A program for displaced homemakers in Beltrami, Cass, Crow Wing, Mille Lacs, Morrison, Todd, Wadena and Douglas counties. Offering career planning and job preparation workshops, pre-employment skills including resume writing, information and referral to services, career choice guidance, and group support. “Displaced Homemakers” include:
1) Spent at least two years in the home providing unpaid household services for family members
2) Been widowed, divorced, separated, or have a partner who has become disabled resulting in the loss of financial support.
The training and services offered provide a supportive environment designed to enhance and build self-esteem and confidence. Services are free to those who qualify.
Staples Campus: 218-894-5132
1830 Airport Road Staples, MN 56479
Call ahead for hours
Employment and training services to residents of Beltrami, Clearwater, Lake of the Woods, Hubbard and Cass Counties.
As a community based humanitarian organization, the American Red Cross Minnesota Region prevents and alleviates human suffering in the face of emergencies by mobilizing the power of volunteers and the generosity of others.
American Red Cross Northern Minnesota serves communities across Rosseau, Lake of the Woods, Beltrami, Clearwater, Mahnomen, Hubbard, Wadena, Cass, Crow Wing, Aitkin, Itasca, Koochiching, Saint Louis, Carlton, Lake and Cook counties in Minnesota, and Douglas County in western Wisconsin. Also serves all tribal nations. Volunteers are always in demand.
AFTER A DISASTER
After a disaster, communities and families turn to the Red Cross for help—and we stand ready to provide comfort and care—free of charge.
The Red Cross helps disaster victims by providing safe shelter, hot meals, essential relief supplies, emotional support and health services like first aid. Trained Red Cross workers often meet one-on-one with families to develop individual plans and identify available resources to help aid recovery.
Red Cross disaster relief focuses on relieving immediate disaster-caused needs so that families can get back on their feet and resume their lives as quickly as possible. The Red Cross also supports emergency workers, links family members outside the disaster area, and provides blood and blood products to disaster victims.
MILITARY FAMILIES
Emergency Communication Services
All day, every day, the Red Cross connects service members with their families back home when an emergency strikes.
Financial Assistance
The Red Cross partners with the military aid societies to help service members and their families get emergency financial assistance 24/7.
Information and Referral Services
The Red Cross provides counseling, guidance, information, referrals and other social services for all military personnel and their families.
Deployment Services
Before, during and after deployments, the Red Cross provides training, information and support for military members and their families.
The Bemidji Area Indian Center intends to serve as a community resource hub for the American Indian families living in and around the Bemidji area.
The Student Center for Health and Counseling is a comprehensive and integrated health care facility that includes both health and counseling services. We provide college students with access to primary health care, ongoing health maintenance, information about health and disease prevention, individualized personal counseling, group therapy, and a host of outreach health education programs. We also provide an integrated approach toward health care that meets individual needs of BSU & NTC students. Available to students enrolled at BSU or NTC.
1500 Birchmont Drive
Cedar Hall 1st Floor
Bemidji MN 56601
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.
The American Cancer Society offers free comprehensive cancer information with day to day emotional support, and a 24 hour information phone line. Free temporary lodging in the Twin Cities or Rochester for families who must travel outside their community for care. The ACS also offers classes, access to a Cancer Network, and special products for women with cancer.
At Hubbard County Developmental Achievement Center, we believe that everyone deserves the opportunity to have a meaningful life, contribute to the community, and experience personal success. The mission of the HCDAC is to provide high quality, specialized services to persons with developmental disabilities and mental illness. These services promote personal growth, dignity and the development of work and social skills and provide opportunities for becoming part of the community.
Our Day Training and Habilitation (DT&H) services are innovative, person-centered, and flexible. We offer a wide range of services, including:
- Individual assessment
- Person-centered planning
- Transition planning from school to work
- Supported employment
- Vocational opportunities
- Life enrichment supports
- Daily living skills training
- Exercise and physical therapy
- Social/recreation activities
- Seniors program
- Transportation
Doherty | The Employment Experts is one of the Midwest’s largest contract and temporary staffing and recruiting agencies. Our company has been connecting great jobs to great people for over 35 years!
Placing great people into work opportunities is our mission, and it’s been a life-changing one for our candidates. We hope you turn to Doherty at every stage of your working life, from your first job, to the peak of your career, to the flexible or short-term opportunities during the busier times of your life.
Whatever your career path, Doherty is here for you!
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.
Providing free, confidential and nonjudgmental crisis intervention, active listening and information and referral services 24 hours per day, 365 days per year.
A community-based group of individuals and agencies coordinating regional suicide prevention efforts. The mission is to promote healthy communities by eliminating suicide in the region through advocacy and community involvement. This group is facilitated by the Beltrami Area Suicide Prevention Program Coordinator.
