Community Resources List

New Resources

The Backyard Initiative (BYI) improves community health through active engagement, addressing the root causes of illness and building connections in Ventura Villages, Phillips West, Midtown Phillips, East Phillips, Central, Powderhorn Park, and Corcoran neighborhoods.

New and improved Domestic Violence/Sexual Abuse section

Waite House - Food Assistance Program distributes food every second and fourth Wednesday of the month at 1p all year round and every Sunday at 2pm until April 1st. Bring bags to take food home. Free meals (stay and eat) at 8am, 12pm, and 5pm. No ID required. Somali, Spanish, and Hmong speaking staff on site.

Patient Advocate Foundation provides free professional case management services for patients with chronic or life threatening illnesses by phone, e-mail or web chat. (PAF) serves as a liaison to resolve insurance, job retention and/or debt crisis matters. help@patientadvocate.org 800-532-5274

Market Bucks Program is an incentive program through Midtown Farmers Market for people who receive food support through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) or with Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards. Customers can get an additional $5 in Market Bucks. Lake Street East & 22nd Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55407. Saturday 8:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m, Tuesday 3:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.

Foundation for Health Coverage Education (FHCE) is a network that aims to simplify public and private health insurance eligibility information to help more people access coverage.

Bridge to Benefits is a multi-state project through the Children's Defense Fund Minnesota that links families and individuals to public work support programs and tax credits.

Health Resources Serving Diverse Cultural Communities is a new directory for individuals working to identify appropriate health services for refugees and immigrants.

Hennepin County Baby Tracks is a free program that helps you keep your baby up-to-date on shots, answer immunization questions, connect you with a clinic, and help you keep a current shot record. Call 612-348-6087 to enroll.

Youth and Young Adults Program (YAYA) is a project that helps youth and young adults who have experienced dating violence, domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking. Call or text 612-656-YAYA (9292) or e-mail yayaprogram@gmail.com.

Directories
Children/Youth
Community Group
Dental
Disability
Domestic Violence/Sexual Assault
Education/Literacy
Food
Financial Help
GLBT
Homeless
Immigrant and Refugee
Legal
Men’s Health
Mental Health
Public Assistance/Insurance
Recreational Space
Senior Health
Social Service Agencies
Specialty Clinics
Support Groups/Addiction Recovery
Women’s Health  

Directories 

• Minnesota Help.info is an online directory of services designed to help people in Minnesota find human services, information and referral, financial assistance, and other forms of help. It is especially rich in resource information for seniors and their caregivers; people with disabilities and their caregivers; parents and families; and low income people.
• United Way 211 provides free and confidential information and referral. Call 2-1-1 for help with food, housing, employment, health care, counseling and more. Learn more about your local 2-1-1 by looking it up here.
• Health Resources Serving Diverse Cultural Communities is a new directory for individuals working to identify appropriate health services for refugees and immigrants.

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Children/Youth 

• Crisis Nursery works in partnership with parents in crisis and the community to strengthen families and prevent child abuse and neglect. Crisis Helpline 763-591-0100.
• Early Childhood Intervention Team (348-TOTS) offers help to children under six with special needs by providing a team of social workers, public health nurses and community health specialists will provide assessment, referrals, resources and consultation to help connect you to family focus therapeutic services, home visiting programs, social service needs assessments, public health nursing, interagency early intervention services, new parent family support, preschool day treatment referrals, developmental screening, mental health screening and respite care.
• Early Childhood Family Education (ECFE) is made up of participating school districts that collaborate to promote Early Childhood Family Education through the development of unified, quality marketing materials and resources. Search for Program
• Freeport West, Inc. supports the efforts of families and communities to create environments where all children thrive through community housing, youth services & community connection, youth education & development, and streetworks & community outreach.
• Head Start empowers communities as a united voice in speaking and acting on issues affecting low-income children and families; provides a list of Head Start programs in Minnesota.
• New Families Center serves families whose home language is any language other than English. There are Somali and Spanish speakers on staff. The Student Placement Center typically serves English speaking families, and there is a Hmong speaker at this location to provide English assessment and school placement for families whose home language is Hmong.
• Parents Know provides trusted parenting information, resources and activities to help your children grow, develop, and learn from birth through high school.
• Way to Grow empowers parents to be their children’s first and foremost teachers. Working with the Twin Cities’ most isolated families, their goal is to ensure every child has an equal opportunity to succeed in school and life.

