MAHUBE-OTWA Community Action Partnership

Family and Community Resource Navigator

Early childhood navigators help families and those with young children find and connect with local early childhood and family well-being services.

Description

Early Childhood 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

By connecting families to local supports and services, these agencies help families:

  • Make it easier to get what they need
  • Increase access to services
  • Improve children's readiness for kindergarten
  • Grow community engagement and social connectedness, and support community developed solutions

Features

  • Area Served by County
    • Mahnomen County
  • Organization Type
    • Community Action Partnership
  • Specialization
    • Family

Eligibility

Serving families in: Hubbard and Mahnomen counties

Fee

These services are free.

Location

118 W Madison Ave, Mahnomen, MN, 56557

Area Served

Mahnomen County

Phone Numbers

  • Primary Contact for this program: 218-935-5022
  • Main: 218-847-1385

Email

eclark@mahube.org

Websites

Other Locations

Other Services at this Location

  • Early Head Start Program that serves infants and toddlers under the age of 3, and expectant families. Provides intensive, comprehensive child development and family support services to low-income infants and toddlers and their families and pregnant women
  • Energy Assistance Program Helps renters and homeowners pay their home heating bills and may also assist homeowners to fix or replace their broken furnace
  • Father's Resource Program Assists parents with child support, custody and parenting time issues.
  • Head Start Program that supports children's growth from ages 3 - 5 through services that support early learning and development, health, and family well-being.
  • Help Paying for Basic Needs - Family Development Short term help for basic needs like food, shelter and transportation
  • Housing Stabilization Services (HSS) Medical Assistance benefit to help people with disabilities and seniors find and keep housing

Last Update

4/22/2024