Local Crisis Line in Beltrami, Hubbard, & Clearwater Counties: 1-800-422-0045
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255
Texting Crisis line, Text “LIFE” to 61222
TXT4LIFE, link to website
Inter-County Community Council is a non-profit, community action agency that serves Red Lake, Pennington, East Polk and Clearwater Counties. Through varied and multiple programs, Inter-County Community Council helps people to build a better Minnesota. For more information on programs relating to energy assistance, family services, self sufficiency, employment & training and ICCC Head Start, please contact the Inter-County Community Council.
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.
A program of Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota. Financial counseling is available from Duluth. LSS is not able to provide these services from it’s Bemidji office.
Budget and Debt Counseling: Trained counselors help you develop a workable budget and an action plan to address all of your debts, and provide coaching and nonjudgmental counseling on all your options for debt repayment based on your individual situation. Services are free.
Debt Management Plan: A good solution if you are being buried in late fees and high interest or even if you are on time but just making no headway in paying down your debts. On a debt management plan you pay your creditors through one payment each month to LSS, allowing a faster way to get debts paid off.
Mahube-Otwa provides services for low income and elderly persons living in Mahnomen, Hubbard, Becker, Otter Tail and Wadena counties.
Mahube-Otwa is a private, non-profit corporation governed by a volunteer board of directors representing the low income, public and private sectors of the community.
Services include:
Head Start
Family Development and Housing
Child Care and Relative Caregivers
Child Passenger Safety Education
Senior Programs
Energy Programs
Family Health
Call for application assistance and Program details.
NBWS is a domestic violence emergency crisis shelter and advocacy program supporting victim/survivors of intimate partner violence. NBWS provides emotional support, items to meet basic needs (personal hygiene products, clothing, household items), transportation, and referrals to other resources, such as mental health services. NBWS also provides legal advocacy which includes assistance with filling out Orders for Protection and Harassment Restraining Orders, court accompaniment (for civil or criminal cases), tracking court matters on behalf of victim/survivors, and referrals to legal resources. NBWS provides individual, institutional and social change advocacy.
Crisis/TTY 218-751-0211
Toll-Free 800-588-6229 (24 hour)
Business 218-444-1395
The Ombudsman is an independent governmental official who recieves complaints against government (and government regulated) agencies and/or its officials, who investigates, and who if the complaints are justified, takes action to remedy the complaints. The Office of Ombudsman Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities (OMHDD) provides resources in regarding: 1) Client Services, 2) Medical Review, and 3) Civil Commitment Training.
An Ombudsman serves people enrolled in Minnesota Health Care Programs including Medical Assistance (MA) and MinnesotaCare. An Ombudsman can help enrollees get needed care and resolve billing problems by providing information and assistance with the managed care grievance and appeal process available through the health plan and the state; working as a problem solver, a neutral investigator and an advocate for fair and equal treatment.
ODC provides job opportunities for individuals with disabilities and other employment barriers. For those with a diagnosed, verifiable disability.
Individual Placement Services provides job opportunities for people who have been diagnosed with a serious and persistent mental illness. For those with a diagnosed, verifiable disability.
Baudette:
107 East Main Street, Baudette, MN 56623
218-634-2483 / Fax: 218-634-2951
Grand Rapids:
401 11th Street SE, Grand Rapids, MN 55744
218-326-8574 / Fax: 218-326-8447
Roseau:
1194 Center Street West, Roseau, MN 56751
218-463-1123 / Fax: 218-463-3973
Planned Parenthood’s nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and doctors are among the best-trained and most experienced experts in sexual and reproductive health. As specialists in this field of medicine, we offer a level of nonjudgmental care that’s hard to find anywhere else.
Planned Parenthood believes giving and getting reliable information leads to a healthier world. Our education work extends beyond lessons in anatomy, birth control, and STD prevention, to explore healthy relationships and sexuality. Millions across the country trust us to provide up-to-date, clear, medically accurate information in a safe, respectful environment.
Wellness & Preventive Care
Annual Exams
Birth Control
Morning-After Pill (Emergency Contraception)
Fertility Awareness Education
Online Services
Online Visits for birth control, or screening and treatment for UTIs or STDs.
Birth Control Refills
Appointment Scheduling
Lab Results & Medical Records
Online Bill Pay
Reproductive Procedures
Abortion Services
Colposcopy and LEEP
Essure (Tubal Sterilization)
Vasectomy
Miscarriage Management
Labs & Tests
Pap Tests
Pregnancy Testing & Options Counseling
HIV Testing, Education, and Referral
Testing & Treatment for:
STDs and STIs
Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs)
Vaginal Infections
Vaccinations
HPV Vaccines
Hepatitis B Vaccines
Low- to No-Cost Services
Uninsured? High deductible? If you’re concerned about the cost of care, you may be eligible for low- to no-cost services.