Evergreen operates a Drop-In Center for youth and young adults up to age 24, along with the Evergreen Youth Shelter for minors ages 9-17.
ALL SERVICES ARE FREE.
YOUTH SHELTER (Ages 9-17)
622 Mississippi Ave Bemidji, MN 56601
218-751-4332
Youth ages 9-17 who are experiencing an immediate personal or family crisis. The shelter can house up to 10 youth at a time and is open 24 hours a day, 365 days per year.
YOUTH DROP-IN CENTER ( Ages 14-24)
610 Patriot Dr. NW Bemidji, MN 56601
218-751-8223
Services:
- HOT MEAL Lunch on weekdays Noon – 1:30pm
- SHOWER LAUNDRY & TECHNOLOGY
- HOUSING
- EDUCATION & JOB SUPPORT
- ID’S & BIRTH CERTIFICATES
- YOUTH COUNSELING 218-751-8223 (ask for Cori)
LOCAL CRISIS LINE 1-800-422-0045
NATIONAL SUICIDE PREVENTION LINE 988
CRISIS TEXT LINE TEXT “MN” to 741741
Recreational Classes and USAG Competitive Gymnastics for Youth Age 1-18
At the Gym Bin, we are committed to not just developing gymnasts, but the development of individuals as a whole. The benefits of being involved in gymnastics carry over to many areas of our athletes’ lives, some of which include:
· Self-Confidence · Flexibility · Strength · Agility ·
· Coordination · Determination · Discipline · Mental Focus ·
Overall Fitness and Well Being for Now and the Future!
Walker: 218-547-1853
Walker Area Community Center
105 Tower Ave
P.O.Box 327
Walker, MN 56484
Deer River: 218-246-3440
500 5th Street SE Deer River, MN 56636
Services provided:
- Health and life skills
- Character and leadership development
- The Arc (Arts and crafts)
- Sports/recreation/fitness
- Education and career
Community Mental Health Center:
Provide psychotherapy to adults, adolescents and children as well as Psychological evaluations. Adult Rehabilitative Mental Health Service (ARMHS), Children’s Therapeutic Support Services (CTSS) and Care Coordinators to assist with intakes
Substance Use Disorder (SUD):
Individual and group outpatient services for youth and adults; including Comprehensive Assessments.
Foster Care and Adoption:
Supporting adoptive parents with the matching process through finalization of a special needs child. Professional foster care for youth ages 0-21- and 24-hour case management services. Families must meet MN DHS requirements to become a licensed provider.
Winnie Way:
Therapeutic transitional living program, providing support to adolescent girls who have been sexually exploited and/or trafficked. Serves girls ages 16-21. Programming is client-centered approach and trauma-informed care model. Residents receive services tailored to their individual needs and treatment goals. Contact: Colbi Ikola @ 218-820-0121
Hawkins Home:
Transitional living program for girls ages 16-21. This home offers supportive and structured living environment with a focus on building the skills and competencies necessary for a successful transition into young adulthood. Programming is individualized and based upon client-identified goals and areas of need. Contact: Colbi Ikola @ 218-820-0121
Headwaters Science Center has a mission to provide intellectual stimulation and enjoyment for children, adults, and educational organizations in northern Minnesota using hands-on science and technology exhibits and programs. Our vision is to inspire scientific discovery and love of learning for all. Thank you for your participation in fulfilling our mission and vision.
The HSC exhibit floor is 7,500 sq. feet and is self-guided and hands-on. Most exhibits require active participation by the visitor. Some require dexterity and/or creativity, but all result in better understanding and appreciation of scientific principles and concepts. More than 70 hands-on exhibits and a variety of animals await your visit. Stop back often, as we are constantly building and adding more exhibits.
Headwaters Science Center offers a variety of programs that offer age-appropriate learning.
HSC offers a variety of demonstrations. Staff are trained and lead the demonstration for the group. It’s a great way to learn more about these topics either at HSC or at your site!
