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Advise and assist all veterans and their dependents with all state and federal veterans benefits: Disability, Social Security, including:

• Alcohol dependency treatment

• Burial benefits

• Death benefits

• Death benefits

• Dental treatment

• Disability insurance

• Discharge reviews

• Domiciliary care

• Drug dependency treatment

• Education and training

• Financial assistance

• GI Bill educational training

• GI Life Insurance

• Home loan guaranteed by the USDVA

• Non-service connected disability pension

• Outpatient medical care

• Service-connected disability compensation

• Survivors and dependents education

• Vocational rehabilitation for individuals with disabilities

Provides skilled nursing care for individuals who require transitional care after surgery, illness, or injury. Services include:

• Occupational Therapy

• Physical Therapy

• Speech-Language Pathology

Housing intended for people with lower incomes, where rent is a fixed rate for tenants and slightly lower than market rate. Some properties are available only to older adults and people living with disabilities. Anoka County

• Abbey Field Townhomes - Saint Francis
• Cutters Grove Apartments - Anoka

Becker County:

• Pelican River Apartments - Detroit Lakes

Benton County:

• Oak Street Townhomes - Saint Cloud
• Park Plaza Apartments - Saint Cloud

Carver County:

• Heritage Park Apartments - Chanhassen
• Lake Hazeltine Woods Townhomes - Chaska

Clay County:

• Carriage House Senior Apartments - Moorhead
• Village Green Manor - Moorhead

Crow Wing County:

• Circle Pines Apartments - Brainerd

Dakota County:

• Parkwood Heights - Burnsville
• Rosemount Plaza - Rosemount

Faribault County:

• Garden Court Apartment - Winnebago

Hennepin County:

• Plymouth Ponds Apartments - Plymouth
• Somerset Oaks Apartments and Townhomes - Saint Louis Park
• Sterling Ponds Senior Apartments - Eden Prarie

Kanabec County:

• North Mora Estates and Townhomes - Mora
• Woodcrest Manor Senior Apartments - Mora

Le Sueur County:

• Centennial Plaza Apartments - Le Center

Otter Tail County:

• Colonial Village Apartments and Townhouses - Fergus Falls
• Broadway Apartments - Fergus Falls

Ramsey County:

• Afton View Apartments - Saint Paul
• Forest Place Apartments - Saint Paul
• Lakewood Hills Apartments - White Bear Lake
• Maple Ridge Apartments - Maplewood
• Shamrock Court Apartments - Saint Paul
• Sun Cliffe Apartments - Saint Paul
• Victoria Place - Roseville

Saint Louis County:

• Applewood West and Fairmont Apartments - Duluth
• Birchwood Apartments - Virginia
• Chesterwood Apartments - Duluth
• Eastview Apartments - Eveleth
• Lakeside Manor Apartments - Chisholm
• Morgan Park Townhomes - Duluth
• Munger Terrace - Duluth
• Park Villa Apartments - Mountain Iron
• Pine Manor Townhouses - Ely

Scott County:

• Riva Ridge Apartments - Shakoppe

Sherburne County:

• Elk Ridge Manor - Elk River
• Woodview Apartments - Zimmerman

Stearns County:

• River Oak Heights Apartments - Cold Spring

Stevens County:

• Pacific Place - Morris

Washington County

• Waterford Townhomes - Oakdale
• Woodmount Townhomes - Cottage Grove

Wilkin County:

• York Apartments - Breckenridge
• York Manor Senior Apartments - Breckenridge

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 patients' responsibilities 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 getting help to pay their medical bill ?- Elevate Patient Financial Solutions: Help patients without medical insurance find resources to help pay for medical bills

One of six nonprofit United States Regional Arts Organizations providing support, information, and celebrating arts organizations and creative communities in Minnesota. Work to strengthen local arts, and culture efforts in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts, state agencies, private funders, and many others. Support programs offered:

• Opportunities for Individuals: Work with freelance writers, photographers, and pitch ideas. Offers a Creative Midwest Media cohort to support organizations who provide innovative media outlets. Other programs include, Jazz Road, Midwest Award for Artists with Disabilities, Midwest Culture Bearers Award, and the Peter Capell Award.

• Opportunities for Organizations: Offers the GIG Fund grant to organizations ranging from $2,000 - $15,000 to bring artists to their community. Also, offers the National Endowment for The Arts Big Read grant of up to $20,000 to help bring communities together around the shared activity of reading and discussing a book, and Shakespeare in American Communities grant of $30,000.

