Provides a senior meal and meals on wheels service in partnership with Lutheran Senior Services

Programs geared toward helping Cambodian elders and other southeast Asians in the following areas: - Applying for public benefits - English instruction - Citizenship classes, INS interviews and immigration assistance - Healthy eating promotion which reconnects participants with the eating habits of their home countries through nutrition education, development of community gardens, and meals served three days a week from a local restaurant. Serves elders from the Cambodian, Chinese, and Karen communities. - Physical activities and active living - Cultural and traditional ceremonies - Health education - Medicare application - Housing assistance - Funeral assistance - Recreational activities - Group shopping and medical appointment transportation - Translation

Provides well-balanced, low-cost noon meals in congregate settings

Offers different activities such as bingo, cards, and music throughout the week. Also provides meal programs, including congregate meal dining and home-delivered meals.

- - Meals on Wheels program for residents of Cokato - - - Congregate dining is offered as a noon meal with friends and neighbors - - - Nutrition advice and education are given to participants on a regular basis

Connects and provides older adults and their caregivers with services in their community to allow them to live long, healthy, and independent lives in their own homes. Services include: - Food Assistance: Congregate dining locations offering low-cost meals, low-cost frozen meals, home-delivered meals, NAPS, and SNAP - Healthy Living: Blood pressure checks, fall prevention screenings, telehealth conferences, Tai Chi and yoga sessions, and stretching/balance education - Information Services: Offers memory loss education and Dementia Friends, Medicare counseling and assistance, fraud/scam identification and prevention, assistance with internet search, assistance with Healthcare Directives and Power of Attorney forms, and classes to older adults - Mobile Community Center: Brings services and socialization to the door or community. The vehicle is equipped with high-speed internet, flat-screen TV, applications for programs, and meeting space for coffee and conversation. - Social: Offers card parties, coffee and conversation time, caregiver respite, karaoke parties, video calls and chats with friends, and social media assistance

Congregate dining: - Provides nutritious noon-hour meals to persons age 60 and over - An annual registration for this federally-funded program must be completed - Meals are available for full price for those of all ages or who do not want to complete the registration form Home delivered meals: ? - Delivers meals to persons who are homebound or in need of rehabilitation time from surgery, injury, or illness. This service is based on assessment of need - Volunteer drivers are a regular contact for a homebound person - A complete well-balanced meal is delivered to the recipient's door. This meal provides one-third of the required daily calories and nutrients, and are dietitian approved

Provides hot congregate meals on a regular basis for elderly or disabled adults who may be at risk for nutritional deficits without assistance and who can profit from opportunities to socialize with others: - Special foods for individuals on diabetic, low-salt, and low-fat diets - Choice of scheduled meal or chef salad

Provides meals Monday through Friday, times vary

Connects and provides older adults and their caregivers with services in their community to allow them to live long, healthy, and independent lives in their own homes. Services include: - Food Assistance: Congregate dining locations offering low-cost meals, low-cost frozen meals, home-delivered meals, NAPS, and SNAP - Healthy Living: Blood pressure checks, fall prevention screenings, telehealth conferences, Tai Chi and yoga sessions, and stretching/balance education - Information Services: Offers memory loss education and Dementia Friends, Medicare counseling and assistance, fraud/scam identification and prevention, assistance with internet search, assistance with Healthcare Directives and Power of Attorney forms, and classes to older adults - Mobile Community Center: Brings services and socialization to the door or community. The vehicle is equipped with high-speed internet, flat-screen TV, applications for programs, and meeting space for coffee and conversation. - Social: Offers card parties, coffee and conversation time, caregiver respite, karaoke parties, video calls and chats with friends, and social media assistance

-Diner's Club

Connects and provides older adults and their caregivers with services in their community to allow them to live long, healthy, and independent lives in their own homes. Services include: - Food Assistance: Congregate dining locations offering low-cost meals, low-cost frozen meals, home-delivered meals, NAPS, and SNAP - Healthy Living: Blood pressure checks, fall prevention screenings, telehealth conferences, Tai Chi and yoga sessions, and stretching/balance education - Information Services: Offers memory loss education and Dementia Friends, Medicare counseling and assistance, fraud/scam identification and prevention, assistance with internet search, assistance with Healthcare Directives and Power of Attorney forms, and classes to older adults - Mobile Community Center: Brings services and socialization to the door or community. The vehicle is equipped with high-speed internet, flat-screen TV, applications for programs, and meeting space for coffee and conversation. - Social: Offers card parties, coffee and conversation time, caregiver respite, karaoke parties, video calls and chats with friends, and social media assistance

- Card games - Foot clinic - Guest speakers once per month - Medicare/supplementary insurance advocate - Meeting space available for rent - Senior dining; spouses may participate regardless of age - Bring a Friend Day potluck every month

Provides well-balanced, low-cost noon meals in congregate settings

Senior nutrition program in a congregate dining setting which promotes independence, dignity, good health, and nutritional well-being. Locations: - 1625 Highway 14 East in Rochester - Community Education Building, 630 1st Ave NW in Byron

- 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.

Hot meals served Monday - Friday

Through a partnership with Lutheran Social Services, makes nutritious meals available at a dining site at the Atwater Community Center or at home through volunteer meal delivery drivers. Frozen meals are available for weekends and holidays; special diet meals such as low sodium, low sugar, etc are available as well.

Partially funded under contract with the Central Minnesota Council on Aging as part of the Older Americans Act and administered by Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Saint Cloud. Offers a senior meal at the Askov Community Center

- Senior Dining/home delivery - Blood Pressure checks 3rd Thursday each month at 11:30am - Bridge group comes in for recreational games

Provides well-balanced, low cost noon meals in congregate settings

- 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 meals at the Clearbrook Senior Citizens Center daily - Provides home delivered meals - please call for delivery days - Delivered Monday through Friday meals - Frozen meals on weekends if needed

Provides college students with fellowship, inexpensive meals/lunch, food pantry, worship, and basic counseling opportunities.

- Congregate dining program - Social, recreational, educational, and fitness programming