Field Trips to HSC: school groups, clubs and organizations, churches and community groups. Group rates apply. Transportation scholarships available for schools. Please call for pricing and reservations.
BI-CAP Bemidji Location: 6603 Bemidji Avenue North Bemidji MN 56601 OR PO Box 579 Bemidji MN 56619
Telephone: 218-751-4631 or 1-800-332-7161
BI-CAP Walker Location: 8245 Industrial Park Road NW Walker MN 56484
Mailing address: PO Box 995 Walker MN 56484
Telephone: 218-547-3438 or 1-800-332-7135
PROGRAMS INCLUDE:
Supportive Housing Program: Rental Assistance, Family Homeless Prevention, Transitional Housing, Housing Locator Program, Emergency Solutions Housing, HUD Scattered Site Housing, Long Term Homeless Rental Assistance, Permanent Supportive Housing.
Weatherization: A variety of options that work to improve the energy efficiency and safety of existing housing.
Energy Assistance: Financial assistance to help pay a portion of home energy and heating bills; income eligibility guidelines apply.
Energy Crisis Program: Financial response to a heating emergency
Energy Related Repair: for homeowners experiencing a life threatening no-heat emergency.
Youth Build: An educational program for ages 16-24 who have left the traditional school system. Providing an opportunity for youth to spend 32 hours per week in academics, leadership development, and construction training.
YouthBuild is located at 3023 Mill Street NE Bemidji MN 56601.
Head Start and Early Head Start (EHS) : Prenatal, infant toddler, preschool and family development program providing may free services to eligible families.
BI-CAP Head Start Locations:
Bemidji: 1603 Bemidji Avenue NW Bemidji MN 56601
Blackduck: 372 Summit Ave W, Blackduck, MN 56630 / 218-835-7164
Walker: 301 4th Street Walker MN 56484 (co-located with Walker schools)
Pine River: 401 Murray Avenue Pine River, MN 56474 (co-located with Pine River schools) / 218-947-4813
What the Club does every day helps improve the lives of children. Club activities support youth development in four key program areas:
- ACADEMIC SUCCESS to help youth achieve academic goals, stay in school, explore career interests, learn new skills and consider post-secondary education options.
- HEALTH & WELL-BEING to help youth engage in positive behaviors that nurture well-being, set personal goals and grow into self-sufficient adults, including daily physical activity, healthy food choices and an appreciation for the outdoors.
- CHARACTER & LEADERSHIP to empower youth to become engaged in the Club and the community, sustain meaningful relationships, and respect one another.
- LIFE & WORKFORCE READINESS to equip to navigate adulthood and pursue a fulfilling economically valuable career path.
BEMIDJI CLUBHOUSE
J.W. SMITH BRANCH
BLACKDUCK BRANCH
Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 191
Bemidji, MN 56619
Since 1994, Stellher Human Services, Inc. has been helping families and children with crisis, counseling, and stabilization services in several northern Minnesota counties including Becker, Beltrami, Clearwater, Hubbard, Koochiching, Lake of the Woods, Mahnomen, Wadena, and Ottertail.
Stellher Human Services, Inc. also contracts with five county social service agencies and 18 school districts to provide school-based and home-based mental health services. Stellher Human Services, Inc. has a sliding fee discount program and will not discriminate on ability to pay.
Student First: A school-based, community-driven program that helps youth identify their strengths and empowers theme to pursue their life goals. Support and guidance are provided to students by professional program staff and a one-on-one, caring adult Success Coach. Located at Bemidji Middle School, Bemidji High School and Kelliher Public Schools.
Bemidji Middle School Truancy Tracker Program: Provides mentoring, tutoring, adult role models and any other necessary means of support to youths in Grades 6-8 to help identify and address issues contributing to truancy.
Re-Engagement Case Management: Provides case management services to students with attendance issues who attend Bemidji High School, Voyageurs Expeditionary School, and Blackduck Schools to reduce truant behavior and prevent court involvement.
