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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.

• 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.

• Qualifying Individual (QI): Helps pay for Part B premiums only. 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 and countable resource limits apply for individuals and married couples.

Supported living settings are homes for up to four people with physical, medical, mental health and behavioral support needs. They combine a positive, nurturing environment with personalized supports and 24-hour supervision. Through customized care plans, individuals receiving support work toward achieving their goals, such as living independently in an apartment or cooking healthy meals. Services promote development in the areas of social skills, recreation, meal preparation, budgeting, self-care, and educational or vocational interests. Individuals form relationships with skilled and caring direct care professionals and nursing staff who ensure their everyday needs, as well as overall medical requirements, are being met.

Provides information on community resources and assists with short-term planning to to address immediate needs, including:

• Childcare

• Clothing

• Education transportation

• Employment

• Food

• Hennepin County services

• Health insurance

• Housing

Offers a birthing center that includes the following services:

• AfterCare clinic

• Birth plans

• Labor and delivery

• Lactation specialists

• Level II nursery

• Pain management, including nitrous oxide

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.

School-based advocacy for students experiencing family or teen dating violence, including:

• Education and support groups

• Individual counseling

• Information and referrals

Licensed residential living programs for people with acquired or congenital disabilities such as intellectual developmental disabilities, autism spectrum disorder, or brain injuries. Programming consists of:

• Cooking

• Individual living skills instruction

• Medication management

• Money management

• Positive behavior supports

• Recreational activities

• Self-help, wellness, and symptom management

• Socialization

Contract for services with local providers:

• Home health aides

• Homemakers provide homemaking assistance which may include light housekeeping, laundry, grocery shopping, and running errands

• Skilled nurse visits to provide technical procedures, assessments, appropriate interventions, teaching, and medication monitoring

?Provides legal aid to individuals who rely on cash, food, and medical assistance programs when their benefits are denied, terminated, or reduced. Services may include:

• Contacting the county to learn what happened to fix errors

• Eligibility requirements for getting benefits

• How amounts are determined

• Legal advice or representation for programs such as General Assistance (GA), Medical Assistance (MA), MinnesotaCare, Minnesota Family Investment Program (MFIP), Minnesota Supplemental Aid (MSA), Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Supplemental Security Income (SSI), and Unemployment Insurance

• Represent clients at appeal hearings like SSI or UI hearings

Provides assisted living studio, one-bedroom, and two-bedroom for seniors designed to help residents with day-to-day activities, while promoting health and well-being. Services include:

• Assistance with dressing and grooming

• Bathing assistance

• Care associates available 24 hours

• Comprehensive wellness program

• Dietician consultant available

• Housekeeping and linens

• Medication administration

• Three meals a day

• Special diets accommodated

Provides primary and specialty care services including:

• Behavioral health

• Diabetes education and management

• Family medicine

• Internal medicine

• Lab services

• Nutrition management

• Pediatric medicine

• Podiatry

• Sports medicine

• Women's health

Coordinates and funds scholarships for youth and adults to attend programs in specific industries, at approved educational institutions

Program is a three-year opportunity providing live on-campus in an apartment with their peers to learn independent living skills, vocational skills, and social skills. Through experiential learning and integration into the surrounding community, students gain valuable experiences and begin to develop their own accomplishments from daily living tasks, like taking public transportation or managing your finances, to building and sustaining a career, a support system and lifelong relationships. MICC College program curriculum competency areas include:

• Independent Living (includes personal care, meal planning and preparation, fitness and nutrition, financial skills, home care and personal organization)

• Thriving in community (helps participants build social-emotional skills to promote healthy relationships, manage stress and anxiety and work collaboratively while being authentically themselves)

• Working with purpose (building job and employment skills)

Mobile and stationary clinic providing low-cost spay and neuter surgeries and core vaccinations for cats and dogs. Patients receive an exam before every procedure, are anesthetized and operated on using the most current surgical techniques and equipment and go home the same day.

Support groups and classes are offered at locations throughout the Park Nicollet health system. Call for locations and times.

• Condition Specific Support Groups and classes including: ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder), arthritis, bariatric surgery, cancer, dementia, diabetes, eating disorders, heart disease, Parkinson's Disease, sleep disorders, stroke, and brain injury

• Childhood preparation classes including: Preparing for childbirth, breastfeeding, and baby care basics

• Grief support groups

• Nutrition information classes

• Health and wellness classes

• Smoking cessation

• Investigates reports of cruelty to animals in Minnesota

• Trains, certifies, and appoints State Humane Agents

• Consists of MFHS member humane organizations in Minnesota

Does not operate an animal shelter and does not have animals available for adoption.

Provides the following services:

• Community Education: Offers presentations and facilitated dialogs to community groups and individuals on the basics of domestic and/or sexual violence, signs, intervention and awareness. Participating groups have included faith-based groups, civic and service clubs, and social justice-oriented organizations.

• Community Events and Resource Fairs: Participates in numerous resource and wellness fairs throughout the metro area every year. Organizations can contact Alexandra House if they are organizing an event or fair and would like to have Alexandra House represented.

