Hiawatha Valley Mental Health Center

Grace House, our transitional shelter for women and children, is starting the process of finding qualified volunteers to join our mission  in helping families. The volunteer role would be ideal for social work, nursing, psychology, child advocacy, and child education students and grads or anyone who has experience in any of the mentioned areas.

Volunteers would be required to pass a background check, attend ongoing training, and commit to a minimum of one shift per week.
(Typically 4 hours). Ideal applicants will have a passion for helping families, be empathetic, dependable, have excellent communication skills, and understand and practice confidentiality.

Volunteers will help families by modeling positive social interactions and parenting skills, budgeting, healthy lifestyle skills, cooking and nutrition, resume writing, and employment related skills. Grace House is working to open early this fall, but volunteers would attend training and leadership meetings beginning this summer. Training will include trauma informed mentoring, ACES, First Aid/CPR, and poverty awareness.

Stop in to Grace Place at 66 E. 2nd St. to fill out a volunteer application. For any questions or more information contact our
Shelter Coordinator, Jen, at

Join the Winona Walk Planning Committee and help grow the movement to end Alzheimer’s from the ground up. Committee members are the heart of the event, planning everything from the kick-off to the wrap-up. Some members focus on growing the event by recruiting teams and sponsors, others coordinate logistics, and some
work on promoting the event in the community. Monthly meetings from February – October

How to sign up or volunteer:

Name: Rebecca Ayaz
Phone Number: 952-857-0535
Email:rayaz@alz.org

Quit Partner is Minnesota’s free way to quit nicotine, including smoking, vaping and chewing. We can support your quit with one-on-one coaching and other helpful tools. Whenever you need us, we’re here to help 24/7.

Call: 1(800)-QUIT-NOW

Text: 1(877)-777-6534

Winona Chore Corps is a program under the Winona Friendship Center that provides older adults in the city of Winona and Goodview with services to ensure they are able to remain living safely in their own home.

The Chore Corps is in search of individuals who are interested in providing a variety of services including snow shoveling and snow blowing in the winter, lawn care in the summer, and a variety of other chore services year round. Equipment is provided by the Chore Corps or the client and includes lawn mowers, snow shovels, snow blowers, and more. The Chore Corps works to support the independence of older adults, build community, and provide valuable and meaningful volunteer opportunities.

Must be 18 to operate motorized equipment. Walking, pushing, and lifting may be required. Volunteers need to pass basic background check.

The front desk of the History Center is the heart of the organization. Volunteers will answer phone calls, direct visitors, handle admissions, ticket and gift shop sales. Generally, shifts are in 3-4 hour blocks, mostly during weekdays, with some weekend opportunities. The History Center is open weekdays 9am – 5pm, Saturdays 10am – 4pm and Sundays 12-4pm.

Current Volunteer Opportunities:

ReStore Donation Pick-up Truck Assistant – Ride along for pick-ups in the ReStore truck, and help keep our store full of amazing stuff!

Donation receiving- Help our amazing donors out by unloading donations in the Drive Thru and informing them where to go when we can’t take their items.

Donation processing- Sort, clean, and price new donations so they are ready for the sales floor.

Recycling/Scrapping – Disassemble unusable or broken items, and sort them into recycling or trash.

ReStore Cashier –  Provide awesome customer service, and operate our register.

Customer Service – Organize the sales floor, help customers find their treasures, and make a great ReStore environment.

Janitor/Groundskeeper – Clean and tidy the store, wipe up spills, and check the grounds for trash.

Landscaping/Gardening – Mow the lawn, weed, or tend to our flower and vegetable gardens.

Office assistance – Assist in data collection and analysis, send out thank you cards, or help keep us organized!

Special Events/Fundraising – Help us plan, organize, solicit, and promote special events.

Construction/Painting– Be a part of the team on one of our home repair projects or new home construction.

To learn more about our volunteer opportunities, contact our volunteer coordinator at volunteer@habitatwinona.org. Thank you for supporting Habitat for Humanity!

Support group for parents hurting from the destructive choices of chemical addition of their children. The group provides comfort, hope, encouragement, community, and strength.

