School readiness program where parents are supported and children are engaged in activities that include: - Advocacy, resource information, and referrals - Bi-lingual staff and interpreters - Book lending library - Educational, age-appropriate activities and books - Family involvement opportunities - Home visits - Inclusion of children with disabilities - Nutritious meals and snacks - Parenting and child development education - Vision, hearing, height, weight, and developmental screenings

Ground Floor Youth Center is a drop-in youth center that offers a safe, positive environment for all area youth grades 7th - 12th. The venue includes: band nights, dances, billiards, ping pong, foosball, guitar hero, Wii games, video and music Kids spend hours talking to staff about serious issues in their lives and for many, the youth center becomes a second home to teens needing support and guidance. The staff is readily available to kids who want someone to talk to

- Mixed age sessions: weekly sessions offer interaction time for parents and children followed by a brief circle time with children playing staying in the early childhood room and parents moving to the parent room to discuss parenting - Special events - Gym night, Wednesday nights when ECFE is in session - Drop-in play - Parent and child lending library with toys, videos, books and activity kits

Provides mental health services to assess, monitor, and coordinate services for a child. Supports children's emotional well-being and development, their relationships, and their ability to get along with others in order to effectively function at home, school, and the community. Services include: - Case management services - Coordinate services to community mental health agencies - Mental health assessments

One-to-one live homework help from online tutors: - Foreign language center - Help with in-depth questions - Live skills building - Practice test center - Writing lab

Provides free legal advice and referrals on most civil legal issues, including: - Criminal expungement - Employment law - Family law (custody related to divorce) - Landlord/tenant - Legal Kiosk: Provides a private room with a computer and secure password login for use by youth to maintain court dates, appointments with the county, and other legal appointments. Must reserve the legal kiosk room. Volunteer Lawyers Network attorneys may or may not specialize in a given area but should be able to point clients towards resources if they are unable to offer assistance in a client's particular need.

Provides community youth the opportunity to participate in a variety of sports-related activities at professional, collegiate, or other sporting facilities.

Provides outpatient therapy for children and adolescents to help them develop problem-solving skills and cope with stress and a variety of emotional and behavioral issues. Services include: - Continuum of care including day treatment programs, psychological testing, and individualized treatment - Dealing with issues such as homework, test anxiety, bullying, peer pressure, and life transitions - Discuss feelings about family issues - Full screenings and assessments

Involves families in educating their children and providing experiences that develop social skills, language, physical development, and concepts. Special services are offered to children with diagnosed disabilities and their families. Services include: - Educational opportunities ??- Family and community resources - Head Start classrooms or home-based services - Individualized educational curriculum - Medical, dental, and developmental screenings ???- Nutritional screening - Parent involvement

Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Program is a supplemental food and nutrition program for low-income pregnant, breastfeeding, and postpartum women, and infants and young children who are at nutritional risk. ?- Purpose of the WIC Program is to prevent health problems and to improve the health of the program participants during critical times of growth and development. ?- WIC Program provides nutrition education, access to health services, referrals to health and other social services, and vouchers for supplemental foods. ?- Food vouchers list the types and quantities of WIC foods that are consistent with the participant's nutritional needs.

- Live theatre productions running throughout the year for children and families - Performances held at Hopkins Center for the Arts unless otherwise indicated

Pediatric specialty care including: - Adolescent Autonomic Dysfunction Clinic: For teenagers who have chronic dizziness, nausea, fatigue and often pain that's related to problems with the autonomic nervous system - Aerodigestive Clinic: For children with complex conditions of the upper airway, lungs and upper digestive tract, including problems with sleeping and feeding - Complex Care Clinic: Consultative service that provides coordinated, comprehensive care for children with multiple complex medical needs through team-based collaboration - Congenital Hand Differences: For children with hand disorders present at birth (hand anomalies) - Fertility Preservation Program: Evaluates children with cancer or other medical conditions that could affect future fertility - Pediatric Brain Tumor Clinic: For children with brain tumors which may be cancerous (malignant) or not cancerous (benign) - Pediatric Cardiology: For children with congenital (present at birth) heart disease - Pediatric Diabetes Program: A personalized care plan is developed for children with type 1 or type 2 diabetes - Pediatric Endocrinology: Treatment of endocrine disease in children and teenagers - Pediatric Gastroenterology and Hepatology: Diagnosis and treatment of children and teenagers with diseases of the digestive tract or liver - Pediatric Hematology/Oncology: For children and adolescents who have blood disorders or cancer - Pediatric Infectious Diseases: Assesses, diagnoses and treats children and teenagers who have infectious diseases or serious, complicated infections - Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease Clinic: Medical and surgical management of inflammatory bowel disease - Pediatric Liver Clinic: Provides treatment for liver disorders - Pediatric Metabolic Bone Disorders Clinic: Provides care for children and teenagers with skeletal diseases - Pediatric Pulmonology: Assessment, diagnosis and treatment of infants, children and teenagers who have lung diseases or other types of breathing problems

