Offers individual, family, marriage, senior, child, and adolescent counseling focusing on a variety of issues.

Group and individual counseling for adult sex offenders

Group therapy for men and women who need assistance with anger control, communication skills and building healthy relationships

Chemical dependency treatment while in custody at Beltrami County Jail.

Provides the following services: - Driving with Care Program: 12-session course that teaches offenders how to prevent future alcohol-related driving incidents - Family group conferences - Pre-sentence investigations - Rapid response team member, local coordinating council member - Writes discharge recommendations, progress reports, and violation reports as ordered by the court

The North Homes Cottage offers a comprehensive 35 Day Evaluation to provide referral sources, children, and their families' appropriate recommendations to meet the client's needs. The Assessment Unit is staffed with trained youth counselors and Mental Health Practitioners who interact daily with clients and provide behavioral observations. The client will remain in the Assessment Unit for 35 days and participate in educational programming through independent School District 318, recreational, leisure, cultural, and spiritual activities, therapeutic groups, art therapy, medication education, eligibility for becoming a positive peer, visitation with family, etc. - 24-hour behavior observation and documentation by trained staff, Licensed Independent Clinical Social Workers. A comprehensive assessment, which identifies child and family issues, and historical information is conducted. The assessment team then recommends ongoing services that will best meet the present and future needs of the child and their family. The North Homes Cottage Assessment Program consists of components including: - Behavioral Assessments - Psychiatric Evaluation - Culture Assessment - Recreational Assessment - Academic Assessment - Family Assessment - Family History - Health Screening/Physical Examination - Substance Use Assessments The evaluations will be completed in 35 days, after which an assessment staffing will be held with members of the Treatment Team to discuss findings and recommendations. Referral Contacts (218)327-3000 or (888)430-3055 - Connie Ross, Administrative Director

Diversion services help youth make better choices and parents recognize signs and symptoms. Topics include: - Chemical Awareness Program (CAP) (tobacco, e-cigs, alcohol, and drugs) (not a treatment program) - Restorative Justice Conferencing: Mediation that includes offender, victims, and their respective support groups - Community work service hours - Creative Responses to Conflict (helping the youth to develop alternative ways in dealing with conflict) - Restitution - Bullying Awareness Program (BAP) - Distracted Driving Awareness Program (DDAP) (helping young drivers become educated on how to prevent risky behaviors and attitudes while driving or prior to being a licensed driver) - Responsible Social Media Use (RSMU) (helping youth who are struggling to use social media in a healthy way) - Theft Awareness Program (TAP) - Teen Intervene Program (TI)

- Intensive out-patient sex offender treatment for convicted sex offenders - Serves adults and adolescents - Family programing - Victim services

Group and individual counseling for adult sex offenders

Represents the county in the following types of cases: - Child protection/CHIPS cases - Child support and paternity - Commitments - Conservatorship - Criminal and delinquency prosecution - Guardianships - Legal representation of boards and agencies - Vulnerable adult protection

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

Group and individual counseling for adult sex offenders

Provides free 30 minute consultation with a volunteer attorney for all areas of civil law

Support groups for: - Adult women and male survivors of sexual violence - Concerned individuals - Female and male adolescent survivors - Healing Through Art Group - Incarcerated youth and adult women - Teen groups in schools - Queer survivors Other groups offered may vary. Drop in group for anyone interested in learning more. Most support groups are conducted as a closed group with the same participants from the beginning to the end (usually 8-10 weeks).

Court services and programming, including: - Adult and juvenile diversion programs - Bail studies - Pre-trial and pre-sentence investigation/supervision - Risk assessments - Mental health, drug, DWI, and veteran's courts - Adult supervision - Sex offender case management - Domestic abuse case management - Intensive supervised release - Offender sanctions - Integration of serves for minority offenders - Referrals to Mash-ka-wisen treatment for Native American clients - Coordination of out-of-home Indian Child Welfare Act placements - Fond du Lac and Bois Forte tribal collaborative initiatives

Adult parenting education is a strength-based program designed to assist families in using the resources available to them to improve their parenting skills, develop connections to the community, and create a safe, nurturing environment for their family. The parent coaching component is designed to: - Enhance parent-child relationships - Improve parenting skills - Decrease problematic behaviors observed in the child - Reduce risk for child abuse During parent coaching, the parent and child have an opportunity to interact. Parents are given written and verbal feedback including strengths and areas for improvement.

