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Guiding Partners to Solutions (GPS)

Guiding Partners to Solutions (GPS) is a program currently provided through Olmsted County Community Services in partnership with Family Service Rochester. GPS serves any individual or family in Olmsted County who is struggling to connect with resources or services they may need. Often the individual or family has encountered systemic barriers or are experiencing personal barriers that interfere with the ability to get their needs met. The GPS Social Worker assists the individual or family to reduce barriers and connect with the appropriate resource or service.

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Collaborators, Project Type, Impacts, Related Projects

 


Collaborators 

Lead Organization: Olmsted County Community Services and Family Service Rochester

Contact: TBD ; Email: TBD ; Phone: TBD

Known/Likely Collaborators: Family Service Rochester ; Homeless Response Team, Rochester ; Olmsted County Community Services

Potential Collaborators:


Related Projects

enCounter Poverty


Impacts 

Major Impact:  Basic Needs

PlanScape Impacts :

Level 1: Basic Needs, Caring Relationship

Level 2:

DMC Impacts:

Community Health Impacts:


Type of Project

Programming  

 

 

Detailed Description

​Guiding Partners to Solutions (GPS) is a program currently provided through Olmsted County Community Services in partnership with Family Service Rochester. GPS serves any individual or family in Olmsted County who is struggling to connect with resources or services they may need. Often the individual or family has encountered systemic barriers or are experiencing personal barriers that interfere with the ability to get their needs met. The GPS Social Worker assists the individual or family to reduce barriers and connect with the appropriate resource or service. 

GPS is intended to be a short-term service or up to approximately 60 days. In some situations, a phone conversation with a GPS Social Worker can provide the needed guidance and resource information. In others, simply providing resource information is not enough and the GPS Social Worker walks alongside the individual or family to make the necessary connections. Because individuals and families often come to GPS feeling frustrated with barriers they’ve encountered, GPS engages with them quickly and begins working on solutions right away. 

To connect with GPS, simply call 507 328-6325. Or, you can stop by to see them at 2117 Campus Drive SE in Rochester.

 


Other Community News and Reports having impacts on:

Basic Needs, Caring Relationship  
April 19, 2024: Rochester Vision 2050
The visioning effort calls for soliciting broad community input to help propose desired strategic initiatives based on desired outcomes through 2050.

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March 19, 2024: Action Request March 18, 2024
Comment at the 3/18/2024 City Council Meeting:

To act on September 21, 2020 council resolutions for the city staff to develop a Intercultural City action plan.  

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February 24, 2024: 2024 The Year of Respect

Promotion Post Bulletin Wraps 

Actionable Steps

Quotes from BIPOC voices

 

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February 03, 2024: Jeremiah Program News

2024 Fundraising : Chocolate for a Cause! Get your chocolate bar for a chance to win one of five golden tickets! Order yours today Scan the QR Code or click here: LINK

2018 Information presented to December 18, 2018 HRA.

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January 18, 2024: 2024 The Year of Respect

January 19, 2024 Kick Off

Dec 19, 2023 Planning Sessions

Dec 12, 2023 Introduction  

References: Community of Respect Tools

  • Conversation Starters
  • Encouragement Tips
  • MPR Talking Sense Program and App

 

 PB Reporting

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November 15, 2023: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation
 FALL UPDATES: SUPPORTING THE NONPROFIT ECOSYSTEM

GET TO KNOW THESE INSPIRING FACING RACE AWARD RECIPIENTS Stream the 2023 Facing Race Awards

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August 22, 2023: DEED: Digital Opportunity Plan
Presentation Slides; Instructions to submit comments, Draft Digital Opportunity Plan; Public Comment Sessions--Family Service Rochester will be hosting one of the public comment sessions 

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July 20, 2023: National Community Resource Center November 2022 Expo
(1) 2023 Convenings: Effective Communicating Across Cultures; (2) November 2022: Per PB: "A most unusual assemblage of organizations and players gathered Thursday. It may have been the first of its kind in Rochester."

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July 15, 2023: Developing Age-Friendly Olmsted County (AFOC) Plan
1. July 2023 Updates; 2. Feb. 2023 Updates; 3. April 2022 AFOC Action Plan Draft

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January 27, 2023: Community Health Assessment Process
2021 - 2023 CHIP Priorities and Status; 2024 - 2026 CHIP Priorities

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December 25, 2022: Collection of documents

Documents include Process Improvements; Planning Process, Memberships

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October 08, 2022: Council on Asian Pacific Minnesotans (CAPM)
2022 Community Priorities Survey. Let your voice be heard. 

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Last modified by support on 2021/09/05
Created by support on 2020/02/11

 

 

 

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