Arc Northland

Programs: Personal care assisstant: pca northland is a personal care assistant program that provides home care to people with disabilities of all ages. The program can provide assistance with dressing, bathing, grooming, eating, light housekeeping, asscessing community appointments, supervision and redirection of behavior, and other activities. As a pca choice program, it is completely consumer-directed. In 2014, the program served over 100 clients & their families.

mofas: the fetal alcohol program provides fasd prevention education to middle/high school and college students. It also provides fasd intervention training for parents, professionals and providers who are working wiht individuals who hav already been affected. The program served about 4,500 people in 2015. Self-advocates minnesota (sam) is a statewide self-advocacy network that works with groups and individual self advocates to promote personal empowerment, disability awareness and systems change. Sam community organizations help support this effort by offering skills, workshops, hands-on leader training, and training materials throughout the state, from crookston to east grand forks to duluth to waseca to st. Cloud to minneapolis. Advocating change together (act) located in st. Paul, minnesota supports the sam network and its leadership circle. In 2015, over 4,000 people received training and assistance from six different training teams. The training teams consisted of persons with and without disabilities. The self-advocacy program includes people first, women's group and men's group. All are groups for individuals with disabilities to increase self-advocacy skills, learn about more community opportunities, discuss topics of interest and to build relationships. The number of people on the mailing lists from the respective groups are: people first: 68 (this includes some group homes and community agencies which reach more individuals then with one mailing. ) women's group: 47 men's group: 64 there are usually 20-25 people at people first meetings and 12-15 at men's and women's group. These groups meet monthly.

fee for service: provices counseling and assistance to persons with disabilities to acquire or maintain independent living arrangements and transitional services through programs that are fully or partially reimbursed by the hra and/or the mineesota department of human services.

family services: family services program provides education, support and intervention planning to families of children/teens with a variety of disabilities including mental illness and behavioral diagnoses. Staff assist families in obtaining and coordinating medical care, social services, education services, etc. For the purpose of maximizing the potential for each child/teen person and their family. This program provides families with the necessary tools to live the "unimagined" lies they have. They have to learn a new map of the world, understand the rights and laws, and learn to find the necessary services and advocate for their child. This is done through groups, educational sessions, networking and one-on-one counseling and serves families that include a child or teen with intellectual developmental, physical, emotional, educational, sensory or behavioral special needs. In 2016, the program served 375 parents/580 children. Client services: the arc housing access service aids adult minnesota residents of all ages who have been assessed and determined to be elegible for minnesota medicaid home care or waiver services and who want to move to homes of their own. We provide funds to overcome barriers to independent housing. Arc northland currently service about 50 people per year.