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Provides the following resources for seniors: Community Health Promotion

• ??Diabetes Support Group

• Laughter Yoga classes

• Nurse-provided blood pressure clinics at various community locations

• Tai Chi for Health exercise classes

• Senior Art Classes (typically in the fall & spring)

• Senior Social & Health Talks (held monthly)

• Technology Clinic (1:1 help with technology)

Individual Support Services

• Caregiver support, respite, and education

• Chore/shopping services (limited)

• Companion services through "Friendly Visitor" volunteers

• Fall prevention assessments

• Foot and home care services

• In-home nurse visits, including vision consultations, and low-vision products

• Information, referral, and advocacy

• Rapid Screen assessments

• Rides to local medical appointments (based on volunteer availability)

Organizes fishing and boating excursions as an activity for older adults, veterans, and youth. ?Fishing and boating excursions are typically 2 hours. ?The program provides:

• Bait

• Equipment - rods/reels/tackle

• Experienced guide and assistant

• Life jackets

• Safe boat or pontoon

• Snacks/water

Provides social and emotional support that is professionally facilitated and designed by and for those who know first-hand what living with cancer requires. Encourages members to create a customized plan based on their personal needs and wants. Program offerings include:

• Support: Personalized screening and care planning, group support for people living with cancer and for family and friends; special programming for children and teens.

• Education: Lectures and interactive sessions on issues specific to cancers, skills and tools classes, workshops and internet radio program (Frankly Speaking About Cancer, every Tuesday, 2 pm Central on VoiceAmerica Network at www.voiceamerica.com) and online resources and The Living Room online support community.

• Health Lifestyle: Mind-body programs, exercise and yoga, expressive arts, and nutrition programs.

• Social Opportunities: Potlucks, laugh fests, movie nights, and special events for families and young children.

• Information and Referral: Resource library for support and management skills and links to other community services.

• Clubhouse: Caring and supportive, home-like healing environment

• A Place for Kids and Teens: Noogieland for kids and Mixed Media/Teen Area for young adults. Kids and teens living with cancer and their family members receive support and special programming.

• A Place for Adults: Helps bring families and friends together who can lend and give support to the individual living with cancer. An action plan is developed for family and friends.

Is dedicated to developing lifelong learning opportunities while utilizing community resources and coordinating with local agencies to meet the ever changing needs of adults and children in the area. Providing:

• Adult enrichment: Lap swim, puzzle race, social club classes, and virtual workshops

• Summer recreation: Baseball, softball, rookie ball, and t-ball

• Youth activities: Babysitting clinic, cookie decorating, culinary crafts, firearm safety, grand rapids academic summer programs, minecraft, painting, tumbling, and fishing contest

• Youth athletics: Basketball, dance, soccer, swim and dive camp, track, volleyball, and wrestling

A senior center offering events and activities for older adults. Activities offered:

• Bingo
• Book club
• Coffee socials
• Exercise classes
• Game days
• Paint club

Also available for rental for family events such as wedding receptions, birthdays, anniversary parties, etc.

Lighthouse Network: A block club program designed to nurture community by promoting safety, communication, and connection on each block. Senior Social Club: A bi-monthly gathering for older community members to come together, engage in a shared activity, fellowship, and enjoy snacks.

Provides a safe, comfortable, and supportive environment for individuals living with a serious and persistent mental/emotional illness who are learning to manage their lives independently in the community using voluntary recreational and social choices.

Provides diversified programs, including:

• Forever Fifty club

• Social services: Includes youth programs that feature a teen recreation center with pool, foosball, air hockey, table games, homework time, etc.; musical programs, and volunteer opportunities such as hospital and nursing home visitation

• Spiritual counseling

Offers a variety of educational, social, and recreational programs to community members who are 50 and older. Programs include:

• Educational Classes and Programs: Defensive driving, painting classes, health programs, topics related to seniors, and financial programs

• Exercise/Fitness: Seated exercise, aerobics, bocce ball, shuffleboard, and walking club

• Health services including blood pressure screening, foot care, and insurance counseling

• Information and Referral: Outreach, forms assistance, nutrition, support groups, senior companion/friendly visitors, and peer counselors

• Recreational/Leisure Activity Programs: Bridge, bingo, 500, games, movies, cribbage, picnics, and parties

• Resource center on senior issues

• Social activities and programs

• Travel/Trips: Short outings and day trips

Provides opportunities for older adults to stay involved in their community and a place to meet and socialize. Services include:

• Arts and crafts instruction including quilting

• Recreational activities including bowling, cards, and intergenerational programs

• Coffee Talks: Casual group discussion with community members

• Recreational activities including bingo, bridge, and book clubs

• Educational opportunities including fall prevention, oil painting, technology classes, and cooking classes

• Fitness programs including aerobics

• Vision loss support group

Services are part of Community Thread's THRIVE program.

