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Local program grants available for agencies and organizations concerned with improving pregnancy outcomes

Provides mental health services for children such as:

• Develop a comprehensive care plan, create a supportive team, and case management

• Mental health assessment and intake

• Referral to community resources, respite care, and other supports

NOTE: Crisis services are provided by Canvas Health

Provides therapy for individuals, groups, family and marital counseling. Phone coaching available.

Provides general information and licensing for persons interested in becoming foster care providers. Training and support for foster care providers on emergency, short-term, and long-term placement.

Provides state-operated, secure mental health, substance use, and nursing treatment facilities for adults, including the following:

• Community Behavioral Health Hospitals (CBHHs): Provide inpatient behavioral health care for adults in six communities throughout the state. These 16-bed hospitals offer acute, short-term hospitalization services that include comprehensive assessment of mental, social, functional, and physical health; development of individualized treatment plans with medication management and 24-hour nursing care; and care delivered by multidisciplinary teams consisting of psychiatrists, general practice physicians, psychiatric nurses, psychologists, clinical social workers, addiction counselors, and occupational therapists. Services also emphasize illness management and recovery, as well as individualized discharge planning, care coordination, and aftercare planning to support a successful transition back to an appropriate community-based setting.

• Forensic Mental Health Services: Provides residential treatment services for adults in both secure and non-secure settings on a large campus in St. Peter, Minnesota. The program also operates a 32-bed North Campus facility on the north side of St. Peter and an additional 16-bed facility located off campus in St. Peter. FMHP primarily serves individuals who have been civilly committed by a court as mentally ill and dangerous, often following criminal charges in which a court determined they were not competent to stand trial or not guilty by reason of mental illness or cognitive impairment. Many patients are under more than one type of civil commitment. In addition, Community Integrated Services provides ongoing monitoring and support for FMHP patients who have been provisionally discharged by a court to live in less restrictive community settings. This statewide program serves individuals from all 87 Minnesota counties and supports patients in achieving stable, successful lives in a variety of community settings outside FMHP facilities.

• Forensic Nursing Home: Provides state-operated nursing home and provides nursing home-level care in a secure environment. The facility serves individuals who are civilly committed as mentally ill and dangerous, sexually dangerous persons, or sexual psychopathic personalities, as well as prison inmates on medical release from the Minnesota Department of Corrections. Care provided is consistent with that offered in other nursing homes and includes assistance with daily living, rehabilitation services, and end-of-life care.

• Intensive Residential Treatment Services (IRTS): Provide structured, short-term residential care for adults who no longer require hospitalization or other inpatient treatment but still need ongoing support before returning home. Clients typically have serious mental illness and may also have co-occurring conditions such as traumatic brain injury, addiction, or behavioral disorders. Services are available around the clock with support from mental health professionals and focus on improving psychiatric stability, personal and emotional adjustment, self-sufficiency, and independent living skills. Programs work collaboratively with clients to achieve individual goals and prepare them for a successful transition to home or to a less structured community setting, with an average length of stay of approximately 90 days before discharge.

• Substance Use Disorder Treatment Services: Community Addiction Recovery Enterprise (CARE) provides inpatient substance use disorder treatment services to adults at three locations statewide. The program offers specialized inpatient services for individuals who are chemically dependent and have co-occurring mental illnesses, along with relapse prevention services and comprehensive aftercare planning. All CARE facilities are locked, and clients stay an average of approximately 90 days before discharge, depending on their level of participation and responsiveness to treatment.

Mental health and family support services with a specialization in immigrant parents and their children. Deals with depression and anxiety, chemical health issues, self-esteem, family dynamics and parenting skills, and cultural transition. Additional services include:

• Individual therapy and psychiatry services

• Integrated mental health assessment

• Mental health case management to adults ages 18 years and older

• Referrals to medical, dental, or other service for support

• School-based mental health services

• Telehealth therapy to patients ages 12 years and older

• 12 Unit assisted living

• Supportive services

• Health related services available

• 12/7 supervision

• Light housekeeping

• Laundry of linens

• Central storage of medications

• 3 Meals per day

Home care services provides skilled nursing services such as assessment, education, and medication management in the comfort of patients' homes.

Chore Services helps individuals with tasks around the house/apartment and yard so they can remain living independently. Common chores include:

• Friendly visiting

• Grocery order/delivery

• Home maintenance (bathroom accessibility, carpentry; grab bar installation; interior/exterior painting; minor plumbing; railings; ramps; roof and gutter repairs; smoke alarms; window replacement)

• Housekeeping

• Lawn care

• Packing/moving

• Pet care

• Seasonal clean-up

• Snow removal

• Transportation

Provides services and resources that support students and school sites in the development and implementation of a comprehensive and inclusive continuum of instruction

Provides assistance and support to veterans and their dependents in obtaining benefits through state and federal programs including:

• Burial and death benefits

• Dental and medical care

• Education and training

• Home loan guarantees

• Non-medical transportation

• Pension

• State Subsistence: Financial assistance for basic dental and optical care, mortgage, personal needs, rent and utilities for veterans who cannot work due to temporary disability

Minnesota's version of TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families). Statewide MFIP helps families work their way out of poverty by providing temporary cash and food benefits to eligible families. Statewide MFIP has a 60-month limit, there are some limited exceptions and extensions to the time limit. Participants are required to follow certain work rules. Failure to meet work rules will result in their 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 Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).