Truancy Case Management: Provides case management services to students and families who are involved in the Court system due to truancy.
Mission Statement: Making a difference by connecting community needs and University resources to address critical issues in Minnesota.
As a branch of the University of Minnesota Extension Service, Beltrami County Extension Service is committed to delivering high-quality, relevant educational programs and information to it’s citizens and communities. Our statewide network of researchers, educators, and volunteers addresses critical needs by focusing on issues where research-based education can make a difference.
Voyageurs Area Council Contact Information
Voyageurs Area Council
3877 Stebner Road
Hermantown, MN, 55811
Go to our website to e-mail us.
Scouts do stuff. They build things. Play with purpose. Make friends and work together. Set goals and achieve them. They go places. Physically. Mentally. Spiritually. These life-changing experiences — and the confidence they provide — form a foundation a Scout can stand on to embrace opportunity and overcome obstacles in life.
Benefits of Scouting
Scouting provides experiences that help prepare youth for their future. Scouting helps youth develop academic skills, self-confidence, ethics, leadership skills, and citizenship skills that influence their adult lives.
Scouting fosters the spirit of discovery for future innovators and leaders by investing in new and relevant programs such as STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). These programs also provide youth with a platform to learn important life skills that help them combat major societal concerns.
Scouting provides youth with programs and activities that allow them the opportunity to :
Try new things
Provide service to others
Build self-confidence
Reinforce ethical decision making
Scouting Programs and Information:
Awards and Recognition
Boy Scouting Program
Cub Scouting Program
Exploring Program
Learning For Life Program
Order of the Arrow
Varsity Scouting Program
Venturing Program
Chartered Organizations
Community-based organizations receive national charters to use the Scouting program as a part of their own youth work. These groups, which have goals compatible with those of the BSA, include religious, educational, civic, fraternal, business, and labor organizations; governmental bodies; corporations; professional associations; and citizens’ groups
Whether she’s just starting out or ready to lead, Girl Scouts is where girls grow through friendship, fun, and fearless exploration—building skills, confidence, curiosity, and lasting connection.
We are 2.7 million strong – 1.9 million girls and 800,000 adults who believe that when girls are given the opportunity they can change the world.
Waite Park Regional Center & Retail Shop400 Second Ave S |
Recreation: Camping, lodging, hiking trails, volleyball court, playground, picnic shelter, winter warming house, swimming beach, wheelchair accessible pier fishing, canoe access.
Shelter Space: Space available for reservations: Daily use dining hall for up to 120 people and a picnic shelter.
Park highlights
- Camping
- Fishing
- Unique Ecosystem
- Bog Walk
- Eagle/Osprey Viewing
- Lake Recreation
Compassion, Commitment, Integrity, Responsibility
The Mission of Independent School District 309 is to work together to prepare today’s learners for tomorrow’s challenges through: sharing of ideas and acceptance of diversity, efficient use of resources, (including staff, finances, curriculum, physical plant, and technology and area wide support services), thereby providing for maximum academic and personal growth.
Fostering communication, compassion and connection leading to respectful relationships and healthier individuals and communities.
Social Emotional Learning: Training for students and educators
ACEs Education: For educators and communities on Adverse Childhood Experiences and building resiliency
Cultural Responsiveness: Consultation and training on how to respond to a wide variety of cultural perspectives.
Mindfulness training: For students and educators
STAR (Students Teaching Attitudes of Respect): Youth leadership program for 6th-7th graders conducted in conjunction with the Northwest Minnesota Foundation.
St. Philip’s School is a Catholic school serving students from pre-k through eighth grade. We have been in existence for over eighty years providing a strong religious and academic education to those who enter our doors.
St. Philip’s School Philosophy
St. Philip’s School is an integral part of a program developed to carry out the religious and educational mission of the St. Philip’s Catholic Community. It serves students in prekindergarten through eighth grade.
