporting statutes and answer questions regarding agency practices

• Ongoing support services for child and their families

• Temporary placement of children who are removed from the home

• Works with the family toward unification or reunification

Public library system

• Provides the public with general library services without charge to all residents of a given district, community, or region
• Includes computer access, Internet, reference assistance, and other informational resources
• Story hour for children

Provides fire and rescue services including: ?- Emergency medical services ?- Fire suppression ?- Fire prevention education ?- Inspection and testing of fire protection systems

These additional more home-like accommodations for men also feature comfortable spaces for sleeping, socializing nd to work on assignments. as with all other living facilities, cooking, and clean-up depends on your cooperation with others.