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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.

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.

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

Helps to lower or eliminate outstanding debt by working with counselors to reduce existing debt. Debt can include credit cards, collections, medical bills, payday loans, and more. Services include: - Creating a personalized debt management plan - Debt consolidation counseling - Military debt program - Payday loan relief

Offers budget and credit counseling, debt management, student loan counseling, credit report review counseling, and financial education to help families develop skills needed to establish and maintain financial stability. Counselors are trained and certified by the National Foundation for Credit Counseling.

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.

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

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

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.

Provides financial wellness counseling including creating a budget, understanding credit, and making plans to reach financial goals. Provides free, 1 or 2 day financial wellness class utilizing the FDIC Money Smart curriculum that covers a variety of topics, including budgeting, money management, how to access and understand your credit report, how to manage your credit history and debt, and how to protect your identity and assets. Class materials are provided and offered virtually via Teams.

Provides the following services: - Financial assistance with rent, utilities, rent and utilities arrears, transportation, basic needs, food, application fees, time-limited housing subsidies, emergency shelter, household necessities, etc. NOTE: Financial assistance may vary and is not guaranteed for every applicant. - Information and coordination related to public benefits, veterans' benefits, housing stability, employment, and legal issues - In-House Services: Housing stability case management, rental subsidies, legal, employment, justice-involved coordination, healthcare navigation, landlord engagement, outreach, documentation specialist, financial coaching, and free voluntary representative payee services

Assists individuals and families to sort through credit and debt problems to find workable solutions, includes: - Budget counseling - Community education programs - Debt management program - Housing counseling - Foreclosure prevention - Homebuyer counseling - Pre-filing bankruptcy counseling - Reverse mortgage counseling

Provides one-on-one assistance to help individuals navigate their finances, improve their financial goals, and navigate the financial systems. Services include: - Create and improve credit - Financial coaching by appointment - Financial management skills - Help navigate financial processes and applications - Home Stretch Homebuyer Workshop: An 8-hour workshop that educates and informs future homeowners to help them understand the homebuying process. The training includes information about the process of buying a home and access to down payment programs. - Gain access to supplemental resources such as the Lending Circles (Tandas) program. The Lending Circles program provides a secured loan, without cost or interest, to establish or build credit and improve the way individuals manage money. - Small business support for entrepreneurs or those interested in becoming business owners. Offers support to business owners by evaluating and organizing their finances. - Tax preparation for people with low or medium income during the tax season

Offers individual, couples, marriage, and family counseling services for: - Addictions - Anger management - Anxiety - Communication difficulties - Conflict - Couple and marriage therapy - Depression - Dissociation - Divorce - Emotion regulation - Family issues - Finances - Grief/loss - Health - Infidelity - Intimacy - Parenting/co-parenting - Personal growth - Phobias - PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) - Relational conflicts - Relationships - Self-esteem - Sexual, physical or emotional abuse - Shame - Sibling and parental issues - Spiritual/religious beliefs - Stress - Transitions - Trauma Approaches:: - Daring Way Groups - DBT (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy) training - EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) - Expressive therapies - Prepare-enrich - Sand tray and art therapy - Solution focused - Strength-based - Systems focus - TFT (Thought Field Therapy)

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

Financial counseling program components: - Debt Management Plan for debt consolidation and restructuring - Debt repayment strategies and options - Budgeting and cash flow assessment - Credit report reviews - Reverse mortgage counseling and certificate - HUD approved mortgage delinquency and foreclosure prevention counseling Guidance on addressing and resolving financial issues: - Credit card delinquency - Credit reporting - Garnishments - Collection accounts and judgments - Defaulted student loans - Money and Credit Management Workshops available to employer and community groups

The Hastings Senior Center, based at the Tilden Community Center, is operated through a partnership between the City of Hastings and Hastings Community Education. Seniors: - 55+ Driver Improvement Program - Art classes - Bingo - Book Discussion - Dance classes - Foot care and foot reflexology - Games such as chess club - Hand massage and foot care - Live 2 B Healthy exercise program - Quilting, woven arts, and yarn classes - Pickle ball and corn hole - Scrapbooking - Support groups for grief, Dementia, and Parkinson's Disease - Tech Fridays Adults: - Adult enrichment classes - Adult health and recreation classes - Art, design, photography, and cooking classes - Business classes - Construction, trades, and woodworking instruction - Computer, information technology, and computer programming - Indoor home safety education - Lifeguard instruction - Musical instrument instruction - Self-defense classes - Smoking cessation - Trips and tours Ages K-12: - Baseball, basketball, and soccer day camps - New drivers education classes - SPARK summer classes for grades 5th- 8th - Youth development and enrichment classes

- 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.

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.

Provides financial wellness counseling including creating a budget, understanding credit, and making plans to reach financial goals. Provides free, 1 or 2 day financial wellness class utilizing the FDIC Money Smart curriculum that covers a variety of topics, including budgeting, money management, how to access and understand your credit report, how to manage your credit history and debt, and how to protect your identity and assets. Class materials are provided and offered virtually via Teams.

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

Offers individual, couples, marriage, and family counseling services for: - Addictions - Anger management - Anxiety - Communication difficulties - Conflict - Couple and marriage therapy - Depression - Dissociation - Divorce - Emotion regulation - Family issues - Finances - Grief/loss - Health - Infidelity - Intimacy - Parenting/co-parenting - Personal growth - Phobias - PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) - Relational conflicts - Relationships - Self-esteem - Sexual, physical or emotional abuse - Shame - Sibling and parental issues - Spiritual/religious beliefs - Stress - Transitions - Trauma Approaches:: - Daring Way Groups - DBT (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy) training - EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) - Expressive therapies - Prepare-enrich - Sand tray and art therapy - Solution focused - Strength-based - Systems focus - TFT (Thought Field Therapy)

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

Financial Education - Budgeting and savings - Building and managing credit - Consumer protection - Debt reduction - Rental topics - Reverse mortgage basics - Scam and Fraud Prevention Financial Management - Assessment and budget assistance - Financial goal setting - Help with creditors Healthcare Application Assistance - Minnesota Insulin Safety Net Program - MNSure navigation Housing Counseling - Foreclosure prevention counseling - Reverse mortgage counseling

Offers life skills classes such as: - Employment Strategies: Classes will provide participants an opportunity to assess their values and career preferences, create and build a resume, prepare for interviews, and network with potential employers - Life and Empowerment Coaching: Participants will work one-on-one with a certified Life Coach for a period of up to nine months assessing their life and setting goals to improve in areas they identify - Mental Health Support Groups: Groups are regularly scheduled by covering various topics and offer a safe place to be heard and create community. All are welcome to attend. - Nutrition Basics: Classes offered each month on various nutrition topics to help participants prepare healthier meal options - Personal Finances and Budgeting: Based on Dave Ramsey's Financial Peace University, the class covers budget topics to help participants have a strong starting point to begin using a budget and handle their finances better