Responsibilities of the County Attorney's Office include: - Child custody decrees - Child protection cases - Child support and paternity matters - CHIPS cases - Commitments - Conservatorships - County civil matters - Crime victim assistance and compensation - Crime victim notification service - Crime witness support - Delinquency cases; juvenile court - Domestic violence legal services - Guardianships - Juvenile diversion - Legal representation of county boards and county agencies - Prosecutes criminal cases - Restraining and harassment orders; orders for protection

Establishment and enforcement of child support orders: - Adjusting court orders based on the cost-of-living index - Collecting and processing payments - Closing cases - Establishing parentage - Establishing and enforcing court orders for child support, medical support, and child care support - Locating parents - Parents and guardians applying for services - Reviewing and modifying court orders for support - Working with other states to enforce support when one parent does not live in Minnesota

Provides establishment and enforcement of child support orders. Services include: ?- Collecting current and past-due support payments - Locating non-custodial parents - Establishing parentage - Establishing and enforcing child support orders for basic, medical, or child care support - Reviews and modifies court orders for support NOTE: Child Support Services does not provide parenting time, custody, legal advice, divorce counsel, or spousal maintenance establishment

Mental Health and Psychiatry Services: - Diagnostic Assessments - Genetic Testing: For the purpose of understanding about clients and the effectiveness of treatments. With genetic testing, providers can better understand the reasons, factors, and risks associated with individuals, including medication reactions, to better predict successful outcomes and basic concepts of genes and how they can influence the client's health and response toward particular treatments. - Individual, Family and Marriage Counseling - Medication Management: Provides monitoring of medications that a client takes to ensure that he or she is complying with a medication regimen, while also ensuring the client is avoiding potentially dangerous drug interactions and other complications. - Medication Therapy and Counseling: Offers a medication-assisted treatment program for alcohol and opiate addiction. The medication options administered along with a tailored therapy plan are Vivitrol and Suboxone, both of which are used to reduce withdrawal symptoms; decrease cravings; and prevent use of heroin, opioids, and alcohol. - Psychiatric Consultations: Provides comprehensive evaluations to individuals of psychological, biological, medical, and social causes of emotional distress. - Telehealth (available statewide) - Treatment Planning: Each individual enrolled in the program will create a treatment plan with a counselor. The treatment plan will be customized, compiled of goals and objectives based on an individual client's needs and wants. Substance Use Treatment Services: - Comprehensive Substance Use Assessments: The comprehensive assessment is done with a counselor to establish a better understanding of the individual's past and current substance use. The assessment screens for mental and physical health needs as well. In addition, the Rule 25 substance use assessment is performed by a certified assessor, which helps to determine placement and level of care. - Family Therapy (Group or Individual): This is counselor-facilitated therapy designed for spouses, family members, and friends of people who struggle with addiction to come together with clients and others who share similar experiences. This service is interactive and focuses on the role addiction plays in family dynamics. The goal of family therapy is for family members and clients to gain insight into the nature of addiction and how it affects the whole family. Family members will learn how to identify what behaviors support recovery and what behaviors inhibit recovery, along with learning tools and gaining resources on how to help them. - Group Therapy: Group therapy consists of being with peers that share many of the same struggles. During group therapy, clients share the objectives they have completed and receive feedback from the counselor and other group members. Everyone is counseled as an individual in a group. Group therapy is beneficial for a variety of factors: instillation of hope, universality, gaining knowledge through others experience, and having a sense of belonging, to name a few. - Individual Therapy: Individuals who are in group therapy will also receive individual therapy with an LADC. Individual therapy is beneficial for treatment planning and being able to work on core issues that are not appropriate or comfortable in a group setting. - Medication Therapy and Counseling: Medication therapy and counseling is a service or group of services that optimizes drug therapy with the intent of improved therapeutic outcomes. - Medication-Assisted Treatment Program: Offers a medication-assisted treatment program for alcohol and opiate addiction. The medication options administered along with a tailored therapy plan are Vivitrol and Suboxone, both of which are used to reduce withdrawal symptoms; decrease cravings; and prevent use of heroin, opioids, and alcohol. - Primary Day and Evening Group: Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday from (9:00am - 12:00pm or 5:30pm - 8:30pm) This is an intensive program designed to present information in a format that helps clients gain a fresh perspective in areas they have had difficulty internalizing and putting into practice in their daily struggle with addiction. This is an outcome-based program. Length of time is dependent upon the client's progress and special needs. - Treatment Planning

