Navigators within local community organizations help pregnant families and those with children find and connect with local early childhood and family well-being services.

Description

Navigators help families connect with the wide variety of services and supports listed below, make referrals on behalf of families when needed, and check-in periodically with families until navigation services are no longer needed. Many navigation agencies also offer some or all of the direct services listed below. Type of direct services will vary by location.

Navigators help families connect to local supports and services, including:

• Pregnancy support services
• Basic needs and economic assistance
• Disability services
• Healthy development and screening
• Developmental and behavioral concerns
• Family well-being and mental health
• Early learning and child care, including preschool and early childhood family education
• Dental care
• Legal services

Navigation agencies may have staff that speak a variety of languages, that live in the local community, and represent similar cultural, racial and ethnic backgrounds of the families they serve.

Features

• Area Served by County
  • Rice County

• Specialization
  • Family

Eligibility

Serving families in Faribault and Northfield Public School District Boundaries, in Rice County.

Application Instructions

For initially reaching out, phone (call/text) and email are preferred as staff are often working out with families in neighborhoods where they live, and thus aren't consistently available in the office locations for walk-ins.

Fee

These services are free.