St. Philip’s School is committed to a strong academic program recognizing the value and potential of each child and fostering growth (spiritually, physically, emotionally, intellectually, and socially) through relationships with God, their creator and each other.
St. Philip’s School promotes greater awareness of global peace and justice. This is accomplished by providing each child meaningful experiences of prayer, worship, service and community building and by developing a positive attitude toward self, others, and learning.
Guided by the Holy Spirit, St. Philip’s School strives to be a worshiping community of believers in which the Good News of Jesus Christ is proclaimed and witnessed.
St. Philip’s School Additional Services:
*Speech Services through ISD #31. Services are held at St. Philip’s School.
*Title 1 is offered through ISD #31. Title 1 is extra help in reading and math to supplement classroom work. Services are held at St. Philip’s School.
*Reading Corp. Services are held at St. Philip’s School.
Accreditation
St. Philip’s School is accredited through the Minnesota Nonpublic Schools
Accrediting Association (MNSAA).
Red Lake Elementary School (RLES) and the Early Childhood Center (ECC) is an indescribably amazing and important place! Within these two buildings, over 700 precious young lives spend a good portion of their day! With that in mind, it is very, very important that your child loves school! Truly, there is very little that is more essential than for a young person to have a rich and enjoyable school experience.
Community Education
Community Education at the Red Lake School District #38 provides a Holistic Approach to educational based programming, activities and events. The best interest of the reservation community includes finding ways to utilize the funding which will be inclusive of residents of all ages.
Community Education Youth Leadership
The Leadership portion of Community Education gives students the opportunity to develop skills which will apply to life skills. This includes time management, cooperation in groups, volunteering for projects which enhance the reservation community, job skills and a connection to education through good school attendance.
Students are recruited to assist with the projects that Comedu offers such as the Teen Health Fair, Comprehensive Health Fair, sports events, educational camps, field trips, concessions at the Red Lake High School and collaborative efforts with other programs.
Youth Enrichment
The theory of Best Practice in the educational system means that students are able to learn and enrich their horizons by hands on learning. Along with hands on learning we recognize that Native youth have certain learning styles. As each student has a learning style which may be different, acknowledging and honoring the child and youth enriches their perspective of the educational system. Collaborations with Targeted Services, Home School Liaisons, Comprehensive Health,Chemical Health, Indian Health Services,Oshkiimaajitadah and other programs gives Community Education the ability to provide services to students.
Enrichment projects are also Cultural based, Native American, primarily Ojibwe. There have been several films made by students along with drum making, beading, craft designs. Youth have been encouraged in projects such as Targeted
Service to increase knowledge through hands on learning.
Kloster Park
Kloster Park is a summer baseball/softball program based in Clearbrook, Mn. Both boys and girls 9-13 years of age are eligible to attend. This give students one day per week for eight weeks to meet other youth from the surrounding area. There is
a World Series at Clearbrook which brings together families and numerous communities.
Students who have participated at Kloster Park are eligible to become coaches and/or umpires when they turn fifteen. This is a great opportunity for youth to use this coaching time on their resumes.
Teen Health Fair
Each year on the first Friday of November, Community Education along with numbers of partnerships/collaborators hold a Teen Health Fair at the Red Lake High School.
The Teen Health Fair, an annual event hosts a Holistic approach
to student’s cultural background. There is a host drum which is in the middle of the gym and a variety of disciplines.
Indian Health Services, Comprehensive Health Services, Evergreen House, Chemical Health, Early Childhood Family Education, Red Lake Tribal College, massage therapy, biofeedback, herbal therapy, aroma therapy, diabetes information and numbers of other booths are available as resources and education for students.
Parents As Teachers
Community Education is a partner with the Parents As Teachers program. Parents As Teachers is a curriculum that gives parents the opportunity to learn about being their children’s first teachers. The classes are geared for Early Childhood but can be used for children of any age.
