Anishinabe Legal Services is a Legal Services Corporation (LSC) grantee and independent 501(c)(3) non-profit that provides free legal assistance to low-income individuals living on or near the Leech Lake, Red Lake, & White Earth Reservations in Northwestern Minnesota.

ALS represents clients before tribal courts, state courts, and agencies to help them protect their rights. Anishinabe Legal Services has offices in Leech Lake, Red Lake, and White Earth.

Residents of Leech Lake, White Earth, and Red Lake reservations whose income and assets fall within the financial eligibility guidelines. Services are also provided to residents of Leech Lake, White Earth, Grand Portage, and Bois Forte who are 60 and older regardless of income.

Civil and legal services without charge to low income or elderly citizens.  Income and asset poverty guidelines apply.  Bemidji office serves Beltrami, Clearwater, Hubbard, Lake of the Woods, and Mahnomen Counties.

Senior Volunteer Support Services:

Volunteers provide services such as grocery shopping assistance and local transportation for medical or other pre-approved appointments.  (We are unable to provide MA Medical Transportation)  Services are billed on a sliding fee scale.  Requests must be made 3-5 days before the need.

Homemaking and Chore Services:

Homemakers provide light housekeeping, meal preparation, laundry assistance, and shopping as needed.  Services available through county alternative care or elderly waiver, long term care insurance, and private pay basis.

Respite Care:

7 days a week 24 hours per day based on availability.  Certified nursing assistants or qualified volunteers provide relief for the primary caregivers of persons who are chronically ill or living with a disability.  There must be an identified primary caregiver to qualify for this service.  Respite care is available through county alternative care or elderly waiver, long term care insurance and also on a private pay basis on a sliding fee scale.

Powerful Tools for Caregivers:

An evidence based series of six week educational classes focusing on the needs of the caregiver, or family and friends who are caring for older adults, suffering from stroke, Alzheimer’s Parkinson’s disease or similar long term conditions.  The class provides skills and confidence to better care for yourself while caring for others.

Caregiver Coaching and Assessment:

Providing education and emotional support to caregivers.  The support group provides an opportunity for caregivers to say what they are feeing in a supportive environment while learning new strategies and resources in our community.

Caregiver Support Group:

The primary purpose of the Caregiver Support Group is to provide education and emotional support to caregivers.  The support group provides an opportunity for caregivers to say what they are feeling in a supportive environment while learning new strategies and resources in our community.

Aging Life Care Management: 

A holistic, client-centered approach to caring for older adults or others facing ongoing health challenges.  Working with individuals, elders and families, the expertise of Aging Life Care Professionals provides the answers at a time of uncertainty through: Assessment and Service Coordination; Planning and Problem-Solving, Education and Advocacy; Family Caregiver Coaching.

ACT on Alzheimer’s:

A national program designed to create dementia friendly communities that involves: 1) Raising awareness of Alzheimer’s, 2) Transforming attitudes, 3) Moving people to action, and 4) Supporting family and friend caregivers by providing accessible information, resources, and in-person support.  There are multiple options and a variety of services and package plans.  Contact us to inquire about specific costs and to find out if you are eligible to receive a reduced rate.

Adult Day Services of Bemidji offers a reliable, caring and supportive environment where Seniors of varying abilities can go for socialization, healthy meals, health observation, and recreation. Seniors and their caregivers may choose Adult Day Services as a respite option or as a place for the Senior to be while the caregiver is at work all day. Support services are available for the caregivers as they transition their family member into higher degrees of service.

Adult Day Services has handicap buses available to transport Seniors to and from their homes within a 10 mile radius of Bemidji. The buses are available for use by the public if the drivers participate in training, have appropriate licensure and insurance and are approved by ADS. Funding is provided by United Way and CADI. ADS clients are charged 50 cents per mile, billable to MA.

Key programs: Single Family Housing Guaranteed Loan Program, Community Facilities Direct Loan and Grant Program, Socially-Disadvantaged Groups Grant, Water and Waste Disposal Loan and Grant Program, Single Family Housing Direct Home Loans, Rural Energy for America Program, Renewable Energy Systems and Energy Efficiency Improvement Loans and Grants, Multi-Family Housing Loan Guarantees, Business and Industry Loan Guarantees.

