Q: Online Resource Pages

Rethinking Drinking For anyone who drinks, this site offers valuable, research-based information. Letʼs take a look at your drinking patterns and how they may affect your health. CDC Check Your Drinking Alcohol Screening Tool Drinking too much alcohol can be harmful. Everyone can benefit from drinking less alcohol or not drinking at all. This tool checks your drinking and can give advice. If you want to drink less, it can also help you build a plan to make healthier choices.

Q: Substance Use Resource Pages

Recovery Alliance Duluth Recovery Alliance Duluth (RAD) is a community organization that connects people seeking recovery to peers who have walked a similar path and are trained to help through peer-to-peer recovery support. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration (SAMHSA) SAMHSA’s programs and campaigns offer information, training, and technical assistance to improve the quality and delivery of behavioral health services across the nation. Harm Reduction Sisters Harm Reduction Sisters provides a feminist response, utilizing innovative harm reduction principles and practices to address the gaps that exist for people who use drugs and experience trauma.

Q: Financial Support Resource Pages

Lutheran Social Services Your employment and financial situation greatly influence how you live your life. Lutheran Social Services can meet you where you are and guide you through the steps towards a fulfilling career and financial wellness.

Q: Support Group Resource Pages

Narcotics Anonymous Minnesota Nar-Anon Home Page Celebrate Recovery Group Locator Alcoholics Anonymous

Q: Crisis Hotline Numbers

RMHC Phone: 218-749-2881 or 800-450-2273 Sexual Assault Program Phone: 218-749-4725 or 1-800-300-3102 Duluth Crisis Line Phone: 844.772.4724 Birch Tree Phone: 218-623-1800 Carlton County Phone: 1-844-772-4724 Crisis Text Line Text HOME to 747141 Itasca County Phone: 1-218-326-856 Lake County Phone: 1-844-772-4724 MN Crisis Number Phone: 800-634-8775 Nationwide Suicide & Crisis Lifeline Phone: 988 PAVSA Phone: 218-728-1931 Safe Haven Phone: 218-728-6481 St. Luke’s ER Phone: 218-249-5616 Veterans Crisis Line Phone: 1-800-273-8255 Press 1

Question 1

Online Resource Pages

Accepted Answer

Rethinking Drinking

For anyone who drinks, this site offers valuable, research-based information. Letʼs take a look at your drinking patterns and how they may affect your health.

CDC Check Your Drinking Alcohol Screening Tool

Drinking too much alcohol can be harmful. Everyone can benefit from drinking less alcohol or not drinking at all. This tool checks your drinking and can give advice. If you want to drink less, it can also help you build a plan to make healthier choices.

Question 2

Substance Use Resource Pages

Accepted Answer

Recovery Alliance Duluth

Recovery Alliance Duluth (RAD) is a community organization that connects people seeking recovery to peers who have walked a similar path and are trained to help through peer-to-peer recovery support.

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration (SAMHSA)

SAMHSA’s programs and campaigns offer information, training, and technical assistance to improve the quality and delivery of behavioral health services across the nation.

Harm Reduction Sisters

Harm Reduction Sisters provides a feminist response, utilizing innovative harm reduction principles and practices to address the gaps that exist for people who use drugs and experience trauma.

Question 3

Community Health Resource Pages

Accepted Answer

Rural AIDS action Network (RAAN)

RAAN's mission is to foster knowledgeable, caring communities, which ensure quality services and support for people affected by HIV/AIDS.

Hope Clinic

The HOPE Clinic is dedicated to providing free acute medical care for the surronding Duluth community.

Lice Lounge

Lice Lounge uses an all-natural, pesticide-free, safe & successful method of lice removal. They are mothers and lice removal experts & understand the stress of lice removal.

Lake Superior Life Care Center

The Lake Superior Life-Care Center, Inc. is a local non-profit organization offering help to men and women facing unplanned pregnancies. Lake Superior Life Care Center is here to offer hope and help to parents and families with services which are free and confidential.

MnChoices Assesment through Northern SLC

A person of any age with a disability or in need of long-term services and supports may request a MnCHOICES assessment and support-planning process to help make decisions about their needs.

MnCHOICES incorporates MnCHOICES assessments, managed care health risk assessments, the support plans associated with both assessments and LTSS evaluation into one web-based application. The person’s MnCHOICES assessment responses determine eligibility for a number of public programs, including home and community-based waivers and personal care assistance.

Messabi ACT Team

Includes basic information about the programs we oversee or administer in collaboration with many partners. Many descriptions include guiding principles, outcomes and performance measures of various initiatives. These pages also have links to relevant policies and procedures, contacts, reports and training opportunities, organized around these four broad themes.

MN Help Info

Phone: 1-800-333-2433

Sexual Health Resources

WE Health Clinic: 32 East 1st Street, Duluth, MN

Phone: 218-727-3352

Duluth Family Medicine: 330 N 8th Ave, Duluth, MN

Phone: 218-723-1112

St. Lukes infectious Disease Associates : 915 E 1st St. Duluth, MN

Phone: 218-249-7990

Planned Parenthood North Central States Duluth Health Center: 1001 E Central Entrance, Duluth MN

Phone: 218-722-0833

Lutheran Social Services of Minnesota Teen Clinic: 1422 E Superior St, Duluth MN

Phone: 218-529-2230

Essentia Health Lakewalk Clinic: 1502 London Road Duluth, MN

Phone: 218-576-0100

Question 4

Domestic Violence Resource Pages

Accepted Answer

Safe Haven Shelter & Resource Center

Safe Haven Shelter and Resource Center in Duluth, Minnesota provides services to women, children, and all survivors whose lives have been affected by physical, emotional, sexual, and economic abuse.

