Resource center assists with the following services: - Advocacy: Includes areas of housing, civil and human rights, employment, transportation, and others. The Center advocates for state, local, and federal legislation. - Aging in Place Program: Offers accessible modification assistance, ramp installation, and accessibility assessments for homes and businesses for safe access and increased independence. - Assistive Technology Network: Assists individuals in the process of obtaining assistive technology devices. - Homemaking Services: Assists individuals in managing household activities including housekeeping, laundry, meal preparation, and shopping. - Independent living skills training - Information and Referral: Provides up-to-date disability information and referrals to various agencies and individuals within the region. - On-Demand Lending Library: Program will purchase the requested device and the individual can use it for as long as needed; the program retains ownership of the item. Eligibility requirements: first come, first served basis; funds are limited. - Peer Mentoring: Assists individuals living with a disability to identify goals and create a unique plan to achieve those goals. Matches interested consumers with a peer mentor who provides support, problem-solving solutions, social skills, etc. - Public Education: Provides information, resources, and materials on accessibility guides, ADA, disability laws, etc. - Respite Care Services: Provides short-term in-home care and support when the primary caregiver or family members need to be absent from the home. - Systems Advocacy: Works to implement changes where needed at a broader systemic level. - Transition/Relocation Services: Assists individuals living with a disability in transitioning from nursing facilities and other institutions into community settings, with the goal of preventing institutionalization.

Offers person-centered, wraparound services for adults with intellectual and physical disabilities, including: - Employment Services: Finding and maintaining employment with continuous support - Day Support Services: Building essential life and community skills in a supportive learning environment - Admissions and transportation: Ensuring accessible, reliable transportation, whether through their services or public options

Personal and daily living skill development for people living with developmental disabilities and brain injuries Skill development in the areas of: - Community integration - Financial management - Home living - Meal planning and preparation - Recreational skills - Self care - Social skills - Utilization of transportation

TBI Metro Services helps people with brain injury lead fuller, more productive lives. Services are customized for each individual to ensure success. Services include: - Community Integration and Inclusion: A structured day program, combining on-site skill development with community experiences. This service encourages clients to become more independent and increases social development. - Vocational Services (VS): Preparing people to secure and maintain competitive community employment including situational assessments and testing, employment preparation, job development and placement and employer education and follow up.

Offers a range of mental health services designed to support individuals with mental health needs in community-based settings across central Minnesota. Services include: - Community Support Program (CSP): This program provides support to adults with serious mental illnesses, assisting them in living successfully and independently in the community. Services include connection to resources and organized activities. - Crisis Services: Oakridge operates a 2-bed crisis facility to offer immediate support for individuals in mental health crises. - In-Home Family Support: Offers assistance to families in managing and supporting the mental health needs of their loved ones within the home environment. - Respite Care: Provides short-term relief for caregivers, allowing them to take a break while ensuring their loved ones receive quality care. - Support Groups and Activity Programs: Includes groups focused on general living skills, mental health maintenance, budgeting, relationships, and substance use education. Activity programs encompass cooking, music, crafts, and other client interests.

- Vocational training for adults with developmental disabilities and/or mental illnesses - Work skills development - Supported employment - Community employment

Provides group homes for up to 14 residents, split into adolescent girls and boys ages 12 - 18 who are experiencing abuse, neglect, behavioral challenges, or other at-risk situations, safety, therapeutic support, life skills development, and individualized treatment plans

Services include: - Residential supports and services - Adult foster care - Supported living services - 24-hour emergency assistance - Respite care in- and out-of-home - Adult companion services - In-home family support - In-home independent living skills training - In-home supported living services for adults

Adult Rehabilitative Mental Health Services (ARMHS): Adult mental health services aimed at teaching skills for managing mental health symptoms. These services focus on helping individuals live as independently as possible. Behavioral Health Home (BHH): Provides a comprehensive care management team, care coordination services, provides assistance to individuals who are moving towards different care levels, and provides referral resources for community and social service support. Primarily serves individuals with the following: - Generalized Anxiety - Major Depression - PTSD - Borderline Personality Disorders - Schizophrenia Disorders Children's Therapeutic Services and Supports (CTSS): Multicultural children's mental health program working to restore or develop age-appropriate skills and function for children and youth living with a serious mental illness.

