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Provides a variety of individual, group, and organizational training to help educate and raise awareness about various topics. Services include:

• Community awareness opportunities to provide information at community events, public spaces, and resource fairs

• Educational presentations to fit the needs of community partners regarding abuse, body safety, domestic violence, exploitation, healthy relationships, human trafficking, and sexual violence

• Professional training topics on child abuse, domestic violence, roles of an advocate, sexual exploitation, trafficking, and victims' rights

Provides a variety of individual, group, and organizational training to help educate and raise awareness about various topics. Services include:

• Community awareness opportunities to provide information at community events, public spaces, and resource fairs

• Educational presentations to fit the needs of community partners regarding abuse, body safety, domestic violence, exploitation, healthy relationships, human trafficking, and sexual violence

• Professional training topics on child abuse, domestic violence, roles of an advocate, sexual exploitation, trafficking, and victims' rights

Advances social justice in Minnesota through interfaith advocacy, research, and public engagement on key legislative issues. Offers the following:

• Conducts research and policy analysis on social justice topics

• Develops a legislative agenda each year before the opening of the Minnesota Legislature

• Hosts the annual Day on the Hill during the legislative session, briefing participants on social justice issues and facilitating visits with legislators

• Mobilizes advocates through email alerts, published issue papers, and annual lobby events

• Leads forums, workshops, and provides speakers on topics such as poverty, health care, housing, children's issues, criminal justice, environmental stewardship, and tax policy

NOTE: Does NOT provide individual legal advice or advocacy support and does not have an attorney on staff

Workshops for clergy, educators, law enforcement, and medical or other professionals concerning issues of sexual assault

• Community education provides workshops that educate the public on sexual assault issues

• Presentations are tailored to the goals and needs of the group covering topics such as: date rape, sexual harassment, and general sexual assault

Provides support services and programs for sexually exploited adults, youth and their families, including:

• Case Management

• Court and legal advocacy; expungement legal clinics that help survivors remove legal barriers to employment, housing and/or higher education

• Crisis line

• Educational trainings and presentations

• Individual and systems advocacy

• LGBTQ+ specific services

• Survivor Leadership support group; trafficking survivors lead group meetings and give a voice to the needs of longer-term survivors

• Transitional housing

• Youth prevention groups

Therapeutic Settings

• Couples therapy

• Co-family therapy

• Combined individual and couples therapy

• Family therapy

• Group counseling

• Individual therapy

• Pre-marital counseling

Clinical Approaches

• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

• Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

• EMDR

• Family systems therapy

• Parent coaching

• Play therapy

• Structural and strategic family therapy

Counseling Services

• Addiction and recovery counseling

• ADHD adjustment and coaching

• Autism spectrum disorder counseling

• Career counseling

• Chemical dependency assessment and counseling

• Child and adolescent counseling

• Compulsive disorder counseling

• Conflict between couples counseling

• Depression and anxiety counseling

• Eating disorder counseling

• Employee assistance programs

• Grief and loss counseling

• Guidance to help individuals uncover vocational talents and strengths

• Minimizing impact of divorce on children counseling

• Mood disorder counseling

• Oppositional defiant teen counseling

• Parenting support counseling

• Physical, emotional, and sexual abuse counseling

• Post-affair recovery counseling

• Stress management counseling

• Substance abuse interventions

• Trauma and PTSD counseling

• Work and career issues counseling

Also provides training, speaking, and consultation.

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.

Services are victim-centered, which means individuals will guide their own process, make their own decisions, and have staff provide information, support, and referrals. Services include:

• Advocacy: Assistance in obtaining Emergency Protective Orders, Permanent Restraining Orders, Stalking/Harassment Orders, Temporary Restraining Orders, housing, community services, and medical appointments

• Confidentiality

• Community education and professional training

• Crisis line

• Emergency Services: Transportation to medical facilities, law enforcement, safe housing, etc.

