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Provides basic in-home support services to Anoka County residents age 60 and older, helping them remain safe and independent in their homes. NOTE: Some areas may have waiting lists, depending on the availability of contractors and the type of service requested. Priority is given to low-income households. Services offered include the following: Minor Home Repairs

• Changing light bulbs

• Checking smoke and carbon monoxide detectors

• Fixing/replacing faucets and light fixtures

• Hanging mirrors or wall décor

Routine Housekeeping

• Changing bed linens

• Cleaning bathrooms

• Cleaning kitchen

• Dusting

• Sweeping, mopping, or vacuuming floors

Seasonal Chores

• Mowing

• Raking

• Snow removal

Services are completed by screened independent contractors and community volunteers.?

Provides activities and services for older adults including:

• Book club

• Blood pressure checks

• Bible study

• Ceramics

• Community meals

• Exercise classes

• Hand and foot care

• Free legal aid workshops

• HOME Program: assists with housekeeping, minor repair services, painting projects, lawn raking, and snow shoveling

• Pickleball

Coordinates a variety of maintenance and home-based services to ensure that individuals can safely stay in their homes. Services include:

• Annual clean-ups

• Cleaning

• Family therapy

• Handyman services

• Housekeeping

• Lawncare

• Moving

• Occupational therapy

• Physical therapy

• Snow removal

Provides the following supportive services:

• Adopt-a-Grandparent

• Assisted Transportation - age 60 and older

• Caregiver support

• Chore services

• Eldercare

• Family Caregiver

• Friendly visits and phone calls

• Furniture for Families

• Grocery shopping

• Home accessibility accessories installed - grab bars

• Household goods

• Lawn mowing, leaf raking, snow shoveling

• Light housekeeping

• Living with Memory Loss (for those who are living with memory loss)

• Medical appointments

• Medical equipment

• Minor home repairs

• Necessary errands

• Parkinson's

• Seasonal yard work

• Support for seniors to remain living at home as long as possible

• Volunteer opportunities

• Youth mission work

Coordinates a variety of maintenance and home-based services to ensure that individuals can safely stay in their homes. Services include:

• Annual clean-ups

• Cleaning

• Family therapy

• Handyman services

• Housekeeping

• Lawncare

• Moving

• Occupational therapy

• Physical therapy

• Snow removal

Provides advocacy and referrals to local services

• 55 Alive driver's education

• Chore program for residents of Clarkfield and Granite Falls, including yard work, one-time housekeeping, and other household tasks.

• Exercise

• Field trips/excursions

• Tax assistance is available during tax season

Assists individuals around the house with interior and exterior projects. Offers both chore assistance and home repair services such as: Interior:

• Grab bar installation

• Hanging curtains and pictures

• Installing handrails

• Installing and repairing smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors

• Repairing door trim and baseboards

Exterior:

• Caulking windows

• Fixing light fence damage

• Painting shutters

• Repairing exterior trimming

• Repairing and replacing door hardware

• Caregiver support group

• Companionship

• Dementia Friends training on request

• Friendly visits

• Homemaking and chores service

• Paperwork assistance

• Respite care

• Socialization

• Telephone reassurance/buddy phone call service

• Transportation (including wheelchair accessible transports) to: medical/social service appointments, church, senior dining, hair dresser appointments, and grocery shopping

• Yard work

Provides or arranges support for elder neighbors to assist them in living at home as long as possible. This support, which may otherwise not be available, uses the program's small staff, volunteers and/or paid nursing staff. Services include:

• Caregiver coaching and support groups

• Community Gardening

• Door-to-door transportation, both assisted and non-assisted, provided by volunteers. There is no charge, but donations are accepted. Accessible vehicles can be requested.

• Elders resource list of meal and grocery delivery, handyman services, modifications, etc. available by phone or Internet

• Exercise classes

• Friendly visiting

• Health education classes and events

• In-home eldercare assessment and resource recommendation

• In-home Internet/computer tutorial

• Linkage to county services

• Nursing referrals

• Phone visiting

• Respite care

• Seasonal raking and snow shoveling

• Shopping assistance up to twice a month

• Spring/Fall yard clean-ups

• Volunteer opportunities

Staff and volunteers offer assistance with:

• Decision-making
• Assessments for services
• Medical escorts for doctor appointments
• Home safety assessments
• Assistance with needed paperwork for application for services
• Connection to programs and referrals
• Checkbook balancing
• Respite care
• Friendly visitors
• Transportation
• Grocery assistance
• Chore requests
• Senior companion
• Fall prevention education
• Books to Go program

Home maintenance and chore services are provided to senior citizens to enable them to live safely and independently in their own homes. Services may include:

• Assistance with clutter elimination

• Home maintenance

• Housekeeping - kitchen and bathroom cleaning

• Household chores

• Lawn care and yardwork

• Relocation assistance

• Snow removal

Exterior repairs done on homeowner-occupied dwellings including ramps or accessibility modifications, painting, landscaping, siding, railings, porch, deck, stair repair, and gutter maintenance. Applicants are matched with a local volunteer service group to complete projects.

Exterior home repair and maintenance program available to qualified low-income homeowners. Services may include exterior painting, landscaping and brush removal, and installation of accessibility features such as ramps. Volunteer labor and donated materials are used to complete projects at reduced cost.

Provides job training, guidance, and wages for individuals working in job settings preparing them for competitive integrated employment and/or self-employment. Job training includes:

• Assisting with the day-to-day operations at the facility (laundry, dishes, janitorial, etc.)