     Somali 

• Confederation of the Somali Community – Youth Programs offers programs for diversion, girls, homework, leadership, sports, storytelling and street program.

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Community Group

• The Backyard Initiative (BYI) improves community health through active engagement, addressing the root causes of illness and building connections in Ventura Villages, Phillips West, Midtown Phillips, East Phillips, Central, Powderhorn Park, and Corcoran neighborhoods.

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Dental 

• Dental Referral Listing
• Community Dental Care provides preventative care, emergency care, fillings, teeth whitening, root canal treatment, extractions, crowns and bridges, dentures, and minor orthodontic procedures. Family Healthcare Dental provides basic dental services in Fargo, ND and Moorhead, MN.
• Helping Hand Dental Clinic provides basic dental services and urgent dental care.
• Indian Health Board offers adult and pediatric general dentistry, preventive care education, emergency treatment and dental specialist referrals.
• Lake Superior Community Health Center provides dental services for people of all ages including office exams, cleanings, fluoride treatments, x-rays, sealants, restorations (fillings), routine extractions, partials / dentures, root canals and stainless steel / acrylic strip crowns
• Native American Community Clinic provides services by dental and dental hygiene students including cleaning and oral hygiene instruction, well-child checks, fillings, crowns and bridges, dentures, simple extractions, root canal therapy, exams and emergency appointments.
• Neighborhood Involvement Program (NIP) provides dental cleaning, dental exams, filling sand dental x-rays.
• Normandale Community College Dental Hygiene Clinic provides a variety of dental hygiene services by dental hygiene students.
• North Point Health and Wellness Center – Dental provides preventative, restorative, and emergency care, digital x-ray, dentures, and children’s dentistry.
• Southside Dental Clinic provide preventive care, dental exams, cleaning, instruction/education, x-rays, sealants, fluoride, restorative care, fillings and extractions, root canals, crowns/bridges, dentures/partials, referrals, patient support services, transportation, help with insurance, Spanish speaking staff, and interpreter services (with notice).
• Union Gospel Mission Dental Clinic provides free, professional dental care allowing patients to concentrate on bettering themselves instead of the pain associated with dental problems.
• University of Minnesota School of Dentistry provides general and specialty services for children and adults and accepts state health plans and most insurance plans.
  West Side Dental Clinic / Clínica Dental West Side provides basic dental services and urgent dental care.

     Children 

• Bright Smiles is a part of the Indian Health Board Dental Clinic. It serves children aged 6 months through age 5, and pregnant women. Bright Smiles appointments are scheduled on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. For dental visits, if the child or pregnant woman has no insurance, the dental exam is completely free. If further care is needed, they need to apply for medical insurance or apply for IHB’s sliding fee scale.
• Children’s Dental Services can help your child keep the smile that good health and good feelings bring. Healthy teeth and gums are essential for your child's well being. CDS offers you an affordable way to get the dental health care your child needs, at times and places that work for you.
• Metropolitan Pediatric Dental Associates Ltd provides a variety of dental series for children.

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Disability 

• Health Care Directive Form is approved by the Honoring Choices Minnesota (HCM) Advisory Committee for general public use. This document is free and anyone is able to download and use it.
• Minnesota Network of Hospice and Palliative Care (MNHPC) promotes quality of life in Minnesota communities through hospice and palliative care. Through their work people will understand the value of and have access to high quality hospice and palliative care, and advance care planning.
• Telephone Equipment Distribution Program provides telephone equipment to people who are deaf, hard of hearing, deaf/blind, speech impaired or have a physical disability and need adaptive equipment in order to use the phone. The equipment is loaned out at no cost as a long-term loan.
• VISION Loss Resources assists people who are blind or visually impaired in achieving their full potential and to enrich the lives of all persons affected by blindness or vision loss.

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Domestic Violence/Sexual Assault 

     Help Lines

• Day One is a 24-hour Victims of Crisis Helpline (1-800-494-8100), crisis intervention; individual and group counseling for children and adults; consultations; adult advocacy for victims and their families; psycho-educational services for incarcerated men and women who are victims of childhood sexual abuse and assault.
• Ramsey County Sexual Offense Services provides 24-hour counseling, advocacy, information, and referrals in many languages.
• United Way 211 provides free and confidential information and referral. Call 2-1-1 for help with food, housing, employment, health care, counseling and more. Learn more about your local 2-1-1 by looking it up here.

