- 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.

-Diner's Club

Provides hot meals on a regular basis for older adults

Hot meals served Monday - Friday

- - 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

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

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.

Provides area seniors with the opportunity to receive a home-cooked noon meal planned by registered dietitians; diabetic options available. Senior Center provides various activities, classes, and events and to seniors; visit website for a complete list.

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

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

Offer congregate meals through Lutheran Social Services (LSS). Volunteer opportunities for seniors and communities to share their talents, skills, and gifts. Offers services such as health and safety checks, nutrition information, and foot care. Also offers weekly activities such as cards, puzzles, and bingo.

- 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

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

Provides senior dining and meals and wheels such as: - Accommodates special dietary needs, such as diabetic, low-salt, and low cholesterol diets - Home delivered meals, including frozen meals for the weekends - Nutrition sites for senior dining - Meal sites and home delivered meals are available in 165 communities in 39 Minnesota counties - Meals to Go shipment service is available statewide Mankato Senior Dining Sites: ?- Gus Johnson Plaza: 413 North 4th Street #714, Mankato - Orness Plaza: 900 Hope Street, Mankato ?- Koppen Gardens: 615 Nicollet Avenue, North Mankato

Provides meals Monday through Friday, times vary

The following services are provided: - Assisted transportation - Congregate dining programs - Evidence-based health promotion classes - Fall prevention activities - Friendly visiting - Health education and information - Health fairs - Homemaking and chore services - Respite for caregivers - Socialization - Telephone reassurance

Dining Program: The senior center partners with five local restaurants to serve a noon lunch. Lunches will be available to seniors at a charge of $5.00 per meal. Diners must sign up by 1 pm the day before the meal (sign up for Monday's meal by Friday at 1 pm.) Visit the website to see what restaurants and meals will be served. Meals on Wheels: Provides the Delano area Meals on Wheels program. For individuals, 60 years and older, homebound, and needing a hot meal. Meals can be delivered to the home Monday through Friday. Microwavable meals will be delivered on Friday for weekend meals if ordered.

- Recreational, social, and leisure activities for Stewartville seniors - Noon meal

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.

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

Provides hot meals to adults ages 60 and over in a sit-down style lunch setting at 6 locations in Hennepin and Anoka counties. Each location is unique and may have specific dietary needs or preferences. Menus are crafted with respect to the unique cultural and religious dietary needs of the communities served. Frozen meals are available at the Anoka, Blaine, and Richfield dining sites. Menus are available online. Dining Sites: - Anoka Senior Center, 1500 6th Avenue South, Anoka, 55303, (763)427-6646; Tuesday - Friday - Centro, 1915 Chicago Avenue, Minneapolis, 55404, (612)874-1412; Monday - Friday; Latino dining; breakfast and lunch every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday - Jewish Community Center, 4330 Cedar Lake Road, Saint Louis Park, 55416; (952)381-3466; Monday - Friday; Kosher dining on Thursday - Lao Advancement of America, 2648 West Broadway, Minneapolis, 55411, (612)302-9154; Monday - Friday; Laotian meals on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday - Mary Ann Young Senior Center, 9150 Central Avenue NE, Blaine, 55434; (763)780-4318; Monday - Friday - Richfield Community Center, 7000 Nicollet Avenue South, Richfield, 55423, (612)812-9149; Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday

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 writer's clubs - Rental of the community center for private events

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

- 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.