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Minor Parent Services assist the pregnant and/or parenting minor parent to create a plan for the parent and the child to ensure their safety and well-being. Services includes:

• Counseling

• Help applying for financial and medical assistance

• Housing and child care options

• Paternity or child support services

• Resource referrals to appropriate agencies to assist with decision making

Services provided:

• Food Boxes

• Home Visiting Program for first time parents starting pre-natally

• Information & Referral

• Lending Library for Parents and Children

• Summer programs for preschool and elementary age children

• Youth as Resources

• MAC (Mothers and Children supplemental nutrition for 5-year olds)

• NAPS (Nutrition Assistance Program for Seniors)

• WIC (Women, Infants and Children nutrition program)

• Parent Educaiton classes (parents of elementary and teenage students)

• Family Support (provides emergency gas vouchers and other assistnace to support families on a limited basis)

• MNSure Navigators

• Legal Kiosks

Minor Parent Services assist the pregnant and/or parenting minor parent to create a plan for the parent and the child to ensure their safety and well-being. Services includes:

• Counseling

• Help applying for financial and medical assistance

• Housing and child care options

• Paternity or child support services

• Resource referrals to appropriate agencies to assist with decision making

Minor Parent Services assist the pregnant and/or parenting minor parent to create a plan for the parent and the child to ensure their safety and well-being. Services includes:

• Counseling

• Help applying for financial and medical assistance

• Housing and child care options

• Paternity or child support services

• Resource referrals to appropriate agencies to assist with decision making

Offers long term child welfare for parents and their children, designed to empower families and provide a new pathway to achieving economic self-sufficiency. Families of Color With a Child Under 5 Years

• Case management services that help provide opportunities for early childhood education

• Connections to community resources

• Family support and advocacy

• Home visits

Families With at Least 1 Child Under 10 Years

• Participants are parents and their children who are experiencing complex challenges: Disproportionality, generational poverty, historical trauma, homelessness, domestic violence, substance abuse, mental illness, truancy, poor school outcomes, child welfare involvement, economic and employment instability, etc.

• Access to stabilizing federal economic programs

• Collaboration with Public Health

• Comprehensive case management services

• Early childhood/other educational supports

• Early Intervention services

• Home visits

• Ongoing support and information regarding child development, housing, budgeting, parenting, goal setting and decision making

• Workforce development resources

First Time Parents 18 Years or Older

• Families are enrolled during pregnancy through early infancy

• Collaboration with Public Health for home visits

• Monthly family activities

• Ongoing support/information regarding healthy pregnancy, child development, housing, budgeting/finances, health care, child care, education/employment goals, parenting and decision making

Pregnant and Parenting Teens Up to Age 18

• Pregnancy and parenting support program for adolescent moms, dads and their child

• Collaboration with Public Health

• Families receive support and information regarding parenting options, healthy pregnancy, child development, housing, budgeting/finances, child care, education/work goals and referrals to community resources

• Home or community visits

Minor Parent Services assist the pregnant and/or parenting minor parent to create a plan for the parent and the child to ensure their safety and well-being. Services includes:

• Counseling

• Help applying for financial and medical assistance

• Housing and child care options

• Paternity or child support services

• Resource referrals to appropriate agencies to assist with decision making

Teen Parenting Education is designed to educate, guide and support pregnant and/or parenting youth ages 12 - 24. There is no cost to the participant. Participants receive:

• Group education
• Information about additional community resources
• Parent-child interaction
• Peer support

• Provides as alternative educational setting for pregnant and parenting teens.

• TAPP meets every Monday and Tuesday during the school year, at the Itasca Resource Center, for classes.

• TAPP students are enrolled at the Alternative Learning Center, in Grand Rapids, on Tuesday during the school year or return to the traditional school setting at their respective area High Schools for the remainder of the week.

• Children of TAPP students are enrolled in Early Head Start and attend in the purple room at the Itasca Resource Center on Monday or Tuesday throughout the Academic year.

• Teen Parents may earn hours of credit towards their high school diploma by attending and actively participating in the classes.

Minor Parent Services assist the pregnant and/or parenting minor parent to create a plan for the parent and the child to ensure their safety and well-being. Services includes:

• Counseling

• Help applying for financial and medical assistance

• Housing and child care options

• Paternity or child support services

• Resource referrals to appropriate agencies to assist with decision making

Offers parenting and pregnancy education and other services to young adults, including:

• Childbirth preparation education and doula support in labor and delivery

• Help to access medical and financial resources, schooling, job training, housing, child support, baby equipment

• Nutrition, exercise and healthy lifestyle education, mentorship programs, cooking classes

• Prenatal, postnatal and parenting education

• Public health nurse visits at myHealth, home, school or other site

• Individual case management

• Referrals to other health care services

Minor Parent Services assist the pregnant and/or parenting minor parent to create a plan for the parent and the child to ensure their safety and well-being. Services includes:

• Counseling

• Help applying for financial and medical assistance

• Housing and child care options

• Paternity or child support services

• Resource referrals to appropriate agencies to assist with decision making

NOTE: Not a direct service agency ?- Information provided to parents and professionals about children's mental health, accessing services, support groups

• Several publications offered on children's mental health disorders, services, health insurance and more; some available in Spanish

• Statewide child and adolescent mental health conference held annually

• MACMH Training Services offering timely and relevant trainings to parents, educators, and other professionals

• Parent Education and Support providing education, advocacy, support, and a teen mom program

• Parent to Parent: Parents offering encouragement, support, and education to other parents (cultural and community based groups)

• Public Education: Working in schools and communities to increase awareness of children's mental health

• Early Childhood Division: Promoting relationship-based mental health principles throughout the systems and disciplines that touch the lives of infants, young children, and their families

• Youth programming including Be A LdR