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Counseling specialties include:

• Relationship Issues: Marital and pre-marital couples therapy, communication skills, conflict resolution and sexuality issues

• Mood/Anxiety Disorders: Depression, anxiety, bi-polar disorders, panic attacks, post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and obsessive-compulsive disorders

• Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT): State-certified, evidence-based DBT programming for adults and a modified program for adolescents

• Anger Management: Group and individual therapy

• Other: Trauma related issues; foster care/adoption issues; adult ADHD; grief and loss; stress management; self-esteem; geriatric/aging; life transitions; gay/lesbian/transgender issues

Processes and issues licenses for tobacco, liquor, auctioneer, and gambling permits

Click on the link for branch information, including address and phone numbers:

• Godel Memorial - Warren Library

• Greenbush Public Library

• Grygla LINK Site

• Hallock Public Library

• Karlstad LINK Site

• Red Lake Falls Public Library

• Roseau Public Library

• Thief River Falls Public Library

• Warroad Public Library

MNsure Navigators work as a neutral third party to help clients navigate the application process and understand the options available. Navigators can help with renewal paperwork and reporting changes. Including, but not limited to, income changes, household size, address change, and loss of employer-sponsored coverage.

Works to reunite or keep families together through a variety of therapeutic programs. Also aims to keep children out of the child welfare system by resolving or assisting families to develop the tools needed for successful parenting.

• Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Applications: Provides assistance with applications for SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) a county-run, state-supervised Federal program that helps Minnesotans with low incomes get the food they need for sound nutrition and well-balanced meals. The program issues electronic food support benefits that can help stretch your household food budget.

• Information and Referral: Offers information on resources of local food shelves

• Nutrition Assistance Program for Seniors (NAPS) Applications: The program is designed to provide healthy and nutritious food products each month at no cost to eligible individuals over the age of 60. Helps eligible individuals apply for the program.

• Second Harvest Heartland: Provides a free food distribution program to those in need

• Prairie Five Meals Program: Offers congregate dining, home delivered, and frozen meals serving 34 communities in the area. Frozen meals are available for weekend, holiday, emergency and rural delivery. The program promotes health and independent living in the senior population through improved nutrition and reduction of social isolation.

Provides residential memory care homes for individuals with a diagnosis of dementia. Services include:

• 24/7 skilled nursing

• Enrichment programming

• Home-cooked meals

• Individualized care plans

• In-home dentistry, occupational therapy, podiatry, salon services, and more

• Private rooms

• Secured entryways

Provides specialized therapy treatments in the areas of:

• Aquatic therapy

• Cardiac rehabilitation

• Hand therapy

• Occupational therapy

• Physical therapy

• Pulmonary rehabilitation

• Speech therapy

Provides establishment and enforcement of child support orders. Services include: ?- Collecting current and past-due support payments

• Establishing and enforcing child support orders for basic, medical, or child care support

• Establishing parentage

• Locating non-custodial parents

• Reviews and modifies court orders for support

NOTE: Child Support Services does not provide parenting time, custody, legal advice, divorce counsel, or spousal maintenance establishment

Counseling specialties include:

• Relationship Issues: Marital and pre-marital couples therapy, communication skills, conflict resolution and sexuality issues

• Mood/Anxiety Disorders: Depression, anxiety, bi-polar disorders, panic attacks, post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and obsessive-compulsive disorders

• Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT): State-certified, evidence-based DBT programming for adults and a modified program for adolescents

• Anger Management: Group and individual therapy

• Other: Trauma related issues; foster care/adoption issues; adult ADHD; grief and loss; stress management; self-esteem; geriatric/aging; life transitions; gay/lesbian/transgender issues

As a court-appointed guardian/conservator, Lutheran Social Service (LSS) has responsibility for managing the affairs of incapacitated adults, advocating in their best interest, and ensuring that the client's needs are met.

Public transportation services for Albert Lea, Austin, Owatonna, and Waseca. Services include Demand Response and Deviated Route Services. Offers SMART Transit Hospital Shuttle in-between Austin and Albert Lea. All trips depart from/arrive at Mayo Clinic Health Systems main entrance.

