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316 Elm Avenue, Southern Carlton County Family Center, Moose Lake, MN 55767
Provides financial literacy workshops, knowledge, and skills to build and keep assets. Assist individuals to make informed judgments and effective decisions about money management. One-on-one financial literacy counseling and budgeting are also available.
7200 Rolling Acres Road, Victoria, MN 55386
Individualized Home Supports with Family Training - Services for people who live in their family home that provide support and/or training in the following community living service categories:
  • Community participation
  • Health, safety, and wellness
  • Household management
  • Adaptive skills
*Designed to provide training to the person as well as their family members Individualized Home Supports with Training - Services for people who live in their own home or family home that provide support and/or training in the following community living service categories:
  • Community participation
  • Health, safety, and wellness
  • Household management
  • Adaptive skills
  • Formal person-centered outcomes
  • Completion of skill assessments
*Designed for adults in need of support and training in one of the above-mentioned service categories. Individualized Home Supports without Training - Services for people who live in their own home or family home that provide support in the following community living service categories:
  • Community participation
  • Health, safety, and wellness
  • Household management
  • Adaptive skills
  • Complimentary support plan (SP)
  • Informal and formal person-centered outcomes
*Designed for adults or children who require support in one of the above-mentioned service categories. Specialist Services - Provision services that extend past the scope and duration of available waiver and state plan services including:
  • Assessments/individual program plan and program development
  • Training and supervision of staff
  • Monitoring of specific program implementation
Respite - Short-term care services provided to a person when their primary caregiver is absent or needs relief. Services include:
  • In-home respite: Service is provided to a person in their home or the family home.
  • Out-of-home respite: Service is provided to a person in a licensed or unlicensed setting that is not the person's home.
  • Respite level A: Active, out in the community
  • Respite level B: Stay at home and local outings only
  • Respite level C: Sleep in
  • Respite level D: 24-hour period
Homemaker Services - Services that help a person manage general cleaning and household activities. Services include:
  • Cleaning: light housekeeping tasks, laundry services
  • Home management: cleaning, transportation arrangement, meal preparation, shopping for food, and household items
  • Assistance with ADLs: cleaning, assistance with ADLs (ambulating, bathing, dressing, eating, grooming, toileting)
*Training is not covered under this service. To receive homemaker services, homemaker cleaning must be the primary service provided. County-Funded Semi-Independent Living Services (SILS) - Services needed to maintain and improve an adult's capacity to live in the community. Supports people in ways that enable them to achieve personally desired outcomes and lead self-directed lives including:
  • Money management
  • Meal preparation
  • Shopping
  • Obtaining and maintaining a home
  • Self administration of medication
  • Formal skill building
101 7th Avenue South, Suite 201, Saint Cloud, MN 56301
Provides the following financial counseling services:
  • Budget counseling
  • Credit counseling
  • Credit report review
2124 10th Street, Two Harbors, MN 55616
Employment counselors help SNAP clients in gaining skills and abilities to obtain employment to gain self-sufficiency, including:
  • Adult education
?- Budgeting assistance ?- Career planning ?- Computer classes ?- Interviewing skills ?- Job search assistance ?- Post-secondary education ?- Resume development ?- Short-term training ?- Support services ?- Transportation assistance ?- Vocational interest
Representative payee services help with:
  • Daily money management
  • Encourage savings
  • Establishing a financial base
A veteran administration fiduciary service helps with:
  • Creating a budget
  • Establishing financial goals and a financial base
11254 Crooked Lake Boulevard, Coon Rapids, MN 55433
Community education programs and classes:
  • Archery
  • Ballroom, Hawaiian, Tahitian and square dancing instruction
  • Basketball, softball, volleyball and football
  • Business consulting services
  • Computer classes
  • Cooking classes
  • CPR/First Aid
  • Day camps with drawing instruction, sculpture instruction, skateboarding, ice hockey, acting instruction and chess
  • Field trips
  • Fishing
  • Foreign language instruction
  • Golf
  • Gym games
  • Knitting instruction
  • Mature driver training
  • Painting classes
  • Parenting classes
  • Parenting skills development
  • Personal finance instruction
  • Photography instruction
  • Sewing instruction
  • Sign language instruction
  • Swimming lessons, aquatic exercise and lifeguard training
  • T'ai Chi Ch-uan, swimming, exercise classes/groups and aerobics
  • Woodworking instruction
  • Writing instruction
  • Youth Development/Youth Service: Programs involving high school youth in service learning opportunities in the community. Portion of funding is used to provide integration support to youth with disabilities into existing community education programs.