     Crisis Intervention

• Breaking Free is a non-profit organization serving women and girls involved in systems of abuse, exploitation, and prostitution/sex trafficking.
• Casa de Esperanza supports Latinas and their communities, assists them to recognize their strengths, build on them and reach their goals, provides effective responses to domestic violence and facilitates support systems.
• Crisis Intervention Center - HCMC provides suicide prevention at 701 Park Ave. Minneapolis, MN 55415
• Hennepin County Domestic Abuse Center helps with orders for protection, legal advice from city and county attorneys, and assists in finding temporary housing in many languages.
• Immigrant Women’s Advocacy Project provides African immigrant women with crisis intervention, referrals, resources, legal, general and family related issues. Advocates are fluent in Oromo, Somali, Arabic, Amharic, Swahili, and English.
• Minnesota Coalition for Battered Women provides a list of services offered for victims of domestic abuse.
• Neighborhood Involvement Program – Rape & Sexual Abuse Center provides services for survivors of sexual abuses and assault.
• Safe at Home is designed to help survivors of violence, sexual assault, stalking, or others who fear for their safety establish a confidential address.
• St. Paul Domestic Abuse Intervention provides legal advocacy, hospital advocacy and general community advocacy for women in St. Paul. Has some culturally specific programs to help women utilizing the criminal court system.
• Youth and Young Adults Program (YAYA) is a project that helps youth and young adults who have experienced dating violence, domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking. Call or text 612-656-YAYA (9292) or e-mail yayaprogram@gmail.com.

     Legal Resources

• Domestic Abuse Service Center provides legal assistance for victims of domestice violence. Office of the Hennepin County Attorney. 300 S 6^th St. A-0650 Government Center Minneapolis, MN 55487. 612.348.5073
• Order for Protection/Harassment Orders helps victims of domestic abuse complete the paperwork for a temporary order of protection. Hennepin County 300 South 6th Street Minneapolis, MN 55487 Hours: Monday-Friday, 8:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m., closed legal holidays.
• Patient Advocate Foundation provides free professional case management services for patients with chronic or life threatening illnesses by phone, e-mail or web chat. (PAF) serves as a liaison to resolve insurance, job retention and/or debt crisis matters. help@patientadvocate.org 800-532-5274
• Tubman Legal Advocates is an organization providing services to address a variety of domestic abuse and family law issues in Hennepin, Washington and suburban Ramsey counties. 311 1^st Ave S. Minneapolis, MN 55415. 612-825-0000
• Volunteer Lawyers Network is an organization advising and representing economically disadvantaged people with legal problems through volunteer attorneys and without charge to the clients. 6000 Nicollet Mall, suite 390A Minneapolis, MN 55402. 612-752-6677

     Multiple Resources

• Latinos Ending Abuse Program (LEAP) helps Latino adults to learn and apply skills to end violent behavior in their relationships, families, and communities. Spanish. 2700 East Lake Street Suite 3200 Minneapolis, MN 55406. 612-872-6165
• Market Bucks Program is an incentive program through Midtown Farmers Market for people who receive food support through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) or with Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards. Customers can get an additional $5 in Market Bucks. Lake Street East & 22nd Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55407. Saturday 8:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m, Tuesday 3:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.
• Office of Justice Program Crisis Funds is small funds that can help crime victims to be safe such as changing the key locker at home, etc. 612.340.5400
• The Bridge for Youth is the premier resource for youth and families in crisis. We ensure a continuum of care to provide shelter and support, to reunite families whenever possible, and when it is not, to build independent living skills in young people. 24-Hour Hotline: 612-377-8800

