Support Hub

Child Care Aware parent line - 1-888-291-9811

Free or Reduced-Price School Meals

Please note that Meals will NOT be free for all students in the 2022-2023 school year. Breakfast costs $1.70. Lunch costs $2.95 for early childhood (at locations where meals are provided) and elementary (through grade 5), and $3.25 for secondary students (grades 6-12+).

Your children may qualify for free or reduced-price school meals, but please know that a new application must be submitted each year. To apply, complete the Application for Educational benefits online or in paper form as soon as possible. Paper applications can be found in your school office or by contacting Nutrition Services. Additional benefits may be available to students who qualify such as lower or no fees for activities, testing and more. See additional information here.

Please contact Nutrition Services at 651-407-7515 or nutritionservices@isd624.org with any questions or for a paper application. Visit the Nutrition Services webpage here.

Additional Food Resources

U Got This (FOR PARENTS) University of Minnesota Extension, Center for Family Development is offering a free text messaging program that supports parents and caregivers of children birth to 18 years of age, called U Got This.  Parents and caregivers are invited to sign up to receive two text messages a week throughout the school year on topics of health and nutrition, developmental affirmations, parenting and school engagement, mental health and well-being and financial capability. These text messages are designed to support you and your family as you are faced with making many and varied daily parenting decisions. You can choose to receive messages in English or Spanish. To sign up to receive U Got This text messages, go to https://z.umn.edu/ugotthis This program is free, but be aware some fees may apply depending on your cellphone service provider.

Parent Warmline

• Kente Circle
• Black Therapists Rock
• Empower Therapeutic Support Services
• Relationships LLC
• Metro Social Services
• Wild Tree Psychotherapy
• Marnita’s Table
• Minnesota Care Partners

Holistic healing is about caring for the whole person-providing for your physical, mental, spiritual and social needs. It emphasizes the connection of mind, body and spirit. 

Penny George Institute for Health and Healing

Hennepin Healthcare

Mayo Clinic Integrative Medicine and Health

The YMCA George Well Being Center

The MHealth Fairview Cultural Broker Program

The MHealth Fairview Cultural Broker Program is an initiative of the East Side Health and Well-Being Collaborative.  Cultural Brokers build people’s capacity to take charge of their own well-being by: bridging cultural gaps, linking people to culturally responsive support and resources, encouraging social connectedness and co-navigating mainstream systems. Host agencies include: The American Indian Family Center, Family Values for Life, Hmong American Partnership, the Karen Organization of Minnesota and CLUES.  Cultural brokers do not provide emergency services or crisis intervention.

•  African American Community, 651-347-6618 
  • Rhonda Godfrey at rhonda.g@familyvaluesforlife.org 
• Hmong Community, 651-470-3210
  • Contact Nou Vang at nouv@hmong.org 
• Latino/a/x Community, 612-297-5328
  • Contact Jessica Moran at  jmoran@clues.org 
• Indigineous/Native American Community, 651-802-1194
  • Contact June Blue at June Blue@aifc.net
• Karen Community, 651-238-3505
  • Contact LwePaw Kacher Inkacher@mnkaren.org

Following resources were shared by the Suburban Ramsey Family Collaborative and Northeast Metro ISD 916. 

A Life in Practice (612-405-5220): Rebeka, founder of the organization is a healing justice practitioner, filmmaker, & teacher. She offers individual and group life coaching as well as workshops. During COVID she is offering free online yoga and meditation and virtual, individual healing sessions for a suggested donation of $65-$85(no one is turned away), and updated youth specific youtube playlists that encourage wellness mind, body, and spirit. 

Healing Within (651-490-3347): Healing Within Wellness Center is committed to creating an environment where each person feels respected and accepted for who they are and has opportunities for learning, healing, contributing and receiving from each other. BIPOC practitioners and offer racial healing workshops throughout the year.

612 Jungle (612-615-8614): Yoga done to hip hop. Donation based virtual classes or $10-$12 in person outdoor classes. 

Holistic Heaux: Offers Holistic Health consultation on a sliding scale fee or $30-$100 depending on the services. Includes connections how vitamins, nutrients, and foods can heal you. 

She Heals Noojimo Noojimo'iwe: (612-401-9219): Renee, founder of the practice, is an Indigenous Holistic Healing Practitioner, Community Cultural Healer, Teacher & Circle Keeper. She’s descendant and citizen of the White Earth Nation with her lineage originating from the Ojibwe Snake Clan. She specializes in Body Work/Energy Healing, including Healing Touch, Usui Reiki, Myofascial Release, Hands on & Indigenous Healing. 

She is an experienced facilitator of community and self healing ceremonies. As well as a teacher of Usui Reiki and hands on self care and healing techniques aimed to reconnect with the most powerful healer, the healer within.

“I have a special interest and share a deep connection with those who have experienced trauma and I have additional training, specific to helping others move out of trauma and into resilience.”

Neon Soul (952-212-9727): Body & Energy work, including massage, food justice work. Prioritizes appointments for BIPOC individuals and can provide sliding scale services. 

Edges Wellness (Alex Lantaff @ 612-230-8905): Therapy embedded in social justice. 

RECLAIM (612-235-6743): RECLAIM increases access to mental health support so that queer trans youth ages 12-26 may reclaim their lives from oppression in all its forms. 

