The crisis line is covered by staff and trained volunteer advocates who offer support, information, and encouragement

Grant funds (when available) are used to meet the emergency needs of crime victims. Emergency assistance includes, but is not limited to, the following expenses: - Cleanup of a crime scene - Purchase and installation of necessary home security devices - Reimbursement for reasonable travel and living expenses that the victim incurred to attend court proceedings that were held at a location other than the place where the crime occurred due to the change in venue - 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, sch as medical facilities and facilities of the criminal justice system 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.

Domestic Violence Intervention Program - DVIP: identifies and provides services to patients and employees who are victims and survivors of domestic violence. The program collaborates with the Hennepin County Domestic Abuse Service Center (DASC) to provide services. Next Step: A violence prevention program provided to youth ages 12 - 28 years who are admitted to the hospital due to a stabbing or gunshot. Hennepin Assault Response Team - HART: provides assistance to victims of rape and sexual assault through area hospital emergency departments 24 hours a day. They complete an evidentiary exam and help individuals cope with the trauma and consequences of the assault.

Offers outpatient group and individual therapy and psychological assessment for male and female sexual offenders, incest offenders and families, and sexual abuse victims. Therapy is also available via Teletherapy. Specific programming includes: - Phase Program: Outpatient, family-centered program for the assessment and treatment of adolescent males and females who have behaved in sexually inappropriate or victimizing ways - Psycho-educational Classes: Time-limited classes for offenders who severely deny or minimize their offenses or who need information on appropriate sexual behavior - Supervised Visitation: Between parents and children who are not allowed unsupervised contact by order of the court. Specifically designed for sex offenders, but will provide service to others in need of supervised visitation. - Victim/Survivors of Sexual Abuse: Individual therapy sessions are available by appointment to explore the impact that sexual abuse has had on the lives of those who have been victimized. All types of sexual abuse will be addressed including past and present abuse from both within and outside of the hom. - Specialized treatment groups for elderly sex offenders, young adult offenders, noncontact offenders, non coercive "statutory rape" offenders, Spanish speaking offenders, and child pornography (typically internet) offenders - Outpatient support/therapy group for spouses or partners of sex offenders - Support and aftercare groups for offenders involved in sexual abuse or aberrant sexual behavior

Direct, confidential services to victims of sexual assault: - 24 hour information, referral, crisis phone service, and medical outreach - Advocacy and outreach by staff and volunteers; legal advocacy provided when working with law enforcement and Ramsey County prosecutors - Emergency financial assistance, depending on availability of funds. Limited to once a year. Call for information. - Individual counseling - May provide emergency transportation and assistance with coordinating community resources

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).

Direct, confidential services to victims of sexual assault: - 24 hour information, referral, crisis phone service, and medical outreach - Advocacy and outreach by staff and volunteers; legal advocacy provided when working with law enforcement and Ramsey County prosecutors - Emergency financial assistance, depending on availability of funds. Limited to once a year. Call for information. - Individual counseling - May provide emergency transportation and assistance with coordinating community resources

Operates a 24-hour support line staffed by trained advocates. Offers services such as: - Accompany and support in making a police report and/or sexual assault forensic exam at North Shore Health Hospital - Confidential advocacy and emotional support - Emergency short-term safe housing for victims and survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault - Free and confidential support for adults and youth ages 13 years and up who can access services without a parent's permission or knowledge - Legal advocacy including obtaining a Harassment Restraining Order (HRO) or Order for Protection (OFP) - Survivor support groups - Referral to additional resources and a lending library NOTE: Advocates are not mandated reporters and cannot provide legal advice

Serves victims of sexual assault and teen relationship abuse through a range of services: - Telephone crisis response - Short-term counseling - Responds to local hospital emergency rooms - Legal advocacy - Safe at Home application assistance for address confidentiality - Support group for individuals who have experienced sexual abuse designed to help people begin to recover from the effects of trauma and to help them find ways to grow, flourish and enjoy healthy relationships and happier lives. Individuals receive support from peers and advocates. Individuals learn about dynamics and the culture surrounding sexual violence, common reactions and feelings, as well as coping skills that may aid in the healing process. - Works with victims of sex trafficking and sexual exploitation Also offers community education speakers on a range of topics such as: Bullying, cyberbullying, sexting, healthy relationships, impact of domestic violence on child witnesses, media violence, sexual assault awareness and prevention, and teen dating violence