Provides establishment and enforcement of child support orders. Services include: ?- Collecting current and past-due support payments - Locating non-custodial parents - Establishing parentage - Establishing and enforcing child support orders for basic, medical, or child care support - Reviews and modifies court orders for support NOTE: Child Support Services does not provide parenting time, custody, legal advice, divorce counsel, or spousal maintenance establishment

Provides establishment and enforcement of child support orders. Services include: ?- Collecting current and past-due support payments - Locating non-custodial parents - Establishing parentage - Establishing and enforcing child support orders for basic, medical, or child care support - Reviews and modifies court orders for support

Provides establishment and enforcement of child support orders. Services include: ?- Collecting current and past-due support payments - Locating non-custodial parents - Establishing parentage - Establishing and enforcing child support orders for basic, medical, or child care support - Reviews and modifies court orders for support NOTE: Child Support Services does not provide parenting time, custody, legal advice, divorce counsel, or spousal maintenance establishment

Provides establishment and enforcement of child support orders. Services include: ?- Collecting current and past-due support payments - Locating non-custodial parents - Establishing parentage - Establishing and enforcing child support orders for basic, medical, or child care support - Reviews and modifies court orders for support NOTE: Child Support Services does not provide parenting time, custody, legal advice, divorce counsel, or spousal maintenance establishment

Assists band members with the legal process of child support including: - Determination of child support obligations - Enforcement - Paternity testing

Provides establishment and enforcement of child support orders. Services include: - Collecting current and past-due support payments - Locating non-custodial parents - Establishing parentage - Establishing and enforcing child support orders for basic, medical, or child care support - Reviews and modifies court orders for support NOTE: Child Support Services does not provide parenting time, custody, legal advice, divorce counsel, or spousal maintenance establishment

Mental Health and Psychiatry Services: - Diagnostic Assessments - Genetic Testing: For the purpose of understanding about clients and the effectiveness of treatments. With genetic testing, providers can better understand the reasons, factors, and risks associated with individuals, including medication reactions, to better predict successful outcomes and basic concepts of genes and how they can influence the client's health and response toward particular treatments. - Individual, Family and Marriage Counseling - Medication Management: Provides monitoring of medications that a client takes to ensure that he or she is complying with a medication regimen, while also ensuring the client is avoiding potentially dangerous drug interactions and other complications. - Medication Therapy and Counseling: Offers a medication-assisted treatment program for alcohol and opiate addiction. The medication options administered along with a tailored therapy plan are Vivitrol and Suboxone, both of which are used to reduce withdrawal symptoms; decrease cravings; and prevent use of heroin, opioids, and alcohol. - Psychiatric Consultations: Provides comprehensive evaluations to individuals of psychological, biological, medical, and social causes of emotional distress. - Telehealth (available statewide) - Treatment Planning: Each individual enrolled in the program will create a treatment plan with a counselor. The treatment plan will be customized, compiled of goals and objectives based on an individual client's needs and wants. Substance Use Treatment Services: - Comprehensive Substance Use Assessments: The comprehensive assessment is done with a counselor to establish a better understanding of the individual's past and current substance use. The assessment screens for mental and physical health needs as well. In addition, the Rule 25 substance use assessment is performed by a certified assessor, which helps to determine placement and level of care. - Family Therapy (Group or Individual): This is counselor-facilitated therapy designed for spouses, family members, and friends of people who struggle with addiction to come together with clients and others who share similar experiences. This service is interactive and focuses on the role addiction plays in family dynamics. The goal of family therapy is for family members and clients to gain insight into the nature of addiction and how it affects the whole family. Family members will learn how to identify what behaviors support recovery and what behaviors inhibit recovery, along with learning tools and gaining resources on how to help them. - Group Therapy: Group therapy consists of being with peers that share many of the same struggles. During group therapy, clients share the objectives they have completed and receive feedback from the counselor and other group members. Everyone is counseled as an individual in a group. Group therapy is beneficial for a variety of factors: instillation of hope, universality, gaining knowledge through others experience, and having a sense of belonging, to name a few. - Individual Therapy: Individuals who are in group therapy will also receive individual therapy with an LADC. Individual therapy is beneficial for treatment planning and being able to work on core issues that are not appropriate or comfortable in a group setting. - Medication Therapy and Counseling: Medication therapy and counseling is a service or group of services that optimizes drug therapy with the intent of improved therapeutic outcomes. - Medication-Assisted Treatment Program: Offers a medication-assisted treatment program for alcohol and opiate addiction. The medication options administered along with a tailored therapy plan are Vivitrol and Suboxone, both of which are used to reduce withdrawal symptoms; decrease cravings; and prevent use of heroin, opioids, and alcohol. - Primary Day and Evening Group: Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday from (9:00am - 12:00pm or 5:30pm - 8:30pm) This is an intensive program designed to present information in a format that helps clients gain a fresh perspective in areas they have had difficulty internalizing and putting into practice in their daily struggle with addiction. This is an outcome-based program. Length of time is dependent upon the client's progress and special needs. - Treatment Planning

