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Confidentiality often plays a role in providing health care to adolescents. When it comes toalcohol use by patients who are minors, don’t let concerns about confidentiality deter you fromscreening and intervening as needed. All of the major medical organizatio...

Refer to the following pages for detailed steps. Step 1: Ask the two age-specific screening questions - One about friends' drinking - One about patient's drinking frequency |\/ NO <- Does the patient drink? -> YES St...

About underage drinking patterns   About what age do kids start drinking? The average age at first drink is about 14, according to national surveys of 12 to 20-year-olds (Chen at al., 2011). The more we can help kids delay when they begin drinking, the bett...

1 in 3 children starts drinking by the end of 8th grade                                           ...and of them, half report having been drunk.   With this Guide, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) introduces a simple, quick, emp...

When making referrals, involve your patient and a parent or guardian in the decision and schedulea referral appointment while your patient is in the office. If available in your community, arrangefor an interagency facilitator to help make sure your patient co...

Minnesota's Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP) helps make child care affordable for income-eligible families. Visit Minnesota Department of Health - CCAP page has more information. Contact:Phone: 218-327-7363Toll Free: 800-422-0312 Financial Assistance Di...

YMCA - Kid Zone Website: https://ymcaitasca.org/kid-zone Contact: (218) 327-1161 Child Care while you Workout The YMCA is proud to offer outstanding drop-in childcare to all of its members. Kid Zone is a supervised play area for young children whose parent...

Kiddiegarden Preschool & Daycare      Contact: 219-259-8545       Website: Kiddiegarden Preschool & Daycare | Grand Rapids MN | Facebook  Rockin Round The Clock      Contact: 218-326-9211       Website: Rockin Round the Clock | Grand Rapids MN | Facebo...

WeeFolks Child Care Website: https://ymcaitasca.org/weefolks-childcare WeeFolks Child Care is a licensed child care program, operating from 6:00am-6:00pm, for children ages 6 weeks to 6 years. They offer children opportunities to develop new skills, form fri...

Help Someone with Depression Website: https://www.erikaslighthouse.org/the-toolbox/help-someone/ Say something Sometimes outsiders can notice changes in people before they may even recognize changes in themselves. So, it is important to know how to handle a...

AWANA Grand Rapids Alliance Church AWANA Clubs is built on our 3B ministry philosophy of child discipleship: Belong, Believe, Become. Children build spiritual resilience when they feel they belong to Jesus, when they believe in the truth of the Bible and the...

Voyageurs Lutheran Ministry provides opportunities for Christ-centered spiritual growth, leadership development, and outreach in God’s great northwoods. Grades K-12 Contact: 218-246-8604  Website: Day Camp — Voyageurs Lutheran Ministry (vlmcamps.org)   

Voyageurs Lutheran Ministry provides opportunities for Christ-centered spiritual growth, leadership development, and outreach in God’s great northwoods. Grades K-12 Contact: 218-246-8604  Website: Day Camp — Voyageurs Lutheran Ministry (vlmcamps.org)   

BRICK Bible Foundation Class  Student Ministries  The goal of BRICK Bible Foundations class is to help 6th & 7th grade students develop a greater understanding of the big picture of God's story.   Contact: 218-327-9343  Website: All events for BRICK Bibl...

Story Time with Project Read-Thursdays (4/11/24-5/9/24)  Organization:  St Luke's Church  Contact: 218-326-1142  Project Read changes lives through literacy and empowers individuals, strengthens families, builds communities, and creates new cycles of interg...

Crossroads Youth Program To care for, mentor, and build relationships with youth through a Christ-centered approach by providing opportunities that are safe, inviting and non-judgmental.  Phone: 218-326-9079 Hours: Mon-Thurs: 9am-5pm      Fri: 9am-10pm  ...

https://www.everywhereproject.org/  Because substance use happens EVERYWHERE The Everywhere Project is a Philadelphia based organization that aims to expand the reach of harm reduction resources and education including: food, clothing, clean syringes, naloxo...

Foster Love Closet Website: https://gracf.org/foster-love-closet-helps-families-in-need/ Foster Love Closet has been quietly operating in Grand Rapids, for a few years, helping families find needed items for children of all ages such as baby gear, baby foo...

Job Training for Youth   Website: https://www.aeoa.org/youth-education-employment-training   YouthBuild is a community-based pre-apprenticeship program that provides job training and educational opportunities for at-risk youth ages 16-24 who have previousl...

https://www.harmreductionlibrary.org/  Harm Reduction Library resources by and for harm reductionists   Welcome to the harm reduction library Please send additions, corrections, suggestions to terrymcbridemorris@gmail.com Thanks!! Videos and Webinars for...