Case of the Month - April 2008

(April 2008)
A couple with two children – 3 and 1 ˝ applied for a car loan. The applicant and co-applicant work about 25 hours each as assembly workers and both of them have been employed at the same place for over a year.
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Case of the Month - January 2008

(January 2008)
I have a family here in Red Wing that hopefully soon will be benefiting greatly from the services that Head Start provides in conjunction with Covered Bridge in Zumbrota. The daughter is a 4 year old in the morning class. She does great in school and loves to learn.
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Case of the Month - December 2007

(December 2007)
My story started last fall in August of 2006. I met a new family coming into our Head Start program. It was a young mother and her daughter. The daughter was 3 ½ years old at the time. The mother was non-English speaking.
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Case of the Month: October 2007

(October 2007)
A few months ago, Lorena* called the Family Caregiver and Senior Advocate and said she saw on the Internet that we help caregivers. She wanted to know if we could help her “make her parents move to safer housing”. An Advocate met with her the next week to go over her concerns. Her parents live in the next county and are still in the family home she grew up in.

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Case of the Month: August 2007

(August 2007)
Earlier this summer, I was contacted by a single mother who was in desperate need of rental assistance to preserve her housing. She stated that she had been trying to get caught up with her bills, but due to an unforeseen medical issue, wasn’t able to work for a week.
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Case of the Month: June 2007

(June 2007)
Maria & Juan applied for Energy Assistance in September. When they applied they had a very large XCEL bill that had been carried over from the winter before.
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Case of the Month: May 2007

(May 2007)
Yvonne- Yvonne lives in the Senior Housing in Plainview. She rides the bus 3-4 days a week...

Anna – Anna is a lady that lives in the Plaza in Lake City...

Randolph School has been rated 5th in the state for education...
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Case of the Month: April 2007

(April 2007)
In the middle of October, 2005, I received a call from a family that had just arrived in the area. The family included a father, mother and 2 daughters, ages 7 and 3. They had sold their trucking business on the West Coast (Washington State). They had a used Durango truck and a pull behind travel trailer. On their way to the Eastern States they stopped overnight in Wabasha and enjoyed their stay. However, they continued out East. When they got there, they realized that they liked the Wabasha community better, so they returned. By doing all of this traveling, their savings had been depleted.

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Case of the Month: March 2007

(March 2007)
Jane was living by herself at home with her husband in a rest home due to medical conditions. She had high heating bills and didn’t have the money for insulation or the knowledge to know what was the best things to do to reduce her heating bills.
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Case of the Month: June 2007

(June 2007)
Maria & Juan applied for Energy Assistance in September. When they applied they had a very large XCEL bill that had been carried over from the winter before. $1364. Together they have 4 children. Maria has a steady job/income. Juan has just started a Self-employed auto repair business. So far he has not made a whole lot of money.
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Case of the Month: January 2007

(January 2007)
Sometimes success is measured in small steps taken rather than giant strides made. I would like to tell you about David, (not his real name) who recently successfully completed a year in our transitional housing program. David had been known at Three Rivers since October of 2002 when he was granted monies to assist him in moving into permanent housing through our RHASP program.
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