Civil Division: - Advises and represents the community social services department under state and federal mandates Criminal Division: - Prosecutes criminal acts and provides leadership to law enforcement Juvenile Division: - The Juvenile Division attorneys carry a caseload of both juvenile prosecution cases and child protection cases Victim-Witness Division: - Fulfills statutorily mandated advocacy assistance, information and services for victims and witnesses Services Include: - Child Custody Decrees - Child Support Assistance/Enforcement - Conservatorship Assistance - County Counsel - Crime Victim Compensation - Crime Victim Notification Services - Crime Witness Support - Criminal Law - District Attorney - Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services - Estate Entitlement Assistance - General Crime Victim Assistance - Guardianship Assistance - Juvenile Diversion - Paternity Suits - Paternity/Maternity Establishment - Permanent Restraining Orders - Stalking/Harassment Orders

Services provided include: - Locating parents - Establishing parentage - Establishing court orders for child support, medical support, and child care support - Reviewing and modifying of court orders for child support, medical support, and child care support - Adjusting court orders based on cost-of-living index - Enforcing court orders for child support, medical and dental support, and child care support - Working with other states to enforce support when one parent does not live in Minnesota - Collecting and processing payments

Provides establishment and enforcement of child support orders. Services include: - Collecting current and past-due support payments - Locating non-custodial parents - Establishing parentage - Establishing and enforcing child support orders for basic, medical, or child care support - Reviews and modifies court orders for support NOTE: Child Support Services does not provide parenting time, custody, legal advice, divorce counsel, or spousal maintenance establishment

Provides establishment and enforcement of child support orders. Services include: - Collecting current and past-due support payments - Locating non-custodial parents - Establishing parentage - Establishing and enforcing child support orders for basic, medical, or child care support - Reviews and modifies court orders for support Child Support Services does not provide parenting time, custody, legal advice, divorce counsel, or spousal maintenance establishment Minnesota Child Support Online: an interactive website developed by the State of Minnesota to provide child support participants with information about their case(s).

Provides legal assistance in criminal matters from petty misdemeanors to felonies, as well as many areas of civil law. Civil Law - General - Collections - Commitment - Expungement - Garnishment - General Assistance - Housing - Landlord/Tenant - Name Change - Native American Enrollment - Public Assistance - SSI - Unemployment - Unlawful Detainer ? Civil Law - Family - Child Support - CHIPS - Custody - Dissolution - Guardianship - Harassment - Long Term Foster Care - Orders for Protection - Paternity - Termination of Parental Rights - Visitation

Provides establishment and enforcement of child support orders. Services include: ?- Collecting current and past-due support payments - Locating non-custodial parents - Establishing parentage - Establishing and enforcing child support orders for basic, medical, or child care support - Reviews and modifies court orders for support NOTE: Child Support Services does not provide parenting time, custody, legal advice, divorce counsel, or spousal maintenance establishment. Child Support Services do not represent either parent in child support actions.

