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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.

Older adult activity center which provides:

• Arts and craft activities

• Billiards

• Bingo

• Book club

• Club Prior Pantry

• Exercise and Tai Chi classes

• Field trips

• Foot care

• Health insurance counseling for Medicare and Medical Assistance, choosing a supplement or Part D Plan, assisting with health insurance forms and more

• Knitting

• Polka dancing lessons

• Salsa dancing lessons

• Walking Club

• Boarding and Grooming

• Microchipping

• MNSNAP Program

• City of Red Wing Licensing

• Animal Control

• Adopting

• Caring for lost or surrendered pets

Offers individual, family, marriage, senior, child, and adolescent counseling focusing on a variety of issues.

• Charity Care: Offers financial help to patients who cannot pay all or part of their medical bills. 50-100% of the bill may be paid.

• Pharmacy Assistance Fund: Provides one-time (once a year) prescription assistance to patients experiencing financial hardship. Request must not exceed $500.

• Uninsured Discount: Provides a discount on medically-needed services for uninsured patients

The Energy Assistance Program helps pay heat and electricity costs. Payments for energy bills are sent directly to the household's energy company or fuel provider for propane, fuel oil, or wood. Financial assistance varies depending on household income and fuel costs. The Energy Assistance Program provides additional grants for eligible households who need help with:

• Getting reconnected to heat and power after disconnections
• Paying for emergency fuel deliveries of propane, heating oil, or biofuel
• Preventing disconnection
• Providing emergency heating system repair or replacement for homeowners
• Weatherization services to both homeowners and renters to reduce home energy consumption and costs for eligible households by improving the energy efficiency in homes

Minnesota's Medicaid program for people with low income. Most people who have MA receive health care through health plans. Members who do not receive health care through a health plan receive care on a fee-for-service basis, with providers billing the state directly for services they provide. MA pays for a variety of services like doctor visits, prescriptions, and hospital stays. Some services and prescriptions may require prior approval. MA pays for medical bills going back three months from the month the application is received. NOTE: People with disabilities who work, even if they're over the income or asset limits of MA, may still qualify for a program called Medical Assistance for Employed Persons with Disabilities - MA-EPD.

Provides the following services: Adoption Services: Works to bring youth and parents together in permanent, stable family settings. All adoption services are provided free of charge and include:

• Adoption home studies and home study updates

• Child placement services

• Child-specific recruitment services

• Parent training and education

• Post-adoption services

• Relative adoption services

Foster Care Services: Provides safe and nurturing foster homes while families work toward stability and reunification. Staff collaborate closely with each child's custodial team to support family reunification whenever possible. Services include emergency, short-term, long-term, and whole-family foster care options.

• Foster parents receive ongoing support, including training, 24/7 crisis support, and respite care.

Kinship Navigator: Provides support and connections for relative and kin families caring for children. Families first work with a Kinship Navigator who provides phone and in-person information, referrals, and assessments to identify community services such as childcare, food assistance, health services, housing, and transportation.

• When additional assistance is needed, a Case Manager partners with families to provide side-by-side support while accessing services.

Relative and Kin Support Services: Provides support for families caring for a relative's child by providing education, guidance, and connections to resources. Families may also receive assistance with obtaining foster care licensing if they wish to continue fostering kin or other children. Services include:

• Connections to local support services

• Education on mental health and youth trauma

• Help understanding the complex human services system

• Support navigating new or strained family dynamics

Supervised Visitation: Provides youth in foster care with opportunities to spend time with their families in a safe and supportive environment. Services are available within approximately a one-hour radius of Waite Park, Minnesota. Services include:

• Observation

• Parent coaching with observation

• Parent coaching without observation

• Transportation

• Virtual or phone observation

STAY Program (Successful Transition to Adulthood for Youth): Provides independent living services for eligible youth ages 14 through 23 who are currently or were formerly in foster care and who are working with a county or tribal social worker. Services support youth in meeting independent living plan goals and may vary by county. Available services may include:

• Age-appropriate activities

• Education services

• Employment services

• Independent living skills training

• Permanent connections with long-term mentors, significant individuals from the youth's past, relative searches, and contact with relatives or former foster parents

• Room and board or housing assistance

• Transportation costs

• Provides supported living services for adults with developmental disabilities

• 4 beds

• 24 hour staff available

• No pets

An emergency food shelf for persons in need, can be used once a month. Will also provide food delivery for those who are homebound.

