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Provides cultural competency training to social service professionals, educators, parents, and community members. Staff also maintains a public resource library of information on Native American tribal and cultural issues, and develops individualized education curricula for service provider and academic audiences.

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

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

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 speakers to groups about battered women and related topics including:

• Barriers battered women face in escaping violence

• Battering and church response

• Cultural facilitators of domestic violence

• Effects of violence on children

• How the medical community can better serve victims

• Primary prevention of domestic violence

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 the following services to all those in both family and professional roles that are in need of assistance to learn how to effectively communicate and meet the emotional, spiritual and physical needs of a loved one, client, resident with dementia including those with a history of repeated hospitalizations and dismissal from facilities for challenging and aggressive behavior. Services include:

• Conference presentations

• Group family consults

• Ongoing support to caregivers

• Private telephone family consultations

• Specialized and appropriate dementia training for both families and professionals

Offers personal finance education, self-paced online course, and online tools, including:

• Budget calculators

• Credit basics

• Community forum

• Personal finance presentations

• Saving money guides

Staff are available for speaking engagements pertaining to Tamarisk, Inc.'s mission specifically, or issues regarding the consequences of life-threatening illness for the individual and family from a non-medical perspective, caregiver wellbeing, or grief and loss

• After-hours for emergency food. Also, refers to the Housing Resource Line for shelter resources and housing information.

• Crisis intervention for mental health crises by phone and face-to-face including psychiatric crisis intervention, outreach services, short-term crisis counseling, emergency psychiatric hospitalization, after-hours adult protection, child endangerment reporting, and after-hours child protection reporting

• Diversion from out-of-home placement

• Mental health crisis assessment is completed within 90 days or less to find out what option is available to the individual. One option might include case management, as choices may vary depending on the assessment.

• Public speaking regarding mental health crisis

• Parent-child conflict resolution

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

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.

• 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 lead education, outreach, and blood lead screening. Services include:

• Baby Safe at Home: Provides free home visits to identify lead hazards in the home; qualifying households will be provided with safety items that protect babies from household hazards

• Community outreach, presentations on preventing childhood lead poisoning for both children and adult audiences

• Healthy Homes: Help identify and take care of safety and health hazards in the home

• Screening for lead in the blood by qualified medical professionals for children under 6 and pregnant individuals at some events

• Free home visits to identify lead hazards in the home. A community educator will visit the home to identify lead hazards and assist the family in applying for a lead abatement grant.

Provides presentations to organizations, agencies, community groups, and others interested in mediation and conflict resolution.

• Helps persons with MS with employment concerns, disability discrimination, and ADA information

• Individual advocacy

• Legislative advocacy for changes in state and federal public policy

• Educational programs deliver relevant and accurate information to help face the challenges of Multiple Sclerosis (MS). Offers in-service training and continuing education for professionals on the topic of MS.

A variety of programs offered encourage seniors and family members to maintain health in body, mind, and spirit. Fitness and Wellness Classes: Provides a wide variety of on-going health and wellness classes and workshops to promote independent living, boost health and wellness, and provide opportunities for meaningful social connection. Workshops are offered multiple times a year and monthly caregiver education covering topics like vision, yoga, and stress reduction. Public Education: Provides speaking opportunities to businesses, civic memberships, service organizations or educational institutions on a variety of topics related to healthy aging and caregiving including memory loss and meaningful activities, recognizing early signs of dementia, communication and dementia, proactively planning for the future, how to make your business dementia-friendly, and accessing programs and services provided by the center.

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 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 free and confidential services to those affected by domestic violence, sexual violence, human trafficking/exploitation, and high-risk youth in Lincoln, Lyon, Redwood, and Yellow Medicine counties. Confidential services:

• Accompaniment to court
• Assistance with petitioning for an Order for Protection or Harassment Restraining Order
• Community education
• Crisis line
• Emergency transportation, and/or assistance
• Information, referrals, and resources
• Temporary emergency safe housing
• Systems coordination
• Support group
• Youth Programs: Provides youth the ability to teach and learn from their peers about confidence, communication, safety, and life skills.

Emergency assistance includes, but is not limited to, the following expenses:

• Crime Scene cleanup
• Grant funds are used to meet crime victims' emergency needs when available
• Purchase and installation of necessary home security devices
• Reimbursement of towing and storage fees incurred due to impoundment of a recovered stolen vehicle
• Replacement of necessary property that was lost, damaged or stolen as a result of a crime
• Transportation to locations related to the victim's needs as a victim, such as medical and criminal justice facilities
• Victim reimbursement for reasonable travel and living expenses incurred due to a change in venue

Victims of crime have also received funding through the program for items such as repairing a broken door, installing new locks, and replacing clothing or bedding taken as evidence. Family Homeless Prevention and Assistance Program - FHPAP may be available through pre-screening.

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

Offers presenters and topics. Speakers are health care professionals. Lifestyle, health and medical topics include:

• Back pain prevention

• Drug interactions

• Emergency care

• Fitness

• Heart disease prevention and treatment

• Mental health concerns

• Nutrition

• Senior health

• Sleep disorders

• Stress management

• Weight management

• Women's health issues

• Other topics available

Provides confidential services including:

• Community event speakers for various topics related to mental health

• Crisis appointments

• Diagnostic assessments

• Early childhood counseling services

• Family counseling

• Hypnotherapy

• Individual counseling

• Marriage/couples counseling

• Play therapy

• Premarital counseling

Partners with outside providers for psychiatric medication needs 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/Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Educates individuals touched by adoption (e.g., birth and adoptive parents) through informational materials and support, and offers training for people connected to adoption.

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