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The Urban Offices offer:
- Band hunting and fishing licenses
- Computer use
- CPR/AED and First Aid classes
- Educational/Ojibwe language cultural arts and crafts classes
- Elder outings and meetings
- Monthly community meetings on issues, programs, and services for urban area and on the reservation
- Referrals to Band services including Indian Child Welfare Act Social Workers, legal services, traditional healing, and other services
- Smoke alarms
- Special and family events including a holiday party and community picnic
- Star award for youth in grades Kindergarten - 12
- Transportation to major Mille Lacs Band events
- Tribal updates
- Twin cities voting site for Mille Lacs Band Tribal elections
- Urban Honoring Our Pre-Schoolers - UHOPS: Celebrates the success of students in Head Start or early education for Kindergarten preparation
- Urban update supplement to the Band Ojibwe Innaiimowin newspaper
- Volunteer appreciation
Black urban farms designed to be both a gathering space and increase food access. Offers free produce pick up, gardening and food preparation classes, community events, skills-building workshops, and environmentally conscious workshops for community members of all ages. Program includes weekly Conversations and Coffee (C&C), a cross generational gathering event focussed on relationship building and storytelling. Conversations and Coffee (C&C) brings in Black and BIPOC elders from the community to share stories with youth and adults about the history of people of color in Duluth. Locations include: Freedom Farms Central Hillside and Lincoln Park Freedom Farms.
The program builds bridges, allowing those living with a disability access to activities and events they would not normally have. Program developers create a calendar of activities that provide social, physical, and mental benefits for all ages, levels of disability, and their families/caregivers. The Inclusive Community Program also advocates for
- Accessibility rights
- Education assistance for students living with a disability
- Inclusive community areas
This program also manages the fundraising events for UCP of Central MN. These events bring those with disabilities together with family and community members to raise funds for UCP programs. Inclusive Community Program activities can include:
- Annual Halloween party
- Art camps
- Educational programs
- Super Strikers bowling league
Offers youth and family programs, including the following:
- Active Family and Community Engagement: Engages family at school-based community events, which build bridges between school and home. - Collaborative Leadership and Practices: Include professional learning communities, site-based teams charged with improving school policy and classroom teaching and learning, labor-management collaborations, and teacher development strategies such as peer assistance and review. - Expanded and Enriched Learning Time and Opportunities: Collaborates with community partners to provide learning activities during out-of-school time and summer, using school facilities and other community spaces. Programs vary depending on community priorities and include arts, physical activity, small group and individualized academic support, and hands-on learning activities. - Integrated Student Supports: Coordinates on-site services to support students in overcoming a range of barriers to educational and life success. Services are unique to each school based on the specific needs of the students and community, and may include access to medical, dental, and mental health care services, tutoring, and other academic supports. Schools are also developing restorative practices to reduce punitive disciplinary actions such as suspensions.
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Offers youth and family camps, retreats, outdoor activities, and volunteer opportunities focused on faith development, community, and personal growth year round.
- Annual Danish Day celebration
- Danish cultural events and functions
- Genealogy studies
- Language classes, folk dance lessons
- Pancake breakfasts and special brunches
- Sommerfest celebration
Items made by local Senior Citizens who are members of the Bemidji Senior Center
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The program builds bridges, allowing those living with a disability access to activities and events they would not normally have. Program developers create a calendar of activities that provide social, physical, and mental benefits for all ages, levels of disability, and their families/caregivers. The Inclusive Community Program also advocates for
- Accessibility rights
- Education assistance for students living with a disability
- Inclusive community areas
This program also manages the fundraising events for UCP of Central MN. These events bring those with disabilities together with family and community members to raise funds for UCP programs. Inclusive Community Program activities can include:
- Annual Halloween party
- Art camps
- Educational programs
- Super Strikers bowling league
Classes, seminars, discussion groups, as well as various programs and special events
Offers different programming that happens throughout the year such as parades, fairs, concerts, movie screenings, and other special events.