• Individual and group support

• Prevention and/or Rapid Rehousing: Services provided by the Family Homeless Prevention and Assistance Program - FHPAP

• Safety planning

• Preschool programs (creative, recreational, and socialization) for children ages 3 - 5 including basketball, ballet dancing instruction, jazz dancing instruction, track and field, tennis, hiking, musical instrument instruction, and day camps

• Youth programs for children ages 6 - 12 including field trips, playgrounds with birthday parties, classes, fishing, and special events

• Teen programs for teens ages 13 - 17 such as field trips and special events

• Adult sports providing recreational league play for basketball, boot hockey, broomball, flag football, sand volleyball, soccer, softball, volleyball, and wiffleball

• Senior activities and recreational opportunities including bingo, craft projects, quilting group, book clubs, monthly potlucks and speakers, and field trips

• Family programs available to help parents and children explore and have fun as a family

• Banquet and meeting facilities available at Eagan Community Center

• Group fitness classes, running track, gymnasium, and weight training available at Eagan Community Center

• Ice hockey and public skating available at Eagan Civic Arena

• Retreat center available at Moonshine Park 1317 Jurdy Road

• Cartooning, ceramics, drawing, jewelry making, painting, and sculpting classes at Eagan Art House

• Fitness facility at Eagan Community Center

• Accepts passport applications

• Dog park at Thresher Fields Park 3200 Brochert Lane features open spaces and lake access. The area is fenced in and includes a separate area for smaller dogs.

• Adapted therapeutic sports programs for children ages 6 - 13 with autism and physical disabilities

• Cascade Bay Water Park

• Safety camp for children with information about fire safety, fire prevention, personal safety, and how to play it safe in everyday situations. Other day camps also available.

• Walking program

Provides public speaking opportunities for schools, churches, and community organizations to educate and promote awareness of domestic violence, sexual assault, child abuse, and homelessness within the community.

Provides health education for adults, adolescents, and pre-adolescents in schools, faith organizations, and community groups. Services include:

• Consultation for community agencies and professionals who work with young people and their families

• Education for parents on topics such as teen development, communication, surviving the stress of parenting, preparing your teen (and yourself) for life after high school, navigating today's technology trends, parent-child connectedness, how to share your values with your child, sexuality, and mother-daughter classes

• Professional Development for Educators: Provides presentations to educational professionals related to best practices in serving specific groups of young people.

Service topics may include healthy relationships, stress management and relaxation, teen pregnancy, puberty, LGBTQ issues, birth control, anatomy, sexually transmitted infections, abstinence and sexual decision making, cybersafety, dating, healthy body image, and friendships

Provides the following services:

• Community Education: Offers presentations and facilitated dialogs to community groups and individuals on the basics of domestic and/or sexual violence, signs, intervention and awareness. Participating groups have included faith-based groups, civic and service clubs, and social justice-oriented organizations.

• Community Events and Resource Fairs: Participates in numerous resource and wellness fairs throughout the metro area every year. Organizations can contact Alexandra House if they are organizing an event or fair and would like to have Alexandra House represented.

• Professional Trainings and Collaborations: Offers a variety of trainings tailored for various professional groups to respond to and prevent domestic and sexual violence

• Student and Youth Education: Provides a tailored learning experience for youth and students in grades 3rd and above about domestic or sexual abuse

Provides a variety of individual, group, and organizational training to help educate and raise awareness about various topics. Services include:

• Community awareness opportunities to provide information at community events, public spaces, and resource fairs

• Educational presentations to fit the needs of community partners regarding abuse, body safety, domestic violence, exploitation, healthy relationships, human trafficking, and sexual violence

• Professional training topics on child abuse, domestic violence, roles of an advocate, sexual exploitation, trafficking, and victims' rights

Provides therapy, crisis services, and education to victims of sexual assault and teens through a range of services:

• Telephone crisis response

• Short-term counseling

• Responds to local hospital emergency rooms

• Legal advocacy

• Safe at Home application assistance for address confidentiality

• Support group for individuals who have experienced sexual abuse designed to help people begin to recover from the effects of trauma and to help them find ways to grow, flourish and enjoy healthy relationships and happier lives. Individuals receive support from peers and advocates. Individuals learn about dynamics and the culture surrounding sexual violence, common reactions and feelings, as well as coping skills that may aid in the healing process.

• Works with victims of sex trafficking and sexual exploitation

• Workshops and Education: Offers community education speakers on a range of topics such as bullying, cyberbullying, sexting, healthy relationships, impact of domestic violence on child witnesses, media violence, sexual assault awareness and prevention, and teen dating violence

Services for individuals who have experienced domestic abuse/violence:

• Emergency residential women's shelter with no-cost services for women and their children
• 24-Hour crisis, Information and Referral line
• Community education: Public speaking and professional training
• Legal advocacy: Assist with safety planning, support, filing orders for protection and harassment restraining orders, including accompaniment and support during court hearings
• Support groups

• Division of community outreach provides presentations to companies, civic and nonprofit groups, professional and faith-based organizations, community events, schools, and parent groups