Root Crown Healing (612.351.0108): Offers race-based trauma therapy to 18+ adults for free, also offers Art Therapy, Reiki, and healing yoga

Aruba Mental Health (612.84.8115) : offers virtual therapy and intensive therapeutic services for adults and children. Multiple BIPOC providers.

Socorro Counseling (612. 355.9824): BIPOC counselor for children.

Neither Both Therapy (612.568.6520): BIPOC therapist. The mission of Neither/Both LLC is to facilitate healing for people with complex identities through expanded knowledge and acceptance of self, improved communication with others, and a deepened sense of belonging.

MN Care Partner  (612.289.5656): a social-justice based agency that provides quality and culturally focused mental health services in the community and the home. Our goal is to help individuals and families live holistic lives by identifying and building upon inherent cultural strengths and addressing social barriers. Specializing  in-home and community-based services for individuals and families who cannot make it to a clinic due to physical, mental, social, financial, and/or transportation barriers. Also offer outpatient substance use disorder treatment and therapy at our offices for those who prefer to meet outside of their home.

Marco Murrieta (612.294.7135): Bilingual, Bicultural therapist extensive experience working with youth

Peak Behavioral Health (651. 493.2055): BIPOC, women therapists.  At Peak Behavioral Health we understand and value the connectedness we share with one another and take a therapeutic approach that accounts for how our families, communities, social systems and environment shape our mental health.

Village Support Therapy (612.255.7852): It is within our scope of practice to work with individuals, couples and families. We work with adolescents and adults. We work with people presenting with a wide variety of diagnosis. We have special interest in African American and African culturally specific mental health support.

Kente Circle (612-243-1600): a clinically diverse staff with professional training in marriage and family therapy, psychology, and social work for children, families, and adults.

St.Paul MN Therapist (320.318.1161) : BIPOC therapist trained in numerous therapeutic modalities AND offers space” to process and learn the impacts of systemic racism, white supremacy, colonization, racial trauma, historical trauma and intergenerational trauma.”

Hope & Healing : Our mission to improve the community through the lives of the individuals and families we have the privilege and honor of serving.

We carry out our mission by providing comprehensive, faith-based, culturally-specific behavioral health services.

Tammy Wittrock @ Just Us Health (612.373.9160): BIPOC therapist specializing in working with BIPOC folks in the LGBTQIA+ community, adults, teens and families across all socio- economic backgrounds and am particularly interested in family of origin issues and historical trauma associated with racism, sexism, ageism and discrimination.

Wilder Outpatient clinic (651.280.2000): Offers online therapy for adults and children, diverse staff, and trauma informed services.

Lorena Villasenor (612.806.9385): Bilingual, Bicultural therapist

The Shrink Space : Resource hub connecting students with Black, Indigenous or multicultural therapists of color. They work with insurance and some have sliding scale fees. It will vary depending on the agency.

Peaces'n PuzSouls therapy :, Dr. Sweeney provides a personable and trusting space with individualized and quality psychotherapy services to individuals and agency-systems who serve communities with diverse challenges and multi-generational needs.

The Family Partnership: counseling, education, and advocacy, support children, families, and communities in need, and empower them to solve their own problems. Multiple BIPOC therapists available.

• Minnesota Indian Women's Resource Center
• We R Native: For Native Youth, By Native Youth
• National Indian Education Association
• American Indian Family Center: Serving St. Paul & the East Metro
• Niniijaanis One of Ones: Early Childhood Equity for Kids Birth to 6

• Discussing Traumatic Events with Youth - MACMH
• Discussing Difficult Situations with your Children
• Community Violence Reactions and Actions
• Restoring a Sense of Well-Being in Children after Disaster
• Coping with Grief after Community Violence
• Tips for Parents From Children's Minnesota
• What to Say to Kids When the News is Scary
• How to Talk About Traumatic Events and Tragedies 
• Helping Children Cope After Traumatic Events
• Parenting a Child Who Has Experienced Trauma (Child Welfare Information Gateway)
• Helping Children and Adolescents Cope with Disasters and Other Traumatic Events (NIMH)
• Resources to Help Educators, Adults Respond to Racism, Violence and Trauma webpage
• Managing Strong Emotional Reactions to Traumatic Events: Tips for Families 
• How Children Cope with Ongoing Threat and Trauma
• Supporting Students Experiencing Childhood Trauma: Tips for Parents
• Responding to Trauma and Tragedy 

• All Are Welcome by Alexandra Penfold
• A Kids Book About Racism by Jelani Memory 
• Most People by Michael Leannah
• The Breaking News by Sarah Lynne Reul
• Come With Me by Holly McGhee and Pascal Lemaitre
• Let's Talk Race by Julius Lester
• Something Happened in Our Town by Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins, and Ann Hazzard

Being available

• Children will take their cues from you - take good care of yourself.  Just as they share in your moments of joy, they will also share in your pain 

• Be as consistent as possible. Being available promotes feelings of safety and security

• Discuss feelings, listen, be there to lean on or cry with

Listening is support

• Your compassionate presence is as important than words

• Label, summarize, and mirror the feelings the other person is expressing

• Ask clarifying questions 

Changes in your child

Your child may show some of these behaviors immediately or days, weeks, or even months after an incident. If these last for a prolonged time or seem to get worse rather than better, reach out to your health care provider.

• Restlessness, anger, increased behavior

• Sleeping or eating difficulties

• Headaches, tummy aches, body aches

• Withdrawal

• Sadness, tearfulness

• Poor concentration

• Unexpected fears and worries