Child birth education, classes, events and support groups on a variety of topics - see website for full details: - Breast cancer support group - Cancer care support group - Grief support and education group - Health care directive class - Infant safety class (car seat safety and infant CPR) - Labor and delivery - Mental health skills development group - Perinatal loss grief support group - Postpartum physical therapy classes - Psychotherapy group for adults who identify as transgender

Children's mental health residential treatment is a 24-hour-a-day program under the clinical supervision of a mental health professional, in a community setting, other than an acute care hospital or regional treatment center inpatient unit. This benefit is available for all eligible children placed in residential treatment by counties for whom the service is medically necessary.

Provides the following classes, presentations, and workshops: - Anxiety, Stress, and Coping: One-hour class for middle and high school students that talks about what anxiety and stress are and where they come from. Youth will practice coping strategies for stress as well as learn the difference between positive and negative coping strategies. Learn the warning signs of an anxiety disorder and where to go for help. - Breaking Down Barriers to Brain Health: This is a one-hour class for middle school students that discusses mental health, mental illnesses, suicide prevention, and how to break down the barriers people face to getting mental health care. Students will learn the warning signs of mental illness and suicide and what they can do to help themselves or a friend. This class is designed to be interactive and developmentally appropriate for middle school aged students. - Belonging, Why it Matters: Understand why belonging matters, and how it impacts both physical and mental health. Learn the role in fostering the culture of belonging. Understand the warning signs and resources for poor mental health. This class is for employees, supervisors, organizational leaders, owners, board members, and human resource professionals. - Dealing with Difficult Interactions: Learn the signs and symptoms of mental illnesses, along with tips and strategies that can be used in dealing with difficult interactions, to manage the situation and yourself. - Good Mental Health in the Workplace: Five Things You Can Do: Five things individuals can do to create a workplace that values good mental health. Participants will learn how to promote good mental health (including dealing with stress), the common symptoms of a mental illness, how attitudes and language impact people with mental illnesses, and accommodations for a mental illness. This class is for employees, supervisors, organizational leaders, owners, board members, and human resource professionals. - Introduction to Trauma and a Trauma-Informed Approach: One-hour overview of trauma, its impacts on the brain, and the guiding principles of a trauma-informed approach. Trauma has long been described as a unique and personal outcome of adverse events or experiences, but exposure is more widespread in the communities than ever before. For those living with a mental illness or substance use disorder, exposure is even more common. Communities and employers can build awareness and take action to create trauma-informed and responsive spaces where people feel safe and valued. - Minding Your Mental Health (EMPLOYER class only): Understand how and why current events have impacted people's mental health, learn how to manage expectations and stress to navigate changes to the workplace, learn the common symptoms of mental illness, and learn steps employees can take to promote good mental health. - Ending the Silence: This is a 50-minute class intended for high school students. To learn about mental illnesses and the signs and symptoms. Learn a personal story of a young adult who is doing well in recovery. Students receive resources to get help for themselves or for a friend and information on how to end the silence around mental illness in their school. - BACK TO SCHOOL ANXIETY: Learn about the signs that your child might be feeling anxious about going back to school, and what parents and caregivers can do before, during, and after school to help ease their child's back-to-school anxiety. Click here for currently scheduled public classes. - EARLY WARNING SIGNS OF MENTAL ILLNESS IN YOUTH: Workshop designed to help parents, guardians, and foster parents learn early warning signs of mental illnesses and trauma, gain an understanding of the impact of mental Illnesses and trauma on children and youth, and learn strategies to support children who live with an illness. Suicide warning signs and resources are also covered. - HELPING KIDS COPE: Tips for Supporting Good Family Mental Health: One-hour class that talks about the developmental responses youth may have to stress. Discuss five mental health tips for families and resources in the community. Click here for currently scheduled public classes. - MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS PLANNING FOR FAMILIES: Learn the symptoms that can lead to a crisis, steps to take, de-escalation techniques, and the role of county crisis teams. Develop a crisis plan for a child and family. This class is for parents or caregivers of children. - MENTAL ILLNESS AND POST-SECONDARY SUCCESS: Mental Illness and Post-Secondary Success is a two-hour class for parents, post-secondary institutions, students, and others supporting a person who is preparing for or engaged in academic life beyond high school. Learn about available supports, academic strategies, school and community resources, and helpful accommodations and modifications for qualifying students. ADA guidance for students with disabilities is also covered. - TRANSITIONS: Learn how to help teens or young adults access resources to succeed in school, employment, and independent living. Understand the rights young adults gain when they reach 18 and how to help guide them if they are not ready for total independence. This 1.5 hour class is for parents or caregivers of youth or young adults. - TRAUMA REACTIONS AND POST TRAUMATIC GROWTH IN CHILDREN AND YOUTH: 1.5 hour presentation, learn how to identify traumatic experiences in a child's life, understand trauma reactions and foster healing and growth in children and youth who have experienced trauma. - OVERCOMING LONELINESS: Strategies for Helping People with Mental Illnesses: Professionals will learn about the impact of loneliness and how no one goes through a serious illness by themselves. Will also learn the importance of engaging family members, promoting connections to others, and identify strategies to meaningfully engage family members and friends in a person's life. This class is open to all mental health practitioners and professionals.

