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Crime prevention initiatives, information, community engagement events, and social media. Provides:

• Alarm system permits

• Arrive Alive Program

• Blaine police community alliance

• Catalytic converter theft prevention

• Citizens academy

• Coffee with a cop

• Community Connect

• Community outreach trailer

• Crime free multi-housing

• Crime prevention through environmental design

• Crime victim services

• Firearm locks

• Lights On! Program

• Night to Unite

• Safety camp program

• Scam and fraud presentations

• Safety patrol education

• Senior safety fair

• Steering wheel locks

• Student mentorship programs

Provides health services including:

• Car seat safety information and free car seats to eligible families

• Child and teen check-ups

• Family home visiting programs

• Follow along program to track children's development

• Nutritional education

• Parenting classes and support

• Prenatal and postpartum visits, which include meeting with certified lactation counselors

Provides community health services such as:

• Breastfeeding and lactation consultant

• Car seat education

• Childbirth education classes

• Child and teen checkups

• Child home safety checks

• Communicable disease follow-up and cancer prevention

• Community nutrition educator

• Diabetes prevention

• Doula program to support women throughout pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum

• Family planning

• Immunizations for adults and children

• Maternal child health home visiting

• Parenting education

?- Tobacco Cessation

Offers home care services to individuals with a disability or in need of medical support and assistance at home. Services include: Home health aides/homemaker services

• Exercises
• Laundry
• Light homemaking duties
• Meal planning and preparation
• Nonsterile dressing changes
• Personal care

Home health care nurse services

• Case management (evaluation and assessment of care plan)
• Catheter care, dressing changes, injections
• Home safety evaluation
• Medication management
• Ostomy care and education
• Therapeutic activities

Therapy

• Occupational therapy
• Physical therapy

Helps families create safe, nurturing environments for children through health screenings, education, support services, and resources that promote physical health, safety, nutrition, and development. Services include:

• Blood Lead Testing: Screening services to detect lead exposure in children and adults to prevent lead poisoning.

• Child Passenger Safety: Information and services related to child car seat safety and proper restraint use.

• Child and Teen Checkups: Comprehensive health and dental checkups for children, including those on Medical Assistance or Minnesota Care.

• Clinic Services: Health services such as birth control options, pregnancy testing, and sexually transmitted infection (STI) screening and treatment.

• Family Home Visiting: Home-based support programs for families, including developmental tracking and postpartum/newborn visits to help parents meet goals and connect with support resources.

• Immunizations: Vaccination services and information for both children and adults to protect against preventable diseases.

Provides child passenger safety education which consists of car seat checks performed by a certified Child Passenger Safety Technician and includes child passenger safety resources.

Partners with families to promote healthy lifestyles and nurturing environments. Child and Family Health Services support families with the following services:

• Breastfeeding Classes and Resources: Breastfeeding support services are available in the home, at the Horizon Public Health Office Alexandria main site, and via telephone.

• Child Passenger Safety: Specialists can answer questions regarding child safety seats and check your car seats

• Family Home Visiting: Registered nurses provide a variety of home visiting programs, including prenatal, postpartum, and ongoing parenting support services.

• Follow Along Program: For parents of children ages birth - 5 at no cost to learn if the child is talking, moving, playing, and developing on track for his/her age.

Helps families create safe, nurturing environments for children through health screenings, education, support services, and resources that promote physical health, safety, nutrition, and development. Services include:

• Blood Lead Testing: Screening services to detect lead exposure in children and adults to prevent lead poisoning.

• Child Passenger Safety: Information and services related to child car seat safety and proper restraint use.

• Child and Teen Checkups: Comprehensive health and dental checkups for children, including those on Medical Assistance or Minnesota Care.

• Clinic Services: Health services such as birth control options, pregnancy testing, and sexually transmitted infection (STI) screening and treatment.

• Family Home Visiting: Home-based support programs for families, including developmental tracking and postpartum/newborn visits to help parents meet goals and connect with support resources.

• Immunizations: Vaccination services and information for both children and adults to protect against preventable diseases.

Provides law enforcement and community services including:

• Citizen Police Academy: Seven week program designed to provide residents insight to the inner working of law enforcement

• Community Outreach

• Education, instruction and demonstration of how to properly install child restraint seats

• Neighborhood Watch Program: Crime prevention program that enlists the participation of residents in cooperation with law enforcement to reduce crime, solve problems, and improve the quality of life

• Permit to Purchase licenses

• Public Safety

Provides minor home safety and fall prevention modifications and ramps at no cost to homeowners in need. Repair services will allow homeowners to remain independent and live safely in their homes for a longer period of time. Types of repairs may include grab bars, handrails, wheelchair ramps, and shower seats.