Retraining for today’s workplace through paid placement within area nonprofits: 18-21 hours per week.  Services provided at no cost.  Included: Job search classes, on line and classroom occupational skills.  Training:  resume preparation.  Must be 55 or older; unemployed, and meet household income criteria.

Legal help that changes lives:

For 100 years, Legal Aid has worked in pursuit of helping Minnesota’s most vulnerable citizens gain access to their basic rights for safety, shelter, food, health care and education. And with the support of hundreds of Minnesotans, we’ve had the privilege to change lives along the way.

Dedicated to protecting rights and improving lives.

Our lawyers give a voice to those who may not otherwise be heard by providing the highest quality legal help to our clients, who are often among the most vulnerable families and individuals in the community. Beyond that, we seek changes in policies and systems that ease the way for many others. And we use technologies to more efficiently serve our clients and work with the judicial system. Our volunteers work to give our most vulnerable citizens a fighting chance; our donors make it all possible with much needed financial support — and together, we make a difference every day.

Protecting rights, improving lives:

Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid provides free civil legal services to people with low incomes in central Minnesota through offices in Minneapolis, St. Cloud and Willmar. Our experienced staff assist clients with a variety of legal issues. Services range from educating clients about their rights, to advocating on their behalf and representing clients in court.

Disability Law

The Minnesota Disability Law Center (MDLC) provides free civil legal assistance to individuals with disabilities statewide on legal issues related to their disabilities.

Moving justice forward:

Legal Aid’s policy advocates champion a wide range of issues that impact thousands of Minnesotans every year. We are the voice for the voiceless in the legislature, and we bring highly specialized technical skills to bear at all stages of the legislative process.

Our mission is to provide a quality and creative approach to individual and community based exercise programming to ultimately control and prevent diabetes in our community.

Also note: person(s) do not need to have Diabetes to use the fitness center.

Membership includes

• Orientation with fitness equipment – Those who have diabetes will have priority on any of the exercise machines
• Fitness assessments, personal exercise plans
• Personal training sessions
• Group exercise classes – Click here for current class schedule >
• Fitness challenges with incentives
• Annual memorial walk/run
• Monitor blood sugar pre/post exercise (if needed)
• Monitor blood pressure pre/post exercise (if needed)
• Help obtain medical clearance (if needed)
• Locker room with showers
• Pool use at Palace and Northern Lights Casinos

Eligibility Requirements

Open to all community members

Documents Requested

Medical Clearance – fitness staff will determine if person(s) need a medical clearance from their provider before fitness center use.

Those who do not qualify for a free membership will pay:

Fees are nonrefundable & nontransferable.

Method of payment

Cash or check

Gym Rules

• Diabetic clients have first priority on the equipment
• Use equipment at your own risk
• Sanitize equipment after use
• Return all equipment after use and re-rack your weights
• No horseplay allowed
• Appropriate footwear required while using equipment and lifting weights
• Know your limits; use a spotter as needed
• No gym bags, coats, etc. on gym floor; use lockers and coat rack
• Not responsible for lost or stolen items; locks available upon request
• No food allowed on the gym floor
• All liquids must be in containers with lids
• For safety reasons, no children under 10 allowed
• Be considerate of others

Code of Behavior

All fitness center participants are required to conduct themselves in an appropriate manner. Inappropriate language (swearing, derogatory terms, etc.), inappropriate behavior and harassment are not allowed on the premises. Proper use of the equipment is required. If you do not know how to operate the machines, the fitness staff will be happy to assist you. There is a zero tolerance policy when it comes to horseplay in the fitness center and on the machines. You will be asked to leave if you do not follow the Code of Behavior and Gym Rules!

Age Restrictions

• Children 13 and under must have an adult with to supervise them during each visit.
• Children 11 and under must have a medical clearance on file.
• For safety reasons, no children under 10 allowed.
• Young adults 14-17, who do not follow the Gym Rules and Code of Behavior, will need to have an adult accompany them on future visits.

