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Case management services include assisting the family in obtaining a comprehensive diagnostic assessment, developing a functional assessment, developing an individual family community support plan, and assisting the child and the child's family in obtaining needed services by coordination with other agencies and assuring continuity of care.

Assists with grocery shopping or minor home maintenance work for qualified older adults. Services include:????

• Groceries to Go Program: Connects a volunteer shopper with a homebound older adult to assist in grocery shopping and delivery.

• Handyman Program: Helps homeowners, age 60 and older, by providing volunteers to perform minor home maintenance work. Maintenance work examples are installing smoke alarms, fixing leaky faucets, replacing light bulbs, or installing grab bars. Homeowners only pay for materials while volunteers provide the labor services.

• Offers a variety of social, educational, and community service activities for members, their families, and local communities, as well as support and assistance for military personnel and their families; services vary by post, so contact individual posts for specific information.

?- To find Veterans of Foreign Wars throughout Minnesota, visit https://vfwmn.org/di/vfw/v2/default.asp?pid=77519

Provides establishment and enforcement of child support orders. Services include:

• Collecting current and past-due support payments

• Locating non-custodial parents

• Establishing parentage

• Establishing and enforcing child support orders for basic, medical, or child care support

• Reviews and modifies court orders for support

NOTE: Child Support Services does not provide parenting time, custody, legal advice, divorce counsel, or spousal maintenance establishment

Outpatient mental health and family counseling agency providing individual, couples, and family counseling, including services for stepparents, single-parent families, and blended families. Services include:

• Child/adolescent/adult counseling

?- Adoption counseling for adoptees, their parents, and siblings ?- Anger management ?- Bereavement/grief counseling ?- Crisis intervention in-person ?- Divorce counseling ?- Eating disorder counseling for bulimia, anorexia, and overeating ?- Family violence counseling for adult incest survivors, child abuse counseling, elder abuse, parent abuse, and spousal abuse counseling ?- Juvenile delinquency diversion counseling ?- Marriage counseling ?- Parent counseling ?- Premarital counseling ?- Psychiatric disorder counseling ?- Runaway counseling ?- Sexual abuse counseling for adults and children ?- Sexual orientation counseling ?- Sexuality counseling ?- Hypnotherapy ?- Play therapy

Offers outpatient mental health to couples, families, and individuals dealing with abuse, anger, anxiety, behavior disorders, depression, post traumatic stress disorder, relationship conflicts and stress. Services include:

• Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART)

• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

• Dialectic Behavioral Therapy (DBT)

• Group therapy

• Illness Management and Recovery (IMR)

Full-service law enforcement agency:

• Assists in civil matters

• Crime prevention services: crime free multi-housing and prescription drug drop box (accepts unused or expired prescriptions. Do not accept any liquids, empty bottles, needles, supplements, and vitamins)

• Emergency response during times of disaster

• Responds to call for service

• Serves summons, warrants, writs, motions, orders

Assists with:

• Motel rooms or other emergency accommodations

• Providing a homeless coordinated entry assessment

• Rent payment in cases of eviction prevention or to secure housing and funding resources when households are facing homelessness through the Family Assistance Prevention and Assistance Program - FHPAP

• Rental deposit for those who are homeless or near eviction

• Utility deposits for homeless households

Outpatient counseling for children who are suffering from depression, behavioral issues, anger, or other types of problems:

• Anger management
• Children's Therapeutic Services and Supports (CTSS)
• Co-dependency
• Coping with depression/anxiety
• Coping with grief and loss
• Crisis management
• Group psychotherapy
• Healthy lifestyle choices
• Independent living skills (budgeting, shopping, cooking, and nutrition)
• Interpersonal communication strategies
• Stress management and relaxation

Addresses the conditions of emotional disturbance that impair and interfere with an individual's ability to function independently. For children with emotional disturbances, rehabilitation means a series or multidisciplinary combination of psychiatric and psychosocial interventions to:

• Restore a child or adolescent to an age-appropriate developmental trajectory that had been disrupted by a psychiatric illness; or

• Enable the child to self-monitor, compensate for, cope with, counteract, or replace psychosocial skills, deficits or maladaptive skills acquired for a psychiatric illness.