     Shelter/Housing Assistance

• Alexandra House is a shelter program for battered women and children in Blaine, MN. Services include crisis intervention, advocacy, safety planning, housing resources and referrals, support groups and a children’s program.
• Asian Women United in Minnesota (AWUM) is a safe place for all women and their children dealing with domestic violence, including physical, emotional, or sexual abuse. Staff speak Cambodian, Lao, Hmong, Vietnamese. 612-724-0756
• Casa de Esperanza supports Latinas and their communities, assists them to recognize their strengths, build on them and reach their goals, provides effective responses to domestic violence and facilitates support systems. Spanish. 651.772.1611
• Mary’s Place is an organization providing temporary housing solutions to families. Also they help with meals, clothing, showers, shelter, transportation help, rent deposits, rent help, medical assistance, dental care, furniture, school expenses, funeral assistance, and other miscellaneous needs. 525 North 7th Street Minneapolis, MN 55405 612-338-4640
• Avenues for Homeless Youth is a program that provides emergency shelter, short term housing and support services for homeless youth in a safe and nurturing environment. 1708 Oak Park Ave N Minneapolis, MN 55411 612-522-1690

     Cambodia

• Asian Women United in Minnesota (AWUM) is a safe place for all women and their children dealing with domestic violence, including physical, emotional, or sexual abuse.
• St. Paul Domestic Abuse Intervention provides legal advocacy, hospital advocacy and general community advocacy for women in St. Paul. Has some culturally specific programs to help women utilizing the criminal court system.

     Hmong 

• Asian Women United in Minnesota (AWUM) is a safe place for all women and their children dealing with domestic violence, including physical, emotional, or sexual abuse.
• St. Paul Domestic Abuse Intervention provides legal advocacy, hospital advocacy and general community advocacy for women in St. Paul. Has some culturally specific programs to help women utilizing the criminal court system.

     Lao 

• Asian Women United in Minnesota (AWUM) is a safe place for all women and their children dealing with domestic violence, including physical, emotional, or sexual abuse.
• St. Paul Domestic Abuse Intervention provides legal advocacy, hospital advocacy and general community advocacy for women in St. Paul. Has some culturally specific programs to help women utilizing the criminal court system.

     Somali 

• Immigrant Women’s Advocacy Project provides African immigrant women with crisis intervention, referrals, resources, legal, general and family related issues. Advocates are fluent in Oromo, Somali, Arabic, Amharic, Swahili, and English.

     Spanish 

• Casa de Esperanza supports Latinas and their communities, assists them to recognize their strengths, build on them and reach their goals, provides effective responses to domestic violence and facilitates support systems.
• Latinos Ending Abuse Program (LEAP) helps Latino adults to learn and apply skills to end violent behavior in their relationships, families, and communities.
• St. Paul Domestic Abuse Intervention provides legal advocacy, hospital advocacy and general community advocacy for women in St. Paul. Has some culturally specific programs to help women utilizing the criminal court system.

      Vietnamese

• Asian Women United in Minnesota (AWUM) is a safe place for all women and their children dealing with domestic violence, including physical, emotional, or sexual abuse.
• St. Paul Domestic Abuse Intervention provides legal advocacy, hospital advocacy and general community advocacy for women in St. Paul. Has some culturally specific programs to help women utilizing the criminal court system.

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Education/Literacy 

• Be@School is a Hennepin County Attorney’s Office program to improve school attendance.
• East Side Neighborhood Services provides individualized computer training for senior adults and provides afterschool enrichment programs.
• Girl Scouts is a fun program for girls from kindergarten to 12th grade that helps develop life skills, self-esteem, and provides a way for girls to make a difference around the world.
• Hennepin County Child and Teen Checkups Program provides preventative health care children up to age 21 who receive Medical Assistance or MinnesotaCare.
• Lincoln English Language School is part of the International Education Center, and offers English language acquisition courses at many levels, adult basic skills, and citizenship classes.
• The Minnesota Child Care Resource & Referral Network helps families find child care and understand their care options, supports child care providers through grants and education, and informs the community on the importance of child care.
• Minneapolis Community Education offers 7 levels of English Language Learning classes -- from levels 0 and 1 for learners with little or no schooling in their first language, to level 6 for students who are refining their English skills by working on resume and interviewing skills. Levels 2-5 cover everything in between.
• Minnesota Literacy Council – Adult Literacy Hotline tells you where you can learn English (ESL) or get help to read and write better. The Hotline knows about more than 425 programs around Minnesota that offer basic reading, writing, and math classes, english language (ESL) classes, GED preparation and testing sites, adult high school diploma programs, citizenship classes, brush-up skills classes and family literacy programs.
• Minneapolis Public Schools provides free education to students K-12 living in Minneapoils with a variety of programs available. Website available in English, Spanish, Hmong, and Somali.
• Minnesota School of Science is a public charter school focused on math and science serving kindergarteners through 5th graders.
• Neighborhood House – Education programs and services help new arrivals learn English, prepare for a GED examination, learn more about positive parenting and appreciate the arts. Unique College Access and School Readiness programs involve both students and parents, while Neighborhood House shares its knowledge about new Minnesotans through training and consulting services.
• PACER Center: Health Information and Advocacy Center provides information on insurance, government programs, SSI, special education laws, and referrals to services for families of children ages 0 to 22 with disabilities or chronic illnesses.
• Pierre Bottineau French Immersion School is a new public elementary schools opening in Minneapolis in fall 2012 that will provide full-immersion kindergarten and first grade, and French enriched second/third grade classes.
• Saint Paul Public Schools provides free education to students K-12 living in St. Paul with a variety of programs available. Website available in English, Karen, Spanish, Hmong, and Somali.
• Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) provides free or reduced-price meals to qualified children during the summer.

