In Trump's economy, we could all use a little extra help to afford our lives
In a time when everyday costs keep rising, practical help matters more than ever. I'm highlighting these resources as a constituent service to help Carver County families save money and make life a little more affordable...because somebody’s gotta do it.
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Free Professional Advice For First-Time Homebuyers
Somebody Will Give You Straight Advice About Buying a House, for Free, and Isn’t Selling You Anything Every generation is supposed to hand the next one an easier time of it. That has been the arrangement for a long while, and it mostly held. It isn’t holding now. My kids’ generation is delaying the big…
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Free Help For People Struggling With Gambling
The Phone Number on the Counter There is a phone number posted at the register where you buy scratch tickets. State law requires it to be there. People rarely see it. Here is what is behind it, because it is more than most people expect, and because gambling is the rare money problem where Minnesota…
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Minnesota’s Free Quit Tobacco Program
You Already Paid for Quit Partner MN I was paying for gas in Chaska a couple weeks ago and looking at the wall behind the register while the guy in front of me bought a pack of cigarettes. I wasn’t doing math at the time. I did it later. On January 1, Minnesota’s cigarette taxes…
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$35 Emergency Insulin From MN Program
There’s a Law That Gets You Insulin for $35. Almost Nobody Knows About It. In 2017 a 26-year-old man named Alec Smith aged off his mother’s health insurance. He had Type 1 diabetes. The insulin and supplies he needed ran about $1,300 a month, which he did not have, so he started stretching what he…
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Gas Is Over $4 Again In Carver County
9 Things That Actually Help Carver County residents are watching the dollars rack up instead of the gallons when they fill up their tank these days. They used to just look at gallons. The Minnesota average that day was right around four dollars. A month before that it was $3.62. A year ago it was…
Additional Services
Childcare
Community Specific
- Latino Voices of Minnesota - Offers domestic violence support, housing support, court paperwork assistance, immigration lawyer referrals, among other services.
- Unidos MN - Provides document reconciliation, help with family preparedness planning, Know Your Rights workshops and has been conducting legal observer training sessions.
Employment
- CareerForce in Chaska - The people at CareerForce are amazing, supportive, and extremely helpful during a really scary period in people’s lives.
Financial Assistance
- Carver County Financial Assistance
- Burial programs
- Cash programs
- Emergency programs
- Food programs
- Health care programs
- Housing programs
Food
- Chaska Cares
- Free monthly drive-through food distributions at the old Gedney factory at 2100 Stoughton Ave, Chaska MN 55318. (Check the Chaska Cares link above for dates and times)
- Vulnerable adult check-ins
- Find Food Carver County
- Twin Cities Metropolitan Region Food Resource Map
- Twin Cities Meals On Wheels
Health Care
Housing
- Carver County Home & Community-Based Care
- Minnesota Homeownership Center - A wonderful nonprofit that offers free services and resources to first-time homebuyers, and, crucially help to prevent foreclosure.
Transportation
- Metro Mobility - This progam from the Metropolitan Council is amazing.
Join Us!
We all have a part to play in making our future in Carver County a brighter one.
Countdown to November 3
"Never confuse movement with action" --Ernest Hemmingway
Prepared and paid for by the Dan Kessler for Minnesota Senate Committee
PO Box 165, Chaska, MN 55318