1001 West Chestnut Street, Virginia, MN 55792
Services provided in person as well as by phone counseling and internet. Services include:
  • Budget and Debt Counseling: Counselors work with clients on an in-depth review of their living expenses and debts combined with counselor guidance in debt management, goal planning strategies, or suggestions of alternate ways of handling particularly difficult financial concerns.
  • Counselor on Call: Counselors provide brief Q & A to address consumer questions. The counselor can provide the caller with information about credit and debt, make referrals to community resources, or schedule an appointment with staff for other financial counseling services.
  • Debt Management Plan: Consolidates monthly bills into one simple payment, often with lower payments and interest rates
  • Financial Education: Workshops and classes for all age groups are geared to help individuals control their finances and provide resources on various financial topics; delivered to schools, churches, employers, and community groups.
  • Housing Counseling: Pre purchase homebuyer, post purchase, foreclosure prevention, and reverse mortgage couseling, provided. HUD approved housing counseling agency.
  • Student Loan Counseling: Helps individuals navigate repayment options for federal, state, and private loans. Helps individuals determine eligibility for repayment options, contact lenders, and can assist in developing a plan that considers the individual's financial situation.
1103 Burnsville Parkway, Suite 203, Burnsville, MN 55337
Provides culturally appropriate pathways to homeownership for Somali women and their families, guiding women on how to utilize resources and tools for financial empowerment, and preparing them to make financial investments in a home. Services provided:
  • Create an action plan and steps to achieve goals
  • Develop a budget and savings plan
  • Encouragement and nonjudgmental support to build financial confidence
  • Homebuyer and financial education workshop
  • Individualized planning unique to the needs of each woman
  • One-on-one advice regarding credit reports and addressing credit problems
2451 Eagle Ridge Drive, Red Wing, MN 55066
Provides classes for adults, including:
  • Art
  • Computer basics
  • Cooking
  • Financial planning
  • Parenting
  • Special trips/outings
212 2nd Avenue South, Long Prairie, MN 56347
Offers a money management program to assist individuals and families in managing their finances. Services include:
  • Assessments
?- Budget skills training ?- Debt readjustment services
1605 Eustis Street, Saint Paul, MN 55108
Services provided in person as well as by phone counseling and internet. Services include:
  • Budget and Debt Counseling: Counselors work with clients on an in-depth review of their living expenses and debts combined with counselor guidance in debt management, goal planning strategies, or suggestions of alternate ways of handling particularly difficult financial concerns.
  • Counselor on Call: Counselors provide brief Q & A to address consumer questions. The counselor can provide the caller with information about credit and debt, make referrals to community resources, or schedule an appointment with staff for other financial counseling services.
  • Debt Management Plan: Consolidates monthly bills into one simple payment, often with lower payments and interest rates
  • Financial Education: Workshops and classes for all age groups are geared to help individuals control their finances and provide resources on various financial topics; delivered to schools, churches, employers, and community groups.
  • Housing Counseling: Pre purchase homebuyer, post purchase, foreclosure prevention, and reverse mortgage couseling, provided. HUD approved housing counseling agency.
  • Student Loan Counseling: Helps individuals navigate repayment options for federal, state, and private loans. Helps individuals determine eligibility for repayment options, contact lenders, and can assist in developing a plan that considers the individual's financial situation.
710 South Second Street, Mankato, MN 56001
Services provided in person as well as by phone counseling and internet. Services include:
  • Budget and Debt Counseling: Counselors work with clients on an in-depth review of their living expenses and debts combined with counselor guidance in debt management, goal planning strategies, or suggestions of alternate ways of handling particularly difficult financial concerns.
  • Counselor on Call: Counselors provide brief Q & A to address consumer questions. The counselor can provide the caller with information about credit and debt, make referrals to community resources, or schedule an appointment with staff for other financial counseling services.
  • Debt Management Plan: Consolidates monthly bills into one simple payment, often with lower payments and interest rates
  • Financial Education: Workshops and classes for all age groups are geared to help individuals control their finances and provide resources on various financial topics; delivered to schools, churches, employers, and community groups.
  • Housing Counseling: Pre purchase homebuyer, post purchase, foreclosure prevention, and reverse mortgage couseling, provided. HUD approved housing counseling agency.