Home and community-based services for people with developmental disabilities that are offered include independent skills training, guidance with daily living skills (such as: money management, home maintenance, health and nutrition, food preparation, transportation, socialization, community safety, and personal hygiene), and personal care services.

Provides home health care services in the metro area. Services offered: - Home Health Aides and Personal Care Aides: Help provide services that are essential to the individual's well being to prevent institutionalization. Services are provided intermittently, part-time, and up to 24 hours a day providing, bathing and grooming services, dressing, activities of daily living, transfers/walking, medication administration, meal preparation, and light housekeeping. - Homemakers: Provides basic homemaking tasks such as assisting the individual with errands, meal preparation, and companionship - Independent Living Skills Services (ILS)/Independent Community Living Supports (ICLS): Supports families in caring for family members who are able to remain in the home. Services are designed to honor each family's routines, values, and activities of daily living to foster independence in the home. Services include personal hygiene, dressing and clothing care, health care, cooking, eating, nutrition, home management, home safety, financial management, personal growth, problem solving, and community access. - Physical and Occupational Therapy: Offers licensed therapists to assist with pain management, cardiovascular rehabilitation, exercise to support strength, ambulation, and more - Skilled Nursing: Registered nurses can provide home visits and consult with doctors

Access point for Coordinated Entry housing programs Individual life strategies: - Support education and case management for youth age 15 - 18 who are at risk of not graduating high school Independent Living Skills: - Provides youth ages 16 -21 years old information and case management during the transition from high school to college Big City Mountaineers: ? - Outdoor recreational trips for youth ages 13 - 18 years old - Program intent is to help gain self-esteem, self-sufficiency, and independent living skills through day trips in canoeing and other outdoor activities

Provides information about blindness and visual impairment. Provides assistance to individuals for accessing products, services, and trainings to assist with daily activities and adjustments to vision loss.

Enables consumers to develop and enhance psychiatric stability, social competencies, personal and emotional adjustment, and independent living and community skills, when these abilities are impaired by the symptoms of mental illness. Support includes: - Budgeting and shopping skills - Community resource utilization and integration skills 5 Crisis assistance/Management skills - Cooking and nutrition skills - Employment-related skills - Health care directives/skills - Healthy lifestyle skills and practices - Household management skills - Interpersonal communication skills - Medication monitoring skills - Mental illness symptom management skills - Relapse prevention skills - Transportation skills - Transition to community living skills

Behavioral Intervention: Combines daily living skills, interpersonal skills and behavioral management skills into an individualized plan to enable the child to function. Helps the child learn and apply appropriate skills in various living settings, for the child to remain living at home. Case Management: Helps locate necessary services, make referrals as needed, and monitor the delivery of the child's mental health services. May also assist the family with support services, such as respite care. Community-Based Services: Rehabilitative services for children and their families to address mental health and behavioral needs. Provides therapeutic support services are provided in the child's home, school, daycare, foster home, relative's home or other indicated community setting. Crisis Intervention: 24-hour on-call services are available upon arrangement for crisis management. Outpatient Services: - Attachment & Biobehavioral Catch-up (ABC) - Comprehensive behavioral assessments - Developmental assessments - Diagnostic assessments - 'Incredible Years' model groups - Individual, group, and family therapy - Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) - Psychiatric evaluations and medication management - Psychological evaluations - Risk management assessments

Services include: - Life and independent living skills development - Speech therapy - Physical therapy - Occupational therapy - Psychological services - Health services - Behavioral analysis - Assistive technology - Nutrition education - Job training

Program assists individuals who do not require 24-hour supervision, but do require training and support to develop, maintain, or increase independent living skills. Areas of training include: - Meal management - Shopping - Financial management - Personal appearance - Apartment maintenance - Accessing resources - Rights and responsibilities of community living - Social and leisure skills - General medical assistance - Financial management The program offers the support of 24-hour emergency service availability.