Provides support to adults, children and families who are experiencing a mental health crisis in the comfort of their own home or other community location. Works in conjunction with local law enforcement agencies and emergency departments. Services include: - Crisis prevention planning - Crisis text line - Individual and family education - On-site response to assess and stabilze a crisis situation - Referrals to other local resources - Short-term stabilization services through brief ongoing support - Telephone crisis intervention

- Provides counseling and evaluations - Mental Health and Psychological services now provided on-site in each of the Reservation schools (3 elementary, 1 middle school, 1 high school) - 7 full-time direct care staff licensed in Minnesota - 2 Consulting Psychiatrists (Adult/Child) - 1 full time secretary - 1 Lp Psychologist licensed in Minnesota - 1 Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner - Serves Red Lake Indian Reservation

Children's mental health mobile crisis intervention and crisis stabilization services are intensive face-to-face, short-term mental health services initiated during a crisis to help the child return to the child's baseline level of functioning. This service is provided on-site by a mobile crisis response team outside of urgent care, inpatient or outpatient hospital settings.

Behavioral Intervention Services: Facilitates therapeutic approaches, addresses the function and efficiency of the problematic behavior in the least restrictive manner, and promotes the development of alternative adaptive skills. Provides treatment planning with families, other caregivers, and treatment teams; ongoing monitoring; on-site program implementation; and 24-hour telephone consultations for crisis stabilization. Illness Management & Recovery (IMR): Psychoeducational materials teaches - Building social support - Coping with problems and symptoms - Coping with stress - Drug and alcohol use - Getting needs met in the mental health system - Practical facts about mental illness - Reducing relapses - Strategies for recovery - The Stress-Vulnerability Model - Using medication effectively Mental Health Case Management: Helps locate necessary services, make referrals as needed, monitor the delivery of an individual's mental health services, and assist with housing support or application for entitlement programs. Rehabilitative Mental Health Services: Offers a variety of services including skills training and crisis assistance to effectively manage in the community, in the client's home, or other community location.

- Books on sexual abuse and physical abuse written for deaf and hard of hearing children - Comprehensive mental health services for deaf, hard of hearing, and deafblind people. Services also offered at Hennepin County Mental Health Center one afternoon a week. Some services offered in greater Minnesota through video conferencing. Twice monthly services provided in greater Minnesota. - Community education, consultation, presentation, and workshops - Counseling services to children who have been physically or sexually abused and their families - Dialectical behavior therapy skills training groups - Early intervention for parents with deaf children including education, child development information, and behavior management services - General mental health information and support groups - Outpatient mental health services including individual, family, couple, and group counseling for issues such as crisis intervention, family of origin, childhood trauma, school and work adjustment, medication management, psycho-diagnostic evaluation, and grief recovery - Inpatient mental health services including short-term psychiatric evaluation and treatment, group psychotherapy, medication therapy, individual and family counseling, crisis intervention, occupational and recreational therapy, and behavior management

- Community Support Program - Residential Placement Screening - Preadmission Screening - Nursing Homes - Diagnostic Assessment - Psychological Testing - Pre-petition Screening - Commitments - Transportation - Crisis Assistance - Medication Monitoring - Emergency Services - Outpatient Treatment - Day Treatment Services - Regional Treatment Center Inpatient - Acute Care Hospital Inpatient - Rule 36 Adult Residential Treatment - Rule 5 Child Residential Treatment - Rule 79 Case Management

Adult Mental Health Services include: - Community support services - Adult Foster Care - Board and lodging services - Brainerd Regional Treatment Center

Therapy in individual, family, and group settings Some of the problems addressed can include: - Abuse - Anxiety - Anger management - Depression - Eating disorders - Family and marital issues - Grief - Life stress - Pain management

Provides information about mental health services and referral to resources in the community for mental health assessments or treatment services

Provides confidential services including: - Chemical health assessments - Community event speakers for various topics related to mental health - Crisis appointments - Diagnostic assessments - Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) - Early childhood counseling services - Family counseling - Hypnotherapy - Individual counseling - Marriage/couples counseling - Play therapy - Premarital counseling Partners with outside providers for psychicatric medication neds and psychological testing. Areas of focus: - Aging related stressors - Anger management - Anxiety/worry/fears - Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADD or ADHS) - Autism Spectrum Disorders - Bipolar Disorder - Chronic pain or illness - Communication problems - Cutting/self-harm behaviors - Depression - Divorce - Domestic abuse or violence - Eating Disorders - Emotional, sexual and physical abuse - Food addictions - Interpersonal conflict - Intimacy/sexual problems - Life transitions - Loss or grief - Oppositional Defiant Disorder - Parenting training/assistance - Personality Disorders - Problems with children and family - Relationship issues - Substance abuse - Trauma/PTSD

Teens can be seen at the Teen Clinic for things such as: - Routine wellness checks/sports physicals - Immunizations - Weight management - Birth control counseling/STD screening - Mental wellness Angela Barrato from Northland Counseling Center provides the mental wellness and Dr. Toni Youngdahl is the family practitioner.