The Child Support Division assists with: - Adjusting court orders based on the cost-of-living index - Collecting and processing payments - Establishing parentage - Establishing and enforcing court orders for child support, medical support, and child care support - Locating parents - Reviewing and modifying court orders for support - Works with other states to enforce support when one parent does not live in Minnesota Minnesota Child Support Online: an interactive website developed by the State of Minnesota to provide child support participants with information about their case(s). NOTE: Either parent of a child may get certain child support services. Parents who do not receive public assistance can apply for services at their county child support office for a one-time $25 service fee. Parents who receive public assistance for a child whose other parent does not live with them are automatically referred for services and are not charged a service fee.

- Child protection/CHIPS cases - Child support and paternity - Commitments - Conservatorships - Crime victim compensation - Crime victim notification services - Crime witness/victim support - Criminal and delinquency prosecution - Domestic/family violence legal services - Guardianships - Juvenile diversion - Legal representation of county boards and county agencies - Paternity suits - Temporary/Permanent harassment restraining orders - Vulnerable adult protection

Provides establishment and enforcement of child support orders. Services include: - Collecting current and past-due support payments - Locating non-custodial parents - Establishing parentage - Establishing and enforcing child support orders for basic, medical, and child care support - Reviews and modifies court orders for support NOTE: Child Support Services does not provide parenting time, custody, legal advice, divorce counsel, or spousal maintenance establishment

The Child Support Division assists with: - Adjusting court orders based on the cost-of-living index - Collecting and processing payments - Establishing and enforcing court orders for child support, medical support, and child care support - Establishing parentage - Locating parents - Reviewing and modifying court orders for support - Works with other states to enforce support when one parent does not live in Minnesota Minnesota Child Support Online: http://www.childsupport.dhs.state.mn.us. Minnesota Child Support Online is an interactive web site developed by the State of Minnesota to provide child support participants with information about their case(s). NOTE: Either parent of a child may get certain child support services. Parents who do not receive public assistance can apply for services at their county child support office for a one-time $25 service fee. Parents who receive public assistance for a child whose other parent does not live with them are automatically referred for services and are not charged a service fee.

Attorney services include: - Child custody decrees - Child protection representation - Child support assistance/enforcement - Conservatorship assistance - County counsel - Court filing assistance - Crime victim compensation - Crime victim notification services - Crime victim assistance - Crime witness support - Criminal law - District Attorney - Domestic/family violence legal services - Estate entitlement assistance - Guardianship assistance - Juvenile delinquency prosecution and diversion - Paternity suits - Paternity/maternity establishment - Permanent restraining orders - Stalking/harassment orders - Temporary restraining orders - Third-party involuntary commitment petition services The County Attorney is not permitted to provide legal advice to citizens, but can refer them to a department, agency, or private law firm that can help them.

Responsibilities of the County Attorney's Office include: - Child custody decrees - Child protection cases - Child support and paternity matters - County civil matters - Delinquency cases; juvenile court - Guardianships - Juvenile diversion - Legal representation of county boards and county agencies - Prosecutes criminal cases and traffic violations - Restraining and harassment orders; orders for protection

DNA testing available: - Paternity testing - Genetic testing - Forensic testing - DNA banking

The Child Support Division assists with: - Locating parents. - Establishing parentage. - Establishing and enforcing court orders for child support, medical support, and child care support. - Reviewing and modifying court orders for support. - Adjusting court orders based on the cost-of-living index. - Works with other states to enforce support when one parent does not live in Minnesota. - Collecting and processing payments. Minnesota Child Support Online: www.childsupport.dhs.state.mn.us/ Minnesota Child Support Online is an interactive web site developed by the State of Minnesota to provide child support participants with information about their case(s). NOTE: Either parent of a child may get certain child support services. Parents who do not receive public assistance can apply for services at their county child support office for a one-time $25 service fee. Parents who receive public assistance for a child whose other parent does not live with them are automatically referred for services and are not charged a service fee.