Sage: Provides breast and cervical cancer screening to low-income women, age 40 and over, without health insurance who do not receive Medical assistance or whose insurance does not cover the total cost of these services. If one of the screening tests shows a problem, Sage covers many diagnostic services and can often connect to treatment coverage. Sage Scopes: Free colorectal cancer screening including kit, colonoscopy and follow up for patients with abnormal screening results. Available to men and women, ages 50 - 64, or as young as 40 for groups at increased risk, who have no insurance or are under-insured, and meet income guidelines.

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

• Ongoing support services for children and their families

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

• Works with the family toward unification or reunification

?NOTE: In addition to taking reports, child protection screeners are available to explain the reporting statutes, answer questions regarding agency practices and discuss other resources and strategies when reports do not meet criteria for assignment for child protection investigation.

Care coordination works with individuals living with disabilities or mental health ages 50 and over, services include:

• Care coordination and health promotion

• Comprehensive care management

• Comprehensive transitional care

• Health information technology to link services

• Person and family support

• Referral to community supports

Park and recreation programs for all ages, preschool through senior citizens, including:

• Gymnasiums

• Ice arena

• Maintains parks/playgrounds for the city of New Hope

• Aquatic Park

• Outdoor skate park

• Outdoor theatre

• Par 3 golf course

• Youth Athletic Association

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.

Volunteer firefighter response to:

• Fires
• Medical crises
• Car accidents
• Other emergencies

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 defensive driving classes, early childhood screening, facility rentals, karate, and more.

Treatment programming services available by location: Offered in Saint Cloud

• Aftercare/continuing care (follow-up to primary co-occurring disorders group)
• Anger/emotional management
• Dialectic Behavioral Skills
• Domestic violence/domestic abuse counseling program
• Driving the Right Way - DUI program
• Intensive Intervention Program (chemical dependency)
• Men's Recovery (gender-specific chemical dependency group)
• Moral Reconation Therapy - cognitive restructuring
• Primary co-occurring disorders (substance abuse and mental health)
• Psychiatric medication assessment & management
• Relapse prevention
• Women's Recovery (gender-specific chemical dependency group)

Offered in Little Falls

• Aftercare/continuing care (follow-up to primary co-occurring disorders group)
• Anger/emotional management
• Dialectic Behavioral Skills
• Moral Reconation Therapy - cognitive restructuring
• Primary co-occurring disorders (substance abuse and mental health)
• Psychiatric medication assessment & management
• Relapse prevention

Provides law enforcement and community services.

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

Bachelor Level

• Bachelor Level Internship: Offers 6 program areas as an opportunity to gain hands on skills. Program areas consist of child welfare programs, children's mental health and aging services. Available for those receiving a degree in social work.

• First Year Field Experience: Family Service Rochester provides internship opportunities within our Aging Services, Family Access Center, and Place-Based Initiative programs. This internship is available for those receiving a degree in social work.

Master Level

• Clinical Master Level Internship/Clinical Academy: Family Service Rochester provides an internship experience where clinical master level students are offered hands-on experience to practice skills in several program modalities and settings

• Foundation Master Level Internship/Family Service Rochester Only: Offers 7 program areas as an opportunity to gain hands on skills. Available for individuals receiving a degree in social work.

• Strives to help prevent the chronic disease risk factors of tobacco use and exposure

• Preventing poor nutrition and physical inactivity

• Create sustainable, systemic changes in schools, work sites, communities and health care organizations that make it easier for Minnesotans to incorporate healthy behaviors into their daily lives

• Focuses on policy, systems, and environmental changes where we live, work, learn, and play

• Home Energy Loan Program: Offers low interest home energy loans for homeowners to make energy improvements in their homes

• Home Improvement Loan Program: Encourages and supports the preservation of existing housing by providing loans to owner occupied, primary residences, and 1-4-unit owner-occupied, primary residences

• Solar Financing: Offers low interest loans for homeowners to increase the energy efficiency of their homes using solar technology