Designed for people who choose to remain at home with families and loved ones. Provides structure, guidance, and ideas to help the individual while supporting health and safety needs. Also offers services and training to aid family members and caregivers. In-home support topics and training services include: - Academics - Behavior support and intervention - Community participation - Crisis and safety planning - Effective communication - Financial planning - Individual and family resilience - Parenting skills - Peer relationships - Risk and safety - Self-advocacy - Self-control - Skill, behavior, and risk assessments - Transition

Resource center assists with the following services: - Advocacy: Includes areas of housing, civil and human rights, employment, transportation, and others. The Center advocates for state, local, and federal legislation. - Aging in Place Program: Offers accessible modification assistance, ramp installation, and accessibility assessments for homes and businesses for safe access and increased independence. - Assistive Technology Network: Assists individuals in the process of obtaining assistive technology devices. - Homemaking Services: Assists individuals in managing household activities including housekeeping, laundry, meal preparation, and shopping. - Independent living skills training - Information and Referral: Provides up-to-date disability information and referrals to various agencies and individuals within the region. - On-Demand Lending Library: Program will purchase the requested device and the individual can use it for as long as needed; the program retains ownership of the item. Eligibility requirements: first come, first served basis; funds are limited. - Peer Mentoring: Assists individuals living with a disability to identify goals and create a unique plan to achieve those goals. Matches interested consumers with a peer mentor who provides support, problem-solving solutions, social skills, etc. - Public Education: Provides information, resources, and materials on accessibility guides, ADA, disability laws, etc. - Respite Care Services: Provides short-term in-home care and support when the primary caregiver or family members need to be absent from the home. - Systems Advocacy: Works to implement changes where needed at a broader systemic level. - Transition/Relocation Services: Assists individuals living with a disability in transitioning from nursing facilities and other institutions into community settings, with the goal of preventing institutionalization.

Works closely with County Veterans Service Officers, Veterans Affairs, individuals, and their families to ensure that veterans receive the benefits and services to which they are entitled Can also assist with the following: ???- Assistance with accessing Social Security benefits, insurance programs, etc. - Housing search - Independent living skills training - Individual Advocacy - Information and referral - Legislative and systems advocacy - Nursing home relocation services - Pre-employment services - Ramp projects and accessibility services

Offers a variety of day and weekly camps for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: - Circle of Friends Day Camp offers 5 days of educational programming for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) entering 1st through 5th grades. - All Access Community Explorations Camp (AACE) is a 10 session educational camp that focuses on helping participants learn new skills and use them in new situations. This camp is to address the needs of young adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) entering 6th through 12th grades. - Camp Just for Me is a five session educational and fun experience for children on the Autism Spectrum who require more individualized attention. The camp serves children and young adults ages 7 - 17 who benefit from 1 on 1 staffing. - Little Learners Camp is three partial days of social and educational programming for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) 3 years of age through entering Kindergarten.

Independent Living & Skills Training (ILS): Provides adults and youth who have disabilities an opportunity to make appropriate choices and learn the skills to assist them in improving independence. Program provides services including: - Independent or small group training sessions: Training sessions can take place in consumer's home, in the community, or at Independent Living Center officers. - Needs assessments

Provides the following PCA services: - Homemaker service ??- Independent living skills training - Personal home care assistance - Respite care?- Independent living skills training

Rehabilitative services and outreach for individuals with a serious and persistent mental illness Instruction in interpersonal communication skills, including: - Budgeting - Community resource utilization and instruction assistance - Cooking and nutrition skills - Employment related skills - Health care directives - Household instruction - Mental illness symptom management skills - Relapse prevention skills - Transportation skills - Transition to community living skills

Provides 24 hour housing, independent living skills, and education