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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

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.

• Provides assessments
• Case Management
• Adult Foster home licensing, Day Care licensing
• Money Management
• Pre-petition screenings

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

Provides financial resources to individuals and families who face barriers with stable housing, including:

• Connection to behavioral health, dental, and medical care

?- Family Homeless Prevention and Assistance Program - FHPAP application assistance only for eligible individuals and families in Hennepin County seeking rent assistance. Does not provide direct financial assistance. Hennepin County is responsible for determining eligibility and distributing rent assistance funds. ?- Financial wellness classes ?- Referrals to other NorthPoint programs ?- Renters' rights education To access financial resources for rent or mortgage assistance, participants must complete 2 financial wellness classes.

• Provides help with heating bills and related heating repairs - Energy Conservation & Education - Budget Counseling - Financial Assistance - Social Service Information & Referral

In partnership with the Minnesota Department of Veterans Affairs (MDVA), the CORE program offers casework, outreach, referral, and education. Behavioral Health Counseling:

• Deployment and reintegration support

• Diagnostic assessments

• Individuals and couple counseling

• Family counseling and support

• Trauma-focused Behavioral Therapy

Caregiver Support Respite:

• Caregiver coaching and counseling

• Classes and workshops to caregivers

• Emergency care planning

• Support groups

Case Management:

• Case management services to create a personalized plan identifying beneficial services and resources based on an individual's situation

Financial Counseling:

• Budget and financial counseling services

• Credit improvement

• Debt management

• Foreclosure prevention

• Homeownership

• Student loan counseling

Homeless Initiative:

• In a collaboration with Minnesota's Heading Home, staff work with homeless veterans to find solutions for short and long-term shelter

Veterans Support Groups:

• Men's veterans PTSD support group

• Women's support groups for family members of veterans

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

Provides day-long and multi-part classes which include topics in the areas of:

• Asset building
• Budgeting to create savings
• Building a good credit rating
• Consumer protection
• Debt reduction
• Relationships with financial institutions

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.

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

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

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.

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 partial subsidy program Participants who demonstrate that they are work ready and who are hired into career oriented, long-term, stable employment may arrange to have the first 720 hours of their new employment subsidized. These subsidies are paid to the employer, not the employee. A special contract with the employer is required that specifies the terms of agreement for the employer and Aanjibimaadizing. Participant households must be below 200% of poverty guidelines. Adult support services Single payments to vendors to assist participants in overcoming specific, immediate and essential family stabilization or employment related barriers. Participant households must be below 200% of poverty guidelines. The expenses must:

• Be directly related to education or employment

?- Verified as not otherwise provided free of charge or available from other resources ?- Be the only way available to meet the need ?- Be documented with evidence of the need verified Adult work experience (WEX) program A 720-hour on-the-job work experience training program structured to promote self-sufficiency through the development of appropriate work habits and job skills. The program targets four critical work behaviors: achievement, reliability, safety, and team building. Participant households must be below 200% of poverty guidelines. The program's incentives are directly related to mastery of these four program behaviors. The program is designed to move the participant to unsubsidized, career-oriented work by building their work skills. Career training and development program Provides basic work and family related trainings and tutoring. These include such issues as: GED preparation, driver's license tests, budgeting, parenting, CPR/first aid, food handling, communications, and conflict management. Households must be below 300% of poverty guidelines. Ge-Niigaanizijig youth program Activities and regularly scheduled meetings to inspire and motivate youth to embrace a traditions based pro-social lifestyle free of chemicals, anti-social or risky behavior, promiscuity, and dependency. Activities are offered to all eligible reservation service area youth from kindergarten through age 20. Income verification is required. Children in families living at or below 200 percent of the poverty guideline qualify. Children who are over-income may be supported by the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe. Cash incentives and awards are made to any Ge-Niigaanizijig youth who meet program participation and achievement goals. Youth career and work exploration program Youth, ages 16 -20 whose family's income is below 200 percent of the Federal Poverty Guideline may participate. Youth are given an incentive for actual hours worked. To be eligible youth must be in school, making satisfactory attendance and grades. The type of work and the number of hours worked per week depend on the needs of the worksite supervisor. Youth support services Youth ages three through six who live in households that are below 300 percent of the Federal Poverty Guideline and who are enrolled in daycare or school may receive supportive services for such things as:

• (For Cash Assistance Families only) a fall and winter school clothing assistance
• Athletic or academic program fees and supplies
• Boarding school support costs including travel and supplies (based on a program recommendation/required list)
• Driver's education costs
• Leadership, education or cultural camp costs, including tuition, travel, and supplies (based on a program recommendation/required list)
• New employment clothing and/or supplies when required by the employer
• Special tutor costs (such as individual music lessons)

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.

Financial coaching is an individualized process that helps individuals take action to reach their financial goals. Money Mentors is a six month program where individuals meet one-on-one virtually, with a volunteer financial coach to develop action steps to reach financial goals. Goals may include boosting savings, controlling spending, eliminating debt, or improving credit.

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

Financial services provided to customers include:

• Financial Counseling Referrals: refers individuals for debt management

• Free Credit Reports: get a free copy of a credit report and expert help managing debt and building credit.

• Prepaid Debit Cards: no fees (enrollment, monthly, usage). Free direct deposit for tax refund, paycheck, or benefits.

• Savings Accounts: assistance in opening a savings account with no monthly fees and no minimum balance requirements. No credit checks or bank history review needed.

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.

A workshop providing information and support for:

• Asset building

• Budgeting

• Establishing savings

• Long-term financial goal setting

• Money management

Assistance with case management including:

• Benefits

• Budgeting

• Education

• Employment

• Housing

• Medication management

• Psychiatry

• Confidential right to life counseling on pregnancy options

• Pregnancy testing

• Maternity/baby clothes, furniture, and items (Accepts donations that are clean and in good condition)

• LIFE Classes (Lessons In Family Education) Parenting: Classes to help moms and dads learn prenatal & parenting skills, baby and toddler development

• Men's Mentoring: Individual classes with a male mentor with topics covering budgeting, rights and responsibilities, parenting, and relationships

• Abstinence presentations presented in schools and churches to help teens understand the value of choosing abstinence, how to resist peer pressure, how to say no, and physical and emotional consequences of premarital sex using illustrations and skits

• PACE (Post Abortion Counseling and Education) support group

• Presentations in schools on Fetal Development, Adoption, and Parenting

• Limited ultrasound services

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.

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)