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Adult Day
Services
Adult Day
Services promotes healthy aging with the focus to improve and
enhance overall wellness. Through a system of supportive
services in one location the program cost effectively assists
people experiencing isolation due to physical and psychosocial
demands, to maintain and/or increase independence, and remain an
active part of family and community. Life quality is enhanced when
experienced with others.
620 Carr Lake Road SE
Bemidji, MN 56601
751-1324
Director: April Collman
adultday@gmail.com
Bemidji Community Soup
Kitchen
Provides free meals on
Tuesdays and Thursdays each week to those in need with no
questions asked.
PO Box 1584
Bemidji, MN 56619
751-2810
Contact: Gloria Joy
gjoy@paulbunyan.net
Community Resource
Connections
Community Resource Connections (CRC) is a nonprofit membership
organization serving Beltrami, Cass, Clearwater and Hubbard
Counties. All agency work is intended to serve the needs of
nonprofit member organizations and the clients they serve.
Direct services to the public include: Management of Resource
Centers in Bemidji, Blackduck and Kelliher; provision of an
unusually inclusive form of Information, Referral and Advocacy;
Senior Outreach concerning Medicare Part D, Social Security
Disability Application assistance, and Minnesota Health Care
application assistance. Member agency services include
coordination of agency and nonprofit director networking groups,
group fund raising, coordination of service ventures, nonprofit
advocacy, and community resource distribution to nonprofits.
616 America
Avenue Suite 170
Bemidji, MN
56601
218-333-8265
Contact: Ruth
Sherman
ruth.sherman@co.beltrami.mn.us
www.communityresourceconnections.org
Courage Center
Services, resources and
programs for people with physical disabilities.
3915 Golden Valley Road
Golden Valley, MN
55422
Main Office:
763-588-0811
Regional Director:
Jennifer Woodford: 763-520-0546
Local Volunteers: Tom &
Mimi Fogarty, 218-266-3658,
couragen@wcta.net
Evergreen House Inc.
Evergreen House is a grassroots, community-based organization
committed to strengthening youth and preserving families with an
emphasis on those living in northern Minnesota. Evergreen
has advanced its mission by developing a comprehensive safety net
of services to runaway, homeless, street youth, pregnant and
parenting youth, youth with alcohol and drug problems, and other
high-risk youth and their families. We currently provide a
continuum of services to 2,500 high-risk children, teens, and
families annually. Thousands more are served through
outreach, referrals, and presentations, and personal contacts.
Evergreen Recovery House
Open 24 hours per day, 7 days per week for male youth ages 14
through 18 with alcohol and drug problems. This is a 3-5
month residential program. Youth attend school, participate
in individual and group counseling, work with an advocate, provide
community service, attend local cultural opportunities, and engage
in a variety of recreational activities. A Rock Sober
youth group for high school-age community youth is sponsored by
Evergreen and provides sober activities and group meetings.
Evergreen Youth Crisis
Shelter
Evergreen Youth Crisis Shelter – All services are free to youth
and families. Open 24 hours per day, 7 days per week for
youth ages 9-17 who are homeless, runaways, or experiencing
personal or family crisis. Family counseling provides
support to families in crisis, offering parenting support and
training in skills that are necessary for families to work through
their immediate difficulties and to establish healthy patterns of
conflict resolution that will help prevent future crises. Tribal
Family Support Services are available on-site on the Red Lake and
Leech Lake Reservations to support youth and parents through
coaching and education and case management to access mental,
chemical, dental and physical health services. The Suicide
Prevention Program trains 9th graders in all county
schools, including Red Lake, in suicide prevention training.
There is a monthly survivor support group for adult family
members/friends and the Headwaters Alliance for Suicide
Prevention, a community-based taskforce, provides planning and
information on suicide prevention monthly.
Youth Recovery
House Program Coordinator:
Randy McKain, 751-2466
Youth Crisis
Shelter Program Coordinator:
Gary Russell, 218-751-4332
Evergreen House Inc.
