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Provides assessment and evaluation of an individual's condition, stabilizes them as needed, and provides treatment. Time spent in the hospital is meant to be short, so a plan is developed for continued care outside of the hospital. The goal is to return the individual to positive mental health and well-being and prepare them for a successful transition to outpatient care and home. Inpatient care may include:

• Educational programming

• Family involvement

• Individual and group psychotherapy (talking through problems)

• Medication management

• Treatment and crisis planning

Provides targeted mental health case management services to address the unique needs of an adult or child who is experiencing mental health concerns to help coordinate and implement mental health services. Case managers can also assist in referrals to employment support and housing programs.

Assists refugees with resettlement in Minnesota. Assistance available in the areas of housing, household provisions, cash assistance programs, and community resources and referrals.

Provides culturally responsive mental health services, regardless of diagnosis or insurance status. Offers person-centered and family-centered planning and treatment planning. Services provided:

• Adult Rehabilitative Mental Health Services (ARMHS): Helps adults living with a chronic mental health diagnosis manage their mental health symptoms and improve their quality of life. Services are completed at the client's home or in the community.

• Immigration-Related Assessments: Offers assessments for immigration-related cases, including U-Visa applications, hardship applications, and asylum applications. Through a clinical interview, therapists obtain information to create a report that describes the impact of specific immigration or violence-related experiences. Interviews generally result in a letter of support for the client.

• Mental Health Assessment and Therapy: Offers counseling services to individuals facing anxiety, stress, depression, and other mental health needs to help them build coping skills and health from emotional pain or struggles. Mental health therapists help adults, couples, and families with a variety of issues such as gambling, gender identity, geriatric issues, sexuality, marriage, parenting, and psychiatric disorders.

• Psychiatry: Psychiatrists work with clients already engaged in the mental health services at CLUES to prescribe medications that can help reduce or alleviate mental health symptoms

• Resources and Support: Offers peer and family support, services for veterans and members of the armed forces, and care coordination with other providers and systems

Support services available for those dealing with eating disorders. Nutritional evaluation, counseling, and education are offered to support recovery.

• Group therapy available as often as needed or recommended

• One to two hour individual therapy, once a week

• Registered dietitian services when needed and as recommended by participant's care team

The assessment helps determine public programs that might pay for an individual's long-term services and supports or help them learn about other options if they don't qualify for publicly funded programs. It is required to determine eligibility for: Community First Services and Supports - CFSS (formerly known as Personal Care Assistance - PCA) Home and Community-Based Services Waivers based on age:

• Individuals Over 65 Years Old: Alternative Care (AC); Elderly Waiver (EW)

• Individuals Under 65 Years Old: Brain Injury Waiver (BI); Community Access for Disability Inclusion Waiver (CADI); Community Alternative Care Waiver (CAC)

Intellectual and Developmental Disability (IDD) Services (also known as Rule 185 Case Management) Family, friends, or others can attend the assessment. The assessment is in person at the individual's home or at a place of their choice, and it lasts about two hours.

Services for children, with a focus on enhancing the connection between young children and their caregivers

Coordinated Entry Services (CES): The Housing Advocacy Services Department participates in the Southeast Minnesota River Valleys Continuum of Care Coordinated Entry Services (CES) for housing and support services for households experiencing homelessness Prevention Assistance: When funding is available, individuals and families will be referred to the Housing Advocacy Department for follow up on Prevention Assistance. Funds will vary on a monthly basis. The Prevention Assistance fund assists families and individuals facing eviction with back-rent financial assistance and landlord-tenant negotiation assistance. Case management includes services such as transportation assistance, information/referral, and landlord tenant law training with the goal of achieving housing stability moving forward. Rapid Re-Housing (RRH): Provides short-term rent assistance and/or deposit for individuals and families with children who are homeless to get into permanent affordable housing where the participant is the leaseholder and chooses their own apartment according to their needs. RRH includes case management services such as life skills training, transportation assistance, information/referral, landlord tenant law training, and utility assistance for up to six months with the goal of obtaining and subsequently maintaining stable housing. Households will be assessed and prioritized using the Coordinated Entry System. Long-Term Assistance: The Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) Program provides high-barrier households experiencing homelessness with affordable rental housing and supportive services that assist participants with maintaining housing stability, improving overall wellness, engaging in the community and leading successful lives. PSH targets households that need intensive case management services due to challenges such as significant and persistent mental health issues and chemical dependency. Households will be assessed and prioritized using the Coordinated Entry System. Note: Funding comes from a variety of sources including the Family Homeless Prevention and Assistance Program - FHPAP and others.