Services for individuals who have experienced domestic abuse/violence: - Emergency residential women's shelter with no-cost services for women and their children - 24-Hour crisis, Information and Referral line - Community education: Public speaking and professional training - Legal advocacy: Assist with safety planning, support, filing orders for protection and harassment restraining orders, including accompaniment and support during court hearings - Support groups

Community based mental health program specializing in recovery from sexual trauma, sexual abuse, and assault for adults and adolescents. Services provided by licensed mental health professionals, professional volunteers and supervised graduate students with training and education in sexual victimization. Clients address histories of single occurrences of abuse or assault to long term victimization. Recovery is based on the client's needs. Issues addressed include: - Relationships - Grief and loss - Symptom relief from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, depression, anxiety, etc. resulting from sexual trauma

Offers the following mental health services: - Adolescent/youth and child therapy - Adult and child sexual assault counseling - Anger management - Cultural transition counseling - Disability counseling - Disaster counseling - Divorce counseling - Employment transition/retirement counseling - Gender identity counseling - Grief counseling - Health problems counseling - Individual,couple and family therapy - Intergenerational therapy - Juvenile delinquency diversion - Marriage counseling - Mental health presentations - Parent counseling - Play therapy - Postabortion counseling - Premarital counseling - Psychiatric assessment - Psychiatric disorder counseling - Runaway counseling - Sexual orientation counseling - Sexuality counseling - Terminal illness counseling - Therapeutic services for children, adolescents, families and adults

- Short-term support counseling for individuals who have been sexually assaulted including individuals used in prostitution and sex trafficking. Counseling is also available for family members and friends of sexual violence victims. - One-to-one peer counseling - Hospital Counseling/Advocacy: Counselors are available to provide counseling, offer information, provide options and support sexual assault victims at the hospital when they come in for an evidentiary exam. If the victim wishes to make a report to law enforcement, the counselor will remain to provide support. If upon arriving at the hospital the sexual assault advocate is told that the victim does not wish to have an advocate, a packet of written information will be left for the victim and the advocate will leave. Advocates provide support to family and friends of victims in the hospital.

Outpatient mental health facility providing couples, family, group, and individual counseling including: - Adolescent/youth counseling - Anger management - Anxiety disorders counseling and group therapy - Bereavement/grief counseling - Cultural transition counseling - Depression counseling - Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT-IOP) offered at Minneapolis, West Metro, and West Saint Paul locations - Eating disorders counseling including anorexia and bulimia - Family violence counseling - Gambling counseling - Geriatric counseling - Marriage counseling - Medication assessment and management - Phobias counseling - Post-abortion counseling - Psychiatry - Psychological testing and evaluation - Sexual assault counseling - Sexuality issues/sexual addictions counseling - Suboxone treatment for Opioid use disorder and addiction available in Minneapolis and West Metro Telehealth services available

Medical Model Children's Advocacy Center (8 am - 4:30 pm) - Child-focused, facility-based program that conducts forensic interviews and forensic medical exams on pediatric and adolescent patients. Representatives from many disciplines (law enforcement, child protection, prosecution, mental health, medical and victim advocacy) work together, making team decisions about the investigation, treatment, management, and procescution of child abuse cases. Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) Program - The SANE program is available 24-hours a day, 7 days a week at Sanford Health, Bemidji Emergency Department and RiverView Health, Crookston Emergency Department. Care provided by a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner can include, as appropriate: - Evidentiary examination - Referrals - Emergency contraception - Sexually Transmitted Infections prophylactic treatment

Community based mental health program specializing in recovery from sexual trauma, sexual abuse, and assault for adults and adolescents. Services provided by licensed mental health professionals, professional volunteers and supervised graduate students with training and education in sexual victimization. Clients address histories of single occurrences of abuse or assault to long term victimization. Recovery is based on the client's needs. Issues addressed include: - Relationships - Grief and loss - Symptom relief from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, depression, anxiety, etc. resulting from sexual trauma

