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Offers support groups to assist individuals and their families in coping with the special problems neuromuscular diseases impose.

Provide individual advocacy, coaching, and system navigation through statewide Help Desk to individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and their families. Services include one-to-one assistance in accessing and receiving appropriate services in the areas of early intervention, family support, special education, county case management, health care, housing, employment, recreation, Medical Assistance, Social Security, residential services, PCA (personal care assistance), etc. ?The Arc Minnesota also offers scholarship opportunities to support individuals living with disabilities. Call the Help Desk or visit the website for more information about eligibility, criteria, and scholarships available. NOTE: Staff do NOT provide legal advice

Children's Developmental Disabilities Service Coordinator may be able to assist with:

• Connecting with financial and/or medical resources

• Finding respite care in or out of home

• Identifying if a child has developmental delays or meet related conditions criteria

• Looking at other family needs involved when caring for a child with developmental delays

• Obtaining in-home medical or therapy services

• Obtaining physical adaptations or equipment for a child

• Planning services in cooperation with schools, public health and other community resources

Provides resources, including newsletters, speakers, social events, library materials available for loan or purchase, and a slide and tape presentation explaining care and treatment of newborns with Spina Bifida; available for in-service programs. Additionally, offers the following:

• Financial assistance may be available for those attending the national conferences

?- Sponsors state conferences held in the spring and the fall

• Serves persons interacting with, or those dealing with, AD/HD

• Free email newsletter

• Speakers bureau

• Monthly meetings

• CHADD National offers a membership that includes magazines, fact sheets, online experts, and more

Provides a specialized communication therapy for children with autism; program teaches parents, caregivers, and educators specific techniques that will make learning to understand and use language more successful for each individual child. Programming includes:

• Evaluation and consultation services

• Parent involved weekly therapy

• Parent support group: Limited childcare for registered children

• Public workshops and parent classes

• Stage Play acting classes through the Duluth Playhouse Children's Theater

Provides an information line for parenting information and education. Services include:

• Parenting warmline in both English and Spanish languages

• Parenting materials and resources for parents

• Parent2Parent peer support group program that matches parents with other parents through the parenting warmline

??Helps parents and others navigate systems that serve children and young adults with disabilities in areas such as special education, mental health, and transition to adulthood. Service areas include:

• Individual assistance: Advocates are available by phone and email to guide families, explain available options, and share additional resources. Advocates who speak Spanish and Somali are available and will work to assist in other languages upon request.

• Information dissemination: Provides printable and online resources with practical tips for accessing services for children and youth with disabilities.

• Trainings and workshops: Provides free virtual and in-person trainings and seminars to educate parents of children with disabilities and professionals on various topics related to special education and other disability services.

Provides educational support and referrals for individuals and parents of children and teenagers who have concerns about attention deficit or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, including:

• Hour-long coaching sessions available to discuss work or academic issues related to ADD or ADHD

• Monthly workshops for adults, parents, and professionals on ADD/ADHD and learning disabilities topics

• Phone and referral information line responds to questions concerning ADD/ADHD

• Support group for adults with ADD/ADHD

Provides information including:

• Assistance with accessing services and therapies

• Education in monitoring lifetime maximums on insurance benefits

• Family empowerment

Provide individual advocacy, coaching, and system navigation through statewide Help Desk to individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and their families. Services include one-to-one assistance in accessing and receiving appropriate services in the areas of early intervention, family support, special education, county case management, health care, housing, employment, recreation, Medical Assistance, Social Security, residential services, PCA (personal care assistance), etc. ?The Arc Minnesota also offers scholarship opportunities to support individuals living with disabilities. Call the Help Desk or visit the website for more information about eligibility, criteria, and scholarships available. NOTE: Staff do NOT provide legal advice

Offers the following services:

• Adult health care management program for adults, age 21 and over

• Annual conference for educators, held annually in October

• Annual conference for grandparents, held annually in May

• Annual conference for youth and adults with Down syndrome, held annually in Spring

• Bi-monthly newsletter

• Education packet

• Expectant parent packet for parents with a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome

• General information available to anyone including educators and other professionals

• Hospital or home visits for new parents by trained persons

• Information packet for grandparents

• Networking with other organizations

• New parent breakfast

• New parent information packet; mailed to all hospitals in Minnesota with English and Spanish versions available

• Regional conference for parents and professionals held every other year

• Resource library with current information on Down syndrome

• Social activities and informational meetings

• Solutions, a newsletter for educators

?- Support groups for parents of children with Down syndrome

Free, two-year telephone support program provides education and connection to supports and services to assist people throughout Minnesota in navigating life after brain injury. Participants receive scheduled calls over two years to help problem-solve issues and identify resources to help them transition back to family life, work, school, and the community while achieving the greatest level of independence possible. Referrals also provided to a statewide network of support groups for persons with brain injury, their families and friends.