Provides walk in drug and alcohol screening for adolescents ages 13 - 18

- Day Camp Ages 4 - 14: Provides fun and challenging activities in both small and large group settings. Campers can check out camp and still come home each night. Eight day camp locations around the metro area: Lakeville, Lino Lakes, Long Lake, Loretto, Monticello, Mound, Rochester, and Rosemount, Minnesota and Hudson, Wisconsin - Overnight Ages 7-17: Campers get a well-rounded experience with activities like horseback riding, swimming, ropes, kayaking, and camp fires. 3 - 26 day and single gender sessions are available. Four overnight camp locations in Eveleth and Loretto, MN and Amery and Hudson, WI - Teen Wilderness Ages 11-18: Campers start in base camp then head out on canoeing, backpacking and rock climbing trips. Sessions range from 5 days to 1 month or more. Two locations Grand Marais and Ely, Minnesota. - Family Camp All Ages: Families get away and come together through opportunities for growth, spiritual development and environmental awareness. YMCA Camp du Nord is located on the edge of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and Camp Northern Lights on the edge of the Superior National Forest. - Outdoor learning programs that can be tailored to group size, program lengths, and curriculum. Also provides learning opportunities delivered through special events. Financial assistance and/or scholarships available

Provides short-term, solution focused therapy for couples, families, groups and individuals on an outpatient basis. There are multiple sites in the metropolitan and surrounding areas. Counseling services provided include: - Adolescent/youth counseling - Adjustment disorders counseling - Anxiety disorders counseling - Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder counseling - Bereavement/grief counseling - Chronic mental illness counseling - Conduct disorders counseling - Crime victim counseling - Disaster counseling - Dissociative disorders counseling - Divorce counseling - Employment transition/retirement counseling - Gender identity counseling - Impulse control counseling - Marriage counseling - Mental health evaluation including clinical evaluation and psychological testing - Mood disorders counseling - Psychiatric disorder counseling - Sexual assault counseling for adults and children - Sexual offender counseling - Sexual orientation counseling - Sexuality counseling - Therapies including art, music and recreation therapy - Workplace issues counseling

A comprehensive program serving children and youth with a combined hearing loss and vision loss and their families, through a variety of services including: - American Sign Language instruction for parents and family members - Consulting on issues of DeafBlindness - Family activities - Home and community-based intervener services - Service coordination, resource identification and family support services - Transitional planning/consulting

Adults and youth ages 6 - 17 who are experiencing a mental health crisis. Provides a supportive environment for individuals needing a safe place to recover and stabilize during a crisis. Individuals staying at Crisis Stabilization will meet with a qualified mental health professional, mental health practitioners, and nursing staff during their stay. Services offered include skills training in individual and group settings, evaluation, stabilization, and referrals. Average length of stay is 1-10 days.

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.

A fun, safe place for school age children to participate during the before and after school hours and when school is not in session. - Activities include swimming, gym, arts and crafts, time for homework, field trips, out door play, and games - Transportation provided: AM education children are bused to the middle school and will transfer to a bus that will take them to their school. PM Educare- children are bused from their school directly to the YMCA. All day Educare is held at the YMCA on non school days. Bring a swim suit, towel and bag lunch.