Provides peer counseling services, resources, and referrals concerning issues of personal growth and career development

• Provides prescription help for persons 65 or older and eligible for medicare. - For information call Senior Linkage Line

• Provides supported living services for adults with developmental disabilities - 4 beds - 24 hour staff available - No pets

• Employment acquisition including job information, job banks, job fairs, job line and job search and placement

• Employment preparation including career development, career awareness counseling, career exploration and vocational assessment

• Job training in classroom, internship, on-the-job, and retraining

• Prejob guidance including job interview training, job search resource center, job search techniques and resume preparation

• Prevocational training

• Job development

• Public employment and training programs including WIA, summer youth employment and MFIP employment

• Day care on sliding fee scale available; accepts children ages 16 months to 5 years

Provides virtual monthly meetings of grief support services that comfort, encourage, and educate those in grief from a suicide loss.

Mental health services for children and adults including:?

• Adult/child case management

• Adult mental health rehabilitation services

• Crisis services

• Day treatment

• Drop-in mental health center for adults

• Medication management

• Outpatient mental health

• Pre-commitment screening (assessment of cases being referred for civil commitment)

• Psychiatric services for children and adolescents

• Psychological testing and evaluation

• Residential treatment

• Training for independent living

Local fire services

Provides a safe, natural setting with modern facilities where individuals can develop an awareness and appreciation of themselves, each other, and the environment through hands-on learning sessions, cooperative exercises, recreational activities, and small-group living situations. Campers are involved in activities and programs from early morning until sunset

• Call for resident camp dates
• Facility rental available
• Outdoor education program
• Summer camp programs

Provides specialized outpatient mental health services for children and adolescents with a focus on problematic sexual behaviors and related emotional or behavioral concerns. Services include:

• Comprehensive outpatient sexual behavior assessments

• Parent/Caregiver Support Groups: Helps families understand sexual behavior dynamics, treatment processes, and build supportive strategies

• Psychotherapy for children and adolescents ages 6-17

• Treatment groups for adolescent males experiencing problematic sexual behavior

Group Therapy Treatment Program: 12 to 16 weeks of structured group sessions

• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

• Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

• Evidence-based approaches such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills training, educational curriculum, and experiential group therapy

• Family and individual therapy as recommended

• Individualized treatment planning

• Individual Therapy Services

• Parent support group component

• Play therapy (when developmentally appropriate)

• Progress review meetings upon request

• Pro-social skills training

Promotes community involvement and philanthropic giving among women in the community of Otter Tail and Wadena County. Women United is involved with programs that promote early literacy including the Imagination Library, Buddy Book Bins, and Prescription Reading. Involvements include:

• Educating women on the United Way's Community Impact work

• Offering women opportunities to be engaged in the work

• Keep women informed about the needs of the community

• Aerobics classes

• Aqua fitness held at Paynesville Inn and Suites

• Bridge

• Dances

• Defensive driver classes throughout the year

• Fishing and boating opportunities through Let's Go Fishing in Summer months

• Friday and Friends - group respite

• Numerous card playing opportunities

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• Tai Chi

Provides fire and emergency response for city of Bigfork and surrounding areas

Provides books, eBooks, eAudiobooks, magazines, music CDs, DVDs, audiobooks on CD, access to computers, children's play stations, Internet access, online reference databases, children's story times, law library, Spanish language materials, summer reading program for children, as well as book clubs and computer classes for adults.

• Provides training and consultation to investigative professionals from Minnesota and the United States in conducting interviews with children who have been sexually abused/traumatized.

• Provides training to professionals and community groups on child abuse and trauma, and requirements for mandated reporting of abuse.

A county-administered federal program that assists individuals and families with low incomes to purchase food and better meet their nutritional needs. The program is not intended to supply all of a person's or family's food needs. Food Support is a supplement to help them achieve or maintain their independence. Service can work with individuals who have lost or had their cards stolen.

Works with local residents to create stability and work towards sustainability. Each participant develops goals and the means of working to them. Staff and volunteer advocates:

• Assist in goal-setting

• Offer continuing support

• Prevent evictions through rent assistance only; not mortgages

• Prevent shut-offs or other crises; undesignated funding is available on a case-by-case basis for long-term participants (rarely)

• Provide connections and resource referrals

• Take time to listen

Note: Does not provide shelter or temporary housing. Individuals must be willing to work long-term.

Cash-grant program for families with low incomes experiencing household emergencies. 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 grant assistance for persons in a financial crisis including risk of losing their housing (rent or mortgage) or are up for disconnection or already disconnected from their utilities (including electric, gas, heating, and water) service providers.