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Offers educational programs such as: - Best Buy Teen Tech Center: A drop-in space for teens ages 14 - 18 to be creative and develop new skills. The center helps youth expand their interests and discover career paths through technology-based projects in programming, film-making, music production, graphic design, and much more. - Citizenship Classes: Prepare students to pass the United States Citizenship exam successfully. Classes are taught in English only. The class topics include the process of becoming a citizen, United States history and government, interview preparation and practice, study materials, and other resources. - English Language Classes (ESL): Classes open to anyone who would like to improve their English skills. Students learn how to read, write, speak, and understand the English language while also gaining essential life skills that will better prepare them to navigate life in the United States. Classes are offered online on Zoom. - GED Preparation Classes: Help students prepare to take the GED (High School Equivalent) exam. Classes cover all testing subjects, including math, social studies, science, and language arts (grammar and writing). Classes are offered in person, while Math courses are offered online on Zoom. - Youth in Action (YA!): A Latine-focused youth program for 9th - 12th grade students in the Twin Cities Area providing mentorship, leadership development, skill-building opportunities, college preparation, community service-learning projects, and innovative programs.

An activity-based mentoring program that matches at-promise youth with volunteer adult mentors who participate together in goal-centered, one-on-one relationships. - Youth are matched with their mentors for one year and meet weekly for 2 - 4 hours. Throughout the one-year program, the mentors and youth develop goals (one physical activity, and one academic), have new experiences, and attend a variety of events with other mentors and mentees of the program. - Youth and their mentors attend agency events based on four programming pillars: Healthy Living, Lifelong Learning, Emotional Development, and Community Connectivity. - Youth and their families receive case management/support, and referrals for services. Mentors also have a network of support throughout their year of volunteering.

An intergenerational, healing-centered program run by Liberty Community Church that supports students K-12 in academics, mentoring, and basic-needs assistance while fostering cultural identity, community connection, and social-emotional growth. Emphasizes hope, healing, and shared experiences to equip youth for success in school, life, and future opportunities.

Representatives assist with the following: - Elder visits - Medical transports - Medication box set-up - Medication pick-up and delivery - Referrals to outside agencies as needed - Services to the Nett Lake School as needed - Volunteer driver transport set up -WIC clinics

- Future Bound Youth: Works with youth ages 6 - 18 during and after school with tutoring, intergenerational communication, promotion of good decision making, health wellness, and cultural lessons - Youth Intervention Project: Aimed at high-risk youth to provide general assistance, improve intergenerational understanding, build social skills, and reduce gang violence - Mentoring Program: Matches volunteers/mentors from University of Minnesota's Cambodian Student Association with youth, focusing on building leadership skills, improving school performance, and promoting higher education

Elementary School (Grades K-5) Early Childhood Family Education (ECFE) ECFE offers programming for children under age 5 and their caregivers, in partnership with Minneapolis Public Schools. Provides weekly Play and Learn drop-in classes that support early learning through play-based activities for children and their caregivers. Also offer Seedlings, an evening program held twice a week, focused on holistic, multi-generational learning for families. Thrive An after-school and out-of-school program that nurtures the whole child through cultural awareness, educational enrichment, healthy meals, physical activity, homework help, and leadership development. Thrive also emphasizes relationship-building with caring young adults from the community, social-emotional learning, and teamwork. Kids Club A service-learning initiative that introduces children to the value of helping others through age-appropriate community projects. Cool Off Days A summer enrichment program that promotes social and intellectual growth through hands-on learning, field trips, and physical activities in a fun and engaging environment. ? Middle School (Grades 6-8) SOAR An after-school and out-of-school program focused on helping youth build life and career skills, explore personal values and identity, set meaningful goals, and participate in service-learning projects. SOAR also provides academic support through homework help and skill-building activities. Cool Off Days A summer program designed to build social and intellectual skills through exciting activities such as field trips, service projects, career exploration, science projects, and workplace visits. Kids Club A service-learning and civic engagement program that empowers middle schoolers to make a difference in their communities through meaningful outreach projects, such as creating care items for individuals experiencing homelessness or writing cards for seniors. ? High School (Grades 9-12) Aspire ???An academic support program for high school students on scholarship at DeLaSalle or Cristo Rey. Helps youth with homework, building relationships, and explore careers with business and educational leaders. Meets only twice per week and in the evenings?? Elevate A support-focused program offering academic assistance, career exploration opportunities, and mentorship. Elevate helps high school youth prepare for post-secondary success by developing leadership, communication, and goal-setting skills.

Individuals and/or families meet once a week with an isolated older adult. Visits may include a casual conversation, playing cards, watching a movie, looking at photos, baking cookies or going for a walk.