Executive Director: Becky Schueller, 218-751-8223
rschueller@evergreenhouse.org
Evergreen House Inc. (main office)
1418 Bemidji Ave N Ste 1
PO Box 662
Bemidji, MN 56619
www.evergreenhouse.org
Family Advocacy Center
of Northern Minnesota
The Family Advocacy Center of Northern Minnesota (FACNM)
is a medical-model family advocacy center serving the needs of
child sexual and physical abuse, adult sexual assault and intimate
partner and family violence. The FACNM provides compassionate,
appropriate, and timely health services, forensic evaluations,
referrals, and case management. The FACNM promotes a
collaborative, multidisciplinary, regional response to abuse.
North Country Regional
Hospital
1300 Anne Street
Bemidji, MN 56601
Executive Director: Aria Trudeau
218-333-6156
atrudeau@nchs.com
Foster
Grandparents/Senior Companions
Senior Companion Program partners volunteers 55 or better in age
with lonely, isolated adults who wish to remain independent and
living in their own homes. The “Companions” provide friendly
visits, transportation, and advocacy. The Foster Grandparent
Program provides volunteers mentoring opportunities in all kinds
of educational and shelter settings. Foster Grandparents work with
youth of all ages. Volunteers in both programs receive a
small tax free stipend and mileage reimbursement.
PO Box 1518
Walker, MN 56484
800-563-8150
Director: Mar Kuha
mar.kuha@lssmn.org
www.seniorcorps.org
Hope House
Hope House provides community support services to individuals with
serious and persistent mental illness so they can live in
the community in the least restrictive setting, function at their
best level, and reduce the need for involuntary hospitalization.
Hope House provides adult rehabilitation mental health services (ARMHS)
in the home and community. Hope House also provides community
support services(CSP) such as phone support, consumer outreach,
social and recreational activities, after hours emergency help,
community/public education, medication and wellness checks, REACH
family support group, diagnostic assessments, and consumer
employment . Hope House also provides day treatment and a drop-in
center for members.
2014 7th St SE
PO Box 1097
Bemidji, MN 56619
444-6748
Director: Robin Wold
rwold@paulbunyan.net
North Country Food Bank
North Country Food Bank
was established in 1983, and is the sole distributor of surplus
food products to over 155 charitable food programs, including soup
kitchens, food shelves and homeless shelters. Other
recipients include low-income individuals in need of supplemental
assistance, group homes, senior programs, youth programs,
addiction treatment centers and domestic abuse prevention
programs. As a non-profit food bank, our primary role is to
provide food to the front-line charitable agencies that feed the
hungry. North Country distributes over 2.1 million pounds of
food in our 21 county service area annually.
424 North Broadway
Crookston, MN
56716
218-281-7356
Director: Susie Novak
susie@northcountryfoodbank.org
www.northcountryfoodbank.org
North Country Home Care
and Hospice
Our focus at North
Country Home Care and Hospice is to provide service that offer
comfort, peace, and dignity for our patients with incurable
illness, and for their families. To this end, we have a team
of compassionate professionals who make home visits to assist you
in the care of your loved one. Do not let concern about
finances keep you from this vital support! Payment for
hospice services is 100% covered by Medicare and frequently
covered by private insurance. With generous donations from
the community and United Way, we are also able to provide services
to those who are not eligible for insurance. No one will be
denied care because of an inability to pay. In hospice, we
provide assistance to the patient and to the family members.
Families who come to North Country Home Care and Hospice for help
receive services customized to their needs. These services
can include: Home visits several time a week by a registered
nurse, social worker, chaplain and/or home care aide care;
management of pain and other difficult symptoms, help with bathing
and grooming, 24-hour assistance and advice, emotional and
spiritual support, patient and caregiver education, coordination
of multiple service, help for family caregivers, bereavement
support, and volunteer support.