Intensive Outpatient Programs are designed to offer professional and peer support for clients and their families in a group setting. IOP groups meet three days each week. Groups last an average of 6-8 weeks and can last up to 12 weeks. Themes for Adolescent Intensive Outpatient Program include identifying emotions, communication, family relationships, anger, mindfulness, healthy boundaries, coping with stress, self-esteem, gratitude, depression, anxiety, and self-care. New IOPs are available for Child IOP (ages 7-12), Adolescent IOP (ages 13-17), and Young Adult IOP (ages 18 and above).

- Provides referrals to openings, helps in applying for employment, services for job seekers and employers, classes on various aspects of job searches, and resources for special groups. Specific assistance includes resume assistance, interviewing skill development, employment counseling, software classes, and computers with Internet access to help find jobs. Available at Minnesota CareerForce Locations throughout the state. Specific services may vary by location. Some locations have specialized services for youth and young adults (ages 14 - 24) and older adults (age 55 and older). - Networking groups for those looking for work available at some CareerForce Locations. Call or visit website for times and locations.

- After School Program provides homework help, academic enrichment, and recreational activities; snacks included - Summer Program provides field trips, academic enrichment, art and recreational activities, and community gardening; breakfast, lunch and snacks included

Program educates adolescents, parents, and families on the harmful effects and consequences of alcohol and drug use through education and communication. Parent or legal guardian is required to attend along with their respective adolescent. The program is 4 hours long with two sessions, one session per week.

- Healthy Movement Programming includes: - Athletic programs: Individual/teams including basketball, flag football, soccer and baseball - Open gym and physical activities - Outdoor and environmental education - Performing Arts: Step an Hip-hop - Rec room including tournaments - Conflict resolution - Counseling - Education/Computer Learning Center includes computer driving stimulation program to practice safe driving, basic instruction, and avoiding risky behaviors while driving - Nutrition program includes: - Healthy meal/snack served daily - Nutrition education and meal preparation - Gardening opportunities - K - 8 Reading and literacy enrichment program for youth who have been assessed as needing focused reading support, and numeracy enrichment to assist youth in transition from "learning to read" to "reading to learn" skills with a focus on building math proficiencies. - K - 12 Academic enrichment program for youth to promote academic growth Offers 1:1 academic support including tutoring, skills to become self-directed learners, STEM focused activities and Mentoring program - Leadership/citizenship groups - Life skills education - Teen Pathways College Readiness Program: Individualized support and assistance preparing youth for ACT/SAT exams, college applications, college visits and other assistance as needed to ensure student's progress - Teen Pathways Employment Readiness Program: Individualized and mentoring support to enhance working and life skills including managing a checking account, creating a budget, saving and investing, career plans and mentoring, vocational exploration, interviewing techniques and additional services as needed to ensure a student's success beyond high school. - "Smart Moves" drug and alcohol use prevention program and premature sexual activity prevention

- Healthy Movement Programming includes: - Athletic programs: Individual/teams including basketball, flag football, soccer and baseball - Open gym and physical activities - Outdoor and environmental education - Performing Arts: Step an Hip-hop - Rec room including tournaments - Conflict resolution - Counseling - Education/Computer Learning Center includes computer driving stimulation program to practice safe driving, basic instruction, and avoiding risky behaviors while driving - Nutrition program includes: - Healthy meal/snack served daily - Nutrition education and meal preparation - Gardening opportunities - K - 8 Reading and literacy enrichment program for youth who have been assessed as needing focused reading support, and numeracy enrichment to assist youth in transition from "learning to read" to "reading to learn" skills with a focus on building math proficiencies. - K - 12 Academic enrichment program for youth to promote academic growth Offers 1:1 academic support including tutoring, skills to become self-directed learners, STEM focused activities and Mentoring program - Leadership/citizenship groups - Life skills education - Teen Pathways College Readiness Program: Individualized support and assistance preparing youth for ACT/SAT exams, college applications, college visits and other assistance as needed to ensure student's progress - Teen Pathways Employment Readiness Program: Individualized and mentoring support to enhance working and life skills including managing a checking account, creating a budget, saving and investing, career plans and mentoring, vocational exploration, interviewing techniques and additional services as needed to ensure a student's success beyond high school. - "Smart Moves" drug and alcohol use prevention program and premature sexual activity prevention