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The AmeriCorpsSeniors-Arrowhead Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) engages older adults ages 55 and older in volunteer services to meet community needs and to provide an experience that enriches their lives. Arrowhead Volunteers promotes volunteering by assisting people of all ages, including families, to find volunteer opportunities in their communities. It also provides education and information, networking meetings, and sponsors volunteer events like the annual Volunteer Fair, Purple Ribbon Recognition, and Hall of Fame Volunteer Awards. Volunteers serve Cook, Lake, and Saint Louis counties, including the City of Duluth, through nonprofit organizations and health care facilities, including schools, libraries, hospitals, tourist attractions, nursing homes, animal shelters, food shelves, and a variety of other community programs. Volunteer opportunities involve helping children to read, delivering Meals on Wheels, preserving the natural environment, providing tourist information, friendly visiting, and more. Each volunteer is asked to give 48 or more service hours during the year.

Offers a food shelf to the community. Guests are encouraged to bring reusable grocery bags.

Provides comprehensive career services to help participants discover career paths, find jobs, and assist with enrollment in education and training programs, including:

• Case management

• Comprehensive support

• Education

• Overcoming barriers to employment

• Training opportunities

Offers free clothing, food, household items, and toiletries monthly. Depending on the types of donations received, the items vary. Donations are accepted for new clothing only, gently used household items, and toiletries. Call to set up drop-off time.

• Adult Rehabilitation Mental Health Service: Helps individuals to develop and enhance mental health stability, social competencies, personal and emotional adjustment, and independent living and community skills. ARMHS instructs, assists, and supports individuals with regaining or starting skills to live independently.

• Assertive Community Treatment Teams: Provides an intensive, comprehensive, non-residential, rehabilitative mental health service team model. Services include:
• Assisting in locating and maintaining safe and affordable housing with an emphasis on the individual's choice and independent community housing

• Case management

• Discharge supports

• Illness education and medication management

• Psychological education to family members

• Support and skills training in activities of daily living (self-care, home-making, financial management, transportation and health care)

• Support and skills training in social, interpersonal relationships and leisure time activities

• Behavioral Health Home: Provides a multidisciplinary team to deliver person-centered services designed to support the individual in coordinating care and services while reaching his or her health and wellness goals. Program focus on integration of primary care, mental health services, and social services and supports for adults diagnosed with mental illness.

• Community Support Program: Helps individuals manage their mental health symptoms, participate in their community, learn medication management and develop daily living skills.

• Intensive Residential Treatment Services: Provides a residential setting to individuals in need of a more restrictive setting and at risk of significant functional deterioration if they do not receive these services. Program offers: 24 hour coverage in the delivery of rehabilitative services, staff available to safely supervise and direct activities, and capacity to promptly and appropriately respond to emergent needs and make adjustments to assure the health and safety of the individual.

• Partial Hospitalization: Provides a time limited structured program of multiple and intensive psychotherapy and other therapeutic services in an outpatient hospital facility. The goal of partial hospitalization is to resolve or stabilize an acute episode of mental illness.

• Rule 79 Case Management: Advocate for the individual to ensure that the individual is able to live their life as independently as possible. Case management includes:

• Providing a Functional Assessment (FA)

• Helping develop an Individual Consumer Support Plan (ICSP) that addresses information regarding the individual's strengths and needs

• Reviewing assessments with therapists, psychiatrists and the individual about what they feel their needs are and with what they would like assistance with

• Makes referrals to providers who assist the individual with their needs

Coordinates Section 8 Housing for the northern half of Saint Louis County; certificates are portable throughout the entire United States

Provides care at the clinic for common ailments such as:

• Adult and child immunizations; flu vaccine

• Bladder and urinary-tract infections (UTI)

• Check-ups and annual physicals

• Chronic disease management (for diabetes, hypertension/high blood pressure, and other diseases)

• Cold and flu symptoms

• Ear infections

• Headaches

• Health, weight, and vision screenings

• Insect bites

• Joint and back pain

• Nausea and vomiting

• Obstetrics and Gynecology (OB-GYN)