Provide 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.

Case managers work with a variety of adults including those with traumatic brain injuries, intellectual disabilities, or mental illnesses. With all participants a support plan is developed and implemented. Assistance is provided in completing assessments, arranging services, monitoring services, and consulting and advocating on behalf of individuals.

Offers youth and family programs, including the following:

• Active Family and Community Engagement: Engages family at school-based community events, which build bridges between school and home.

• Collaborative Leadership and Practices: Include professional learning communities, site-based teams charged with improving school policy and classroom teaching and learning, labor-management collaborations, and teacher development strategies such as peer assistance and review.

• Expanded and Enriched Learning Time and Opportunities: Collaborates with community partners to provide learning activities during out-of-school time and summer, using school facilities and other community spaces.

Programs vary depending on community priorities and include arts, physical activity, small group and individualized academic support, and hands-on learning activities.

• Integrated Student Supports: Coordinates on-site services to support students in overcoming a range of barriers to educational and life success. Services are unique to each school based on the specific needs of the students and community, and may include access to medical, dental, and mental health care services, tutoring, and other academic supports. Schools are also developing restorative practices to reduce punitive disciplinary actions such as suspensions.

An urgent care center for a variety of non-emergency conditions such as:

• Allergic reactions

• Ear infections

• Minor illnesses, burns, and wounds

• Sprains

Provides environmental health services to protect community health. Services include:

• Environmental health licensing and ordinance enforcement

• Inspection and licensing of food, beverage, lodging, mobile home parks, recreational camping areas, and public pools

• Investigation and response to environmental complaints, including nuisance and sanitation concerns

• Lead testing and inspections for homes and other properties

• Radon testing and education

• Water testing for private wells, including analysis for fluoride, iron, coliform bacteria, nitrates, lead, hardness, and sulfates

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 free and confidential services to those affected by domestic violence, sexual violence, human trafficking/exploitation, and high-risk youth in Lincoln, Lyon, Redwood, and Yellow Medicine counties. Confidential services:

• Accompaniment to court
• Assistance with petitioning for an Order for Protection or Harassment Restraining Order
• Community education
• Crisis line
• Emergency transportation, and/or assistance
• Information, referrals, and resources
• Temporary emergency safe housing
• Systems coordination
• Support group
• Youth Programs: Provides youth the ability to teach and learn from their peers about confidence, communication, safety, and life skills.

Emergency assistance includes, but is not limited to, the following expenses:

• Crime Scene cleanup
• Grant funds are used to meet crime victims' emergency needs when available
• Purchase and installation of necessary home security devices
• Reimbursement of towing and storage fees incurred due to impoundment of a recovered stolen vehicle
• Replacement of necessary property that was lost, damaged or stolen as a result of a crime
• Transportation to locations related to the victim's needs as a victim, such as medical and criminal justice facilities
• Victim reimbursement for reasonable travel and living expenses incurred due to a change in venue

Victims of crime have also received funding through the program for items such as repairing a broken door, installing new locks, and replacing clothing or bedding taken as evidence. Family Homeless Prevention and Assistance Program - FHPAP may be available through pre-screening.

Families can access clothing, diapers, wipes, baby hygiene items, and emergency formula one time per month. Have limited capacity to provide emergency childcare for children from infancy - 12 years of age on a short-term basis when there is a crisis in the family. Crisis childcare is provided at the Bethany Crisis Shelter when openings available.

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 law enforcement and community services including: ?- Crime investigation

• Crime reporting

• Missing persons location assistance

Provides a day support program for individuals who could benefit from and enjoy day program services. Activities include:

• Art and music therapies

• Fitness activities and exercises

• Learning activities

• Local community activities

• Medication administration

• Recreational, social, and creative activities such as arts and crafts, cooking, educational groups, games, reading, and discussion groups

• Volunteer community service projects

In partnership with Girls, Inc., YWCA offers a mentorship program delivered by trained professionals to help youth take risks, discover and grow their strengths, learn to value themselves, and create long-lasting mentorship in a pro-girl environment. Offers a research-based curriculum to help participants to:

• Achieve academically

• Discover an interest in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM)

• Lead healthy and physically active lives

• Make positive connections to peers and adults, contribute to society, and believe in their ability to create the best possible future for themselves

• Manage money

• Navigate media messages

Programs Offered:

• Girls Inc. Eureka Program: A five-year cohort for youth interested in STEM fields. Partners with the College of Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota to guide participants to explore career interests and dreams while supporting them through high school graduation and preparing them for their next steps.