• Professional Trainings and Collaborations: Offers a variety of trainings tailored for various professional groups to respond to and prevent domestic and sexual violence

• Student and Youth Education: Provides a tailored learning experience for youth and students in grades 3rd and above about domestic or sexual abuse

Provides the licensing for child care, which typically takes three to six months to complete. Services include:

• Child care provider information

• Information about licensing requirements and standards

• Inspections and investigations on certifications

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

Provides legal information services to the community. Services include:

• Access to legal materials, federal government documents, including self-help materials

• Legal clinics

• Library staff available to answer questions, locate materials, and provide assistance with using the library's resources. Library staff cannot provide services that might be interpreted as the authorized practice of law, such as locating relevant cases, interpreting statues, or giving legal advice.

• Online information, including searches for library materials, links to county law libraries, and answers to frequently asked questions

• Referrals to legal service organizations offering free or low-cost legal advice

• Under an inter-agency agreement with the Minnesota Department of Corrections, the Outreach Services Department provides law library services to inmates incarcerated in Minnesota. Law Librarians conduct regularly scheduled visits to eight correctional facilities to meet with inmates. Inmates can write or call for legal information between visits.

Affordable rental options for individuals and families

Provides temporary shelter dedicated to rescuing, rehabilitating, and reuniting abandoned, stray, and surrendered dogs and cats. Offers safe drop-off services, such as microchipping, spay and neuter services, adoption opportunities, and community education to promote loving, lifelong homes.

Provides assistance, investigates, and/or intervenes on behalf of vulnerable adults who are unable to act on their own behalf, manage their own affairs, or who are in immediate danger due to physical or emotional abuse, unsafe or hazardous living conditions, exploitation, neglect, or abandonment. Services may include:

• Authorization for medical treatment

• Consultation to individuals who suspect abuse?

• Removal of the individual to safer surroundings?

• Services necessary to remove the conditions which have created a threat to 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, and assisted living and home health agencies - can be referred to the MN Office of Health Facility Complaints at (651)201-4201 or toll-free at (800)369-7994.

Provides state-operated, secure mental health, substance use, and nursing treatment facilities for adults, including the following:

• Community Behavioral Health Hospitals (CBHHs): Provide inpatient behavioral health care for adults in six communities throughout the state. These 16-bed hospitals offer acute, short-term hospitalization services that include comprehensive assessment of mental, social, functional, and physical health; development of individualized treatment plans with medication management and 24-hour nursing care; and care delivered by multidisciplinary teams consisting of psychiatrists, general practice physicians, psychiatric nurses, psychologists, clinical social workers, addiction counselors, and occupational therapists. Services also emphasize illness management and recovery, as well as individualized discharge planning, care coordination, and aftercare planning to support a successful transition back to an appropriate community-based setting.

• Forensic Mental Health Services: Provides residential treatment services for adults in both secure and non-secure settings on a large campus in St. Peter, Minnesota. The program also operates a 32-bed North Campus facility on the north side of St. Peter and an additional 16-bed facility located off campus in St. Peter. FMHP primarily serves individuals who have been civilly committed by a court as mentally ill and dangerous, often following criminal charges in which a court determined they were not competent to stand trial or not guilty by reason of mental illness or cognitive impairment. Many patients are under more than one type of civil commitment. In addition, Community Integrated Services provides ongoing monitoring and support for FMHP patients who have been provisionally discharged by a court to live in less restrictive community settings. This statewide program serves individuals from all 87 Minnesota counties and supports patients in achieving stable, successful lives in a variety of community settings outside FMHP facilities.

• Forensic Nursing Home: Provides state-operated nursing home and provides nursing home-level care in a secure environment. The facility serves individuals who are civilly committed as mentally ill and dangerous, sexually dangerous persons, or sexual psychopathic personalities, as well as prison inmates on medical release from the Minnesota Department of Corrections. Care provided is consistent with that offered in other nursing homes and includes assistance with daily living, rehabilitation services, and end-of-life care.

• Intensive Residential Treatment Services (IRTS): Provide structured, short-term residential care for adults who no longer require hospitalization or other inpatient treatment but still need ongoing support before returning home. Clients typically have serious mental illness and may also have co-occurring conditions such as traumatic brain injury, addiction, or behavioral disorders. Services are available around the clock with support from mental health professionals and focus on improving psychiatric stability, personal and emotional adjustment, self-sufficiency, and independent living skills. Programs work collaboratively with clients to achieve individual goals and prepare them for a successful transition to home or to a less structured community setting, with an average length of stay of approximately 90 days before discharge.

• Substance Use Disorder Treatment Services: Community Addiction Recovery Enterprise (CARE) provides inpatient substance use disorder treatment services to adults at three locations statewide. The program offers specialized inpatient services for individuals who are chemically dependent and have co-occurring mental illnesses, along with relapse prevention services and comprehensive aftercare planning. All CARE facilities are locked, and clients stay an average of approximately 90 days before discharge, depending on their level of participation and responsiveness to treatment.

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. 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 discussion groups

• Parent-child activities

• Play and learn activities for children

• Programs for non-English language learners

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

• Single parent program

• Special events for families

• Workshops on specific topics

NOTE: Call for current class offerings and schedule of events.

A community center offering a fitness center, aquatics area, ice arena, multi-purpose arena, walking track, and meeting rooms.