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Assistance to households in need of help navigating the resources available in the community to provide short-term economic supports. Including:

• Medicare (Medicare counselors)

• MNSure (MNSure navigators)

• SNAP

• Social Security and Disability Benefits

PCA Choice has been replaced with Community First Services and Supports. The program allows more control of services for the consumer. Services for the Choice Option include:

• Activities of daily living

• Behavior Interventions: Observes and redirects behavior that interferes with completion of PCA services

• Instrumental Activities of Daily Living: Provides meal planning, shopping, light housekeeping, participation in the community

Provides Pre-K - 12 educational services to area residents as well as community education courses and co-curricular activities. Schools:

• Win E Mac Elementary School: 23130 345th Street Southeast Erskine MN 56535 (218)687-2236

• Win E Mac High School: 23130 345th Street Southeast Erskine MN 56535 (218)687-2236

Lake Ridge was designed with transitions in mind, with a full range of living options and health care available right within the community. Provides many levels of care, including:

• Assisted Living: For an independent senior lifestyle enhanced with personal care and health care to maintain independence. Provides a variety of social opportunities, events, entertainment, Bible studies, and classes. Trips to local restaurants and attractions are planned, and transportation is provided.

• Long-Term Care: Provides 24-hour skilled nursing care for advanced health needs. The care team includes physicians, nurse practitioners, registered and licensed nurses, nursing assistants, therapists, social workers, and chaplains who work together to provide high-quality clinical and personal care.

• Residential Hospice Care: Provides a home filled with care, comfort, and peace for those on their end-of-life journey. The care team is on-site 24 hours a day and can enable families to hand over the stress and worries of daily physical care, allowing time to focus on their time together. Also provides spacious private suites with a living room, dining room, and patio overlooking Buffalo Lake.

• Short-Term Rehabilitation: For adults of all ages when surgery, illness, or injury has brought day-to-day activities to a stop. Transitional care and rehabilitation at Lake Ridge provides a healthy balance of treatment protocols and highly skilled care, dedicated to rapid recovery. The therapists are specialists in rehabilitation care and help patients build strength and improve balance, mobility, and overall health.

Coordinates service delivery and assists adults with mental illness to obtain services and supports needed to live successfully in the community.

Analyzes identity theft trends, promotes the development and efficacy of identity fraud prevention strategies in the financial services industry, and identifies targets for referral to criminal law enforcement

Provides affordable care for children between 6:45 am - 5:30 pm when children are not in school, including school vacations and release days

Provides one-on-one assistance to help individuals navigate their finances, improve their financial goals, and navigate the financial systems. Services include:

• Create and improve credit

• Financial coaching by appointment

• Financial management skills

• Help navigate financial processes and applications

• Home Stretch Homebuyer Workshop: An 8-hour workshop that educates and informs future homeowners to help them understand the homebuying process. The training includes information about the process of buying a home and access to down payment programs.

• Gain access to supplemental resources such as the Lending Circles (Tandas) program. The Lending Circles program provides a secured loan, without cost or interest, to establish or build credit and improve the way individuals manage money.

• Small business support for entrepreneurs or those interested in becoming business owners. Offers support to business owners by evaluating and organizing their finances.

• Tax preparation for people with low or medium income during the tax season

Emergency Assistance is short-term, one-time assistance for families in a financial crisis that poses a direct threat to their physical health or safety. Services may include:

• Home repairs that make the house livable or clean up expenses for an apartment or home to make it livable

• Moving expenses

• Other additional food support for people who have special dietary needs

• Property tax help for past due taxes

• Transportation to relocate on a case-by-base basis for bus tickets only

• Utility bills at risk of shut off such as electric, heating, or water bills in the city of Minneapolis. Rent must be current and up-to-date in order to receive assistance for utility help.

NOTE: EA does not help with rent assistance. Households who need rent assistance must apply through the Tenant Resource Connection Rent Help Hennepin application.

• Connections and Referral Unit (CRU): Secure, detoxification program that provides short-term (up to 72 hours) help to adults and adolescents under the influence of alcohol or other substances. 22-bed facility offers clients an environment for detoxifying from alcohol and drug use. Following an intake process, clients receive medical services, addiction counseling and relapse prevention education. Clients are monitored for withdrawal symptoms and an assessment is completed, followed by recommendations and referrals to community programs.

• DWI Classes: Provides 8 hours of education on the effects of drinking and driving, along with tactics for improved decision making. Participants in this monthly program must be involved with traffic court or the Minnesota Department of Public Safety.

• Substance Use Counseling: Provides a series of comprehensive 1:1 and group treatment options

• Substance Use Outpatient Treatment Programs: Designed to help individuals overcome their dependence on alcohol and/or other chemicals. Options include 1:1 sessions with a licensed counselor, group therapy and ongoing support.