Dabinoo ‘Igan Domestic Violence Shelter & Legal Advocacy Resources

Dabinoo’Igan is a 10-bed emergency shelter for victims of physical and sexual violence, trafficking, and stalking who need immediate shelter. Women and children can stay up to 30 days and receive a variety of services including advocacy, information and referral, housing search assistance, financial assistance, limited follow-up, limited on-site legal services and culturally specific programming.

Program for Aid to Victims of Sexual Assault (PAVSA)

Program for Aid to Victims of Sexual Assault (PAVSA) is a nonprofit rape crisis center in southern St. Louis County that helps area residents cope with the aftermath of sexual violence.

First Witness Advocacy Center

First Witness Child Advocacy Center (CAC) is a child-focused non-profit agency offering hope, healing, and justice for alleged victims of child abuse and their families.

Question 5

Housing Resource Pages

Accepted Answer

HRA Section 8 Rental Assistance

Section 8 Rental Housing Assistance is a program that makes market rate rental housing affordable for low income families. Program participants pay a minimum of 30% of their monthly adjusted income for rent and utilities. And getting help is easier than you might think. We provide rental assistance in the city of Duluth or Southern St. Louis, Lake, and Cook counties.

CHUM Shelter

(125 N 1st Ave West, Duluth, MN) Phone: (218) 726-0153

Dorothy Day House

(1712 Jefferson St., Duluth, MN) Phone: (218) 724-2054

Olive Branch House

(1614 Jefferson St., Duluth, MN) Phone: (218) 728-0629

Safe Haven Women’s Shelter

(414 West 1st Street Duluth, MN 55802) Phone: (218) 728-6481 (Duluth, MN)

Dabinoo’Igan Women’s Shelter

Phone: (218) 722-2247

Question 6

Family Resource Pages

Accepted Answer

Kids Closet

Kids Closet accepts referrals from school personnel. Call your child's school and ask the secretary to tell you who the person is in that school that refers to Kids Closet. Contact that person (phone call is fine) with your information, including all of your children in grades from Head Start to fifth grade, even if they are in more than one school.

Salvation Army

The Duluth Salvation Army believes in faith put into action and making life better for others. Our services meet physical, emotional and spiritual needs to rebuild lives and create lasting change. Help is given freely and without discrimination, while preserving the individual's dignity. We're here to change lives, one at a time.

Goodwill

Goodwill works to enhance people’s dignity and quality of life by strengthening their communities, eliminating their barriers to opportunity, and helping them reach their full potential through learning and the power of work.

Damiano Center

Damiano Center's mission is: with respect and compassion, honoring the dignity of all people and strengthen our community by providing essential services to individuals and families who are in need. Their goal is to be responsive to the needs of people who are low-income, unemployed, and working poor in our community as simply and directly as possible.

Womens Care’s Center

Women's Care Center provides free, confidential counseling, support and education for pregnant women. Free pregnancy testing and ultrasounds help determine viability and dates (prenatal medical care and abortions not provided).

Teen Closet

The Teen Closet in Duluth offers free new and gently used clothing for youth ages 13-21.

Youth can enjoy the independence of a real shopping experience in a safe, friendly store. New and gently used clothing items are available at no cost, with no obligations and no questions asked.

Teen Health Center

The Center for Changing Lives Duluth provides free screenings and resources to teens and young adults ages 13-24. Health professionals that we partner with provide quality care in a nurturing, non-rushed, and confidential environment.

Question 7

Financial Support Resource Pages

Accepted Answer

Lutheran Social Services

Your employment and financial situation greatly influence how you live your life. Lutheran Social Services can meet you where you are and guide you through the steps towards a fulfilling career and financial wellness.

Question 8

Support Group Resource Pages

Accepted Answer

Narcotics Anonymous Minnesota

Nar-Anon Home Page

Celebrate Recovery Group Locator

Alcoholics Anonymous

Question 9

Recovery Resource Pages

Accepted Answer

SAMHSA’s 10 Guiding Principles of Recovery

Recovery signals a dramatic shift in the expectation for positive outcomes for individuals who experience mental and substance use conditions or the co-occurring of the two.

SAMHSA's working definition of recovery defines recovery as a process of change through which individuals improve their health and wellness, live self-directed lives, and strive to reach their full potential.

The Opioid Epidemic

This Huffington Post article covers the struggles of the Opiod Epidemic. The artice is titled "Dying To Be Free."

Office of National Drug Control Policy

ONDCP leads and coordinates the nation’s drug policy so that it improves the health and lives of the American people. ONDCP is responsible for the development and implementation of the National Drug Control Strategy and Budget.

Recovery Alliance Duluth

Recovery Alliance Duluth (RAD) is a community organization that connects people seeking recovery to peers who have walked a similar path and are trained to help through peer-to-peer recovery support.