  • Student Loan Counseling: Helps individuals navigate repayment options for federal, state, and private loans. Helps individuals determine eligibility for repayment options, contact lenders, and can assist in developing a plan that considers the individual's financial situation.
822 NE 5th Avenue, Grand Rapids, MN 55744
As a MN Housing Finance Agency Agent, Kootasca administrates this program in Itasca and Koochiching Counties to prevent homelesness. Households are assisted in securing safe, decent rental housing. Funds are provided to eligible applicants to keep them in stable housing Some program features are: - Tenant Education and assistance to establish good relationship with landlord in safe, affordable housing
  • Budget counseling
  • Short-term rental assistance to prevent homelessness
  • Advocacy services to find information and services needed, plus ongoing support
  • For Itasca County contact, Gail Beckman 218-999-0833
15180 Canada Avenue West, Rosemount, MN 55068
  • Adult Enrichment Classes: Computers, cooking, money management, fitness, personal development, and more
  • Aquatics Programs: Swimming lessons for ages 6 months and older, open swim activities, lap swim, water exercise, water safety education, pool rental, Automated External Defibrillator training, and CPR instruction
  • Facilities Scheduling: Manages use of district facilities, indoor and outdoor, outside of regular school day for community usage
  • Family/Youth Enrichment: Works to strengthen families by providing parenting skills, spending time in positive activities together in classes, on tours, in fitness sessions, music and other social events; after-school programming; additional evening and weekend opportunities for children preschool age - high school to develop new skills and build new friendships
  • Summer Programs: Enrichment classes including painting, public speaking, entrepreneurial training, hiking, mature driver training, cooking, musical instrument instruction, tap dancing instruction, ballet dancing instruction, band/orchestra groups, golf, day camps, and gymnastics. Summer math and language arts correspondence programs offered.
  • Trips and Tours: Educational trips/tours for adults and families with children
  • Youth Services and After School Youth Enrichment: Enrichment classes including basketball, karate, Tae Kwon Do, volleyball, volunteerism, leadership training and opportunities for youth to connect with their communities. Also facilitates Youth Connection Council, a youth-adult advisory board that addresses issues and needs related to school-age youth in the district and provides opportunities to serve the community.
Representative payee services help with:
  • Daily money management
  • Encourage savings
  • Establishing a financial base
A veteran administration fiduciary service helps with:
  • Creating a budget
  • Establishing financial goals and a financial base
237 2nd Avenue SW, Cambridge, MN 55008
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.
810 3rd Avenue SE, Rochester, MN 55904
Services provided in person as well as by phone counseling and internet. Services include:
  • Budget and Debt Counseling: Counselors work with clients on an in-depth review of their living expenses and debts combined with counselor guidance in debt management, goal planning strategies, or suggestions of alternate ways of handling particularly difficult financial concerns.
  • Counselor on Call: Counselors provide brief Q & A to address consumer questions. The counselor can provide the caller with information about credit and debt, make referrals to community resources, or schedule an appointment with staff for other financial counseling services.
  • Debt Management Plan: Consolidates monthly bills into one simple payment, often with lower payments and interest rates
  • Financial Education: Workshops and classes for all age groups are geared to help individuals control their finances and provide resources on various financial topics; delivered to schools, churches, employers, and community groups.
  • Housing Counseling: Pre purchase homebuyer, post purchase, foreclosure prevention, and reverse mortgage couseling, provided. HUD approved housing counseling agency.
  • Student Loan Counseling: Helps individuals navigate repayment options for federal, state, and private loans. Helps individuals determine eligibility for repayment options, contact lenders, and can assist in developing a plan that considers the individual's financial situation.
1301 10th Avenue North, Minneapolis, MN 55411
Family leaders are supported to obtain the skills and access the community resources needed to build networks of support, identify personal and family aspirations, develop a personal plan, and achieve realistic personal and family stability goals. Activities help participants:
  • Build family and community leadership skills
  • Discover strengths
  • Improve financial literacy
  • Learn skills to resolve conflict without violence
  • Strengthen parenting?
1626 London Road , Suite 762, Duluth, 55812
Representative payee services help with:
  • Daily money management
  • Encourage savings
  • Establishing a financial base
A veteran administration fiduciary service helps with:
  • Creating a budget
  • Establishing financial goals and a financial base
709 University Avenue West, Saint Paul, MN 55104
Services provided in person as well as by phone counseling and internet. Services include:
  • Budget and Debt Counseling: Counselors work with clients on an in-depth review of their living expenses and debts combined with counselor guidance in debt management, goal planning strategies, or suggestions of alternate ways of handling particularly difficult financial concerns.
