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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. Also, the program helps homeowners repair or replace a failing furnace. 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

The deadline to apply for this program was May 31, 2025. Applications for the 2025 - 2026 heating season will be accepted starting September 2025.

Provides healthy food choices to low income individuals who may have trouble accessing a traditional food shelf. Currently serves about 75 households in four apartment complexes in western Hennepin County with two deliveries per month. Currently, the Mobile Market delivers to Westonka Estates, Maple Terrace, Balsam Hill, and the Wildwood apartment complexes.

Provides the following services:

• Information and referrals for individuals needing resources for a disability

• Individual advocacy

• Independent living skills training

• Peer mentoring

• Resources and materials on accessibility guide, ADA, disability laws, etc.

• Systems advocacy (to implement changes where needed)

• Transition services

Provides fire and rescue services including:

• Fire Prevention: Conducts regular inspections of commercial, industrial, and multi-family residential structures to ensure continued compliance with Minnesota fire and building codes,

• Fire Investigation: Investigates all fires in Bloomington to determine cause and origin and works with the Police Department to investigate arson

Offers confidential counseling services for individuals and families on a variety of issues and concerns. Helps match therapeutic strategies with each person's specific preferences and needs. Telehealth sessions are available.

WIC is a nutrition and breastfeeding program that helps young families eat well and be healthy and promotes good health for pregnant, postpartum women, infants, and children up to age five. WIC provides services such as:

• Breastfeeding education and support

• Health assessments and screening to identify needs

• Nutrition education

• Referral to other community services

• Supplemental food vouchers or food cards for use at grocery stores and farmers' markets

Individuals in need of permanent supportive or transitional housing should call United Way 211 to complete a pre-screen. Once the applicant is pre-screened, if they are homeless or in need of housing assistance, they proceed through the Saint Louis County Coordinated Entry system. If homeless, households are to be assessed by a case manager using a VI-SPIDAT and supplemental questions. Households experiencing homelessness are scheduled for an appointment. Housing case managers meet with the household, complete the assessment, and initiate the process of applying for benefits, provide housing applications, and ensure the household is entered on the priority list for housing.

Real-time resume and interview online coaching/career advice resource, including:

• Expert resume assistance, feedback, templates, and tips

• Live interview coaching plus tips and resources

• Resources for job searching and career tips

Medicare Savings Programs have four sub-programs: Qualified Disabled and Working Individuals (QDWI): Helps pay for Part A premiums only. Qualifying Individual (QI): Helps pay for Part B premiums only. Specified Low-Income Medicare Beneficiary (SLMB): Helps pay for Part B premiums only. Qualified Medicare Beneficiary (QMB): Helps pay for Part A and B premiums as well as deductibles, coinsurance, and copayments.

Provides family subsidized and market rate housing

• Included in rent: cold/hot water, sewer, heat and garbage

• Coin operated laundry facility

• Assigned parking/auto plug-in

• Playground

Provides several treatment programs for adults who have a problem with substance use. Services include:

• Co-occurring program provided to adults with both substance use disorder and mental health diagnoses at the Oakdale location

• Group/individual outpatient treatment such as New Choices for Recovery Program. The program helps adults take action to change their thinking and behaviors to both prevent relapse and form a more positive relationship with themselves, others, and their community. Approaches include cognitive therapy, motivational interviewing, and 12-step support. Also addresses co-occurring mental health issues.

• Sober housing with permanent and supportive housing services to individuals who are homeless and single parents and their children in Forest Lake. The goal is to help parents and their children become self-sufficient and contributing members of the community.

• Substance use assessments

One-to-one live homework help from online tutors:

• Foreign language center

• Help with in-depth questions

• Live skills building

• Practice test center

• Writing lab

Instructs, assists, and supports recipients with basic living skills and social skills such as:

• Budgeting and planning

• Community resource utilization and integration

• Cooking and nutrition

• Crisis assistance

• Employment skills

• Health care directives

• Healthy lifestyle skills

• Household management

• Medication education and monitoring

• Mental health coping skills

• Mental illness symptom management

• Relapse prevention

• Transition to community living services

Diagnosis, treatment, and support for eating disorders inpatients and outpatients. Also provides specialized treatment for children and teens with eating disorders.

Designed for infants, toddlers under three years old, and pregnant women. Infants and toddlers receive comprehensive, individualized services to support healthy cognitive, physical, and social-emotional growth and development. Pregnant women also receive prenatal and postnatal education and support.

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 arts and crafts, cooking, cooking courses, sports and recreational activities, and more.

Provides help to improve reading, math, spelling, and writing skills, computer skills, GED test preparation, and GED testing.

Provides income-eligible Hennepin County residents in attaining living-wage jobs and removing employment barriers. The program includes resume support, interview readiness training, finding job leads, and maintaining employment.

• Freezer foods available in a limited capacity. Garden program available in the summer.

• Essential household supplies and personal care products are available to Food Pantry shoppers

• Donations accepted. Visit website for shopping list

NOTE: Application is open for this program. Funds may be available to prevent homelessness for youth who need financial assistance with a rent deposit, first month's rent, past due rent; or who are at risk of being disconnected from their utilities.

Provides community living programs (supervision, training, and assistance in functional day activities) and enhanced services such as community integration in a staff-intensive environment for adults with physical or developmental disabilities

Individuals can obtain life-saving knowledge and skills designed to keep them prepared in the event of an emergency, with the health and safety training techniques and certification programs, including:

• AED (Automated External Defibrillator)

• ALS (Advanced Life Support)/PALS (Pediatric Advanced Life Support)

• Babysitting and Child Care (NOTE: Classes are not intended for individuals seeking certification for state-licensed child care providers)

• BLS (Basic Life Support)/CPR for Healthcare

• CNA (Certified Nurse Assistant) Training and Testing

• CPR

• First Aid

• Group Training for a Safer Workplace

• Instructor Training

• Lifeguarding

• Swimming and Water Safety

Classes are available in classroom, online and classroom, and online formats. Certificates and Continuing Education Credits are available.

Accessible transportation, wheelchair, and stretcher services