Lockers/Showers

Lockers are available for your use while working out; there is no overnight storage. If you want to use a lock, you can sign one out, free of charge, from the Fitness Staff. Showers are also available. You must provide your own towel and shower supplies.

Pool Agreement

The Leech Lake Diabetes Fitness Program has an agreement with the Palace and Northern Lights Hotels for members of the Fitness Center to use their pools free of charge. You must obtain signed documents from the Fitness Staff to bring to the hotel. All rules and regulations of the hotel pool must be followed and will be enforced.

Medical Clearance

If the Health History Questionnaire identifies a medical condition, you must have a medical clearance to exercise. Please ask Fitness Staff for a blank copy of our medical clearance form for your medical provider to fill out.

Nursing Home facility in Red Lake, MN

Baker Park is a residence for elderly individuals located in Bemidji, Minnesota. The facility is situated in a picturesque lakeside setting within a short distance of the downtown area with shopping, library, transportation, recreational facilities, and many churches nearby. It has easy bus access to the hospital, medical clinic, and shopping mall.

Eligibility Criteria
Age – 62 and older
Financial – HUD guidelines impose income limits and require that tenants generally pay 30 percent of adjusted gross income toward their rent. Income limits change. Please check on current limits.
Community Living at Baker Park – A person may be considered capable of living in a community setting at Baker Park if he/she is able to live up to the terms of the lease and can handle the activities of daily living.
Lease – Tenants are required to sign a one-year lease upon move-in.

DHHS provides direct consumer assistance regarding communication access; services to persons with combined hearing and vision loss; training and consultation; assistive technology demonstration labs; employment technology loans; mental health counseling; and telecommunications equipment.

The TED program provides telephone equipment to Minnesotans who have a hearing loss, speech disability or physical disability that limits their use of a standard telephone.  The equipment is provided on a long term basis at no cost, as long as the individual/family meets the State’s requirements.

When caring for yourself or your loved one becomes too difficult, living alone is no longer appealing, mowing your own lawn, or making your own meals is too trying, contact us at GoldPine Home for a tour and personalized needs assessment.

As a state-certified assisted-living facility, we specialize in providing short-term and long-term care for community seniors who cannot or no longer want to live alone.

Philosophy of GoldPine Home

GoldPine Home believes that quality healthcare is a basic right.  We believe in providing an environment that focuses on resident choice and independence while maintaining safety and family involvement.  We see staff, residents, their families, and ourselves as a unique diverse family.  As with all families communication is key to a valuable united experience, so another focus is maintaining open lines of communication.  That said we strive to make necessary services available in a comprehensive, coordinated manner.  We will fulfill needs with our current staffing or contact other community services as needed.  To summarize, our total focus is on meeting the needs of our elders through compassionate and individualized care.

So, when you are looking for a 24-hour assisted-living facility, there is one company you can trust, GoldPine Home.  With our preplanned activities we guarantee you will have the time of your life.

24 hour on-site licensed staff
24 hours/day RN on call

Havenwood….where residents are cared for without regard to age, sex, race, color, creed, religion, handicap, or national origin.  The Home is licensed by the State of Minnesota, certified for Medicare and Medicaid, and complies with all standards mandated by regulating agencies.

Havenwood Care Center (formerly Beltrami County Nursing Home) has a long history of caring for the elderly.  Originally, long-term care services were provided at the Lake Julia farm, 15 miles north of Bemidji.  From 1917 until 1968, that facility was one of the few in the region dedicated to the ill and aged who required long-term care.  In 1968, the old home was retired and a new 85 bed facility opened at our current location.  In 1974, a 48 bed addition extended capacity to 133 beds.  We currently utilize 90 beds.

Although the site has changed, the same dedication and spirit of love and understanding exists.  We continue our pledge to maintain the highest possible standards of nursing care and to provide social, recreational, intellectual, spiritual, physical and re-motivational activities specifically designed to meet individual needs.

Havenwood is a place where the joys, frustrations, and excitement of living are shared by residents and staff.