     Hmong 

• Center for Hmong Arts and Talent nurtures, explores & illuminates the Hmong American experience through artistic expressions. Learn it. Create it. Live it. Art with a Purpose.
• Hmong American Mutual Assistance Association provides programs for employment, housing, youth and after-school activities.
• Hmong Cultural Center promotes the personal development of children, youth and adults through cultural education while providing resources that enhance cross-cultural awareness between Hmong and non-Hmong.

     Spanish 

• Academia Comunitaria offers free classes in English and Spanish throughout the Twin Cities by EXCO Academia Comunitaria, an organization inspired by the right to free access to education including: adult literacy, Computers, Mexican Cooking, Daily English, Spanish/English language exchange and more.
• Aprendamos computacion enhances the marketable job skills of Latino students, and involves them productively in their children’s education by providing them the opportunity to study computer technology in their native language. 

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Food

• Open Arms of Minnesota provides once a week meal delivery to people living with HIV/AIDS, MS, ALS, or cancer.       

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Financial 

• AccountAbility Minnesota will get your taxes prepared for free by an IRS-certified volunteer tax preparer.
• Zenni Optical provides online, low cost prescription glasses. Patients looking for low cost glasses are able to order on-line for as low as $6.95 for a complete set of glasses. Requires prescription from optometrist.

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GLBT 

• Minnesota Transgender Health Coalition is committed to improving health care access and the quality of health care received by trans and gender nonconforming people through education, resources, and advocacy. 

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Healthy Lifestyles

• Centro, Inc provides a class called “Begin the Challenge” to have fun in a group of less kilos and more health. Meetings are Mondays 10am-12:30pm at Centro. Call Maria at 612-874-1412 for more information.

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Homeless 

• St. Stephen’s Human Services was founded with a mission to end homelessness through programming that includes housing opportunities, employment support, emergency services and outreach, and systems change. 

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Immigrant and Refugee 

• CAPI is a community-based social justice organization and a direct implementer of anti-poverty programs to create jobs, housing, food, health education, youth and senior social services. Offers services related to food, jobs, housing and transportation, health, education, and gender and justice.
• Center for Disease Control has resources for immigrants and refugees about seasonal flu, medical examination, laws and regulations, refugee health guidelines, and other resources.
• Center for Victims of Torture helps survivors of torture that occurred abroad.
• Hello Neighbor is designed to welcome recent immigrants to Minneapolis neighborhoods.
• Minnesota Council of Churches – Refugee Services is an ecumenical ministry welcoming persecuted people from around the world into new lives of freedom, hope and opportunity in Minnesota.
• Refugee Health Lending Library maintains a comprehensive collection of educational materials about refugee populations and health issues. The lending library is housed in the MDH Barr Library, holds over 60 videos, and is expected to grow each year. These items are available for free loan (except for the cost of return postage) to any public health organization or community group (including schools, churches, book clubs, etc.) in the United States.
• United Cambodian Association of Minnesota (UCAM) promotes health, social, economic, and educational opportunities for all Cambodians in Minnesota. Offers programs for elders, family, community, youth, mentoring, chemical dependency, health/tobacco, legal and refuges.

