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• Diversity trainings to increase the understanding of Islam for non-Muslims and Muslims in the community, tailored to the needs of employers, schools, media professionals, public service agencies, and government

• Free brief advice legal clinics are scheduled occasionally, providing discrimination assistance

• Free pocket guides for employers, health care providers, educators, and law enforcement/correctional institutions

• Case Management: Southeast Minnesota Regional Navigator works with domestic minor sex trafficking victims

• Community Groups: Staff assist community members with organizing groups to raise awareness, advocate for resources, and provide education and prevention

• Consultation: Professionals working with sexually exploited youth or trafficking victims can get advice, referrals, and other assistance

• Outreach: Staff and volunteers help with spreading the word about sex trafficking, Safe Harbor, and services

• Prevention: Provides sex trafficking prevention programs

• Protocol Development: As a part of the Safe Harbor Program model, protocols have been issued by the state. Staff help agencies adapt and implement these protocols.

• Training: Staff offer training specialized for professionals by discipline or to community 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

• Community education and professional training

• Confidentiality

• Crisis line

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

• Individual and group support

• Safety planning

Provides sexual health education and services, including free or low-cost STI and HIV testing, confidential one-on-one sex education/counseling with a provider and/or health educator, and birth control. Free condoms are available at all clinics.

Provides visits within the home to assist with personal care, arranging medical appointments, and assisting with medical forms. Also, provides health education on topics such as cancer and heart disease.

A group of community members and professionals who meet quarterly to discuss issues facing older adults and offer information about resources for older adults

Information and resources for veterans, individuals, family members, and professionals concerning post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). No direct clinical care or advice provided.

• Fact sheets

• Online courses

• Reviews of best treatments for PTSD

• Videos

Born Learning is a national public engagement campaign focused on creating early learning opportunities for young children. Website and material are based on early childhood development research and offer educational tools for parents, grandparents, and caregivers - including:

• Answers to help care for young children

?- Fact sheets on a child's ages and stages

• Tips to encourage learning

Provide support to those who have been affected by domestic violence or sexual assault. Services may include:

• 24-Hour Crisis Hotline: Provides a hotline for advocacy, resources, and shelter for all victims of violence. The hotline provides information and safety planning to support victims.

• Advocacy: Legal advocates can help victims navigate and explain the legal system in criminal and civil protective order cases. Helps victims work with local police, city, and county attorneys to advocate on the victim's behalf. Assist in filing Orders for Protection and Harassment Restraining Orders. Attend court hearings with victims to provide information and support and more.

• Emergency Shelter: A 24-hour domestic violence and sexual violence emergency shelter within Carlton, Chisago, Isanti, Kanabec, and Pine counties. The Black Dog Hill Shelter provides secure emergency shelter and access to basic needs to survivors and children. Basic needs include meals, toiletries, clothing, linens, diapers, laundry facilities, and access to a food shelf.

• Intervention: Offers a Batterers Intervention Program to those interested and/or court-ordered to participate in a psycho-educational group led by trained professional facilitators. Participants learn to identify abusive behaviors and are taught to react to situations non-abusively and communicate with their partner.

• Support Groups: Provides support groups to victims of domestic violence and sexual assault through empowerment, conversations, and activities. Meetings are held in-person and virtual and times will vary by county office.

• Provides support and advocacy for families and individuals who have been victims of gun violence including recovering from their experience, obtain medical assistance when required, navigate their way through the legal system, how to avoid becoming re-victimized, access benefits, and rebuilding their lives

• Provides community education and awareness regarding the negative impacts gun violence has on the community

• Provides violence prevention and de-escalation training

• Provides gun locks and trigger locks to secure firearms

Provides various health and wellness programs to the community, such as:

• Diabetes Awareness Campaign: In partnership with the Minnesota Department of Health, CLUES provides education and information on prediabetes, type 1-2 diabetes prevention, and diabetes management to empower people to improve their health.

• Es My Time Tobacco Cessation Support and Resources: Offers one-on-one resource navigation for tobacco users, tobacco cessation education groups, and supports Latino-serving agencies and networks

• Mayores Majores Dementia Program: Helps the Latino community and their families learn more about Dementia through support groups, group activities, social connections, and education workshops

• Sexual Health Education: Provides comprehensive sex and sexuality education workshops for parents and teenagers focused on values, consent, and communication. Offers parent workshops conducted in Spanish on how to talk about sex education, sexuality, and sexual health. Also, provides youth workshops in English and Spanish about sex education and sexuality tailored to the learning needs of the students.

Services provided by Promotores de Salud (Community Health Workers).

If a child is missing, the staff will:

• Broadcast information nationwide through the internet and partnerships with national companies and corporations to raise awareness. They also collaborate with law enforcement, the FBI, state missing children clearinghouses, and schools as part of their national networking efforts.