-Certified DBT - DC:05 -ADHD Assessments -Play Therapy techniques -Sand Tray techniques -TF-CBT -EMDR -EAGALA

Clinicians are available to speak to community groups on specific mental health topics when requested

Provides support to adults, children and families who are experiencing a mental health crisis in the comfort of their own home or other community location. Works in conjunction with local law enforcement agencies and emergency departments. Services include: - Crisis prevention planning - Crisis text line - Individual and family education - On-site response to assess and stabilze a crisis situation - Referrals to other local resources - Short-term stabilization services through brief ongoing support - Telephone crisis intervention

- Three adult mental health crisis response services are defined as: Crisis Assessment, Mobile Crisis Intervention, Crisis Stabilization services - This service provides adult mental health mobile crisis response services to eligible recipients - A mental health crisis is a behavioral, emotional, or psychiatric situation that would likely result in significantly reduced levels of functioning in primary activities of daily living; an emergency situation; or placement of the recipient in a more restrictive setting. This setting could include but not be limited to, inpatient hospitalization - A mental health emergency is a behavioral, emotional, or psychiatric situation, which causes an immediate need for mental health services

Behavioral Intervention Services: Facilitates therapeutic approaches, addresses the function and efficiency of the problematic behavior in the least restrictive manner, and promotes the development of alternative adaptive skills. Provides treatment planning with families, other caregivers, and treatment teams; ongoing monitoring; on-site program implementation; and 24-hour telephone consultations for crisis stabilization. Illness Management & Recovery (IMR): Psychoeducational materials teaches - Building social support ?- Coping with problems and symptoms ?- Coping with stress ?- Drug and alcohol use ?- Getting needs met in the mental health system ?- Practical facts about mental illness ?- Reducing relapses ?- Strategies for recovery ?- The Stress-Vulnerability Model ?- Using medication effectively Mental Health Case Management: Helps locate necessary services, make referrals as needed, monitor the delivery of an individual's mental health services, and assist with housing support or application for entitlement programs. Rehabilitative Mental Health Services: Offers a variety of services including skills training and crisis assistance to effectively manage in the community, in the client's home, or other community location. Services may include: - Budgeting, shopping, and health lifestyle practices - Community intervention and community resources utilization - Cooking and nutrition - Crisis assistance and relapse prevention - Employment-related skills - Interpersonal communications - Medication and education monitoring - Mental illness symptoms management - Transitioning to community living - Transportation

Provides confidential services including: - Chemical health assessments - Community event speakers for various topics related to mental health - Crisis appointments - Diagnostic assessments - Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) - Early childhood counseling services - Family counseling - Hypnotherapy - Individual counseling - Marriage/couples counseling - Play therapy - Premarital counseling Partners with outside providers for psychicatric medication neds and psychological testing. Areas of focus: - Aging related stressors - Anger management - Anxiety/worry/fears - Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADD or ADHS) - Autism Spectrum Disorders - Bipolar Disorder - Chronic pain or illness - Communication problems - Cutting/self-harm behaviors - Depression - Divorce - Domestic abuse or violence - Eating Disorders - Emotional, sexual and physical abuse - Food addictions - Interpersonal conflict - Intimacy/sexual problems - Life transitions - Loss or grief - Oppositional Defiant Disorder - Parenting training/assistance - Personality Disorders - Problems with children and family - Relationship issues - Substance abuse - Trauma/PTSD

Rehabilitative mental health services that enable the recipient to develop and enhance psychiatric stability, social competencies, personal and emotional adjustment, and independent living and community skills, when these abilities are impaired by the symptoms of mental illness. ARMHS are also appropriate when provided to enable a recipient to retain stability and functioning, if the recipient would be at risk of significant functional decompensation or more restrictive service settings without these services. - Adult rehabilitative mental health services instruct, assist, and support the recipient in areas such as: interpersonal communication skills, community resource utilization and integration skills, crisis assistance, relapse prevention skills, health care directives, budgeting and shopping skills, healthy lifestyle skills and practices, cooking and nutrition skills, transportation skills, medication education and monitoring, mental illness symptom management skills, household management skills, employment-related skills, and transition to community living services. Basic living and social skills is a separately billable service as defined below. - These services may be provided to a recipient on a one-to-one basis in the recipient's home or another community setting or in groups.

Three adult mental health crisis response services are defined as: - Crisis Assessment, Mobile Crisis Intervention, and Crisis Stabilization services - This service provides adult mental health mobile crisis response services to eligible recipients. - A mental health crisis is a behavioral, emotional, or psychiatric situation that would likely result in significantly reduced levels of functioning in primary activities of daily living; an emergency situation; or placement of the recipient in a more restrictive setting. This setting could include but not be limited to, inpatient hospitalization. - A mental health emergency is a behavioral, emotional, or psychiatric situation, which causes an immediate need for mental health services.