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Legal Aid 

• Civil Society/Sociedad Civil provides culturally and linguistically specific services, including abused immigrant, human trafficking victims, and others who have barriers to reporting crime.
• Interprofessional Center for Counseling & Legal Services provides independent legal services, independent counseling services, psychological Assessments/Evaluations, social work service, and consultations between law staff, psychologists and social workers to serve the needs of the individual, all in one location. Referral sources contact.
• Legal Aid Society of Minneapolis provides free civil legal services to low income and senior residents of Hennepin County.
• Legal Services Advocacy Project (LSAP) gives vulnerable Minnesotans a much-needed collective voice at the State Capitol. To complement other Legal Aid organizations that provide direct legal services to clients in existing civil disputes, LSAP serves as “preventative medicine” to bring justice to low-income Minnesotans on the policy level.
• Leonard Street and Deinard – Pro bono has an historic and longstanding commitment to pro bono legal service to our CUHCC community. Firm attorneys serve low-income clients with a variety of legal needs: family law, immigration, housing, government benefits, and consumer issues on site.

     Disability 

• Minnesota Disability Law Center is managed by the Minnesota Disability Law Center (MDLC). As a statewide project, they work with Minnesotans with physical and mental disabilities to provide free civil legal assistance related to those disabilities.

     Cambodian 

• United Cambodian Association of Minnesota (UCAM) promotes health, social, economic, and educational opportunities for all Cambodians in Minnesota. Offers programs for elders, family, community, youth, mentoring, chemical dependency, health/tobacco, legal and refuges.

     Spanish 

• Civil Society/Sociedad Civil provides culturally and linguistically specific services, including abused immigrant, human trafficking victims, and others who have barriers to reporting crime. 

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Men’s Health 

• The Men’s Center provides resources for men seeking to grow in body, mind and spirit, and from that foundation advocates for healthier family and community relationships. 
• Turning Point, Inc. provides men with chemical dependency treatment services.

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Mental Health 

• African American Family Services helps to identify skills and solutions for the mental health needs of African American youth, adults, and families.
• Community Outreach for Psychiatric Emergencies (COPE) helps when a severe disturbance of mood or thinking threatens a person's safety. COPE professionals are available to go where a person is, handle the immediate crisis, and provide a clinical assessment.
• Indian Health Board offers individual and group psychotherapy, assessments (adults and children): ADHD, FASD, Substance Abuse Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), specialty care for depression and psychiatric services social work services and support groups.
• North Point Health and Wellness Center offers outpatient behavioral health services for children, adolescents and adults

     Spanish 

• Centro de Salud promotes the emotional well-being of the Latino community through Spanish-language prevention and intervention mental health treatment. Therapists work with children, teens, adults and families on a range of topics including childhood trauma, couples counseling, adjustment disorders, depression, parenting, child behavior and discipline. 

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 Public Assistance/Insurance 

• CUHCC sliding fee scale fact sheet
  Information for patients who have just applied for public insurance
• Assured Access is a program that confirms household income level and provides Hennepin County residents with a list of clinics that charge for outpatient services on a sliding fee scale. Assured Access is not medical insurance.
• Bridge to Benefits is a multi-state project by Children’s Defense Fund Minnesota to improve the well-being of families and individuals by linking them to public work support programs and tax credits.
• City of Minneapolis - Multicultural Service Delivery “equal access, equal opportunity and equal input” for all residents of the City. To assure that City services are understood, obtainable and equitable, the Access and Outreach Division of the NCR Department will focus on addressing and removing barriers to civic participation and meaningful engagement.
• Portico is a nonprofit health and human services organization that helps uninsured Minnesotans access affordable health coverage and care.
• Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) provides Federal grants to States for supplemental foods, health care referrals, and nutrition education for low-income pregnant, breastfeeding, and non-breastfeeding postpartum women, and to infants and children up to age five who are found to be at nutritional risk. Hennepin County WIC; Ramsey County WIC
• Foundation for Health Coverage Education (FHCE) is a network that aims to simplify public and private health insurance eligibility information to help more people access coverage.
• Bridge to Benefits is a multi-state project through the Children's Defense Fund Minnesota that links families and individuals to public work support programs and tax credits.