• Immediately report the case and open an official investigation

• Provide a dedicated in-house location and investigation department to handle each missing child case with care and expertise

• Utilize their extensive network and tools to help locate the missing child

Offers a variety of advocacy programs including:

• Counseling for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and child abuse

• Community education and professional training

• Support groups: Topics include violence education and self-sufficiency

• Volunteer program: Roles may include community education, fundraising, office operations, and client services

Plans quarterly projects to raise awareness of issues in the foster care system and advocates for youth currently in care. Purpose is to be a voice for former foster youth, promote and educate about the foster care system, and work for positive change. Focuses on:

• Advocacy: Youth meet with legislators, judges, attorneys and social workers to address needs and wants of youth in care

• Collaboration: Youth meet with other Youth Leadership Councils from around the state to discuss and plan ways to make a change in systems and provide greater community awareness

• Community Development: Youth plan community events to celebrate foster youth and raise awareness of the foster care system and what life is like as a youth in care

• Leadership: Youth meet weekly to dscuss and plan projects and upcoming events related to foster care awareness and advocacy

Provide support to those who have been affected by domestic violence or sexual assault. Services may include:

• 24-Hour Crisis Hotline: Provides a hotline for advocacy, resources, and shelter for all victims of violence. The hotline provides information and safety planning to support victims.

• Advocacy: Legal advocates can help victims navigate and explain the legal system in criminal and civil protective order cases. Helps victims work with local police, city, and county attorneys to advocate on the victim's behalf. Assist in filing Orders for Protection and Harassment Restraining Orders. Attend court hearings with victims to provide information and support and more.

• Emergency Shelter: A 24-hour domestic violence and sexual violence emergency shelter within Carlton, Chisago, Isanti, Kanabec, and Pine counties. The Black Dog Hill Shelter provides secure emergency shelter and access to basic needs to survivors and children. Basic needs include meals, toiletries, clothing, linens, diapers, laundry facilities, and access to a food shelf.

• Intervention: Offers a Batterers Intervention Program to those interested and/or court-ordered to participate in a psycho-educational group led by trained professional facilitators. Participants learn to identify abusive behaviors and are taught to react to situations non-abusively and communicate with their partner.

• Support Groups: Provides support groups to victims of domestic violence and sexual assault through empowerment, conversations, and activities. Meetings are held in-person and virtual and times will vary by county office.

HIV Education and Support Services for Youth:

• Case Management: Offers support and referrals to community resources for HIV+ youth ages 13 - 30 and their families

• Free HIV testing for all ages

• Group Education and Consultation: Provides education and training to professionals, community members, and schools about AIDS and HIV-related health issues in individuals who identify as LGBTQ+ youth

• HIV prevention, sexual health education and counseling for young men and women ages 13 - 30 and high-risk people of any age who report having sexual and needle-sharing partners between the ages of 13 - 30

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

• Community education and professional training

• Confidentiality

• Crisis line

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

• Individual and group support

• Safety planning

• 24/7 Crisis Hotline

• Law enforcement accompaniment

• Legal advocacy (assistance filing Orders for Protection, Harassment/Restraining Orders, and reparations claims, including help through the court system)

• Outreach and education (programs for domestic and sexual violence prevention for all ages)

• Relationship abuse advocacy

• Resources and referrals

• Safe exchange

• Safety planning

• Sexual assault advocacy

• Supervised visitations

• Support groups

• Supportive/transitional housing

New Beginnings Housing

• Supportive housing on site with six units of safe, affordable units

Classes and educational training include:

• Car seat education

• Chronic disease prevention

• Environmental health, (toxic materials, lead screening, water quality consultation, and public nuisance control)

• Injury prevention

• Sexuality education/family planning/AIDS/HIV

• SIDS and Shaken Baby Syndrome

• Tobacco prevention

• Violence prevention

• Wellness presentations

Advocates provide culturally sensitive advocacy, support, and education to Fond Du Lac victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and general crime. Services include:

• Assistance with Orders for Protection and Harassment Orders

• Community support groups

• Court advocacy

• Domestic Abuse Counseling and Education 8-Week Program and child welfare family conferencing to help with parenting time decisions, family facilitation services, parallel protection process, case planning, safety planning, and reunification

• Navigate local community resources

• Prevention and educational awareness to local community partners about domestic violence, sexual assault, and general crime

• Referrals and reports to law enforcement

Provides information on autism, signs, safety facts, wandering, bullying prevention, local chapters, and resources including:

• Downloadable tool kits

• Free online webinars on topics affecting individuals with autism and their families

• Local support groups

• Community and group presentations available for professional development

• Consultations

• Supervision for new master's and doctorate-level graduates of programs in Psychology and Counseling

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 education and resources to older adults to help them:

• Avoid and report scams

• Increase financial literacy

• Make wise purchasing decisions

Provides a free 20 minute educational video called "Be Wise, Be Informed, Be Empowered". Also provides companion pamphlets for community groups. Available to provide a presentation with the video and handout pamphlets, and lead a group discussion.

14-week intensive outpatient program assisting adults in the implementation of recovery strategies for chemical health by applying recovery principles and integrating mental health services to establish and promote symptom management and recovery stabilization. Providing:

• Comprehensive assessments

• Crisis intervention available for clients as needed (for health conditions as well as mental health)

• Diagnostic assessments

?- Dual recovery aftercare services ?- Family/significant other education on co-occurring disorders

• Psycho-education on co-occurring disorders

• Provides treatment services to those on medication assisted therapies ( Methadone, Suboxone, Buprenorphine)

• Referrals to agencies

• Specialized co-occurring psychotherapy groups

• Tutors (interns or staff) provided for individuals seeking additional assistance

• Weekly treatment plan reviews and case management coordination

NOTE: Assessment is not required and can be provided for co-occurring disorders treatment.