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Offers several senior nutrition programs:

• Community Dining Locations: Provides affordable meals in a community atmosphere at several senior housing center locations

• Dine-In or Take-out Service Options: Local restaurants offer meals throughout the day or over the lunch hour with no reservations required

• Meals on Wheels Home-Deliver Options: Hot, nutritious meals are typically delivered Monday - Friday to homebound older adults. Frozen meals are available for weekends, holidays, and other closure days. Clients choose their delivery schedule (minimum of 3 meals per week). They may also choose to have a hot meal delivered daily by a volunteer or choose a combination of hot meals and frozen meals delivered on the days that work best for them.

• Bundled Service Program: Nutritious frozen meals, food shelf commodities, and Nutritional Assistance Program for Seniors (NAPS) food boxes are available to older adults living in rural areas outside of the local Meals on Wheels delivery area. 10 or 14 meal packs are delivered in Aitkin, Itasca, Lake, and Saint Louis counties. This program also serves as a safety net for participants, as check-ins are provided to the individual.

In addition to nutritious meals, the service includes nutrition screening, assessment, and education. A Registered Dietician completes a nutritional analysis and approves the cycle menus. Meals comply with the most recent Dietary Guidelines for Americans and provide a minimum of 1/3 of the dietary reference intake established by the Food and Nutrition Board.

• Bread and baked goods

• Congregate dining meals. Meal reservations must be done three days in advance.

• Driving improvement classes

• Educational programs on health issues and 55 Alive

• Foot care/blood pressure checks

• Information and referral, outreach, support groups, senior companion/friendly visitor, peer counseling, and telephone reassurance

• Recreational/leisure activities including cards, games, movies, lunch pot lucks, bingo, and day trips

• Transportation for groceries and social activities at senior center only

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 at full price for those of all ages or those 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 an assessment of need

• 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 is approved

• Volunteer drivers are a regular contact for a homebound person

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

Offers three community centers for members of the Fond Du Lac band. All facilities feature a gymnasium, weight room, and library. The Cloquet Community Center offers a pool and hot tub. The community centers provide fun and educational activities throughout the year. Activities offered:

• Adult brunch, elder lunch, and teen dinners at low cost

• Bingo nights

• Elder exercise

• GED classes

• Immersion language table

• Ojibwe language table

NOTE: Activities will vary from center to center

Provides several services for college students with:

• Campus Cupboard Food Pantry: Clients can access the food pantry at any time during open hours. The food pantry offers Halal options and prioritizes diverse food items.

• Fellowship services with partner area congregations

• Homemade meals for anyone to come and enjoy during the spring and fall semesters

Provides a meal for older adults and Meals on Wheels service in partnership with Lutheran Senior Services

Provides nutritious meals to older adults and to individuals who are homebound.

Community center offering:

• Activities offered daily, weekly, and monthly

• Board game day, Hand and Foot card games, and Mahjong games

• Coloring and craft activities

• Fitness classes

• Golden Aires singing group

• Health screening and education

• Meals on site

• Painting, weavers, and writers' clubs

• Rental of the community center for private events

The community center offers an intimate setting for the public, such as:

• Congregate meals for the public for breakfast and lunch. Also, offers frozen and home-delivered meals.

• Party room rentals for small parties or events

Offers a variety of social, recreational, and supportive services for older adults in the community, including:

• 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

• Senior Dining/home delivery

• Blood Pressure checks 3rd Thursday each month at 11:30am

• Bridge group comes in for recreational games

A culturally appropriate senior center providing services including:

• Bilingual citizenship classes and ESL instruction

• Congregate dining

• Exercise, health, and nutrition education including Tai-Chi

• In-home visits to assess determination of needs

• Individual advocacy to access needed services and ensure fair treatment from community-based and government resources, assistance with making or canceling appointments with doctors, filling out forms, paying bills, and bridging cultural gaps

• Information and referral

• Intrepretation and translation support for limited English speakers going through the naturalization process

• Social Media Classes

• Transportation to medical appointments, human services appointments, shopping, errands, recreational/social appointments

• 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.

Offers three community centers for members of the Fond Du Lac band. All facilities feature a gymnasium, weight room, and library. The Cloquet Community Center offers a pool and hot tub. The community centers provide fun and educational activities throughout the year. Activities offered:

• Adult brunch, elder lunch, and teen dinners at low cost

• Bingo nights

• Elder exercise

• GED classes

• Immersion language table

• Ojibwe language table

NOTE: Activities will vary from center to center

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

• 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.

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

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

• 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.

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

Provides nutrition resources to maintain and improve the health and wellness of seniors. This program includes services such as:

• Nutritional Assistance Program for Seniors (NAPS): Adults aged 60 and older who have more mobility and are comfortable with some cooking. NAPS is a boxed program (meaning food is prescribed and prepackaged). Participants can also shop at the Food Shelf while waiting for their NAPS box.

• Silver Selects: Adults 60 and older who have difficulty shopping and cooking but are able to come to CEAP once or twice each month. Each participant can receive 28 frozen meals per month and can either pick up all 28 at one time or 14 meals twice each month. Participants can also shop at the Food Shelf when picking up their frozen meals.

• 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.