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Recreational Space 

• Brian Coyle Center offers residents an institutional-size kitchen, six multi-purpose meeting rooms and a food shelf.
• East African Women’s Center fills gaps in service and support families holistically and across generations as they make the journey into American life. The Women’s Center serves mothers with small children, pre-teen and teenage girls, and community elder women.
• East Phillips Park Cultural and Community Center offers sports programming and activities. It is a wonderful place to meet your friends and neighbors, read the paper and enjoy a cup of coffee. There is a large gym and multiple meeting rooms.
• Running Wolf Fitness Center is a new fitness center at the Phillips Commmunity Center. It is free to Indian Health Board and Native American Community Clinic patients. Includes personal training, registered dietician consultations, a steam room, lockers, and showers.

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Senior Health 

• Health Care Directive Form is approved by the Honoring Choices Minnesota (HCM) Advisory Committee for general public use. This document is free and anyone is able to download and use it.
• Heartland Adult Day Care provides complete range of activities, cultural outgoings, and amenities to meet your social interests.
• Minnesota Network of Hospice and Palliative Care (MNHPC) promotes quality of life in Minnesota communities through hospice and palliative care. Through their work people will understand the value of and have access to high quality hospice and palliative care, and advance care planning. 

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Social Service Agencies 

     Cambodian

• CAPI is a community-based social justice organization and a direct implementer of anti-poverty programs to create jobs, housing, food, health education, youth and senior social services. Offers services related to food, jobs, housing and transportation, health, education, and gender and justice.
• United Cambodian Association of Minnesota (UCAM) promotes health, social, economic, and educational opportunities for all Cambodians in Minnesota. Offers programs for elders, family, community, youth, mentoring, chemical dependency, health/tobacco, legal and refuges.

     Hmong

• CAPI is a community-based social justice organization and a direct implementer of anti-poverty programs to create jobs, housing, food, health education, youth and senior social services. Offers services related to food, jobs, housing and transportation, health, education, and gender and justice.
• Hmong American Mutual Assistance Association provides programs for employment, housing, youth and after-school activities.
• Hmong American Partnership offers programs and services that provide opportunities for community members to learn, engage, contribute, and collaborate. These services are designed to be relevant for community members, based upon a variety of changing needs.
• Lao Family Community offers programs in education, youth and family, employment skills, tobacco health and others.

     Lao

• CAPI is a community-based social justice organization and a direct implementer of anti-poverty programs to create jobs, housing, food, health education, youth and senior social services. Offers services related to food, jobs, housing and transportation, health, education, and gender and justice.

     Somali

• Brian Coyle Center offers residents an institutional-size kitchen, six multi-purpose meeting rooms and a food shelf.
• CAPI is a community-based social justice organization and a direct implementer of anti-poverty programs to create jobs, housing, food, health education, youth and senior social services. Offers services related to food, jobs, housing and transportation, health, education, and gender and justice.
• Somali Community Organizations in Minnesota includes contact information for African Community Services, Midwest Community Development, Somali Benadiri Community of Minnesota, Confederation of Somali Community in Minnesota, Somali Community Resettlement Services, Somali Mai Community of Minnesota, Somali Women of Minneapolis, Somali Elders of Central Minnesota, and Somali International Minorities of America.

     Spanish

• Comunidades Latinas Unidas En Servicio (CLUES) provides high quality, language appropriate and culturally competent direct services through a family-centric coordinated care delivery model to advance the well-being, health, and economic prosperity of Latino individuals and families. Offers mental health, chemical health, aging well, family, economic advancement and community health worker services.
• Centro: Food Shelf Emergency Latino Food Shelf is the only Latino-specific food shelf in Minneapolis. It provides emergency staple foods (rice, beans, sugar and vegetable oil) for hungry families of all backgrounds and cultures across the Twin Cities metro area.

