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Helps families work their way out of poverty by providing temporary cash and food benefits to eligible families. While MFIP has a 60-month time limit, there are some limited exceptions and extensions. Participants are required to follow certain work rules. Failure to meet these requirements will result in MFIP grants being sanctioned or reduced. In addition:

• Child support will be pursued in those situations where one or both parents are absent
• A woman expecting a baby may receive assistance for herself during her pregnancy
• Children who are being cared for by certain relatives may receive assistance

NOTE: MFIP recipients may be eligible for Emergency Assistance, Child Care Assistance, Medical Assistance, and/or Food Support.

Outreach program

Public assistance program which focuses on the overall family's well-being and provides resources to move to employment quickly, whether this be through up-skilling or through help with interview and job search skills. Support service monies are utilized to address childcare, transportation, and work-related costs that could be impediments to employment. As recipients face a five-year time limit on receiving public assistance benefits, the program utilizes one-on-one group initiatives and counseling to facilitate participant success and self-sufficiency. Follow-up is provided to support job retention and reduce program recurrence.

Education and training to join a trade career that offers in-classroom and on-the-job experience.

• Provides primary health care - Sliding fee scale is available for eligible persons based on family size and annual income through a Community Health Center Grant provided by the Bureau of Primary Health Care - Accepts Medicare and Medicaid

Offers a range of therapy options to address various mental health concerns. Services provided:

• Autism assessments and a clinical review

• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

• Comprehensive mental health assessments, psychological evaluations, and personalized treatment plans

• Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)

• Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)

• Individual, couples, and group counseling

• On-site pharmacy services for medication, refills, and medication delivery

• Parent-child interaction counseling

• Play and sand tray therapy

• Psychiatric disorder counseling

• Psychiatry providing medication management, psychiatric evaluations, and monitoring of client's physical and mental well-being

• Telemental health or online therapy services

• Trauma-focused counseling

Operates social enterprise businesses that support primarily men exiting incarceration who need to build employability skills before entering the mainstream workforce. Offers the following services:

• Custom Manufacturing: Contracts with area businesses to provide trainee jobs in high demand fields of manufacturing, welding, and machining.

• Furnish Office and Home: Nonprofit store primarily selling used and new office and home furnishings for up to 80% off list prices. Items vary based on donations. Paid job training program allowing trainees experience working on sales and warehouse skills, conflict resolution, maintaining a positive attitude and gaining solid work history based on dependability and personal responsibility. Accepts donations of office furniture, equipment and supplies; a pick up fee may be charged. Accepts donations of household furniture in good, resalable condition and less than 10 years old including tables, chairs, sofas, dressers, night stands, lamps, bookcases, artwork, appliances, electronics and tools.

• Second Chance Recycling: Specializes in recycling mattresses and batteries and sole manufacturer and distributor of Salvatore Ovens. Employs those facing barriers to employment as trainees for 6 - 12 months as a way to help participants build healthy work habits and a work history. Accepts mattresses and box springs for a fee and can pick up curbside for a fee. Quantities of 25 or more, call to make arrangements. Mattresses with bed bugs are not accepted. Batteries from the general public are not accepted.

Permanent supportive housing for homeless individuals with long-term housing needs and other issues that may be a barrier to self-sufficiency. Services include:

• Apartments with a kitchen, full bath, and a sleeping area

• Assistance with self-sufficiency skills, employment, medical/dental referrals, recreation, chemical dependency referrals, mental health services, educational services, information, and referral

• Community room and laundry facilities

• Social workers/case managers available

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.

Counseling specialties include:

• Relationship Issues: Marital and pre-marital couples therapy, communication skills, conflict resolution and sexuality issues

• Mood/Anxiety Disorders: Depression, anxiety, bi-polar disorders, panic attacks, post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and obsessive-compulsive disorders

• Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT): State-certified, evidence-based DBT programming for adults and a modified program for adolescents

• Anger Management: Group and individual therapy

• Other: Trauma related issues; foster care/adoption issues; adult ADHD; grief and loss; stress management; self-esteem; geriatric/aging; life transitions; gay/lesbian/transgender issues

• Teen and Parent Hotline: 218-751-4332 Available 24 hours/7 days a week.

• Emergency shelter and support services for youth ages 9 - 17 who are in crisis, homeless, or runaways. Family support/coaching/education available for youth and their families. No need to have a residential stay to access family support services.

• Safe place for youth to stay while giving families the opportunity to positively resolve conflicts.

• Youth awaiting placement or awaiting disposition can receive safe shelter and support services.

• Daily classes at the area learning center or in local schools if you're enrolled.

• Skill building groups for youth on topics including: substance abuse, anger management, sexual responsibility, mental heath issues and depression, and more.

• Free individual counseling for youth.

• Free parenting support services for area families.

• Drop in (telephone or walk-in) counseling for parents and youth.

• Advocacy, outreach and referral services.

• Gang prevention and intervention with youth and families.