Classes are offered at the Early Childhood center at Red Lake and at Oshkimaajiitahdaa.
Workshops
Community Education has hosted numbers of workshops with themes on Parent Education, Prevention of birth defects, prevention of fetal alcohol syndrome, Parents As Teachers and other related topics. It is the intention of the Red Lake School district to provide educational outreach for the families and reservation community.
55 and over Insurance classes
It is our intention to hold the 55+ classes each year. There are the regular classes and the renewal classes. We have not been able to secure an instructor this past year but are working to continue this service.
Crafts Classes
Crafts classes are held in Ponemah at the Boy’s and Girl’s club. The classes are for adults but the environment at the club helps so that participants can bring children who can then have their own activities. Classes will be blanket making, pillow making and other crafts. Christmas there is cookie making and an assortment of fun give away presents. LIVIT
Community Education is a partner with the Department of Indian Works, Minneapolis which has provided us with a curriculum to teach Sexual Health. Workshops are offered in the Red Lake High School and Oshiimaajitahdaa.
Summer Activities
Summer activities for youth are planned with a number of partners which also include Red Lake Law Enforcement. It is the intent of the district to assist in planning a continuum for a variety of activities during the summer.
Community Education Advisory Board
The Community Education Advisory Board has four meetings per year. The board is a volunteer group and discusses what resources are available for the reservation community.
Shriners Hospitals for Children is one of the largest pediatric sub-specialty health care systems in the world, providing specialized care to children with orthopaedic conditions, burns, spinal cord injuries, and cleft lip and palate.
We are dedicated to improving the lives of children through innovative care, world-class research and outstanding teaching programs for medical professionals.
Each of our 22 locations specializes in one or more of our broad service lines. All care and services are provided to children up to age 18 regardless of the families’ ability to pay.
Outpatient Clinic
215 Radio Dr.
Suite 100
Woodbury, Minnesota 55125, United States
- Orthopedics
- Craniofacial
- Pediatric Surgery
- Rheumatology
Care beyond cost
We are committed to providing the best care for children in our specialty areas of Orthopaedics, Burn Care, Spinal Cord Injury, and Cleft Lip and Palate, regardless of a family’s ability to pay.
Orthopaedics
We’ve treated orthopaedic conditions since the founding of our first hospital in 1922. With a large full-time staff of pediatric orthopaedic surgeons in the United States, as well as a comprehensive team of physical, occupational, speech and other therapists, we are able to provide customized care to each child.
Burn care
Since first treating burn survivors in the 1960s, we’ve pioneered some of the most significant advancements in burn care. We provide advanced care for burn injuries and related scarring, along with physical rehabilitation and emotional support.
Spinal cord injury
We were the first health care system in the country to develop spinal cord injury rehabilitation centers designed specifically for children. Our groundbreaking research has led to innovative treatment techniques, providing care that helps children lead a full, active and healthy life.
Cleft lip and palate
Our cleft lip and palate reconstruction program gives kids a reason to smile. Each treatment plan is crafted uniquely for the child by a team of experts working together to improve a child’s eating, breathing, communication, self-esteem and appearance.
Minnesota 4-H youth development offers age-appropriate, hands-on learning via short and long-term projects and activities including: 4-H clubs, special interest groups, after school programs, volunteering, civic engagement, community service and school enrichment.
Headwaters Music & Arts is an independent non-profit located in downtown Bemidji. Our mission is to provide opportunities for creativity through instruction and inspire the community through music and the arts. We believe that we can further enrich the health and wellness of individuals and the community by offering exceptional music and art education programs and events to all.
Our music program includes one-on-one music lessons on a wide variety of instruments as well as vocal instruction, pre-school parent-child music classes, and music enrichment events. Community initiatives include a senior chorus, bell choir, and monthly open mic nights. Art offerings include pottery for youth and adults, child and teen after school art clubs, and workshops and classes for kids and adults. Financial assistance is available for most youth activities.