3525 Pine Ridge Ave NW
Bemidji, MN 56601
218-333-5665
Director: Jesica Conrad
jconrad@nchs.com
Northern Dental Access
Center
Provides dental care and other family service referrals to low
income families enrolled in Medical Assistance or Minnesota Care
in the Bemidji and surrounding areas. We provide dental
exams, cleanings, fillings, extractions, root canals, and dentures
on site; and provide referrals for specialty care needs to a
variety of providers throughout the state. With Beltrami
County Health and Human Services on site, child and teen exams,
immunizations and other family service referrals are available.
Physical
location:
1405 Anne Street NW
Bemidji, MN 56601
Mailing address:
PO Box 279
Bemidji, MN 56619
Executive Director: Jeanne Edevold Larson
218-444-9646
Jeanne.Larson@northerndentalaccess.org
www.northerndentalaccess.org
Northwoods
Coalition for Family Safety
Northwoods Coalition for Family Safety provides a voice
for battered women and member programs; challenge systems and
institutions so they respond more effectively to the needs of
battered women and their children; promote social change; and
support, educate, and connect member programs.
PO Box 563
Bemidji, MN 56619
218-444-1395
ncbw@paulbunyan.net
http://www.mcbw.org/node/1
Northwoods Interfaith Volunteer Caregivers (NICE)
Northwoods Interfaith
Volunteer Caregivers (NICE) is a volunteer-based organization that
provides services for seniors and other special needs individuals
and families. Through many dedicated volunteers, NICE
provides transportation to medical appointments, shopping
assistance, friendly visiting, and respite care for seniors and
children. With the help of United Way and so many important
caregivers, Northwoods Interfaith enables independent living and
ensures to improve the quality of life for those with disabilities
or special needs. Northwoods Interfaith is “neighbors
helping neighbors”--volunteers making a difference in our
community!
616 America Ave, Ste.
170
Bemidji, MN 56601
Director: Cindi Lee
Jernigan, 218-333-8264 or 888-534-4432
Program Assistant:
Melissa Thomas, 218-333-8266
E-mail:
nice@paulbunyan.net
www.northwoodsnice.org
Paul Bunyan Amateur
Radio Club
The Paul Bunyan Amateur
Radio Club has been providing severe weather reporting (Skywarn),
emergency communications support, and community service to
Beltrami County for over 30 years. Whenever severe weather
threatens, club members are paged by the National Weather Service
or the Beltrami County Emergency Operations Center. Members
immediately go to preplanned locations throughout the county where
we communicate via radio directly with the National Weather
Service radar operators in Grand Forks to provide advance warning
of weather conditions that may threaten the citizens of the
county. The club also maintains and operates the Beltrami
County Emergency Communications Trailer which is deployed as a
mobile command and communications center for law enforcement,
fire, ambulance, and other emergency and public service
responders.
United Way has provided essential funding for the purchase and
maintenance of the equipment required to operate the Skywarn
system and the emergency communications/mobile command trailer.
Although the individual club members donate their time and the use
of their own personal ham radio equipment for these public service
activities, the support of United Way is vital to meet the high
cost of the special equipment needed for the radio link to the
National Weather Service and the emergency communications
equipment used in the mobile command post.
4545 Cartway Road NW
Bemidji, MN 56601
888-843-5126
Contact: Jon Crisman
jcrisman@paulbunyan.net
http://www.qsl.net/bemidji/
Paul Bunyan Senior
Activity Center
The Paul Bunyan Senior Activity Center ensures that seniors who
need assistance, information and referral are assisted. The
Center’s programming teaches seniors to advocate for themselves,
provide opportunities for continuing education of interest to
seniors, social interaction to decrease isolation, and volunteer
opportunities to maintain vitality and a sense of meaning in their
lives. The Center houses the Senior Creations Craft Shop,
Volunteer Income Tax Preparation, AARP Driver Safety Program, and
the Retired Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) and America Reads
Program, all of which give seniors volunteer opportunities as well
as much needed services. The Center also houses the LSS
Nutrition Project, serving five nutritious meals each week, and
the Meals On Wheels Program that reaches out to seniors unable to
come to the Center. There is no age limit for becoming
a member or to participate. A person does not have to be a
member to enjoy our services but membership does have benefits.
