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Community Contacts
Community Action Council
CAC is a nonprofit
dedicated to helping families in crisis get back on their feet, with
the help of over 2,000 volunteers working out of more than 50 locations
in Dakota and Scott counties. They also work with
the larger community on crisis prevention to minimize long term costs
to our community and improve our overall quality of life.
Community Action Council also operates the Lewis House – battered women’s shelters in Eagan and Hastings with extensive outreach and support services. Each year they sponsor Armful of Love - the holiday gift program for needy families in DakotaCounty. And they operate a network of emergency food shelves.
Community Action Council is located in over 50, easily accessible sites
in schools, community centers, apartment complexes, faith communities
and police stations throughout Dakota and eastern Scott counties in
Minnesota.
Their administrative offices are located at 20730
Holyoke Avenue in Lakeville, Minnesota. Their Rosemount office is at the Rosemount Family Resource Center located at 14521 Cimmaron Avenue W., Rosemount, Minnesota.
If
you live the communities of Apple Valley, Burnsville, Eagan,
Farmington, Hastings, Lakeville, Randolph, Rosemount or Rural Dakota
County, you can access CAC services 24-hours a day by calling 952-985-5300.
DARTS
DARTS provides professionally
coordinated home-help services and transportation for Dakota County,
Minn., seniors and their families and can help them find additional
senior services throughout the Minneapolis/St. Paul area. You can contact DARTS at 651-455-1560.
MICAH
Religious leaders, housing advocates
and low income housing developers founded MICAH in 1988 in response
to the accelerating homeless crisis. Through MICAH, more than 150
congregations from Jewish, Christian and Muslim faith traditions
organize for justice in housing. We envision a metropolitan area
where everyone without exception has a safe, decent and affordable
place to call home.
Since its inception, MICAH has gained
extensive experience waging local and regional policy campaigns to
change policies and shift public resources to affordable housing. Our
grassroots organizing model develops congregational leaders who speak
out, earning our members the notable distinction as one of the
‘noisiest interest groups.’ (Star Tribune, 2003)
MICAH has built relationships,
established ourselves as an affordable housing resource, given
decision-makers essential guideposts against which to make sound
choices, built our credibility at the local level, and developed a
history of affordable housing campaign victories. You can contact MICAH at 612-871-8980.
OUTFRONT MN
OutFront Minnesota's mission is to make
our home a place where GLBT Minnesotans have the freedom, power, and
confidence to make the best choices for their own lives. OutFront
Minnesota delivers programs and services to the GLBT and allied
communities in the areas of public policy, advocacy, education and
training, anti-violence, schools, and the law. You can contact OutFront at 612-822-0127.
PFLAG
Parents, Families & Friends of
Lesbians & Gays (PFLAG) is a national non-profit organization
with over 200,000 members and supporters and over 500 affiliates in
the United States.
PFLAG promotes the health and
well-being of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender persons, their
families and friends through: support, to cope with an adverse
society; education, to enlighten an ill-informed public; and
advocacy, to end discrimination and to secure equal civil rights.
Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays provides
opportunity for dialogue about sexual orientation and gender
identity, and acts to create a society that is healthy and respectful
of human diversity.
PFLAG has chapters located throughout
Minnesota. To find a chapter, click here. Or you can call them at
612-825-1660.
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