• Walk-in Assessment: Offers chemical dependency assessments

Home Health Assistance: Includes Home Health Aides (HHA), Personal Care Aides (PCA), and Community First Services, and Supports (CFSS program)

• Helps with bathing, grooming, dressing, and toileting, ensuring proper hygiene and dignity in daily routines

• Offers support with mobility, transfers, and safe ambulation

Homemaking:

• Provides light housekeeping, including vacuuming, dusting, laundry, and changing linens

• Handles meal planning and preparation, ensuring clients have nutritious, home-cooked meals that fit their preferences and dietary needs

Respite Care:

• In-home respite care providing home health and home making assistance

Skilled Nurse Visits:

• Home visits from by licensed registered nurses perform essential clinical tasks to monitor health, manage conditions, and support recovery

Provides a variety of activities to youth including:

• Swimming lessons

• Youth enrichment program

• Youth recreational sports

Home maintenance and chore services are provided to senior citizens to enable them to live safely and independently in their own homes. Services may include:

• Assistance with clutter elimination

• Home maintenance

• Housekeeping - kitchen and bathroom cleaning

• Household chores

• Lawn care and yardwork

• Relocation assistance

• Snow removal

Provides care for ailments such as:

• Endometriosis
• Female sexual disorders
• Fibroids
• General gynecologic conditions and pelvic pain
• Gynecologic cancers
• Heavy bleeding
• Incontinence, bladder control, and pelvic floor disorders
• Infertility
• Menopause and perimenopause
• Ovarian cysts
• Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
• Polyps
• Pregnancy and high-risk pregnancies
• Sexually transmitted infections
• Uterine fibroids

Services:

• Birth control
• Diagnostics and evaluation
• Gynecologic oncology
• Hysteroscopy
• Infertility treatment
• Mature women's care
• Menopausal medicine
• Non-surgical and surgical gynecologic problems
• Non-surgical and surgical treatment for incontinence
• Pap smears
• Physical exams
• Radiology and imaging
• Reproductive health, including family planning and counseling
• Wellness and preventive care

Operates homes where 1 - 4 individuals live together in a supervised setting under Rule 245D and Foster Care guidelines. Natural residential setting that fosters support for a more positive lifestyle. Support components include:

• Counseling and guidance

• Independent living skills development

• Person-centered plan development

-Residential living

• Social and leisure time activities

• Constructs and maintains all the county and county state aid roads

• Provides information about county roads and bridges

Prosecutes all crimes in the county, provides legal advice to county departments and officials, and offers victim/witness services

Resource center assists with the following services:

• Advocacy: Includes areas of housing, civil and human rights, employment, transportation, and others. The Center advocates for state, local, and federal legislation.

• Aging in Place Program: Offers accessible modification assistance, ramp installation, and accessibility assessments for homes and businesses for safe access and increased independence.

• Assistive Technology Network: Assists individuals in the process of obtaining assistive technology devices.

• Homemaking Services: Assists individuals in managing household activities including housekeeping, laundry, meal preparation, and shopping.

• Independent living skills training

• Information and Referral: Provides up-to-date disability information and referrals to various agencies and individuals within the region.

• On-Demand Lending Library: Program will purchase the requested device and the individual can use it for as long as needed; the program retains ownership of the item. Eligibility requirements: first come, first served basis; funds are limited.

• Peer Mentoring: Assists individuals living with a disability to identify goals and create a unique plan to achieve those goals. Matches interested consumers with a peer mentor who provides support, problem-solving solutions, social skills, etc.

• Public Education: Provides information, resources, and materials on accessibility guides, ADA, disability laws, etc.

• Respite Care Services: Provides short-term in-home care and support when the primary caregiver or family members need to be absent from the home.

• Systems Advocacy: Works to implement changes where needed at a broader systemic level.

• Transition/Relocation Services: Assists individuals living with a disability in transitioning from nursing facilities and other institutions into community settings, with the goal of preventing institutionalization.

A community-based program serving adults with significant combined hearing loss and vision loss through a variety of services including:

• Independent living skills training and supports via the CADI waiver for deaf, blind/hearing, and deafblind adults; Independent living skills training is only available to individuals in the 9-county metro area

• One-to-one Support Service Providers (SSP) to assist deafblind adults with accomplishing the tasks of daily living and community integration. Consumers must be self-determining (able to make their own decisions and direct service providers)

• Recreational and leisure activities (various) provided primarily in the Center and some community-based with a small fee for some activities

Cash-grant program for adults with low incomes experiencing a household emergency. Adults can receive assistance once every 18 months. The assistance received must resolve the crisis. Adults 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 utility shut-off (electric, heating, gas and water service payment assistance), eviction and foreclosure. Applicants must show how they have spent their income from the last 60 days to qualify.

Provides fire protection for city of Baudette

Joint program of Inver Grove Heights, South Saint Paul, and West St. Paul-Mendota Heights-Eaganschool districts:

• Adult basic education

• Adult enrichment classes including weight management and smoking cessation

• Youth enrichment classes and field trips

• Youth community service group

• New driver education

• Preschool for children ages 3 - 5

• Computer classes

Library Services:

• Circulation and Interlibrary Loan: Material checkout and access to public equipment

• Friends of the Library: Hosts used book sales, author events, and the Books for Jamaica Project

• Reference Services: Assistance with questions and resource guidance (Children's and Adult Services)

• Technology Access: Internet and online catalog for research and materials

• Volunteer Opportunities: Support genealogy, shelving, clerical tasks, and youth programs

Outreach Services:

• Book House Calls: Delivery for homebound patrons

• Books for Babies: Book kits for hospitals and clinics

• Community Engagement: Book talks and presentations

Provides residential support services to individuals who have developmental disabilities. Services may include:

• Communication training

• Daily living skills

• Leisure and social activities

• Money management

$1.50 cash fare. Visit website for fare information. For bus schedules, see website or call 311.