Outpatient community mental health and family counseling center providing couples, family, group and individual counseling in the center and in homes including: - Adolescent/youth counseling and support groups - Anger management counseling and groups - Anxiety counseling - Bereavement/grief counseling - Child guidance - Chronic/severe mental illness counseling - Clutterer/hoarder counseling - Crime victim counseling - Diagnostic assessment - Disability counseling - Disaster counseling - Divorce counseling - Employment transition/retirement counseling - Family Preservation Services provides family therapy to families whose children are at risk of out-of-home placement - Family violence counseling including adult incest survivors, child, elder, parent and spousal abuse counseling - Forensic mental health evaluations - Gambling counseling - Gender identity counselling - Geriatric counseling - Juvenile delinquency counseling - Marriage counseling - Overspenders counseling - Parent counseling, support groups, and education groups for parents, foster parents, educators, and guardians - Postabortion counseling - Postpartum counseling - Premarital counseling - Psychiatric day treatment for adults experiencing long term, serious mental illness - Psychiatric disorder counseling - Psychological assessments - Rule 20 court evaulations - Runaway counseling - Sexual assault counseling for adults and children - Sexual orientation counseling - Shoplifting counseling - Terminal illness counseling

- Court-ordered investigations - Probation and parole supervision

Field probation and parole offices are located throughout St. Paul. Visit the website to find locations and specific phone numbers for each office. Probation Reporting Center (PRC): Toll free phone number allows for monthly phone check in for those who are assigned to use PRC. Must have PIN number located on calling card that was provided at orientation.

- Driving with Care educational and therapy programs - DWI, alcohol and drug abuse program - Individual treatment planning and aftercare - Outpatient chemical abuse treatment - Program meets court and driver's license requirements - Relapse prevention program - Rule 25 - Separate programing for men and for women - Substance abuse assessment and evaluation

Teen Parenting Education is designed to educate, guide and support pregnant and/or parenting youth ages 12 - 24. There is no cost to the participant. Participants receive: - Weekly group education - Information about additional community resources - Parent-child interaction - Peer support - The opportunity to connect with a mentor

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

Court services and programming, including: - Adult and juvenile diversion programs - Bail studies - Pre-trial and pre-sentence investigation/supervision - Risk assessments - Mental health, drug, DWI, and veteran's courts - Adult supervision - Sex offender case management - Domestic abuse case management - Intensive supervised release - Offender sanctions - Integration of serves for minority offenders - Referrals to Mash-ka-wisen treatment for Native American clients - Coordination of out-of-home Indian Child Welfare Act placements - Fond du Lac and Bois Forte tribal collaborative initiatives

Adult parenting education is a strength-based program designed to assist families in using the resources available to them to improve their parenting skills, develop connections to the community, and create a safe, nurturing environment for their family. The parent coaching component is designed to: - Enhance parent-child relationships - Improve parenting skills - Decrease problematic behaviors observed in the child - Reduce risk for child abuse During parent coaching, the parent and child have an opportunity to interact. Parents are given written and verbal feedback including strengths and areas for improvement.

Cognitive Skills Classes: 18 week classes. This program operates through a curriculum called, "Thinking for a Change," which helps assist offenders in examining and correcting thinking errors. Community Work Service Program: Juveniles are assigned to do community work service, either through juvenile court or the diversion process, to work on projects throughout the county under the supervision of an adult supervisor. These work sites have been recruited and are continually montored by the Juvenile STS Crew Leader. Community service work sites offer a varied degree of work experiences that allow the juveniles to provide a service to their community. Electronic Surveillance Program: Utilizes electronic surveillance equipment for juveniles as an alternative to detention. Probation Officers make recommendations to the District Court regarding the appropriateness of releasing a juvenile on electronic monitoring to his/her parent or guardian's custody pending further hearings or disposition. Nicollet County Probation also uses electronic monitoring as a condition/sanction of a juvenile's probation. This option is used for juvenile offenders, both as an alternative for detention, as well as short term consequential programming. First Time Offenders Programs: Provides a number of opportunities for first time juvenile offenders. Many of these are educational groups, which are run within the department, as well as several where referrals are made to other agencies. Popular options outside the department include; the ARCHER Program (At Risk Chemical Health Education and Resilience) and the PERT Program (Program for Encouragement of Responsible Thinking). Juvenile Diversion Program: Offered for first time minor offenders. These juveniles are diverted from the juvenile court upon agreement of the County Attorney's Office and the Probation Department. The Probation Department meets with these juveniles and their parent(s) and provides programming that will deter further delinquent activity. Project Nighthawk: Joins probation officers and law enforcement in partnership to ensure compliance of court orders through random home visits to hold clients accountable to probation conditions, such as drug and alcohol testing. Randomly schedules visits on a weekly basis. Drug testing