Fillmore County families may be eligible for a free car seat based upon insurance coverage, lack of insurance and/or financial eligibility. Certified Child Passenger Safety Technicians are available to assist families with information about proper buckling as well as proper installation of car seats.

Provides car seat inspections

Home-based service that provides social, emotional, health-related and parenting support and information to families and links them to appropriate resources. Services may include:

• Early support to parents

• Help creating a safe and healthy environment for children

• Parenting skills and support

• Referrals for prenatal care

Provides law enforcement and community services. This includes animal control and child passenger safety seat inspections.

Provides one-to-one child passenger safety checks and education tailored to children, cars, and/or car seats. New car seats are also available to low-income families who need them.

Helps families create safe, nurturing environments for children through health screenings, education, support services, and resources that promote physical health, safety, nutrition, and development. Services include:

• Blood Lead Testing: Screening services to detect lead exposure in children and adults to prevent lead poisoning.

• Child Passenger Safety: Information and services related to child car seat safety and proper restraint use.

• Child and Teen Checkups: Comprehensive health and dental checkups for children, including those on Medical Assistance or Minnesota Care.

• Clinic Services: Health services such as birth control options, pregnancy testing, and sexually transmitted infection (STI) screening and treatment.

• Family Home Visiting: Home-based support programs for families, including developmental tracking and postpartum/newborn visits to help parents meet goals and connect with support resources.

• Immunizations: Vaccination services and information for both children and adults to protect against preventable diseases.

Mayor and City Council Members:

• Member contact information

City Departments:

• Administration

• Building Permits and Inspections

• Emergency Management

• Law Enforcement

• Planning and Zoning

• Public Works

• Secure Medication Disposal

• Traffic control signage requests

Provides public safety services, offers safety education, and conducts disaster preparedness programs

Helps families create safe, nurturing environments for children through health screenings, education, support services, and resources that promote physical health, safety, nutrition, and development. Services include:

• Blood Lead Testing: Screening services to detect lead exposure in children and adults to prevent lead poisoning.

• Child Passenger Safety: Information and services related to child car seat safety and proper restraint use.

• Child and Teen Checkups: Comprehensive health and dental checkups for children, including those on Medical Assistance or Minnesota Care.

• Clinic Services: Health services such as birth control options, pregnancy testing, and sexually transmitted infection (STI) screening and treatment.

• Family Home Visiting: Home-based support programs for families, including developmental tracking and postpartum/newborn visits to help parents meet goals and connect with support resources.

• Immunizations: Vaccination services and information for both children and adults to protect against preventable diseases.

• Child and Teen Check-ups (for children on Medical Assistance and Minnesota Care)

• Home visiting programs for childbirth education, new moms and babies, help with breastfeeding, parenting information and help, home safety checks

• Immunizations and vaccination information

• Home visits for families whose children have high blood lead levels

Pro-life pregnancy and parenting support programs, including:

• Car seat safety checks

• Free confidential pregnancy test

• Parenting with Purpose: Personalized parenting education appointments which include access to free baby clothes, diapers, furniture, baby food, toiletries, and more, assistance with finding and applying for resources, case management, emotional and spiritual support, and medical and community services referrals

• Peer advocacy

• Pro-life pregnancy counseling for alternatives to abortion

• Support groups

?Donations are accepted. Visit website to see a list of current needs.

Provides law enforcement and community services such as Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.), Neighborhood Watch, and child care seat safety education.

Bike Helmet Safety:

• Distributes and properly fits bike helmets

• Helmets available to purchase

Car Seat Checks:

• Provides car seat inspections

• Provides convertible, forward facing with harness, low and high back booster car seats. Availability may fluctuate

Children's Safety Camp:

• Hosts a camp to educate kids on a variety of safety topics.

• - Buffalo Baby Café weekly breastfeeding support group: https://www.wrightcountymn.gov/559/Breastfeeding
• Children's dental services: sliding scale fee clinic, for ages 0 - 26 years and pregnant women
• Child and teen checkups
• Child passenger safety
• Clinics for older adults age 60+, including education, referrals, blood pressure checks, and foot care
• Disease prevention and control
• Emergency Preparedness
• Environmental Health
• Family home visiting
• Family planning program
• Follow along program
• Help me grow
• - Statewide Health Improvement Partnership (SHIP) and LiveWright.org- - Support groups and classes: https://www.wrightcountymn.gov/575/Statewide-Health-Improvement-Partnership

• Student clinical and internships
• Wellness Done Right Clinic
• - Wellness On Wheels (WOW) Program: Providing mobile health and immunizations, https://www.wrightcountymn.gov/304/Wellness-On-Wheels-WOW-Program

Provides family health services including:

• Breastfeeding services

• Car seat education and child passenger safety checks

• Family home visiting

• Follow Along Program

• Postpartum support

• Prenatal support