Mentoring program serving youth (ages 5-17) in Meeker County

Senior Companions are volunteers 55 years of age and older who visit frail elderly to assist them in living independently in their homes. Senior Companions provide support to family caregivers, assist with grocery shopping, appointments, errands, and act as a community advocate. Lutheran Social Services is actively seeking volunteers for this program. Volunteers receive an hourly tax-free stipend and mileage reimbursement.

Promotes youth development by instilling a sense of accomplishment, competence, belonging, and usefulness. Programs: - Academic success: Goal is for every member to graduate on time with a plan for their future, whether that plan is post-secondary or a career. Homework help, tutoring, mentoring, chess club, computer classes, and career exploration. - Character and leadership: Offers programs designed to help members practice and strengthen leadership and problem-solving skills. Community service and support groups. - Healthy lifestyles: Programs help members learn how to engage in positive behaviors, set personal goals and grow into self-sufficient adults who can make healthy choices. Yoga, exercise classes, gardening instruction, and gym time. - The arts: Offers a variety of arts programming so that members can learn to express themselves through visual arts, applied arts and performing arts in a safe space. Painting, drawing, and bracelet making.

- In-home care including health care, therapies, homemaker and companion services. - House Calls providing primary care services by a physician or certified nurse practitioner. - Hospice care for end of life home care - Home delivered meals for the 7-county metro area are available as part of Optage services. Meals can also take place in a congregate setting at 17 locations throughout Hennepin, Ramsey, and Washington counties.

Offers a mentorship program that pairs Gustavus students with youth who have developmental delays from Saint Peter and the surrounding communities. Helps youth build personal skills, increase self-confidence, and form positive, compassionate relationships with their student mentors.

Offers a variety of support groups. - Abuse Tuesdays: Provides a safe place for those recovering from an abusive relationship. Provided at the Lakeville campus. - Cancer Support Group: For individuals with cancer or their loved ones. Provided at the Lakeville campus. - Codependency: Encourages the development of healthy boundaries for individuals who experience an emotional or psychological reliance on someone else, possibly due to an illness or addiction. Provided at the Lakeville campus. - Divorce Care: For individuals who are divorced, separated, or in the process of divorce. Provided at the Lakeville campus. - Freedom from Addictions and Abuse: Provides a safe place for individuals recovering from addictions related to gambling, drugs, alcohol, food, and more. Provided at the Lakeville campus. - Freedom from Anxiety: Support for people struggling with anxiety. Provided at the Lakeville campus. - GriefShare: Offers support and encouragement for those who are grieving the death of a loved one. Provided at the Lakeville, Shakopee, and Northfield campuses. - Grief's Road to Emmaus: Provides care and support for those experiencing the loss of a child. Provided at all campuses. - Hispanic Spanish Life and Faith Group: Provides a supportive environment for people looking to make healthier choices in life and their faith journey. Provided at the Lakeville campus. - Men's Purity group: Provides healthy steps toward freedom from pornography and sexual addictions. Provided at the Lakeville campus. - TreeHouse for Teens: Provides mentoring for youth ages 10 -18 to receive support, guidance, and practical skills in making better choices. Provided at the Lakeville campus. - Victory Over the Struggles of Life: Provides a supportive and encouraging environment for people encountering depression, emotional stress, boundary issues, mental health, and more. Provided at the Lakeville campus.

One-to-one mentoring program which matches volunteer adult mentors to young people

Provides basic and in home support services for older adults and people with disabilities in their homes or in a community setting to ensure the health and safety of the person and maintain their independence within the community. Basic Support Services - Individual community living supports (ILCS): For people who need reminders, cues intermittent/moderate supervision, or physical assistance to remain in their own homes. - 24-hour emergency assistance: On-call counseling and problem-solving and/or immediate response for assistance at a person's home due to a health/personal emergency. - Companion services: Non-medical care, supervision and socialization to a person age 18 or older. - Night supervision: Provides overnight assistance and monitoring by an awake staff in the person's home. - Respite care services: Short-term care due to the absence or need for relief of the family member(s) or primary caregiver normally providing the care. Intensive Support Services - Positive support services: Services to increase positive behavior and decrease or eliminate severe, challenging behavior. - Specialist services: Services designed to promote staff and caregiver competency to meet a person's needs in eligible areas. - Independent living skills training: Services that develop, maintain and improve the community-living skills of a person. - Semi-independent living skills: Services needed by an adult with a developmental disability or related condition(s) to live successfully in the community. - Residential-based habilitation: Including in-home family support and supported living services for adults in their own home: Supported living services provided in a licensed site, including a foster care home, a community residential setting, or a supervised living facility.

