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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.

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

- Provides age and situation appropriate education and training covering an array of topics related to LGBTQ+ equity for community organizations, service providers, community groups, and community members. Can be provided in person or virtually. - Works with students, educators, youth service providers, advocates, pre-service teachers, educational leaders, community groups, and policymakers to support and create school environments that help humans to feel safe, respected, and valued.

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

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

- AA Literature Bookstore - Maintains directories of all AA meetings - Provides informational speakers about Alcoholics Anonymous to groups and organizations

- Assists with unmet needs for member organizations and government bodies in disaster situations - Helps create a long term recovery group for areas affected by disaster - Works with member agencies who actively assist disaster survivors in Minnesota and throughout the country through cooperation, communication, coordination, and collaboration in disaster response. - Utilizes volunteers in a number of capacities for disaster response. Provides training and speakers on disaster management

Provides speakers on various legal issues including: - Child protection - Child support - Criminal justice system - Drug prosecution - Elder abuse - Gang prosecution - Juvenile offenders - Major economic crime - Mental health commitments - Sexual assault - Victims rights

- 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

- 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.

Offers the following services: - Enforcement of food, drug, and cosmetic acts and allied acts - Provide speakers for consumer groups on regulatory requirements, health fraud, and food labeling - Provide consumer literature on products regulated (health fraud, drugs, food issues, nutrition) - Research and respond to reports of contaminated food products, drugs, or medical devices

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 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)

Offers weekly activities such as dances, crafts, sports, movies, bingo, fitness program, speakers, and tours

Child-friendly forensic center investigates child abuse and coordinates needed services, including: - Advocacy: Provides initial and ongoing advocacy to families as they move through the process of a child abuse allegation; builds connections with families to better understand their circumstances and self-identified needs; helps families to interpret the information they receive, ensure their rights and their ability to make informed decisions and gain skills in advocating for themselves and their children; provides emotional support - Forensic interviewing: Provides a neutral, information-gathering child-centered interview - Multidisciplinary team facilitation: Includes professionals from law enforcement, social services, prosecution, public defense, medical and mental health, victim support services, the child advocacy center (forensic interviews and advocacy), Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), and cultural representatives collaborate from the initial report through lasting supportive services for the youth and families - Medical exams: Collaborates with St. Luke's Hospital and Essentia Health to provide forensic medical evaluations in reported cases of child abuse; provides an overall assessment of a child and/or adolescent's health and safety, recommends appropriate follow-up and treatment, documents additional statements and/or physical evidence in circumstances of sexual or physical abuse, and provides reassurance to a child and/or adolescent and their caregiver about their body and health - Mental health: Connects children and families with trauma-informed care and avoid barriers to accessing mental health services; arrangementswith the Human Development Center and Paradigm Therapy Services to providespecialized trauma-focused mental health services unique to the needs ofchildren and their non-offending caregivers - Prevention: Provides prevention education to families ofchildren being served; outreaches to schools, families, and the community; presentations and trainings to organizations and groups across the northland

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

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

Offers personal finance education, self-paced online course, and online tools, including: - Budget calculators - Credit basics - Community forum - Personal finance presentations - Saving money guides

Consultation to businesses and industry in planning health and wellness programs for employees. Provide education and presentations on health and wellness topics to the community. Educational Programs that focus on: - Disease prevention (handwashing) - Mental health - Nutrition - Obesity reduction - Physical activity - Substance use - Youth tobacco prevention Speaker available to community groups, industry, and schools on health topics

- 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

- Assistance with family research - Education - County history exhibits - Historic preservation - Information center about the county - Public presentations

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

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

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