Community education offering:
- Adult enrichment
- Family events
- Free open gym
- Kid’s Club Childcare
- Little Giants preschool
- New driver education
- Open gym
- Youth enrichment
The program builds bridges, allowing those living with a disability access to activities and events they would not normally have. Program developers create a calendar of activities that provide social, physical, and mental benefits for all ages, levels of disability, and their families/caregivers. The Inclusive Community Program also advocates for
- Accessibility rights
- Education assistance for students living with a disability
- Inclusive community areas
This program also manages the fundraising events for UCP of Central MN. These events bring those with disabilities together with family and community members to raise funds for UCP programs. Inclusive Community Program activities can include:
- Annual Halloween party
- Art camps
- Educational programs
- Super Strikers bowling league
- Christmas gift program for union members
- Direct financial assistance provided to union members
- Holiday food programs for union members
- Member assistance program
- National Letter Carriers food drive
- Services to the unemployed
- Workers memorial breakfast
Educational day camps, classes, tours, and overnight programs. Programs include:
- Imagination Stations: From September - April, the Sky classroom is open for children ages 2-5 years old and their parents to play together in self-directed play, crafts, sensory activities, and more
- In-Person Summer Camp: Designed for students to connect them with the natural world in a meaningful way
- Little Learners Classes: Designed for children ages 2-5 years to explore zoo topics with a parent/guardian
- Moonlight Yoga: A unique yoga experience that occurs once a month from June through October to practice yoga in nature
- Nature Preschool: Six-week summer program for little adventurers to explore nature and get to know farm animals
- Special Events: Nature Wellness, Wild Nights, Family Story Walk, Llama Trek, and Jack-O-Lantern Spectacular events held seasonally
- Treetop Trail: A 1.25-mile walking path above ground with access to nature for all ages
- Virtual and In-Person Yoga: Spring and summer sessions of yoga with the comfort of being at home or in-person.
- Christmas gift program for union members
- Direct financial assistance provided to union members
- Holiday food programs for union members
- Member assistance program
- National Letter Carriers food drive
- Services to the unemployed
- Workers memorial breakfast
Provides compassionate grief support services for children, teens, and adults who are grieving the death of a loved one. Services are designed to ensure that no one has to grieve alone and include:
- Adult Support Groups: Peer-based grief support groups for adults experiencing the loss of a spouse or partner, child, parent, sibling, family member, or friend. Specialized groups, including suicide loss support, are offered as available. Hybrid options are available.
- Children's and Family Grief Support: Age-appropriate grief support programming, activities, and resources to help children and families navigate grief together.
- Community Education: Grief education and presentations for schools, healthcare organizations, businesses, faith communities, and other community groups.
- Grief Companioning: Grief companions provide a space for individuals to share their feelings in response to their profound loss. Companioning is anchored in respecting and exploring the uniqueness of loss while allowing individuals to share their grief and its impact on them.
- Grief Resource Library: Lending library with books and resources for children, teens, and adults experiencing many types of loss.
- Horses Healing Hearts: Provides a grief equine-assisted grief support that allows participants to process grief through guided activities with horses. No riding is involved.
- Workshops and Healing Events: Educational and wellness programs can include journaling, art, yoga, sound bowls, mindfulness, Healing Touch, healthcare directive education, and other grief-related topics.
- Yearly fair and other events at fairgrounds - Campgrounds available in summer and winter months - Horse boarding - Facility rental for parties, weddings, etc.
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Annual community building events and programs, including the Alley Garden Awards in the summer and MacGrove Fest in the fall. Various smaller events are put on throughout the year.
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Works to improve the well‑being of immigrants and refugees ages 55 and older by providing social, educational, and recreational opportunities. Activities include workshops on health, nutrition, exercise, and digital skills, as well as weekly luncheons, music, and seasonal celebrations to foster social connection and reduce isolation.
- Puppet and mask theater performances both in the Avalon theater and as touring productions - Puppetry classes for adults, educators, and youth - Group Field Trips to HOBT that include a tour, puppetry demo, and a hands-on puppet making or performance workshop - Workshops and residencies in puppet and mask techniques in schools, churches, and communities - Builds a sense of community while helping groups create parades, festivals, pageants, and celebrations of their own - Space rental of the 275 seat capacity Avalon theater for performances, weddings, meetings, and parties