• Chore crews (lawn mowing, snow shoveling, raking, processing recycling, etc.)

• Smaller jobs for outside agencies (shredding, packaging, etc.)

There are a variety of work projects to fit each individual's skill set and interests. Employment Support Services (ESS) are also offered, which are designed to help participants maintain community employment. Chore crew services are available for residents of the community, including:

• Commercial Services - lawn care and snow removal
• Gardening/Weeding
• Lawn Mowing* - includes trimming
• Raking - includes bagging and disposal
• Snow Removal*

*Reduced cost of snow removal and lawn care may be available for older adults

Annual celebration of community volunteers giving "One Day to Help One Another." Traditionally the second Saturday in October. Projects typically include:

• Small painting projects

• Raking leaves

• Washing windows

• Cleaning gutters

• Moving boxes or furniture

• Yard work

• Housework

• And much more

• Case management and referrals for programs such as Meals on Wheels, social services

• Door-to-door transportation mostly for health related appointments or for hair salons/barbershop appointments. Clients must be able to transfer into the car on their own. Escort services may also be available, but these requests must be made far in advance.

• Homemaking, yard work and home maintenance services

• Nursing care

• Personal care

• Senior exercise classes are offered daily; transportation available.

• Social outings

• Speakers on senior health topics

• Support for caregivers of seniors who live in the service area, and for caregivers who live in the service area even if the cared-for senior lives elsewhere, including out of state.

Home maintenance and chore services are provided to senior citizens to enable them to live safely and independently in their own homes. Services may include:

• Assistance with clutter elimination

• Home maintenance

• Housekeeping - kitchen and bathroom cleaning

• Household chores

• Lawn care and yardwork

• Relocation assistance

• Snow removal

Non-professional services provided:

• Errand running and shopping assistance

• Friendly visiting

• Light housekeeping

• Meal preparation

• Mail management and personal correspondence

• Repairs and minor maintenance of home and yard, including snow removal. There is insurance coverage for volunteers during the times they are providing CREST services.??

• Telephone reassurance

• Transportation is available for appointments, church, social engagements, and shopping. Request for transportation must be done 2 days in advance and are not wheelchair accessible. Both curb-to-curb and door-to-door service is available depending on need. No fees and donations are accepted.

• Volunteers do not give medications, do not assist in transferring sitting to bed, etc.

Provides activities and services for older adults including:

• Bingo

• Board games

• Blood pressure checks

• Chair yoga

• Community lunch served daily at noon

• Day trips

• Exercise classes

• Educational programs

?- HOME Program: assists with housekeeping, minor repair services, painting projects, lawn raking, and snow shoveling

• Mature driver training

• Technology help

Offers services around the home for individuals with no other help and options. Services may include:

• Cleaning an area

• Clogged drain repair

• Fence repair

• Fixture replacement

• Patching drywall

• Repairing a toilet

• Replacing light bulbs

• Setting a mouse trap

• Snow and waste removal

• Yard work such as lawn cut and trim

Home maintenance and chore services are provided to senior citizens to enable them to live safely and independently in their own homes. Services may include:

• Assistance with clutter elimination

• Home maintenance

• Housekeeping - kitchen and bathroom cleaning

• Household chores

• Lawn care and yardwork

• Relocation assistance

• Snow removal

Chore Services helps individuals with tasks around the house/apartment and yard so they can remain living independently. Common chores include:

• Friendly visiting

• Grocery order/delivery

• Home maintenance (bathroom accessibility, carpentry; grab bar installation; interior/exterior painting; minor plumbing; railings; ramps; roof and gutter repairs; smoke alarms; window replacement)

• Housekeeping

• Lawn care

• Packing/moving

• Pet care

• Seasonal clean-up

• Snow removal

• Transportation

Elder needs-based supplemental income program Mille Lacs Band members over the age of 62 or over the age of 55 and disabled are eligible for a monthly Supplemental Income benefit based on income need. There are no residency requirements. Community services to elders Provides lawn mowing, yard maintenance, limited outdoor home maintenance, and walkway snow removal for all elders living in one of the Reservation Districts. These crews are staffed with Aanjibimaadizing staff and Gotaamigozi Flex Program participants. Temporary Assistance to Needy Families cash assistance Tribal TANF cash assistance makes monthly cash payments to families with minor children based on family size and composition. Households must be below 200% of poverty guidelines. These benefits require participating adults to agree and to follow a case plan designed to move them away from assistance and to self-reliance. Cash assistance has a 60-month lifetime limit. Temporary Assistance to Needy Families emergency assistance Emergency Assistance is a one-time per fiscal year payment for participants receiving cash assistance and experiencing an extreme financial hardship, typically an eviction or utility shutoff. Future cash assistance payments will be made to the landlord or utility. SNAP food support program The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is a State of Minnesota program that the Aanjibimaadizing administers for our cash assistance families. This program provided cash assistance specifically for food purchases. Childcare assistance Child care assistance helps parents or guardians pay for child care. Aanjibimaadizing can pay child care centers, family child care providers, or family, friends or neighbors (FFN) that provide child care. Child care assistance is not available in the Urban area at this time.

Provides support services to older adults and their caregivers so they may continue living in their home as long as possible. This support is available through volunteers and four part-time staff. No-cost services include:

• Application assistance

• Blood pressure clinics

• Care management

• Friendly visits (phone calls only until further notice)

• Home safety checks

• In-home fall prevention coaching

• Respite care

• Service coordination

• Transportation services

Services provided through private pay or paid by insurance/Medicare:

• Chores support

• Homemaking services

• In-home foot care

• Navigation assistance