Areas Served

Leech Lake Reservation, Cass County, Beltrami County, Hubbard County & Itasca County

Title III. Congregate Meals

Meal provision to an elderly client or other eligible participant at a nutrition site, senior center or some other congregate setting.

Eligibility Requriements

Persons who are 60+ years of age or older and spouse, regardless of age and other eligible individuals.

Documents Requested

• Proof of age
• Proof of residency

Intake Procedure

Walk-in or call for more information

Fees

None, contributions are accepted.

Guests can eat for the cost of $4.50.

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Title III. Home Delivered Meals

Meal provision to an elder or other eligible participant at the client’s place of residence.

Eligibility Requriements

Home delivered meal recipients must be 60 years of age or older, home bound by reason of illness, disability or functional need, and unable to prepare their own meals. Meals may be made available to individuals with disabilities who reside in a non-institutional household with and are accompanied by an individual eligible for congregate meals.

Documents Requested

• Proof of age
• Proof of residency

Intake Procedure

Walk-in or call for more information

Fees

None, contributions are accepted.

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Title VI. Congregate and Home Delivered Meals

Eligibility will include enrolled members of any recognized tribe aged 55-59 years or over within the program service area. Eligibility will include spouse, handicapped or disabled individual in the same household of the eligible participant who accompany participant to a congregate site.

Documents Requested

• Proof of age
• Proof of residency

Intake Procedure

Walk-in or call for more information

Fees

None, contributions are accepted.

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Title VI. Part C – Caregiver Program

Hours 8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Native American Family Caregiver Support Program Requirements

Native American Family Caregiver Support Program can serve two types of unpaid family caregivers:

1. Family caregivers: An adult family member, or another individual, who is an unpaid informal provider of in-home and community care to an older individual or to an individual with Alzheimer’s disease or a related disorder with neurological and organic brain dysfunction.
2. Grandparents or older individuals who are relative caregivers: A grandparent or step grandparent of a child, or relative of a child by blood marriage, or adoption, who is 55 years of age or older and
   • lives with the child;
   • is the primary caregiver of the child because the biological or adoptive parents are unable or unwilling to serve as the primary caregiver of the child; and
   • has a legal relationship to the child, as such legal custody or guardianship, or is raising the child informally.

The five required services are:

1. Information to caregivers about available services.
2. Assistance to caregivers in gaining access to services.
3. Individual counseling, organization of support groups, and caregivers training to assist the caregivers in the area of health, nutrition, and financial literacy, and in making decisions and solving problems relating to their caregiving roles.
4. Respite care to enable caregivers of frail elders to be temporarily and intermittently relieved from their cargiving responsibilities.
5. Supplemental services, on a limited basis, to caregivers of frail elders to complement the care provided by caregivers.

Documents Requested

• Proof of age
• Proof of residency

Intake Procedure

Walk-in or call for more information

Satellite Sites

We offer tools and training for employment and for helping seniors remain independent and active. As Minnesota’s accessible reading source we also transcribe books and other materials into alternative formats, including audio and braille. We assist Minnesotans who are blind, DeafBlind, losing vision, or who have another disability that makes it difficult to read print.

Foster Grandparent:

Make a lasting difference in the lives of children and youth. Our Foster Grandparent Program provides opportunities for volunteers 55 and over to work with kids across the state.

Disability Hub MN offers information about community resources related to people with disabilities, including housing, home and community-based services, and disability and cash benefits. This statewide service is a ‘no wrong door’ information and referral service for people with disabilities, their families, and support team. Disability Hub MN can be reached statewide by calling toll-free at 1-866-333-2466. The Hub is available Monday through Friday 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., to provide one-to-one assistance to help people learn about their options and connect with the supports and services they choose.

At https://disabilityhubmn.org/ users can chat online with a Hub staff and/or view other Disability Hub MN resources and tools.

The Office of Ombudsman for Long-Term Care is a program of the Minnesota Board on Aging. Regional ombudsmen and volunteers work to enhance the quality of life and services for people receiving long-term services and supports. The program also advocates for reform in long-term care through changes in state law, federal law and administrative policy.