216 3rd Street NW
Bemidji, M 56601
218-751-8836
Contact: Diane Engel
bccoa@paulbunyan.net
www.paulbunyan.net/users/bccoa
Restore House
Restore House is a faith based transitional housing program for
individuals in recovery from drugs and alcohol. We provide a
family style structured program which includes housing, meals,
goal setting, job or continued education coaching, financial
planning, continued recovery educational programs, relationship
restoration counseling, and spiritual development. Our goal
is to assist individual coming out of jail or treatments programs
to reenter into the community and become productive members of
society as they maintain their sobriety - teaching them life
skills that will enable them to live healthy fulfilling lives.
1001 Mississippi
Ave
Bemidji, MN 56601
PO Box 1191
Bemidji, MN 56619
218-444-9420
Contact: Tim Pomp
restor@paulbunyan.net
www.restorehousemn.org
Rural Aids Action Network (RAAN(
The Rural AIDS Action Network (RAAN) assists persons living with,
affected by and at risk for HIV/AIDS in rural Minnesota. We do
this through the following programs: medical case management; HIV
counseling, testing and referral; health education/risk reduction;
medical transportation reimbursement, support groups and education
and training.
703 Paul Bunyan Dr NW, Ste 1
Bemidji, MN 56601
218-444-4561
Contact: Cheryl Yarnott, Medical Case Manager
cheryl@raan.org
www.raan.org
Salvation Army
Offers emergency help with basic needs such as food and shelter.
2445 Prior Avenue
Roseville, MN
55113
Service Extension
Director: Joanne Johnson, 800-456-4483,
Joanne.Johnson.lee@usc.slavationarmy.org
NMN Field
Representative: Val Stevens, 218-326-4847
Local Contact: Carol
Campbell, 218-444-8434,
geno@paulbunyan.net
Sexual Assault Program
Since 1977, the Sexual Assault Program of Beltrami, Cass & Hubbard
Counties has been providing advocacy and supportive services to
sexual violence survivors and their families. Support and
information are offered 24 hours a day via our Crisis Line. In
addition, trained staff often accompany survivors during a
medical/forensic exam and through the criminal justice process.
Services are confidential and free of charge to survivors of all
forms of sexual violence. Sexual Assault Program staff also
provide educational presentations and seminars on a variety of
sexual violence issues, ranging from prevalence to prevention.
24 Crisis number:
444-9522
1819 Bemidji Ave. Suite
#3
PO Box 1472
Bemidji, MN 56619
444-9524
Director: Cassondra
Johnson Blackbird,
sapbchc@paulbunyan.net
Volunteer Coordinator:
Kim Zimmerman,
sap_kimzim@hotmail.com
Upper Mississippi Mental Health
Center
Upper Mississippi Mental Health Center, Inc. is a private,
non-profit community mental health center committed to providing
high quality and comprehensive outpatient behavioral health
services to people needing to gain control in one or more areas of
their lives. A comprehensive set of services are provided
for individuals and families with a range of behavioral health
problems and conditions in order to ameliorate existing problems
and prevent future problems that may impede the ability to live a
full, active and productive life. UMMHC serve primarily
clients who do not have private insurance, are on public
assistance, or have no resources. United Way supports the
Child and Adolescent Therapeutic Services program which provides
case management and skills education to Beltrami County children
diagnosed as emotionally disturbed or seriously emotionally
disturbed. The program also provides therapeutic
intervention, family therapy and skills training to improve coping
and social skills, as well as individual and couples work as
needed and parenting education. The primary goal is to
prevent out-of-home placements
722 15th Street
PO Box 640
Bemidji, MN 56619
218-751-3280
Director: Lenore Barsness, Executive Director
lenore_barsness@ummhcmn.org
www.ummhcmn.org
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