Case management services for children and adults living with developmental disabilities, providing education, vocational, and public health services, are provided to provide community support, including:

• Counseling, referrals, and out-of-home placement

• Day training and habilitation

• Group home admission

• Guardianship

• Information and referral services

• Respite care

?- Sheltered and supported employment

Provide individual advocacy, coaching, and system navigation through statewide Help Desk to individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and their families. Services include one-to-one assistance in accessing and receiving appropriate services in the areas of early intervention, family support, special education, county case management, health care, housing, employment, recreation, Medical Assistance, Social Security, residential services, PCA (personal care assistance), etc. ?The Arc Minnesota also offers scholarship opportunities to support individuals living with disabilities. Call the Help Desk or visit the website for more information about eligibility, criteria, and scholarships available. NOTE: Staff do NOT provide legal advice

Offers programs and resources to support educators, parents, and students with dyslexia, including:

• Conferences for the interaction and education of parents and professionals

• Educational literature

• List of tutors for students with dyslexia

?- Parent support

• Teacher training workshops on multi-sensory structured phonics (Orton-Gillingham approach) and related reading skills, written expression, and spelling

Supportive network linking individuals and families with similar challenges including:

• Adults who have bleeding disorders

• Adults who have bleeding disorders and are HIV positive or have AIDS

• Families of children who have bleeding disorders

• Individuals with bleeding disorders and Hepatitis C

• Newsletter and brochures on bleeding disorders and its complications including HIV/AIDS and hepatitis

Provide individual advocacy, coaching, and system navigation through statewide Help Desk to individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and their families. Services include one-to-one assistance in accessing and receiving appropriate services in the areas of early intervention, family support, special education, county case management, health care, housing, employment, recreation, Medical Assistance, Social Security, residential services, PCA (personal care assistance), etc. ?The Arc Minnesota also offers scholarship opportunities to support individuals living with disabilities. Call the Help Desk or visit the website for more information about eligibility, criteria, and scholarships available. NOTE: Staff do NOT provide legal advice

• Weekly support groups with child care and food provided

• Referrals to community resources

• Bilingual staff that serve as liaison between parents and schools, hospitals, agencies, and clinics

• Information in Spanish related to child's diagnosis

• Training for professionals

• Training for parents weekly

• Orientation to the Individual Education Plan (IEP), Individualized Family Plan (IFP), 504 law and other benefits to which the family may be entitled - ADA, IDEA, educational training, and resources in the community

• Collaboration with agencies in Minnesota and nationwide to address disability and family issues

• Parent education

Provides access to assistive technology, including:

• Assistive technology information and referral

• Device demonstration: In-person or online demonstration of assistive technology devices

• Device loan: Allows individuals the opportunity to try a device/software program before buying

• Device reuse: Provides information about selling, exchanging, or donating assistive technology that is no longer needed

• Training: Offers online training on how to use accessible features on Word, PDFs, and other common platforms

• Workshops for professionals, consumers, and family members related to assistive technology.

Shopping: - Volunteers provide assistance with shopping, either with or for the participant as appropriate (groceries, prescriptions, etc.)

• Volunteers will provide shopping asistance no more than 1 time per week unless agreed upon in advance Transportation: - Volunteers will transport and escort participants to medical, social service appointment or other social function as appropriate

• Participant expected to notify Northwoods one week in advance of the needed service date

• Volunteer phone number will not be given out unless agreed upon by volunteer with the participant Respite Care (Nursing Care not available): - Volunteers will provide up to four hours of relief for the primary caregivers of persons who are chronically ill or have a disability

• Alzheimer's Association Caregivers Support, evening groups, call (320)290-7863

• Brain Injury Support Group, contact Craig Martinson (320)685-3680

• Deaf and Hard of Hearing Support Group

• Friends and Family of Brain Injury Survivors

• Memory Loss Support Group for Caregivers and Care Receivers

• Support and education

• Stroke Support Group

Provides specialty medical services, including:

• Cancer care: Coordinated health care for cancer patients from screening to diagnosis; offers support groups and women's cancer screenings such as breast exams, mammograms, and pap smears for women over 40

• Cardiac rehabilitation

• Diabetes management: Includes a support group

• Eye care

• Gynecology

• Huntington's Disease Clinic: Offers clinical trials, evaluation, and treatment for Huntington's Disease, genetic counseling, individual and family supportive counseling, occupational, physical, and speech/language therapy.

• Internal medicine

• Obstetrics

• Pain management

• Speech therapy

• Women's health care

Provides services during pregnancy and postpartum, services for mothers and infants and services for families of children with special needs. Other specific programs are Follow Along, and Healthy Beginnings.

A library of resources on developmental disabilities LIFE Mower County works one to one with individuals and families dealing with issues relating to full inclusion in the community