The County Attorney serves as the chief prosecutor for Winona County as well as providing attorney services for the County Board of Commissioners and the various county governmental offices. This office also provides assistance for victims of crimes (including domestic violence and sexual assault) including:

• Information about criminal and civil court procedures
• Ongoing support for crime victims involved in the criminal justice system
• Assistance in filing restitution and reparations claims
• Assistance with Victim Impact Statements
• Assistance with return of property taken as evidence

Provide low-cost immunizations for infants, children and adults meeting the Minnesota Department of Health income and insurance eligibility requirements

• Immunizations

• Education, investigation, and follow up for communicable disease outbreaks as directed by MDH

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. The types of assistance the program may help with are for rent assistance, rent deposit, electric, gas, heating fuel, water, burial assistance, or other emergency need based on available funding.

Literacy program providing children with a free new book every month in the mail until the age of five.

Thrift store offers low-priced, gently used clothing for sale to the public.

• Accepts new and gently used clothing and household goods. Does not accept electronics or appliances, used toys, or furniture.

• Volunteer opportunities available as sorter, stocker, or cashier

Offers various special interest classes, recreational activities, and special events for youth and families. Youth leadership programs are also provided as well as specialty camps with focus on arts instruction, STEM, and sports skills trainings.

Provides nutrition education and special foods that promote good health. WIC provides the following services:

• Assistance with any special needs

• Health assessment and screening

• Nutrition education

• Referral to other community services

?Vouchers are given to participants to purchase nutritious foods such as cereal, cheese, eggs, infant formula, fruits and vegetables, milk, and peanut butter

Classroom, community, and experts assist in learning and leading programs including:

• Art

• Book clubs

• Community activities

• Creative writing

• Discussions

• Film

• Informational interviews

• Internships

• Music

Community learning experiences including:

• Touring businesses

• Visiting local attractions

• Volunteering

Assists with finding housing, searching for jobs, and maintaining financial independence. Other services include financial workshops to help create a budget, learn about banking, and understand credit.

Provides affordable homeownership opportunities by building or rehabilitating homes for low-income individuals and families. Selected participants are required to complete sweat equity hours by contributing labor toward the construction of their own home and/or other Habitat homes.

Provides general information on child care assistance programs to help families pay for child care for children up to age 12 and for children with special needs up to age 14. Child care costs may be paid for families while parents work, look for work, or attend school.

Provides help to improve reading, math, spelling, and writing skills, computer skills, GED test preparation, and GED testing. Also offers English as a secondary language and prep courses for vocational school or college. Childcare is available during class at no cost.

Helps people develop skills and knowledge to improve their lives and communities. Offers a variety of programs for learners of all ages. Class offerings include child care, driving classes, early childhood screening, a lending library, recreational activities, a swimming pool, and more.

Provides the following mental health services:

• Case Management: Helps families understand mental health needs, access services, and coordinate care. Case Managers support caregivers in identifying appropriate resources, navigating insurance, working with schools, and connecting with community programs. The focus is on creating a manageable plan and ensuring services are aligned across providers and settings.

• Family Place Therapeutic Day Treatment: Provides a preschool day treatment setting for young children with emotional and behavioral challenges. The program uses trauma informed, relationship based practices to support children in a small classroom with structured routines, play, and social activities. Some classrooms also include speech and occupational therapy. Families take part in regular sessions to support skill development at home. The program focuses on identifying needs, building new skills, and strengthening parent child relationships.

• Outpatient Mental Health: Offers virtual and in person therapy for children and caregivers. Licensed clinicians provide individual therapy, family therapy, and consultation for a range of emotional, behavioral, and developmental concerns. Caregivers are involved throughout the process to support progress outside of sessions. The program serves children experiencing stress, trauma, anxiety, depression, behavioral challenges, medical concerns, autism spectrum disorder, or developmental needs.

• School Based Mental Health: Provides therapy and support services for preschool and elementary aged children in school, child care, and home settings. Staff observe children in their daily environments, collaborate with teachers, provide individual and family psychotherapy, and connect families to community resources. Caregivers are involved throughout to promote consistent support across settings.

Community education programs for all ages including GED and ESL:

• GED and ESL classes: Most classes are offered through the Mankato Consortium, some classes are held at the New Ulm Public Library.

• Enrichment Activities

• One-day bus tours available during the year

Defensive Driver Classes:

• Drivers 55 and older who complete the course qualify for a ten percent discount on their vehicle insurance premium for three years. Classroom driver's education is offered fall and winter-spring for students who turn 15 with behind-the-wheel available during the summer.