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Provides violence prevention, intervention, support, outreach services, and leadership opportunities for youth in residential and community settings. Provides a variety of services to youth of all genders who have experienced relationship violence, sexual assault or exploitation, stalking, or homelessness. Programs include: Movement for Violence Prevention (MVP): Leadership development activities to assist youth-led community engagement, skill enhancement, peer connections, and tools for change to prevent youth violence. Inspiring Youth: A year-long, intensive, community-based program for youth ages 10 - 17 and their families who have been impacted by violence. Youth workers provide comprehensive and culturally responsive mentorship, support, and access to services, activities, and leadership opportunities. Youth Site-Based and Community-Based Housing: Transitional housing for youth and young adults who are victims of violence and exploitation, including sex trafficking. Safety planning and support are provided. Voices in Prevention (VIP): A 6-week violence prevention curriculum serving middle and high school students. Curriculum might also include support groups, one-on-one sessions, peer mediation, and service learning. Youth Safety Plans: Specialized safety plans for youth NorthStar Youth Outreach Center: A drop-in center for homeless youth offering advocacy, safety planning, and connections to additional community resources. The center also offers:

• Assistance with housing

• Assistance with career and education planning

• Computer lab

• Counseling

• Creative art spaces

• Food and snacks

• Laundry access

• Supplies and clothing

Provides a drop-in center for individuals with mental illnesses. Activities and services include:

• Assistance with paperwork related to benefits (SSI, food support, employment applications)

• Family education

• Outreach and linkage to other programs and agencies

• Peer support services

• Recreational activities

• Resources for housing programs

• Supportive counseling

• Social and recreational activities

Regional Coordinated Entry to Housing Programs agency The family development program provides services that help persons with emergencies and crises, self-sufficiency, shelter and housing, homeless services, and several special projects. Services may include:

• Case management

• Emergency housing

• Foreclosure prevention assistance

• Permanent supportive housing

• Rent/deposit assistance

• Transitional housing

Offers person-centered support services to individuals living with a disability or mental health condition. Services provided:

• Case management to assess gaps in services to develop a goal plan to resolve the individual's housing crisis and prevent them from becoming homeless

• Develop life skills including self-sufficiency planning, establish independence, and housing skills

• Help individuals secure and maintain stable housing. Services include house searching, application assistance, budgeting, landlord communication, and ongoing stability planning.

• Meeting with staff for information about housing resources for rapid re-housing, transitional housing, permanent supportive housing, and eligibility. Provides referrals and resources to programs as needed.

Provides a mobile app and online housing search tool designed to locate HUD resources by geographic area, including public housing agencies, subsidized housing, homeless resources, family, elderly, disabled housing, and HUD Field Offices

• Provides information and assistance with finding subsidized housing rentals for families, seniors, and individuals with disabilities

• Makes available subsidized housing lists that can be mailed

Offers person-centered support services to individuals living with a disability or mental health condition. Services provided:

• Case management to assess gaps in services to develop a goal plan to resolve the individual's housing crisis and prevent them from becoming homeless

• Develop life skills including self-sufficiency planning, establish independence, and housing skills

• Help individuals secure and maintain stable housing. Services include house searching, application assistance, budgeting, landlord communication, and ongoing stability planning.

• Meeting with staff for information about housing resources for rapid re-housing, transitional housing, permanent supportive housing, and eligibility. Provides referrals and resources to programs as needed.

Provides information on available resources and how to access the following:

• Advocacy

• Area senior resource fair

• Assistance accessing resources and programs

• Assistance with making choices about housing

• Medicare program education

• Senior housing tours

• Support groups

Provides housing support services, including:

• Eviction prevention and referrals to community agencies

• Assistance with benefit program applications (such as Energy Assistance)

• Landlord advocacy

• Long-term supportive and transitional housing with case management and navigation of housing resources

Provides low cost home rental listings

Supports military members, veterans, and their families in maintaining their well-being through providing counseling, case management, outreach, referrals, and education. Provides the following services:

• Counseling services: Individual and couples counseling; family counseling; deployment and reintegration support; diagnostic assessments; or trauma-focused behavioral therapy

• Caregiver Support and Respite Care

• Case management

• Financial counseling

• Homeless initiatives: Referrals to short and long-term shelter options

• Meals on Wheels Program

• Support groups: Military sexual trauma, Self-Management and Recovery Training (SMART) group, family recovery, PTSD, and women's groups

Provides:

• In-home Aftercare Counseling
• In-home Rule 25 Assessments
• Child Care
• Transportation (Meetings, Work, Court, Appointments)
• Referrals
• Housing Assistance
• Moving Expenses (Storage, Truck Rental)
• Baby and Child Care Supplies
• Personal Need & Basic Home Supplies
• Funds to Prevent Disconnection (Phones, etc.)
• Regular Meetings With All Service Providers
• Budgeting Classes
• Funds for Family Therapy Sessions
• Recreational Activities & YMCA Family Membership Weekly Groups
• Talking Circle
• Spirituality
• Women's Support Group
• Relapse Prevention Therapy
• Grief & Loss, MI/CD
• Empowerment Education Outreach in Community
• Fetal Alcohol Syndrome/Effects
• Diagnostic Services Advocacy
• Court
• Child Protection
• Community Service
• Domestic Abuse
• Sexual Abuse

Provides individual support and help with opportunities for personal growth including assistance with safety planning, housing options, transportation, assistance with criminal and civil court issues, assistance in writing Orders for ?Protection and Harassment Orders, and help in applying for government assistance.?? Satellite offices offered in Dodge and Fillmore counties.

Provides homeless outreach and case management services to adults with serious and persistent mental illness. Offers housing options including crisis beds, rental assistance, and permanent housing. Outreach, case management, and rental assistance are also available to homeless youth under the age of 24. NOTE: Single adults and youth must get a pre-screen through United Way 211 to access this program. The pre-screen information is provided to Saint Louis County Housing Assessment Team (SLCHAT).