Club for senior citizens

Connects and provides older adults and their caregivers with services in their community to allow them to live long, healthy, and independent lives in their own homes. Services include:

• Food Assistance: Congregate dining locations offering low-cost meals, low-cost frozen meals, home-delivered meals, NAPS, and SNAP

• Healthy Living: Blood pressure checks, fall prevention screenings, telehealth conferences, Tai Chi and yoga sessions, and stretching/balance education

• Information Services: Offers memory loss education and Dementia Friends, Medicare counseling and assistance, fraud/scam identification and prevention, assistance with internet search, assistance with Healthcare Directives and Power of Attorney forms, and classes to older adults

• Mobile Community Center: Brings services and socialization to the door or community. The vehicle is equipped with high-speed internet, flat-screen TV, applications for programs, and meeting space for coffee and conversation.

• Social: Offers card parties, coffee and conversation time, caregiver respite, karaoke parties, video calls and chats with friends, and social media assistance

• American Association of Retired Persons (AARP): Smart Driver courses offered as part of adult programming

• Adult programs include social, educational, fitness, and enrichment opportunities such as classes, events, and community activities for adults and older adults

• Kosher Meals on Wheels: Offered through the Capp Center Saint Paul in partnership with Jewish Family Service of Saint Paul and Sholom Alliance, providing kosher meal delivery in Saint Paul.

Community and adult education and senior citizen programs, including ESL classes, GED classes, and programs for adults living with a disability.

• Adult education programs to advance academic skills such as reading, writing, and math

• Distance learning/online study platforms for enrolled students

• English classes for adults

• GED preparation

Provides opportunities for older adults to stay involved in their community and a place to meet and socialize. Services include:

• Arts and crafts instruction including quilting

• Recreational activities including bowling, cards, and intergenerational programs

• Coffee Talks: Casual group discussion with community members

• Recreational activities including bingo, bridge, and book clubs

• Educational opportunities including fall prevention, oil painting, technology classes, and cooking classes

• Fitness programs including aerobics

• Vision loss support group

Services are part of Community Thread's THRIVE program.

Club for senior citizens Weekly events:

• 10 am - 11:30 am Tuesdays and Thursdays, Bone Building Sessions - bone building exercises

• 11 am Tuesdays and Thursdays, Senior Lunch, call the day before for reservations at (218)832-3037

• American Association of Retired Persons (AARP): Smart Driver courses offered as part of adult programming

• Adult programs include social, educational, fitness, and enrichment opportunities such as classes, events, and community activities for adults and older adults

• Kosher Meals on Wheels: Offered through the Capp Center Saint Paul in partnership with Jewish Family Service of Saint Paul and Sholom Alliance, providing kosher meal delivery in Saint Paul.

Provides diversified programs, including:

• Forever Fifty club

• Social services: Includes youth programs that feature a teen recreation center with pool, foosball, air hockey, table games, homework time, etc.; musical programs, and volunteer opportunities such as hospital and nursing home visitation

• Spiritual counseling

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]

Club for senior citizens

Club for senior citizens

• Club for senior citizens

• Mailing address: Barb Ryan 43755 Forest Road Deer River, MN 56636

Bingo and card club, weekly activities, as well as other organized events throughout the year

The Forget Me Notes Chorus is a choir for people living with memory loss and their care partners. Weekly practices include choral instruction, socialization, and refreshments. The choir also provides two community concerts each year. Practices are held on Mondays from 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm at Wesley United Methodist Church, 114 West Broadway, Winona. Assistance in getting to choir practice is available. Individuals who do not have a care partner to attend with them should call for help with getting this support.

Outreach Center staffed by volunteers who are knowledgeable about mental health services and resources available in Cloquet, Duluth, and Two Harbors. ? Supportive and recreational services:

• BINGO
• Bipolar support group
• Crafts
• Employment and volunteer opportunities
• Friends and Family Bipolar support group
• Information/education
• Meals twice a week
• Recreational and social events