• Bullying and cyberbullying prevention and education

• Resource library of videotapes and printed materials concerning the issue of online safety, personal safety, non-family abductions, and sexual exploitation

• Participates at Community Notification meetings in partnership with law enforcement and other organizations

Bureau speakers offer information on a variety of arthritis topics for groups or workplaces which address questions relating to arthritis, its management and information on community resources. Services include:

• Informational brochures on diseases, drugs, active living, and more

• Public Forums throughout Minnesota

• Consumer and professional seminars and conferences

• Other events, seminars, conferences or programs of interest are available

Research: Develop measures of healing and program evaluation, collaborate with research and learning among other torture treatment centers around the world Training: Professional training and consultation in the area of torture rehabilitation to health professionals and school personnel Public Policy: Public policy and legislative advocacy for victims' rights Advocates to expand international resources available to protect and heal survivors of torture, including fostering new tactics and strategies for the prevention of torture

Assists consumers with a variety of energy related issues, such as:

• Conducts free energy bill consultations to identify opportunities for energy savings. Suggests programs and rebates that may help households meet their energy needs and goals

• Connects individuals with programs that may help pay their bills, reduce energy consumption, and make their homes more comfortable

• Directs individuals interested in renewable energy to appropriate resources

• Provides educational presentations on a variety of topics. Attends private or community events and customize each presentation based on the interest of the group

Provides a variety of individual, group, and organizational training to help educate and raise awareness about various topics. Services include:

• Community awareness opportunities to provide information at community events, public spaces, and resource fairs

• Educational presentations to fit the needs of community partners regarding abuse, body safety, domestic violence, exploitation, healthy relationships, human trafficking, and sexual violence

• Professional training topics on child abuse, domestic violence, roles of an advocate, sexual exploitation, trafficking, and victims' rights

Provides a variety of individual, group, and organizational training to help educate and raise awareness about various topics. Services include:

• Community awareness opportunities to provide information at community events, public spaces, and resource fairs

• Educational presentations to fit the needs of community partners regarding abuse, body safety, domestic violence, exploitation, healthy relationships, human trafficking, and sexual violence

• Professional training topics on child abuse, domestic violence, roles of an advocate, sexual exploitation, trafficking, and victims' rights

Information and education on Israel and international Jewish concerns including Soviet Jewry. Includes:

• Community relations and educational resource center
• Human relations education and curriculum
• Speakers and films
• Holocaust education

• Preschool programs (creative, recreational, and socialization) for children ages 3 - 5 including basketball, ballet dancing instruction, jazz dancing instruction, track and field, tennis, hiking, musical instrument instruction, and day camps

• Youth programs for children ages 6 - 12 including field trips, playgrounds with birthday parties, classes, fishing, and special events

• Teen programs for teens ages 13 - 17 such as field trips and special events

• Adult sports providing recreational league play for basketball, boot hockey, broomball, flag football, sand volleyball, soccer, softball, volleyball, and wiffleball

• Senior activities and recreational opportunities including bingo, craft projects, quilting group, book clubs, monthly potlucks and speakers, and field trips

• Family programs available to help parents and children explore and have fun as a family

• Banquet and meeting facilities available at Eagan Community Center

• Group fitness classes, running track, gymnasium, and weight training available at Eagan Community Center

• Ice hockey and public skating available at Eagan Civic Arena

• Retreat center available at Moonshine Park 1317 Jurdy Road

• Cartooning, ceramics, drawing, jewelry making, painting, and sculpting classes at Eagan Art House

• Fitness facility at Eagan Community Center

• Accepts passport applications

• Dog park at Thresher Fields Park 3200 Brochert Lane features open spaces and lake access. The area is fenced in and includes a separate area for smaller dogs.

• Adapted therapeutic sports programs for children ages 6 - 13 with autism and physical disabilities

• Cascade Bay Water Park

• Safety camp for children with information about fire safety, fire prevention, personal safety, and how to play it safe in everyday situations. Other day camps also available.

• Walking program

The council strives to improve the understanding of philanthropy by the general public, elected and appointed public officials, community leaders, nonprofit organizations, academicians, the media, and other special interest groups. These services include:

• Minnesota grantmakers online: a web-based directory of foundations and corporate giving programs in Minnesota

• Opportunities for education and information on private philanthropy and the grant making process through periodic public meetings and seminars

• Periodic research on the extent and nature of private philanthropy, including analysis of giving trends in Minnesota

• Quarterly newspaper, Giving Forum, covering activities and trends of interest to nonprofit organizations and the general public

Classes, seminars, discussion groups, as well as various programs and special events