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Provides crisis assessments, crisis interventions, and community based stabilization services for Veterans of Itasca County and the catchment area of Hill City. The VCRT responds by phone and in person, to Veterans and/or their spouses experiencing mental health emergencies at locations such as, but not limited to: private homes, community locations, and hospital/clinic settings.

Provides opportunities for older adults to stay involved in their community and a place to meet and socialize. Services include:

• Arts and crafts instruction including quilting

• Recreational activities including bowling, cards, and intergenerational programs

• Coffee Talks: Casual group discussion with community members

• Recreational activities including bingo, bridge, and book clubs

• Educational opportunities including fall prevention, oil painting, technology classes, and cooking classes

• Fitness programs including aerobics

• Vision loss support group

Services are part of Community Thread's THRIVE program.

Provides training and social activities for girls age 6 - 12 - Training in cooking - Training in housekeeping - Training in homemaking - Social activities - Summer Camp - Personal Hygene - Arts/Crafts

Provides a program called the Project for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness (PATH) to connect individuals with housing services and other resources to find safety and housing stability. Services provided through the program:

• Helps individuals apply for economic assistance, medical assistance, and Social Security as needed

• Helps individuals obtain necessary paperwork to secure housing and create an individualized housing plan

• Provides referrals to medical and mental health care, legal assistance, and other essential services

• Works through barriers preventing the individual from finding and keeping housing

• Works with clients to access Coordinated Entry services to determine if they qualify for Project Home or Youngdahl Living programs. Project Home and Youngdahl programs are permanent support housing programs for those dealing with homelessness, unstable living conditions, and need stable housing.

Provides workforce development services, including:

• Assistance with education, training, and job placement as required for employment

• Employment support for blind and visually impaired adults

• Employment-related services provided based on an individually developed employment plan

• Information about access technology, including hands-on demonstration and assessment

• Referral to resources for housing, independent living skills, and additional relevant services

• Support to retain, regain, or advance in employment if eligible for services

• Students ages 14 - 21 who are blind or visually impaired can apply for transition services

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, outreach, and supportive and therapeutic services

• Connect families with county and community-based services

• Limited financial assistance for families to meet basic needs

Seeks the protection of all persons in their environment. Services include:

• Information regarding other environmental conditions affecting health such as insect-borne diseases, healthy housing conditions, and clandestine lab clean-up

• Licensing and inspection of food and beverage businesses, public lodging, public swimming pools, manufactured home parks, and campgrounds

• Managing septic compliance and new system installations to protect public health

• Permitting and inspection of well-construction and sealing

• Radon test kits and information

Administers Federal Older Americans Act funding for community-based services such as:

• Caregiver support
• Chore services
• Home-delivered meals
• Information and assistance
• Legal services
• Respite programs
• Senior dining
• Transportation

Awards matching grants to non-profit or public agencies for community services for older adults and caregivers; contact agency for annual cycles

Senior center with many activities and programs.

• Senior dining program at noon

• Public health nurse available on occasion

• AARP free tax preparation Mondays during tax season - call for an appointment

Offers advice on detecting invasive pests such as Emerald Ash Borer and on preventing their spread throughout the state.

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. Works to strengthen families and engage the ability of all parents to provide an environment that supports the healthy development of their child. Services may include:

• Book and toy lending library

• Dad and child programs

• Early childhood screening for children ages 3 - 5

• Home visits

• Information on community resources

• Parent-child activities

• Parent discussion groups

• Play and learn activities for children

• Special events for the entire family

• Programs for non-English language learners

• School readiness program for children ages 3 1/2 - 4

• Single parent program

• Workshops on specific topics

Provides religious education

Housing properties specially equipped to suit the needs of residents:

• Circle Pines - Oak Hills Manor

• Moose Lake - Hillside Manor East

• Nashwauk - Deering Manor

• Proctor - Railview

Amenities include:

• Accessible building entries, units, and bathrooms

• Community rooms

• Elevators

• Emergency call systems

• Exercise classes

• Home care access

• Meal programs

• Monthly health clinics and pot lucks

• Trash chutes

• Worship services

Provides law enforcement for residents of Hastings

• Mental Health - Master's Level: Provides students training in the outpatient mental health clinic

• Mental Health - Residential - Master's Level: Gives students an opportunity to provide direct and indirect clinical services to residents of Intensive Residential Treatment Services (IRTS)

Provides law enforcement and community services

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

• Accepts 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

• Explanation of reporting statutes and answer questions regarding agency practices

• 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

Basketball league for boys

Provides chemical health and Rule 25 assessments

Child support is money a parent is court-ordered to pay to their child's other parent or caregiver for the support of the child. Either parent may apply for services. Services include:

• Collecting child support and enforcing court orders

• Establishing paternity, including coordinating genetic testing

• Establishing court orders to pay child support

• Helping families to modify court orders

Provides supportive services for individuals and families who have experienced or have been affected by all types of perinatal loss including miscarriage, stillbirth, ectopic pregnancy, infertility, neonatal death, prematurity, and others, including:

• Virtual Support Groups: Bereaved Parents, Pregnancy After Loss, Dad's Grief Discussion, Grandparents and Extended Family, Parenting After Loss, and Coping with SIDS/SUID and Infant Death

• Peer Companions: Free trained peer companions with similar experience are matched with newly bereaved individuals to provide support and resources. Peers are available for the entire family.

• A free national telephone and text grief support helpline staffed by professionals who have personal experience with pregnancy and infant loss.

• Prenatal Patient Education: Parenting in Pregnancy is an informational booklet for expectant parents about how to optimize the health of mom and baby during pregnancy. Educational materials are also available for stillbirth, miscarriage, pregnancy after a loss, fathers grief, caring for yourself after perinatal loss, grieving grandparents, assisting siblings with perinatal loss, how friends and family can help, and understanding perinatal autopsy and testing options.

• Hosts a monthly podcast that offers information, support, and education.

• Minnesota Center for Stillbirth and Infant Death: A statewide program that provides a starting point for families who have experienced the death of a baby through stillbirth, neonatal death, SUID/SIDS, or any other infant death. Provides resources for information on strategies to reduce the risk for stillbirth and infant death, grief resources, funeral assistance, and support for bereaved families. The Center will contact each family and offer the services of a Family Support Coordinator who are health professionals with expertise in caring for families after the death of a baby. Visit website for more information and online Support Referral Form.

• Blood Donor Ambassador: Volunteers are needed to welcome visitors to Red Cross facilities or blood drives and take their temperature before they enter

• 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 income-eligible Hennepin County residents in attaining living-wage jobs and removing employment barriers. The program includes resume support, interview readiness training, finding job leads, and maintaining employment.

• Mental health case management

• Community support services

• Housing Support Services: One staff member specializes in helping people find housing they want and maintaining that housing

• Medication management

• Employability and work related opportunities

• Crisis prevention assistance

• Assistance in independent living skills

• Social, Recreation and Education: Walking groups

Mayor and City Council Members:

• Member contact information

???Administration ?????- Responsible for City Council support, finance, elections, and general city government administration Community Development ?- Responsible for building permits, city engineering, and city planning ?City Attorney

• Responsible for city legal matters

• Phone: (612)743-4242- Email: [email protected]

Public Utilities ?- Billing services for city utilities

• Garbage: Tennis Sanitation (651)459-1887

• Sewer and Water: St. Anthony Village (612)782-3318

Public Works ?- Responsible for city maintenance, snow removal, sewer maintenance, water maintenance, and tree inspections

• City Tree Inspector: John Lund (651)338-1383

• City Water Superintendent: John Manship (651)426-9386

• Snow Removal: (612)256-9214

• Sewer Maintenance: (651) 755-9828