Assistance with case management including:

• Benefits

• Budgeting

• Education

• Employment

• Housing

• Medication management

• Psychiatry

Assists with finding housing, searching for jobs, and maintaining financial independence. Other services include financial workshops to help create a budget, learn about banking, and understand credit.

Helps eligible adults with disabilities seek suitable, affordable, accessible housing that gives them more control and independence. Housing Access Services can:

• Accompany individuals when looking at housing

• Assist finding affordable furnishings and household items

• Assist with packing and moving

• Help complete rental applications and lease agreements

• Help develop household budgets

• Help people move to a place of their own

• Meet and negotiate with landlords/property staff

Scott County Housing Unit provides information and referral on housing resources within the community. Offers information on:

• Housing-related questions on the county programs such as Housing Support (GRH), financial resources, and more

• Housing resources within the community

• Referral to housing information and community agencies

Helps eligible adults with disabilities seek suitable, affordable, accessible housing that gives them more control and independence. Housing Access Services can:

• Accompany individuals when looking at housing

• Assist finding affordable furnishings and household items

• Assist with packing and moving

• Help complete rental applications and lease agreements

• Help develop household budgets

• Help people move to a place of their own

• Meet and negotiate with landlords/property staff

RHMS - Adult Rehabilitative Mental Health Services: ARHMS clients meet in person with their provider once a week or every two weeks for 1 - 6 hours minimum, depending on client need. Provides a range of services that helps an individual develop and enhance psychiatric stability, which include skill building in the areas of:

• Basic social, living, and parenting skills building

• Budgeting/money management

• Crisis assistance (as needed) and develop relapse prevention skills

• Coping skills education

• Employment and/or education related skills (GED/Resume building/anxiety reduction)

• Healthy lifestyles and household management

• Interpersonal communication/boundary building

TCM - Targeted Case Management: TCM clients meet with their provider 1 - 2 times a month and can coordinate services by phone or telehealth. Provides a range of services that help the client remain in the community independently and assist clients to:

• Access social service agencies (make referrals, complete paperwork for programs)

• Assistance in applying for financial resources

• Maintain housing benefits and/or find new housing

Transportation set up and coordination

Rental assistance and managed subsidized housing for low income families, seniors, and people with disabilities Market rate housing:

• Commercial Apartments (55 years of age or older)
• Fair Oaks Apartments (18 years of age and older). Optional services, including meals, housekeeping, and health services available on a fee basis or through financial programs if eligible

Subsidized housing:

• Humphrey Manor

Section 8 Vouchers:

• Administers about 77 vouchers

Primary services include coordinated entry access point for individuals who are homeless or at risk of being homeless. Case management is offered to prevent future issues with homelessness. Financial assistance may be available, but it is NOT provided in all situations. Requirements vary by programs and funding. Potential assistance consists of:

• Funding for housing and utility costs/deposits
• Funding for transportation costs via vehicle repair or public transit
• Clothing and food assistance as well as other basic needs
• Housing stability case management

Programs may include:

• Assistance for homeless ex-offenders in Chisago, Isanti, Kanabec, Mille Lacs, and Pine County, housing placement, as well as rent and deposit funds, may be available

• Limited fund for short term hotel stays in tandem with case management services-

?- Long-term homelessness supportive services, also known as coordinated entry, are provided for those who qualify for short term hotel stays in Aitkin, Carlton, Isanti, Mille Lacs, Kanabec, Pine, and Chisago County to help with housing search and placement for families and unaccompanied youth

• Transitional housing services for homeless youth ages 16 - 22, as well as some financial assistance for rent

? ?NOTE: Funding comes from a variety of sources, including the Family Homeless Prevention and Assistance Program - FHPAP and others.

Works closely with County Veterans Service Officers, Veterans Affairs, individuals, and their families to ensure that veterans receive the benefits and services to which they are entitled Can also assist with the following: ???- Assistance with accessing Social Security benefits, insurance programs, etc.

• Housing search
• Independent living skills training
• Individual Advocacy
• Information and referral
• Legislative and systems advocacy
• Nursing home relocation services
• Pre-employment services
• Ramp projects and accessibility services

NOTE: Not accepting applications at this time. Check website for updated information. Provides loans, loan guarantees, and grants that enable rural property owners to develop and rehabilitate properties for low-income, elderly, individuals living with a disability, families, and domestic laborers. Works directly with farm labor housing loan properties to subsidize rents for low-income tenants who cannot afford to pay their full rent. Additional services include:

• Subsidized loans for construction or rehabilitation of rental housing complexes in rural communities to serve very-low and low-income households

• Directory of Rural Development-financed complexes with location and contact information for prospective residents

• Rent subsidy vouchers to protect eligible tenants who may face hardship if they cannot find affordable housing (available at most complexes)

• Uses a variety of tools to revitalize and preserve the physical and financial health of properties currently in the USDA's rural rental portfolio

Connects Veterans who are homeless and at-risk of homelessness with resources for housing, health care, employment, and other services. Helps connect Veterans with:

• Guidance through the disability compensation process, eligibility, claims, and application

• Help with benefits-related questions with filing benefits, claims, and access VA services and programs

• One-on-one support, counseling, and training for employment and readiness programs

• Veteran pensions and applications

Helps eligible adults with disabilities seek suitable, affordable, accessible housing that gives them more control and independence. Housing Access Services can:

• Accompany individuals when looking at housing

• Assist finding affordable furnishings and household items

• Assist with packing and moving

• Help complete rental applications and lease agreements

• Help develop household budgets

• Help people move to a place of their own

• Meet and negotiate with landlords/property staff