Provides breastfeeding support and holistic/natural labor tools and childbirth options.

Provides fire and emergency response for cities of Federal Dam, Boy River and Bena

• Corporate Adult Foster Care for persons with mental illness

• Corporate Adult Foster Care facility for up to 4 adults who are experiencing mental or emotional difficulties

• Offers a homelike residential setting and a program designed to provide a transition toward community independent living

• Specializes in dual disorders (mental illness/chemical dependency) and Traumatic Brain Injury

• 4 Residential Beds

Provides individual counseling with a therapist, including:

• Care coordination

• Couples and family counseling

• Psychiatry

• Psychological evaluation

• Substance use counseling

• Telehealth

• Therapy

• Treatment for ADHD, anxiety, depression, mood or behavior disorders

Cash-grant program for families with low incomes experiencing a household emergency. 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. Short-term, one-time grant assistance for persons in a financial crisis because of fire, flood, storm, illness, accident, theft, utility shut-off, eviction, foreclosure, moving expense, necessary home repairs, or need for furniture or appliance replacement or repair.

Provides primary care services, including:

• Cardiovascular testing, including echocardiograms

• Disease Management

• Lactation services

• Mental Health assessment, diagnosis and treatment

• Occupational medicine

• Orthopedics

• Pain management

• Pediatrics

• Podiatry

• Prenatal care

• Preventive medicine

• Telemedicine

• Veteran services

Provides backpacks and other school supplies for children preparing for a new school year

• Manages and schedules courts

• Takes fines and restitution

• Civil, Family, Juvenile, Probate, Conciliation, Criminal, Traffic

Offers a discount program for eligible patients and a payment plan option for any balance not covered by the discount. The program cannot be used for dental and pharmacy bills and charges. Program assistance is based on:

• Assets, such as property or savings accounts
• Family size
• Income
• Liabilities, such as bills or regular payments due

Individuals may apply even if they have insurance coverage.

Provides ongoing case management support, such as:

• Assessment for case management services

• Monitoring and coordination of resources and support

• Planning

• Referral and linkage to resources which may include housing, transportation, vocational, applying for benefits, social rehabilitation, outpatient services, nursing services, substance use treatment, and psychiatric services

Available for individuals who would like a clinician to diagnose and provide medical care information (and prescriptions) online, rather than at the clinic. Conditions and symptoms treated:

• Allergies

• Cold, cough, and congestion

• COVID-19 concerns

• Depression and anxiety-related issues

• Eczema

• Female health

• Headaches

• Medication refills

• Minor eye conditions

• Other general concerns

• Sinus issues

• Stomach and digestive issues

• Urinary tract infections/bladder concerns

Provides state-funded food assistance to legal noncitizens ages 50 or older who do not qualify for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly called Food Stamps or Food Support) because of their citizenship status. Monthly benefits are loaded on an Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) card, which looks and works like a debit card. The card can be used to buy groceries at authorized stores, farmers markets, and online retailers. Learn more about where to shop and what can be bought. The amount of benefits received is based on income, expenses, and number of people in the household.

Provides information on U.S. passports about how to apply in person, application for a U.S. passport, application status, and applying for those under 16 can be found on the website. Services include:

• Information on how to get or renew a passport

• Information on lost and stolen passport procedures

• Information on expedited passports

• Online applications and forms

• Passport records

The website offers a search link to find an Acceptance Facility to apply in person for a passport or a Passport Agency for life or death/urgent travel situations. Website and phone service only. NOTE: Passport cards are now also available and can be used for travel between the United States and Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Bermuda at land border crossings or seaports of entry. They cannot be used for international travel.

Group and individual counseling for adult sex offenders

Provides services to adults such as:

• Adult Rehabilitative Mental Health Services (ARMHS) services to develop and enhance psychiatric stability, communication/interpersonal skills, household management skills, personal and emotional adjustment, independent living, and community skills

• Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) services that include daily activities, relationship and family life, financial management, primary health, community living skills, employment, substance use recovery, medication support, social interaction skills, and housing

• Targeted case management to help clients gain medical, social, educational, vocational, and other necessary services that relate to their mental health needs