• Substance abuse education for youth and parents. Low cost drug test kits available with instructions ($5-$7).

Mayor and City Council Members

• Member contact information

Departments:

• Animal Containment Center

• Assessor's Office: Establishes the estimated market value and classification for property tax purposes

• City Administration: Oversees city department operations

• City attorney

• Community Development Department: Building permits, plumbing permits, and mechanical permits

• Finance department

• Public Works Department: Handles street construction/repair, snow clearance, water, and sewer maintenance?

Provides an adult day program offering:

• An alternative to assisted living for older adults

• Caregiver support and referrals to community support groups and resources

• Health monitoring services, memory care, personal care assistance, and transportation

• Full and half day programs, in addition to hourly respite care

• Meals and nutritious snacks

• Recreational and enrichment activities

• Socialization with others

Peer Support Recovery Plans may include the following person-centered/self-directed activities:

• Education and skill-building: Advanced psychiatric directives; crisis planning; self-advocacy skills, including connecting to professional services when appropriate; wellness planning

• PSS helps recipients to do the following: Identify their strengths and to use their strengths to reach their treatment goals; identify and overcome barriers to participation in community resources

• Connect with resources, including: Teaching and modeling the skills needed to successfully utilize community resources; visiting community resources to assist them in becoming familiar with potential opportunities

• Building relationships and encouraging community-based activities, such as: Physical activity; relationships; self-directed hobbies; work

Participants can receive the services at any agency location, in their home, community, or via telehealth.

Provides affordable housing throughout Minnesota. Property website allows individuals to search a location and filter to senior or Section 8 housing.

Network of leaders of volunteers in the Rochester area whose purpose is to help leadership in volunteerism by:

• Engaging in networking

• Strengthening local volunteer efforts

• Providing professional development opportunities

Advises and assists veterans and their dependents with all state and federal veterans benefits such as:

• Burial benefits

• Financial assistance through the V.A. for dental work

• G.I. Bill education assistance

• G. I. Bill life insurance

• Home loan guaranteed by the U.S.D.V.A.

• Information about and referrals to other service agencies for chemical dependency treatment and vocational rehabilitation

• Outpatient medical care through the V.A.

• Service-connected disability compensation

• "State Soldiers Assistance Program" (SSAP) provides cash assistance in the form of shelter payments (rent and mortgage), utilities, and personal needs grants to veterans who are unable to work as a result of a temporary disability. There are strict income and asset requirements.

• Survivors and dependents education

• Transportation to VA Medical Center

• Veteran/military health insurance

• Veteran survivor insurance

• Billing: (612)262-9000

• Birth Center: (763)236-8400

• Courage Kenny Rehabilitation Institute - Mercy Hospital: (612)236-8910

• Foundation: (763)263-3961

• General Surgery Clinic: (763)236-9000

• Heart and Vascular Center: (866)450-7999

• Intensive Care Unit (ICU): (763)236-8300

• Joint Replacement Center: (763)236-8860

• M-Power Health and Fitness Center: (763)236-8024

• Medical Imaging: (763)236-0808

• Medical Records: (612)262-2300

• Lung Program: (763)236-0808

• Laboratory: (763)236-8158

• Orthopedics: (763)946-9777

• Orthopedics Clinic: (763)236-8910

• Patient Pre-registration: (612)262-5335

• Pharmacy: (763)236-7111

• Physician Referral (Find a Doctor): (612)262-3333 or (800)877-7878

• Respiratory Services: (763)236-6867

• Robotic-Assisted Surgery: (763)236-6000

• Spine Care: (800)827-8313

• Virginia Piper Cancer Institute: (763)236-0808

Daily dinner served at the Olive Branch House and Dorothy Day House

After school youth center providing free meals to youth daily and including food and grocery assistance to families in need when necessary. The Center offers life preparedness programs like ABCs program, a culturally responsive workshop that prepares youth for adulthood by helping them develop financial literacy and healthy habits through hands-on workshops on budgeting, healthy living, and leadership skills. Works with Duluth Public Schools and Community School Collaborative to support students by ensuring that they are doing well in school and on track to graduate to their next grade level. Neighborhood Youth Services (NYS) programming focuses on healthy living, art awareness, cultural awareness and sensitivity, academic achievement, community awareness and service learning.

GRH is an income supplement program that helps pay for lodging and raw food costs for low-income adults who have been placed in a licensed or registered setting including adult foster care, board and lodging establishments, supervised living facilities, non certified boarding care homes and various forms of assisted living settings.

• 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 a range of primary care and specialty care services. Services include:

• Child and adult immunizations

• Family medicine

• Flu vaccinations

• General physical and sports exams

• On-site laboratory and diagnostic services

• Telemedicine and virtual visits

Provides information for prospective students and their families with processes of enrolling at UMD, including admissions, housing, financial aid, and academic orientation.

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

• Information about licensing requirements and standards

• Inspections and investigations on certifications

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