Group therapy and individual therapy provided for domestic abuse issues. Groups for abusive men and abused women, and play therapy for children who have been abused or have witnessed the abuse. Also offers anger management groups for women. Anger management groups and therapy groups for children and adolescents are available. Parenting groups for parents of children exposed to domestic violence are also available. After completion of domestic abuse program, restorative parenting groups are offered to men and women to address the needs of children affected by domestic violence. After completion of domestic abuse program, family therapy and couples therapy may be available for those who wish to work on their relationships. - Sexual Assault Program: Group therapy and individual therapy available to women who have been sexually assaulted or sexually abused at any time in their lives - Restorative Parenting Program: 12-week group therapy program for women whose children have been exposed to domestic violence and a 10-week group therapy program is available for fathers who have exposed their children to violence in the home. Family therapy is available and recommended in conjunction with the group therapy program. Group therapy for children and adolescents exposed to violence is also available if there are sufficient numbers of age appropriate youth.

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).

Individual and group counseling is offered for both youth and adults who have been affected by sexual assault: - Individual counseling is provided one-on-one with a license therapist - Art Group: weekly open group that utilizes art for healing - Yoga Group: trauma-informed yoga practice specifically designed for survivors PAVSA routinely adds new support groups according to need

Outpatient family counseling agency providing individual, couples, and family counseling in the following areas: - ADD/ADHD - Anger management - Bereavement/grief counseling - Christian counseling - Chronic disease counseling - Crime victim counseling - Cultural transition counseling - Depression/mood disorders - Developmental/Transitional Issues - Dialectic Behavioral Therapy DBT: Individual only; not available in a group setting - Disaster counseling - Dissociative Disorders counseling - Employment transition counseling - Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing EMDR - Family parent issues - Family violence counseling (adult incest survivor, child abuse counseling, child incest counseling, elder abuse, etc.) - Gender identity counseling - Geriatric counseling - Hypnosis - Juvenile delinquency diversion counseling - Marriage counseling - Medication management - Mental health evaluation including clinical evaluation, psychological testing, and psychosocial evaluation - Overspenders counseling - Pain management - Postabortion counseling - Postpartum counseling - Premarital counseling - Sexual Addiction counseling - Telemedicine services

24-hour hotline answered by trained sexual assault advocates, providing support and education

Domestic or sexual abuse survivors support group

Grant funds (when available) are used to meet the emergency needs of crime victims. Emergency assistance includes, but is not limited to, the following expenses: - Cleanup of a crime scene - Purchase and installation of necessary home security devices - Reimbursement for reasonable travel and living expenses that the victim incurred to attend court proceedings that were held at a location other than the place where the crime occurred due to the change in venue - 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, sch as medical facilities and facilities of the criminal justice system 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.

Outpatient mental health facility providing couples, family, group, and individual counseling including: - Adolescent/youth counseling - Anger management - Anxiety disorders counseling and group therapy - Bereavement/grief counseling - Cultural transition counseling - Depression counseling - Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT-IOP) offered at Minneapolis, West Metro, and West Saint Paul locations - Eating disorders counseling including anorexia and bulimia - Family violence counseling - Gambling counseling - Geriatric counseling - Marriage counseling - Medication assessment and management - Phobias counseling - Post-abortion counseling - Psychiatry - Psychological testing and evaluation - Sexual assault counseling - Sexuality issues/sexual addictions counseling - Suboxone treatment for Opioid use disorder and addiction available in Minneapolis and West Metro Telehealth services available

Outpatient mental health facility providing couples, family, group, and individual counseling including: - Adolescent/youth counseling - Anger management - Anxiety disorders counseling and group therapy - Bereavement/grief counseling - Cultural transition counseling - Depression counseling - Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT-IOP) offered at Minneapolis, West Metro, and West Saint Paul locations - Eating disorders counseling including anorexia and bulimia - Family violence counseling - Gambling counseling - Geriatric counseling - Marriage counseling - Medication assessment and management - Phobias counseling - Post-abortion counseling - Psychiatry - Psychological testing and evaluation - Sexual assault counseling - Sexuality issues/sexual addictions counseling - Suboxone treatment for Opioid use disorder and addiction available in Minneapolis and West Metro Telehealth services available