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Promotes youth development by instilling a sense of accomplishment, competence, belonging, and usefulness. Programs:

• Academic success: Goal is for every member to graduate on time with a plan for their future, whether that plan is post-secondary or a career. Homework help, tutoring, mentoring, chess club, computer classes, and career exploration.

• Character and leadership: Offers programs designed to help members practice and strengthen leadership and problem-solving skills. Community service and support groups.

• Healthy lifestyles: Programs help members learn how to engage in positive behaviors, set personal goals and grow into self-sufficient adults who can make healthy choices. Yoga, exercise classes, gardening instruction, and gym time.

• The arts: Offers a variety of arts programming so that members can learn to express themselves through visual arts, applied arts and performing arts in a safe space. Painting, drawing, and bracelet making.

The Peer Support Network provides a drop-in center for adults with mental health issues. The center offers a living room/lounge, dinette, conference room, recreation and exercise room, computer access, games, books, and TV.

Employment counselors help individuals with:

• Budgeting

• Guidance and support

• May be able to provide funding to pay for housing, transportation, tuition, books, and other education expenses

• Pursuing a GED, diploma, certificate, or degree

• Seeking employment

• Stress management skills

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Provides free income tax preparation services to individuals and families who meet low-income guidelines

Provides the Driving Diversion Program (DDP), a driver's license reinstatement program that allows individuals to reinstate their driver's license and drive legally while paying off fines and fees. A monthly fee is based on an individual's ability to pay. This includes individuals who have a canceled IPS status to help them navigate the legal system, review their file of requirements, and establish a timeline to remove their canceled IPS status.

Patients who need to speak with a financial counselor, need cost of care estimates or determine if they may qualify for financial assistance to pay for procedures may reach out about options. Financial counselors can help individuals understand patients' responsibilities and may offer no-interest payment plans. Other options may include:

• CommonSpirit Health Financial Assistance: Individuals who are uninsured or underinsured and have incomes less than 400% of the Federal Poverty Guideline may be eligible for getting help to pay their medical bill

Provides primary care services, including:

• Diagnostic imaging

• Family medicine

• Rehabilitation therapy such as occupational, physical, and speech therapy

Adult health services: offers general health and wellness care, including preventive exams.

Assists refugees, asylees, U or T visa holders, or Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) holders in adjusting status to a lawful permanent resident. Helps immigrant survivors of domestic violence and violent crimes and their qualified family members obtain legal immigration status. Also helps permanent residents apply to become US citizens and assists in replacing lost, stolen, or expiring documents.

Connects single adults and families experiencing homelessness or at risk of being homeless in Freeborn County with a Housing Specialist to provide housing problem solving. Housing Specialists can assist households with practical solutions, identify sources, alternatives, and mediate conflict resolution between landlords, friends, or family. The initial access point to be connected with a Housing Specialist is short-term and when determined there are no other pathways identified, the household will be connected to a Housing Assessor and placed on the Housing Registry.

Provides primary care services, including:

• Family medicine

??- Integrated Behavioral Health: Psychiatrists evaluate, diagnose, treat, and prevent illnesses that interfere with emotional and behavioral health. Other services include initial evaluations/consultations, bipolar affective disorder group therapy, and medication management.

• Internal medicine

• Obstetrics and Gynecology

• Pediatrics

• Physical therapy

• Podiatry

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 for propane, heating oil, or biofuel

• Preventing disconnection

• $200 minimum and $1400 maximum assistance

Other services may include home energy crisis intervention, outreach, energy advocacy, and information about utility consumer rights. Energy Related Repair funds are also available to help correct no heat or malfunctioning heating systems for owner-occupied homes. Individuals must be eligible for Energy Assistance. Conservation Improvement Program: In partnership with other local utilities, the program provides electric conservation services and materials to families in Dakota and Scott counties. The goal of the program is to reduce energy consumption, thereby reducing energy bills. During a home audit, customers accompany an energy auditor who reviews appliances being used in the home as well as recent energy bills. Clients are educated on energy conservation practices, proper appliance maintenance, and using water flow restrictors. Energy auditors may also help with installation and central air-conditioning tune-up. For those who receive EAP, Energy Crisis Assistance is also available for emergency situations, such as disconnection or shut-off notice, past due balances, or delivery of fuel for tanks less than 20% capacity.

A wide range of civic engagement tools and activities to empower individuals with intellectual disabilities, their families and other interested individuals to influence policy makers and the decisions they make on behalf of children and adults with disabilities including:

• Arc's Public Policy Action network keeps participants up-to-date on emerging issues and legislation that impacts people with intellectual and developmental disabilities

• Local advocates monitor county board and school district activities, host visits with elected officials and administrative staff in the homes of Arc members, host meet-and-greet events with local policymakers, hold Town Meetings and policy forums, and provide testimony at county and school board meetings.