Mission: To encourage hurting parents on their journey from pain to peace.

Weekly –  20- 30 hrs

The Pickwick Mill Inc. (on National Registry of Historic Sites) is open May-Oct, Tues-Sun, noon – 5 p.m.  Volunteer time can be flexible with a minimum of 5 hrs/day.  You must be able to walk stairs and calculate change.  Very unique opportunity to meet people from all over the world. Unique history experience to see the original equipment in the museum.

Bridging the gap between you and health care. Free health screenings and primary care services for anyone with or without insurance. No appointment needed. All ages are welcome.

Three Convenient Locations

Winona Food Shelf
402 E. 2nd St. Winona
Enter at Chestnut Room
Thursdays 2:00pm-5:00pm
January 24^th – April 25^th

Friendship Center
251 Main St. Winona
Enter main doors
Thursdays 1:00pm-4:00pm
January 24^th – April 25^th

Warming Center
69 E. 3^rd St. Winona
Enter between 3^rd & 4^th St., next to Community Bible Church
Thursdays 6:30pm-8:30pm
January 24^th – March 28^th

Through Bridges’ preventative health approach for a more healthy lifestyle, services to address both physical and emotional health include:

Volunteers are needed to help collect and distribute toys to area children during the holiday season.

Check website for list of individual barrel locations

Barrel Locations

Description:

Winona Health is a community owned non-profit organization dedicated to meeting the healthcare needs of the Winona, Minnesota, regional community.

This hospital has a full range of services and a pharmacy. Clinics are often open to the public. Offerings include support groups, community classes, events, education programs, free community health clinic for non-insured, Healthy Kids youth program, and Junior Volunteers program.

Smoking Cessation Program
Healthy Fit – Weight Management Program
Living Well With Chronic Conditions (offered three times per year)
Diabetes Education Services

Winona Health offers both inpatient and outpatient psychiatric and counseling services.

Inpatient Psychiatric and Counseling Services: Department of Behavioral Medicine

Winona Health includes an 8-bed inpatient unit known as the Department of Behavioral Medicine. This secured unit offers special programs for those suffering from chemical dependency, anxiety, depression, suicidal thoughts, schizophrenia and psychosis.

Outpatient Services: Winona Health Psychiatric and Counseling Services

Winona Health Psychiatric & Counseling Services offers a comprehensive array of outpatient services:

• Mental health counseling
• Psychiatric and psychological evaluations
• Medication management
• Parenting concerns
• Geriatric counseling

The Winona Health Psychiatric and Counseling staff includes psychiatrists, licensed counselors, therapists and support staff.

The Minnesota Department of Human Services is an organization of individuals with a commitment to bettering the lives of Minnesotans by helping to provide essential services to Minnesota’s most vulnerable residents. Working with many others, including counties, tribes and nonprofits, DHS helps ensure that Minnesota seniors, people with disabilities, children and others meet their basic needs and have the opportunity to reach their full potential.

MDHS’ largest financial responsibility is to provide health care coverage for low-income Minnesotans. They are also responsible for securing economic assistance for struggling families, providing food support, overseeing child protection and child welfare services, enforcing child support, and providing services for people with mental illness, chemical dependency, or physical or developmental disabilities.

AddictionResource.com was created to help addicts and their loved ones overcome addiction.

Here you will find valuable and verifiable information on substances abuse and addiction recovery, as well as direct you to the different sources of help, including The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

“The mentality and behavior of drug addicts and alcoholics is wholly irrational until you understand that they are completely powerless over their addiction and unless they have structured help, they have no hope.”  Russell Brand English actor, radio host, and author. Former addict.

WSU Health & Wellness Services has created these pages to to provide resources to make informed decisions.

WSU Health & Wellness Services offers a wide variety of services aimed to:

• Educate students based on current research in alcohol and other drugs.
• Empower students to make informed decisions regarding substance abuse.
• Foster changes in and beyond Winona State University to decrease illegal and high risk use of alcohol and other drugs.

Alcohol Education Programs
WSU S.A.F.E.
CHOICES
e-Chug and e-Toke