Volunteer opportunities include: - Assisting at activities: Bingo, cards, crafts - Assisting residents around the building and with activities or programs around the building - Friendly visitor: Reading to residents, helping to write letters, playing games, visiting, or pet visits - Presenting programs: Special music - Staffing opportunities at the Gift Shop and helping with coffee hour

Promotes youth development by instilling a sense of accomplishment, competence, belonging, and usefulness. Programs: - Academic success: Goal is for every member to graduate on time with a plan for their future, whether that plan is post-secondary or a career. Homework help, tutoring, mentoring, chess club, computer classes, and career exploration. - Character and leadership: Offers programs designed to help members practice and strengthen leadership and problem-solving skills. Community service and support groups. - Healthy lifestyles: Programs help members learn how to engage in positive behaviors, set personal goals and grow into self-sufficient adults who can make healthy choices. Yoga, exercise classes, gardening instruction, and gym time. - The arts: Offers a variety of arts programming so that members can learn to express themselves through visual arts, applied arts and performing arts in a safe space. Painting, drawing, and bracelet making.

Children are matched with adult volunteers who serve as mentors, offering friendship, guidance, and support to build trust and key life skills. Mentors meet with youth 2 - 4 times per month, based on their schedules, for fun and engaging self-directed activities. Agency-sponsored events and activities are also available for youth and their mentors. ?Program staff speak regularly with mentors, teachers, and youth to offer ongoing support. and provide guidance, support, and assistance. All mentors undergo background checks, interviews, and training before being matched based on location, personality, and preferences.

Senior companions become friends with other seniors in their communities who are lonely and isolated To be a senior companion: - Be 55 years or older and in good health - Be willing to commit at least 10-15 hours a week to establish solid and reliable relationships with those you serve

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.

Memory Companions: Provides safe and nurturing support for people with memory loss while their caregivers take a break. Group Respite Activities: Provides group respite activities for the in-person Saturday Caregiver Education Series and Saturday Support Group. Friendly Visitors: Volunteers provide friendship to seniors and provide respite to caregivers. Visits occur once a week or every other week for 1 - 3 hours. Activities are determined by mutual interest and can include scrapbooking, reading, games, conversations, crafts, and more.

Offers a mentorship program pairing Gustavus students with local youth to build supportive friendships and encourage personal growth.

Support programs including: Pink Ribbon Mentorship: - Breast cancer survivor volunteers partner with people who have/had a similar diagnosis, treatment, or concerns to each mentee - [email protected] or (507)206-3212 Dragon boat fellowship - Making Waves Floating Fellowship: - Support and social opportunity for survivors - Exercise group - Silver Lake in Rochester, MN on Wednesday evenings during the summer, weather permitting - No experience required - [email protected] Breast cancer support group: - Vision of Hope: 9 am - 10:30 am 1st and 3rd Monday of each month; 125 Live, 125 Elton Hills Drive NW, Rochester, MN 55901 - Contact Cyndie at [email protected] General cancer group: - Circle of Hope: 12 noon - 1:30 pm twice monthly 125 Live, 125 Elton Hills Drive NW, Rochester, MN 55901 (check Join our Journey website for dates) www.jtjmn.org - Contact Cyndie at [email protected]

The Club offers various programs in the areas of: - Arts and sports - Character and leadership development - Education and career - Fitness and recreation - Health and life skills - Mental health services (includes learning groups, coping skills and coordination of care) - Mentoring - Tutoring in various subjects Site offers: - Café - Computer lab - Gaming system - Gym - Mentor Duluth - Music recording studio - Teen and pre-teen gathering areas - Theater and stage area The Club has incorporated the Teen Center within this site.

Offers a comprehensive range of services designed to support older adults and individuals with disabilities in living safely and independently in their own homes and communities. Services include: - Advocacy: Connecting clients with resources such as the Minnesota Ombudsman Program. - Assisted Transportation: Volunteers offer in-town and out-of-town rides, with a sliding fee scale available for out-of-town trips. - Caregiver Support and Respite: Support groups and respite care to assist family caregivers in managing their responsibilities. - Correspondence Assistance: Helping individuals maintain connections with loved ones through letters and other forms of communication. - Friendly Visits and Telephone Reassurance: Regular in-person or phone check-ins to reduce isolation and provide companionship. - Health Education: Promotes wellness and chronic disease management - Information and Referral: Assistance in navigating community resources and services. - Light Housekeeping and Chores: Help with tasks such as changing light bulbs, smoke detector batteries, and light cleaning. - Shopping and Errands: Volunteer assistance with grocery shopping and other errands. - Social Activities: Assistance with attending local events and social gatherings.