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Trained volunteer mediators provide a neutral safe space to facilitate difficult conversations and enable participants to create solutions to their conflicts. Provides mediations for family (typically post-decree parenting time conflicts), community, marketplace, and social and youth/student issues. Visit website for specifics.

Supplies food to families and individuals in need on a monthly basis

Grand Itasca Clinic and Hospital Volunteer Services, Student volunteers. They provide a variety of volunteers opportunities at Grand Itasca that assists patients, their families and staff.

The crisis line is covered by staff and trained volunteer advocates who offer support, information, and encouragement.

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

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 of Employed Persons with Disabilities - MA-EPD.

Public health nurses provide services by phone, at community sites, or at home visits with families for the following services:

• Childhood safety and injury prevention

• Child passenger safety seats may be available to families receiving Medical Assistance (MA)

• Family and community relationships

• Follow Along Program (FAP): helps parents monitor their children's development

• Health and nutrition

• Healthy pregnancies

• Infant and child growth and development

?- Positive parenting

Retail store which sells items such as:

• Furniture (occasionally)
• Household goods
• Maternity, work, school, winter and baby clothing
• Personal items
• Shoes

Offers support groups in Saint Paul and Duluth. Each session focuses on a specific topic that guides discussion. Participants include people at all stages of transition, as well as those who have completed their transition. Group members include trans women, trans men, and nonbinary people who come together to share experiences, seek advice, and exchange information. The groups provide support, perspective, and an opportunity for more experienced individuals to learn how society is evolving from those currently in transition. Meetings in Saint Paul are typically held in churches, which offer space as part of their community service missions. For location details, call or email. Duluth meetings are held virtually. Visit the website for support group dates: http://www.minnesotatransgenderalliance.com/eventsnewsfeed.html

Offering support and education to people who have cancer, have had cancer, family members, friends and children

Provides a range of primary and specialty care services including:

• Diabetes education

• Family medicine: provides care for ages from infants to seniors for a wide array of health concerns

• Gender care

• Internal medicine: Provides adults with preventive care, treatment of acute injuries and illnesses, and diagnosis and management of chronic diseases

• Imaging and lab tests

• Mental health screenings and psychiatry

• Men's health

• Pediatric medicine: Specialized physical, mental, and social health care for children and teenagers

• Prenatal and postpartum care

• Telehealth

• Treatment of acute illnesses

• Women's health

• 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

Provides investigation and intervention services on behalf of vulnerable adults who are unable to act on their own behalf, manage their own affairs, or who are in immediate danger of abuse. Types of abuse may be physical, emotional, sexual abuse, unsafe or hazardous living conditions, exploitation, neglect, or abandonment. Services include:

• Taking reports and investigating abuse and/or maltreatment

• 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, assisted living and home health agencies can be referred to the Minnesota Board on Aging Ombudsman for Long-Term Care.

Cash-grant program for adults with low incomes experiencing a household emergency. Adults can receive assistance once every 12 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, 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.

Responsible for the following services:

• Administers low-interest loan programs available to residents for septic system upgrades

• Develops zoning ordinances and the County Comprehensive Land Use Plan

• Education, organization, and implementation of the countywide recycling program and pickup

• Enforcement of state and county noxious weed laws

• Implementation of the Individual Septic Treatment System (ISTS) program and enforcement of the Solid Waste Plan and Ordinance

• Management of biocontrol areas for noxious weeds (e.g., leafy spurge, musk thistle)

• Operation of the county landfill transfer station

• Operation, maintenance, and repair of public drainage systems

• Regulation of certified seed dealers, including periodic inspections and sampling

Friends provide extras for the public library through money raised by used book sales and membership dues. Projects funded include:

• National Library Week performers

• Summer reading program

• Craft supplies

• Puppets and puppet theater

• Bookmarks for children

Assertive Community Treatment (ACT): ACT is an evidence-based treatment for adults who have a severe and persistent mental health illness. Based on the severity of symptoms and impairments, clients work with the team on a long-term basis. Adult Rehabilitation Mental Health Services (ARMHS): Adult mental health services that enable individuals to develop and enhance psychiatric stability, social competencies, personal and emotional adjustment, and independent living and community skills. Behavior Health Home: Provides individuals with their care needs. The team works closely with the individual, their supporters, and providers to ensure comprehensive quality of care. Community Support Program (CSP): The Community Support Program is a coordinated care and treatment program that provides a wide range of individualized treatment, rehabilitation, and support services to persons with serious and persistent mental illness. The purpose of the community support program is to assist individuals to live as successfully and independently as possible in their own communities by supporting independent living and coping skills. Targeted Case Management: Helps adults with serious and persistent mental illness (SPMI) gain access to needed mental, medical, social, educational, vocational, and other necessary services as it relates to the person's overall health needs.

Local fire services

Provides life long process of educational opportunities through classes and experiences, learning center, technical/educational equipment, support, collaboration with community organizations, and committees. Provides services such as:

• Adult basic education

• Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and First Aid certification

• English as a second language (ESL)

• GED preparation

• Health Care Core: Prerequisite course to become a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA). Can potentially earn four college credits

• Digital Literacy (NorthStar)

• Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and blueprint reading certification

• ServSAFE KITCHEN MANAGER certification

Provides support to families struggling with substance use to help ensure healthy pregnancies. Intensive in-home services to pregnant individuals who are abusing chemicals including:

• Chemical dependency assessments

• Referrals to treatment and placement

• Counseling and referral to community resources

• Prenatal and aftercare services

• Support groups weekly, transportation and child care provided

Patients who need to speak with a financial counselor, need cost of care estimates, or determine if they may qualify for financial assistance to pay for procedures, may reach out about options. Financial counselors can help individuals understand what patients' responsibility will be, and may offer no interest payment plans. Other options may include:

• Discount Program: Individuals who are uninsured or underinsured and have incomes less than 250% of the Federal Poverty Guideline may be eligible for help to pay their medical bills.

• Elevate Patient Financial Solutions: Help patients without medical insurance find resources to help pay for medical bills

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.

Empowers elders through a visiting advocacy coordinator to advocate for themselves and connect to support services which helps reduce isolation and increase independence.

Confidential pro-life pregnancy services:

• Accepts donations of new and used infant clothing that is clean and in good condition, and other baby/infant items

• Child care

• Counseling and Support: Individual counseling and support groups, as well as life coaching

• Education Classes: Parenting and relationships, personal development, employment readiness, and vocational training

• Materials assistance program for women enrolled in the prenatal program. NOTE: Does not provide cribs, baby clothing, disposable diapers, high chairs, strollers, cribs, nor formula to the general public.

• Prenatal care available by appointment only

• Ultrasound services available for women in their first 26 weeks of pregnancy (by appointment)

• Walk-in pregnancy testing