• Girls RAP Program (Resolution and Prevention) Program: An intervention program that works with 12-18 years old girl-identifying youth using an empowerment framework. Community RAP works with youth who are involved or at-risk for involvement with the juvenile justice and adjacent systems. School-based RAP works with youth who may be experiencing challenges with or within the school environment.

• Out-of-School Time Program: Available to girls and gender-expansive youth in grades 4-8 in the Minneapolis Public Schools and at YWCA Minneapolis. The program focuses on economic literacy, leadership, community engagement, and healthy decision making.

Help assist adults develop the skills necessary to make positive change in their lives. Through the program, mental health practitioners teach, coach, support, and do "along with" the client as they navigate the path of their illness. Areas of focus may include:

• Budgeting and shopping skills

• Community resource utilization and integration skills

• Cooking and nutrition skills

• Crisis assistance

• Employment related skills

• Health care directives

• Healthy lifestyle skills and practices

• Household management skills

• Interpersonal communication skills

• Medication monitoring

• Mental illness symptom management skills

• Parenting skills

• Relapse prevention skills

• Transportation skills

Offers a 21-week program for people who have behaved abusively in relationships. It is designed to provide participants with options for responding to trauma and intense emotions in relationships. Focuses on teaching about the impact of trauma, what it looks like, how it shows up in symptoms and behaviors, and how it impacts decisions and impulses on how to respond to experiences in the world. Participants learn about relationships, communication strategies and styles, and skills to regulate emotions so they can respond to conflict in healthy ways.??Individuals can refer themselves or be referred by the court, probation, child protection, or another agency. Groups are divided by gender. Day and evening times are available for the men's groups.

Provides urgent care services for non-life-threatening illnesses and injuries and is not intended for routine or chronic medical care. Services are provided same day for a range of minor illnesses and injuries including:

• Cardiology

• Diabetes education

• Dietitian consultations

• Gastroenterology

• Neurology

• Oncology and cancer treatment

• Urology

Patients who need help paying their bills or prescriptions can call to discuss special circumstances or request a payment plan:

• Allina Partners Care Program: Provides assistance to patients who do not qualify for Medical Assistance or MinnesotaCare in Minnesota, or BadgerCare in Wisconsin, and whose annual incomes are at or below 275 percent of the federal poverty level

• Uninsured Discount Program: Provides a discount on medically necessary hospital charges for individuals who do not qualify for Medicaid or Allina Health Partners Care

• MedCredit Financial Services: Provides a financing option to patients who can't afford to pay high monthly payments for their medical bills over a short period of time

• Prescription Assistance Programs: Patients can speak to staff or contact an Allina Health health care provider to send a referral letter to the program

The Food Support Program assists low-income persons and families so they can purchase food and better meet their nutritional needs. The program is not intended to supply all of a person's or family's food needs. Instead, it helps while the person or family makes an effort to become self-supporting.

A reference and referral service for information on HIV/AIDS, viral hepatitis, sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), and tuberculosis (TB).

• Information Dissemination: Collects and disseminates data and materials to support the work of prevention organizations and workers at international, national, state, and local levels. This includes facilitating program collaboration by sharing information, resources, published materials, research, and trends among the four diseases.

• Public Health Collaboration: Connects public health partners through collaborative communication and innovative technology solutions, fostering partnerships to enhance disease prevention efforts.

• Resource and Service Database: Maintains a comprehensive database of approximately 10,000 organizations providing services related to HIV/AIDS, viral hepatitis, STDs, and TB, including counseling, testing, prevention, education, and support.

• Services for Public Health Professionals include educational materials, prevention resources, and training opportunities.

Provides children's mental health case management. An intake screener will advise children's needs and advise parents about the application process for voluntary county services.

Early Learning Scholarships help individuals pay for child care and early education to help children get ready for school. A scholarship must be used at a Parent Aware-Rated program. Parents Aware is a rating tool to help parents select child care and early education programs. Early Learning Scholarships increase access to early childhood programs for three-and four-year old children with the highest needs to improve school readiness for all young children.