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Traditionally, a person needing help for a mental health disorder calls a mental health center, sets up an initial appointment, and then comes to the facility for a series of treatment visits. Northern Pines Mental Health Center departs from the traditional by taking its services to people where they are. The agency’s well-qualified and highly mobile staff provides outreach services for adults with serious mental illness, in-home counseling and skills services for children and families, school-based services, jail-based services, and mobile crisis outreach services throughout Central Minnesota.
Northern Pines is a comprehensive community mental health center established in 1964. We provide a full range of mental health services to all ages, including Adult Community Based Services, Children & Families Services, mental health education, outpatient therapy, psychiatry, peer specialist services, and more. Northern Pines has a six-county service area in Central Minnesota, covering Aitkin, Cass, Crow Wing, Morrison, Todd, and Wadena counties.
Hundreds of area children and adolescents with special mental health needs receive therapy and specialized skills services through the agency’s children and families division. Specifically designed for children and youth are:
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Psychiatric services including medication evaluation and management |
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Psychotherapy and crisis services |
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Children's mental health case management |
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In-Home and school-based counseling and skills services |
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Mental health behavior aide services, which identify needed skills and then target teaching those skills to youth with mental health disorders. |
Northern Pines takes pride in bringing expert mental health and crisis services to the people of its region in their homes and community settings—wherever services are needed most. Through its practices, as its slogan promises, Northern Pines is enhancing lives and restoring hope. |
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Northern Pines Mental Health Center, Inc
has several locations in Central Minnesota.
We have offices located in Brainerd, Long Prairie, Staples, Wadena and Little Falls. |
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| SPACIOUS OFFICE - Two girls from Brainerd look over the office of Dr. C. J. Bozzi, the psychiatrist at the Northern Pines Mental Health Center during an open house. The center was moved to new quarters over the First National Bank building in Little Falls. The two girls shown are Joan, left, and Janet McLaughlin, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Gene McLaughlin, Brainerd. (1964) |
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