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Specialty Clinics 

• Annex Teen Clinic provides low cost, confidential, nonjudgmental sexuality-related health care for adolescents and young adults through age 23.
• Clinic 555 provides affordable, convenient and confidential health care for residents of Ramsey County. Services include Room 111 sexual health, family planning, immunization, and tuberculosis.
• Minnesota AIDS Project provides services for those effected and infected by HIV, prevention strategies for communities at greatest risk, MAP AIDSLine, information and referral, risk assessment, rapid HIV testing, information on syringe access, HIV case management, benefits counseling, housing services, transportation and more.
• North Point Health and Wellness Center offers medical, dental, optometry, pharmacy and urgent care (coming in early 2007) services as well as a variety of human services and community programs.
• Open Cities Health Center is a community health care clinic that serves patients with and without health insurance. They have been selected through the AIDS education and Training Centers National Center for HIV Care in Minority Communities to integrate HIV services into community health care clinics over the next three years.
• Phillips Neighborhood Clinic is a free clinic that offers a variety of services, including medical services, some labs and physical therapy two evenings a week.
• Planned Parenthood of Minnesota/SD provides reproductive health care (annual GYN exams, STI testing and treatment, pregnancy testing, birth control, emergency contraception and more) for men and women. Accepts most insurance plans or sliding fee scale.
• Red Door Clinic provides confidential, non-judgmental and professional sexual health care to the community. They are the largest HIV/STD testing site in Minnesota, providing testing, treatment and health education around STDs, Ryan White HIV medical care for the uninsured, as well as pregnancy prevention and targeted HIV/STD programming.
• Travel Clinic helps plan for health and safety issues that could affect a trip abroad.

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Support Groups/Addiction Recovery  

• African American Family Services works with individuals, families and communities affected by addiction and mental illness.
• Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism.
• Narcotics Anonymous is a fellowship aimed to help every addict find a new way of life.
• North Point Health and Wellness Center offers outpatient behavioral health services for children, adolescents and adults.
• Recovery Resource Center is a program for chemical health assessments, treatments, and continuing care/after care services in Minnesota.
• Tubman helps women, children and families struggling with relationship violence, substance abuse and mental health. Throughout the Twin Cities, Tubman provides safe shelter, legal services, counseling, youth programming and community education while guiding and sustaining individuals and families on the journey from chaos and fear to healing and restoration.
• Turning Point, Inc provides men with chemical dependency treatment services.

     Spanish

• Comunidades Latinas Unidas En Servicio (CLUES) provides high quality, language appropriate and culturally competent direct services through a family-centric coordinated care delivery model to advance the well-being, health, and economic prosperity of Latino individuals and families. Offers mental health, chemical health, aging well, family, economic advancement and community health worker services. 

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Women’s Health 

• Bedsider is a free support network for birth control. You can set up reminders to take birth control, read stories, and find emergency contraception.
• East African Women’s Center fills gaps in service and support families holistically and across generations as they make the journey into American life. The Women’s Center serves mothers with small children, pre-teen and teenage girls, and community elder women.
• Hope Chest for Breast Cancer helps under-served or financially distressed individuals and their families touched by breast cancer.
• Minnesota Women’s Healthy Heart Program (MWHHP) is a research study and public health pilot project of the Minnesota Women’s Health Collaborative. This partnership is targeting women of color and immigrant women in the North Minneapolis and University areas, and rural and Native American women in the Hibbing area.
• Sage Screening Program is a statewide comprehensive breast and cervical cancer screening program whose primary objective is to increase the proportion of age-appropriate women who are screened for breast and cervical cancer.
• Tubman helps women, children and families struggling with relationship violence, substance abuse and mental health. Throughout the Twin Cities, Tubman provides safe shelter, legal services, counseling, youth programming and community education while guiding and sustaining individuals and families on the journey from chaos and fear to healing and restoration.

      Pregnancy and Newborns

• Text4Baby sends free messages each week on your cell phone to help you through your pregnancy and your baby's first year. Text4baby is an educational program of the National Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition.
• Amma Parenting Center  provides multiple childbirth and new parenting classes taught in Edina and throughout the Metro area. Amma teachers are trained professionals and help with prenatal, birth and baby preparation. 3511 Hazelton Road Edina MN 55435 952-926-2229
• Hennepin County Baby Tracks is a free program that helps you keep your baby up-to-date on shots, answer immunization questions, connect you with a clinic, and help you keep a current shot record. Call 612-348-6087 to enroll.

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• Centro, Inc  provides multiple classes for pregnancy: “What should I know about my pregnancy and my baby?” Wednesdays 11am-1pm at Centro, “Little World Club” to stimulate your baby’s senses Thursdays 10am-1pm at Centro, and “Prenatal massage” free for pregnant women. Contact Maria Padilla at 612-874-1412 to register for classes and for more information. “Save your baby’s life” to learn about car seat use for insurances: UCare, MHP, and Medica. Contact Emmy at 612-874-1412 to register and for more information.

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