Provides the following services and treatment programs:

• Colorectal Screenings

• Direct Access Testing

• Emergency Medicine

• Family Medicine

• General Surgery

• Heart Rehabilitation

• Heart Rehabilitation and support

• Laboratories

• Mammography

• Medical Oncology

• Nuclear Medicine

• Oncology

• Orthopedic Surgery

• Pathology

• Pharmacy

• Psychiatry

• Radiology

• Rehabilitation and Therapy

• Sleep Medicine

• Wellness Center

Provides home health services including:

• Home health aide support

• Homemaking services

• Intravenous (IV) therapy

• Laboratory services

• Medication management

• Nutritional counseling

• Physical, occupational, and speech therapy

• Skilled nursing care

Provides assistance, investigates, and/or intervenes on behalf of vulnerable adults who are unable to act on their own behalf, manage their own affairs, or who are in immediate danger due to physical or emotional abuse, unsafe or hazardous living conditions, exploitation, neglect, or abandonment. Services may include:

• Authorization for medical treatment

• Consultation to individuals who suspect abuse?

• Removal of the individual to safer surroundings?

• Services necessary to remove the conditions which have created a threat to life

?NOTE: Complaints, questions, or concerns involving incidents in facilities licensed by the Health Department - such as hospitals, nursing homes, boarding care homes, supervised living facilities, and assisted living and home health agencies - can be referred to the MN Office of Health Facility Complaints at (651)201-4201 or toll-free at (800)369-7994.

Provides shelter in a dormitory-style for single adults and small apartments for families at a time. Services include:

• Housing search assistance for shelter residents with a Housing Advocate

• Length of stay is dependent upon the needs and cooperation of each guest

• Lockers may be available to shelter residents

• When shelters are full, people can expect to sleep on pads on the floor until a bed becomes available

Refugee Cash Assistance provides temporary financial assistance for refugees and eligible entrants while they are in the process of resettling in the United States. NOTE: Able-bodied RCA recipients are required to participate in an employment and training program. RCA recipients who are disabled or 65 years of age or older are required to apply for SSI.

Offers Adult Rehabilitative Mental Health Services (ARMHS) for Southeast Asians, Latinos and Somalis suffering from severe Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, depression or other mental illnesses. Services include:

• Advocacy for daily living problems

• Adult mental health case management (Rule 79)

• Crisis intervention

• Psychiatric services including diagnostic assessments and treatment

• Service to refugee and immigrant victims of sexual assault, domestic violence, and child abuse

• Supportive counseling for individuals and families

• Support groups

Accepts and responds to and/or investigates reports of child abuse, neglect, or abandonment. Services may include:

• Accepting reports of abuse

• Assessment of the initial referral

• Consultation to individuals who suspect abuse

• Consultation with the family to determine the nature of the problem

• Dependency investigation

• Explanation of reporting statutes and answer questions regarding agency practices

• Ongoing support services for children and their families

?- Temporary placement of children who are removed from the home

• Works with the family toward reunification

Offers supportive care to residents who need help with daily living activities. Services include:

• Assistance with activities of daily living (ADLs)

• Appointment planning and transportation for medical, dental, and mental health visits

• Laundry and housekeeping services

• Meals and snacks are provided daily

• Medication management and supervision

• Oversight by a Registered Nurse (RN) or Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN)

LGBT National Hotline

• Provides telephone, online private one-to-one chat, and email peer-support, as well as factual information and local resources for LGBT clients of all ages anywhere in the United States
• Maintains a database with more than 15,000 local community groups, organizations, businesses, and professionals, and can link callers with services available in their community

Youth LGBT Hotline (25 years old and younger)

• Telephone, online private one-to-one chat, and email peer-support, as well as factual information for teens and young adults up to age 25 about coming-out issues, relationship concerns, parent issues, school problems, HIV/AIDS anxiety, and safer-sex information, and more; all services are free and confidential.

LGBT Senior Hotline

• Provides gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender seniors the ability to talk with trained peer-counselor volunteers about issues including isolation, relationship concerns, bullying, HIV/AIDS, and more.

All services are free of charge, confidential, by email, phone, and website only

Provides medical, pediatric, and weight management services, including:

• Bariatric surgery

• Dietitian visits

• Meal alternatives

• Medications

• Metabolic testing

• Nutrition counseling

Offers a nurse line available 24 hours/7 days a week for individuals who may need to speak with a nurse about medical care and where to go for care. Nurses can provide medical advice on what potential options are available, such as virtual care, primary care, urgent care options, or seek emergency care if needed at a Mankato Clinic location.

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. ECFE works to strengthen families and engage the ability of all parents to provide an environment that supports the healthy development of their child. Services may include:

• Book lending library

• Dad and child programs

• Early childhood screening for children ages 3 - 5

• Information on community resources

• Outdoor classroom

• Parent-child activities

• Parent discussion groups

• Play and learn activities for children

• Programs for non-English language learners

• School readiness program for children age 3 1/2 - 4

• Special events for the entire family

• Workshops on specific topics

NOTE: Call for current class offerings and schedule of events.

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. ECFE works to strengthen families and engage the ability of all parents to provide an environment that supports the healthy development of their child. Services may include:

• Book lending library

• Dad and child programs

• Early childhood screening for children ages 3 - 5

• Information on community resources

• Outdoor classroom

• Parent-child activities

• Parent discussion groups

• Play and learn activities for children

• Programs for non-English language learners

• School readiness program for children age 3 1/2 - 4

• Special events for the entire family

• Workshops on specific topics

NOTE: Call for current class offerings and schedule of events.