• Pediatric care and back-to-school physicals

• Preventive care

• Rashes

• Physical exams

• Radiology and imaging

• Reproductive health, including family planning, and counseling

• Sinus infections

• Stomach problems

• Wellness and preventive care

Mayor and City Council Member Contact Information Departments Administration

• City Manager/EDA Director
• Deputy City Clerk
• Bookkeeper
• Deputy Clerk Registrar
• City Treasurer
• City Attorney

Parks and Recreation

• Street/Park Superintendent
• Community Center: Community events; rentals for private gatherings/receptions
• Library Director

Public Utilities

• Provides public utilities including electricity, water and wastewater
• Natural Gas: Center Point Energy, Customer Service phone: (800)245-2377
• Wastewater / Sewage treatment facilities

The program is a voluntary, early intervention program that focuses on a family's strengths and needs through support systems. Once enrolled in the Parent Support Outreach Program, help is provided to at-risk families to avoid future incidents of child maltreatment and to enhance child and family well-being, including:

• Comprehensive assessments, early intervention, in-home parenting education, outreach, and supportive and therapeutic services

• Connect families with county and community-based services

• Family circle meetings and support

• Limited financial assistance for families to meet basic needs

• Calculates Homestead and Taconite Tax Credit. - Handles all delinquent taxes (eg. property). - Handles special assessments and taxes . - Handles severed mineral rights (special tax). - Determines levies. Issues the following licenses: - Beer/Liquor - Hunting - Fishing - Cigarette - Auctioneer - Precious Metals - X-Country skiing Administers "Accounts Payable" for County, excluding Road & Bridge and Social Services. - Gives land descriptions and land ownership information. Handles all election concerns: - Where to vote - Instructions for Election Officials - Preparation of Ballot Forms - Absentee Ballots - Issuing Certificates of Nomination and Election - Tabulating unofficial vote count Elections Administrator - Vicki Martin 218-327-2849

• Payroll for County - Tax Forfeit Land sales. - Workers Comp for County employees. - Insurance for County employees (Health, Liability, Auto). - Applications for Charitable Gaming Licenses. - Application for Sales Tax and Payroll Tax for new businesses. - Property Tax estimates.

Provides emergency food

Provides non-emergency transportation and specializes in transporting older adults and individuals who are living with a disability and are unable to use public transportation.

??American Legion Park: ?155 South Park Lane

• Picnic shelter and playground

Bruce Frank Field: 819 East Ferry Street??

• Softball field and playground??

?Cedar Ridge Trails Park: 306 Cedar Trail Drive Jo Eagle Anderson Park: 510 South Sixth Street ?? Mothers Louise Park: 118 North Main Street Mayo Park: 272 Forest Prairie Road

• Volleyball court, disc golf course, horseshoe pits, and playground

Pierre Le Sueur Park (Fountain Park): 100 North Main Street River Park: 102 State Highway 93

• Boat landing and overnight camping

• Partners Care Program: Assists patients who do not qualify for Medical Assistance or Minnesota Care, and whose annual incomes are at or below 275% of the federal poverty level

• Payment plans

• Uninsured Discount Program: Individuals who do not have health insurance and do not qualify for Medicaid or Partners Care receive a discount on medically necessary charges. Patients with insurance who receive medically necessary services that are not covered by their insurance may also be eligible.

Provides substance use prevention, intervention, education, and support services to those in need. Services provided:

• Co-Occurring Substance Use and Mental Health Disorders Outpatient Treatment Program: Offers a thorough assessment, treatment, peer support, and educational classes to adults. The outpatient program is designed to help individuals understand their substance use, mental health, and the negative impact it has on their lives.

• Substance Use Assessments: Offers a comprehensive substance use assessment to adults and adolescents age 13 and older. The assessment is conducted to evaluate the person's substance use history, physical and mental health, medications, past treatment experiences, daily life, and legal issues related to substance use.

• Substance Use Counseling and Group Sessions: Offers individual and group sessions for outpatient treatment and aftercare programs. Clients meet with clinicians to develop treatment goals and monitor progress. The program utilizes culturally specific and evidence-based practices such as Motivational Interviewing, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and recovery management skills.