• Policy Preview e-newsletter summarizes key activity and includes information, items requiring action and agendas for the Policy Action Networks

The Arc Minnesota works closely with The Arc of the United States on state and national legislative and policy issues

• CERT - Community Emergency Response Training

• Fire department

• Fire Marshall/Inspector

?- Fire suppression and fire safety

Psychiatric services focus on diagnosing and treating mental disorders of adults, including:

• Anxiety disorders
• Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
• Mood disorders
• Schizophrenia??

?Psychiatrists and advance practice nurses evaluate the need for psychiatric medications and meet with clients on a regular basis for medication management?? ?Psychiatric nurses are available to answer questions about the purpose, side effects, and regime of prescribed medications

Cash-grant program for families with low incomes experiencing a household emergency. 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. ?Short-term, one-time grant assistance for persons 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 therapy for:

• Individual therapy: Anxiety, autism/neurodivergence support groups, depression, grief/loss, health/sleep, identity, LGBTQIA+, relationship/self-care, self-confidence, sex, substance use/addiction, and trauma

• Couples therapy

• Child therapy: Academic struggles, achievement testing, behavioral issues, developmental milestones, identity, play therapy, sibling relationships, substance use/addiction, teens, and trauma

• Family therapy: Couples counseling, grief/loss, identity, parenting, relationship/self-care, substance use/addiction, and trauma

Uses evidence-based treatment modalities to support clients as they work towards personal growth and mental wellness Telehealth available.

• Refugee Cash Assistance (RCA) provides cash assistance to refugees who are ineligible for Supplemental Security Income (SSI) or MFIP for up to eight months after arrival in the United States

• To ensure that RCA recipients are self-sufficient within RCA eligibility, agencies provide employment and social services

• RCA recipients may continue to receive social services after RCA eligibility ends

• There is no 30 day Minnesota residency requirement for RCA

Local shuttle bus service. Stops include:

• Alexandria

• Baxter

• Brainerd

• Camp Ripley

• Clearwater

• Duluth

• Hinckley

• La Crosse (WI)

• Lewiston

• Little Falls

• Monticello

• Osakis

• Pine City

• Rochester

• Royalton

• Sauk Centre

• Scanlon

• Saint Charles

• Saint Cloud

• Winona

• Serving as chief general accounting officer: accounts payable, accounts receivable, central payroll and benefit administration, and preparation of periodic financial reports and an annual financial statement.

• Serving on the budget committee and providing accounting and technical support for the annual budget and truth in taxation processes.

• Administering the property tax system, including all levy and tax increment financing data, tax settlement process, parcel ownership database, delinquent taxes, and tax forfeiture.

• Maintaining computerized parcel-based mapping for the geographic land records information systems.

• Serving as chief election officer of the county.

• Providing licensing services for the retain sales of liquor, beer, tobacco; precious metals; transient merchant; mass gathering permits, public fireworks displays, and gambling permits and exemptions.

• Supervising internal mail services division for all incoming and outgoing county mail.

• Disbursing county funds at the direction of the county board to cover county liabilities, and serving as chief investment officer to invest available fund balances under statutory guidelines.

• Mailing billing statements and collecting payment for all real estate, personal property, severed mineral interests, manufactured homes, and tree growth taxes.

• Maintaining tax books showing taxes paid or unpaid.

• Settling and distributing taxes collected for local taxing districts of the county - towns, cities, school districts, and special taxing districts.

• Completing tax certificates and tax searches.

• Providing tax record information to realtors, mortgage companies and escrow agents.

• Collecting deed and mortgage registration taxes.

• Administering vital statistics - birth, death, marriage, notary public applications and service.

Provides an assessment of an individual's vocational abilities, interests and potential. Goal is to assist in developing a vocational direction. Outcomes vary. Many individuals are referred for Competitive Placement services for assistance in obtaining employment, while other recommendations may be for post-secondary or other programs/services offered through Ability Building Community - ABC.

Provides pro-life pregnancy services and information such as: Medical Services:

• Pregnancy testing

• Sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing and treatment

• Ultrasound (limited basis)

Support Services: ?- Abortion information

• After abortion support

• Adoption support

??- Community resources

• Parenting support

Families are needed to open their homes to school age children needing a temporary place to live. Placements vary in length. Foster providers become part of the agency team that works closely to meet the child's needs and with the child's parents toward the goal of reuniting the family or finding permanency for the child.

Adult Rehabilitative Mental Health Services (ARMHS) Mental health support services for adults aged 18 and older, including basic living and social skills, community intervention, medication education, and transition to community living Available in the following Counties: Aitkin, Beltrami, Carlton, Cass, Clearwater, Hubbard, Itasca, Koochiching, and St. Louis