  • Counselor on Call: Counselors provide brief Q & A to address consumer questions. The counselor can provide the caller with information about credit and debt, make referrals to community resources, or schedule an appointment with staff for other financial counseling services.
  • Debt Management Plan: Consolidates monthly bills into one simple payment, often with lower payments and interest rates
  • Financial Education: Workshops and classes for all age groups are geared to help individuals control their finances and provide resources on various financial topics; delivered to schools, churches, employers, and community groups.
  • Housing Counseling: Pre purchase homebuyer, post purchase, foreclosure prevention, and reverse mortgage couseling, provided. HUD approved housing counseling agency.
  • Student Loan Counseling: Helps individuals navigate repayment options for federal, state, and private loans. Helps individuals determine eligibility for repayment options, contact lenders, and can assist in developing a plan that considers the individual's financial situation.
1179 15th Avenue SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414
Prepares participants by providing the tools to develop hard and soft skills, reach career goals, and obtain proper certifications and licenses. Career training coaches are available to assist every step of the way by preparing participants for college-level classes, connecting them to employers, and helping to build professional skills and networks. Offers the following services:
  • Class A Commercial Driver's License Program: Helps participants earn a CDL for free by providing a training coach. Provides an immersive and hands-on training program held at the Interstate Truck Driving School.
  • Four Cornerstones of Financial Wellness: Provides classes that help participants increase financial management skills and learn to navigate financial systems. Classes include: budgeting to create savings, asset building and debt reduction, building a good credit report, and consumer protection and financial institutions.
  • Healthcare Career Pathways: Helps participants build skills, reach career goals, and obtain proper certifications and licenses. Provides a training coach that prepares participants for college-level classes, connections to employers, and builds professional skills and networks. Courses offered include English for Industry, Nursing Assistant, Basic Life Support for Healthcare Providers, and Nursing Assistant Refresher.
  • Re-Entry Services: Provides adults recently paroled or released an opportunity to gain proper credentials in trainings such as Class A Commercial Driver's License. In addition to job training and career planning, participants will have access to transportation assistance and financial coaching.
  • Welding and CNC Machining: Offers participants that have completed Manufacturing Foundations, the opportunity to pursue advanced manufacturing programs at Hennepin Technical College that includes 7 - 10 month certificates in Gas Metal Arc Welding or CNC Machining. Program also prepares participants an opportunity to continue their education and earn an associate's degree in a skilled trade.
5930 Brooklyn Boulevard, Brooklyn Center, MN 55429
Financial Education program which offers individuals the opportunity to learn the basics of creating a budget, banking, building credit, and the importance of saving. Services include:
  • Financial Coach: Provides one-on-one service to help individuals create a budget, review credit reports, work on financial goal planning, and learn how to move toward financial stability and independence
  • Home Stretch: Partnership with MN Housing and MN Homeownership Center; an 8-hour class that walks through all of the steps of purchasing a home. Individuals will hear from realty, lending, and home insurance professionals.
318 9th Street, Worthington, MN 56187
Services include, but are not limited to: ?- Assistance with resumes, job applications, and interview preparations ?- Budgeting assistance ?- Career counseling and exploration ?- Employment and job search workshops ??- Goal setting ?- Introduction to listings of regional job openings ?- Job placement assistance ??- On-the-job training opportunities ?- Paid work experience programs with local employers ?- Post-high school education assistance
  • Referrals to other service agencies that may be of assistance
?- Skill training in reading, math, job, and life skills ?- Supportive services such as transportation, childcare, housing, etc. may be available if eligible for one of the programs. ?- Tests and assessments to find interest levels and skills
1501 Highway 71, International Falls, MN 56649
Employment counselors help SNAP clients in gaining skills and abilities to obtain employment to gain self-sufficiency, including:
  • Adult education
?- Budgeting assistance ?- Career planning ?- Computer classes ?- Interviewing skills ?- Job search assistance ?- Post-secondary education ?- Resume development ?- Short-term training ?- Support services ?- Transportation assistance ?- Vocational interest
1931 South 5th Street, Minneapolis, MN 55454
Provides the following financial counseling services:
  • Budget counseling
  • Credit counseling
  • Credit report review