Provides emergency funding to restaurant and beverage employees or owners, and restaurant/bar supplier employees who are facing unforeseen circumstances. The funds are used to help pay for essentials like groceries, clothing, medications, and may cover the cost of rent, natural disaster damages, lost wages, and more. There is no deadline for requests and no cap on the amount given. Types of crises the funds may help with include accidents, change of circumstance, housing crisis, medical/dental issue, natural disaster, or victims of crime/violence. Grants are awarded based on unforeseen financial crises, and applications must be submitted through the website to be considered. Southern Smoke will evaluate each case based on the state of an applicant's emergency.

A thrift shop selling gently used men, women, and children's clothing, household goods, decor, kitchenware, bedding/linen, bath items, toys, books, games, puzzles, crafts, religious items, sporting goods, hardware, and other unique items. Donations are accepted. Accepts donations of new and used items in good condition such as clothing, kitchenware, and books.

In Home Care Service is a licensed service that provides an individualized assistance plan to help maintain and support healthy independent aging in the home and community. Aging individuals receive assistance in their home from a trained staff with a daily personal plan which can include household maintenance (laundry/cleaning), personal cares, and/or home management (phone calls, organizing, reading mail, arranging appointments), and socialization.

Medicare Savings Programs have four sub-programs:

• Qualified Disabled and Working Individuals (QDWI): Helps pay for Part A premiums only. Monthly income limits for individuals and married couples apply.

• Qualified Medicare Beneficiary (QMB): Helps pay for Part A and B premiums as well as deductibles, coinsurance and copayments. Monthly income limits for individuals and married couples apply.

• Qualifying Individual (QI): Helps pay for Part B premiums only. Monthly income limits for individuals and married couples apply.

• Specified Low-Income Medicare Beneficiary (SLMB): Helps pay for Part B premiums only. Monthly income limits and countable resource limits apply for individuals and married couples.

Program provides the skills and support people with disabilities or barriers to employment need to succeed in the workplace and match them up with the right job. Situational Assessment - a short-term work experience designed to help individuals explore their vocational aptitudes and determine the types of support services that will be needed in the workplace.

• Centered-based employment - Paid work at the main facility. Offers various jobs including donation processing, janitorial services, stocking, retail sales, office work, and shipping. Works with individuals in identifying a job within the facility that is well-matched to their skills and interests

• Community based employment - Provides paid work in the community to individuals that need ongoing support to maintain their employment. These jobs are often on crews and may include janitorial, lawn-work, and snow removal

• Supported employment - Provides employment with local community employers. Workers who are hired for community jobs continue to receive training and support from Goodwill Vocational Services team members, and are paid by the hiring company. Area employers may include Super One Foods, Olive Garden, Bernick's Pepsi, Minnesota Power, Grandma's Restaurant, TJ Maxx, Aerostich, Sain. Lukes, Duluth Grill, and WalMart.

Provides a range of primary care options including Imaging and Radiology, Family Medicine, Family Medicine with Obstetrics, lab services, medication management, Orthopedics, Pharmacy, Physical Therapy, and Sports Medicine.

• Client must be able to transfer in and out of car with minimal assistance

• Transportation in company cars

• Will assist with putting wheelchair or walker in and out of car

• Will accompany client to the appointment or social event

Assistance with paying child care costs 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. Family size, family income, and participation in authorized activities, as well as available funding, are considerations in determining the amount of the assistance.

• The ODC contracts with local companies to perform work at their place of business. - This provides ODC participants and employees with meaningful work and in some cases, results in a transition from sheltered employment to competitive employment. - Examples of community based work are: - Mobile Work Crews - Jobs such as yard work, cleaning, etc. - Enclave (Small work crew) - ODC contracts with an industry and provides a trainer as needed - The industry provides material and site of work - Individual Work Site - ODC contracts to perform work for just one individual - The work is done at the place of business and a trainer from ODC will be provided as needed

A fund for people who have recently experienced a crisis within the last 90 days and have exhausted all other options. This fund is trying to help people out of poverty by giving out a helping hand.