Programming includes:
  • Structured supervised daily living
  • Independent Living Skills – preparing youth for next steps
  • Vocational exploration
  • Crisis and anger management; de-escalation
  • Community reintegration
  • Educational support with on-site classroom
  • Home visiting/family engagement

Group Homes

Our group homes are a critical community based service, allowing youth who cannot be well served within a family home environment to receive needed services in a home-like community setting. Our group homes provide a trauma informed, culturally sensitive, strength based and structured living environment with intensive support for youth. We serve ages 12 – 18 of all genders (including for specific needs of LGBTQIA) who may be impacted by family conflict, family drug abuse, mental health issues, school and/or social difficulties, or criminal activity – often rooted in trauma history, treatment or other developmental needs. 
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  • Service coordination and case management
  • Culturally appropriate opportunities
  • Recreational opportunities and coordination
  • Opportunities for youth leadership and empowerment
  • Community-based mental health
  • Coordinated, individual services plans for each youth, with family, workers, and other providers
  • Transportation
"We are so appreciative of your kindness and thoughtfulness. You made a scary situation doable and set our fears to rest. We appreciate all you do.”
 – Parents of a St. Cloud Group Home youth

​St. Cloud Group Home

For referrals, contact Carrie Neid, Prorgram Manager
(320) 259-6764

Von Wald Group Home

For referrals, contact Laura Johnson, Program Manager
​​(507) 280-0110
Residential support services
for young men and women ages 12 – 18
in Saint Cloud, MN
Residential support services
for young men and women ages 12 – 18
in Rochester, MN
​1101 Washington Memorial Drive
​Saint Cloud, MN 56301
​4435 Bamber Valley Road SW
Rochester, MN 55902
180 Degrees St. Cloud Group home is a safe place for youth in crisis.  When home is not safe or when youth need to confront behavioral issues, staff at St. Cloud Group Home are ready to help. 

THE BIG PICTURE
  • A nurturing, safe, and structured living environment that promotes positive choice-making through learned skills and support
  • Continuous 24-hour supervision
  • Professional, multi-disciplinary team approach
 
APPROACH
  • Gather past history and conduct any appropriate new assessments
  • Create an individualized service plan (ISP)
  • Establish behavioral consequences and interventions
  • Coordinate services with families, other engaged providers, and treatments facilities
  • Help understand, acknowledge, and promote accountability
 
ACADEMICS
  • On-site school with ISD 742
  • Full-time teacher and full-time paraprofessional
  • Individualized academic support
  
MENTAL HEALTH
  • Daily support groups within and outside the group home
  • Referral and transportation to community counselors, therapists, and treatment facilities
 
INNER RESILIENCE
  • Daily recreation opportunities
  • Community service opportunities
 
VOCATIONAL EXPLORATION
  • Establishment of employer expectations for employee behavior
  • Career exposure through presentations by community professionals
  • Resume and interview coaching
  • Opportunities to earn money within the group home to purchase items
 
TRANSITIONING OUT OF THE PROGRAM
  • Focus on successful family reunification, whenever possible, or independent living skills
  • Contracted home visits to support families and the youth after the youth leaves the group home
 
LICENSED CARE
  • Licensed by the Minnesota Department of Corrections - 2960 Rules


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The Von Wald Group Home is a critical component in services provided to at-risk youth in the greater Rochester area.  Situated on a tranquil 10-acre rural setting,  the Von Wald Home offers a safe alternative to juvenile detention or life on the streets. 
 
"Von Wald Group Home provides a nurturing and structured living environment.  With support from staff, youth learn how to take responsibility for behaviors in the past, and why taking responsibility is important for them and for others."
– Kevin Torgerson
   Sheriff, Olmsted County
  
"Von Wald is a great place to have in Rochester.  Most of the kids that come here got caught up with the wrong crowd or fell into peer pressure and made the wrong decisions.  Staying at Von Wald,I learned that  people really do want to help me and I can change my life around once I set my mind to it".
– Von Wald resident, age 16

THE BIG PICTURE
  • ​A nurturing, safe, and structured living environment
  • Continuous 24-hour supervision
  • A professional, multi-disciplinary team approach

APPROACH
  • Gather past history and conduct any appropriate new assessments
  • Create an individualized service plan (ISP)
  • Establish behavioral consequences and interventions
  • Coordinate services with families, other engaged providers, and treatments facilities

ACADEMICS
  • On-site Rochester Public School
  • Full-time teacher and full-time paraprofessional
  • Individualized academic support

MENTAL HEALTH
  • Daily support groups
  • Referral and transportation to community counselors and therapists

INNER RESILIENCE
  • Daily recreation opportunities
  • Community service opportunities

VOCATIONAL EXPLORATION
  • Establishment of employer expectations for employee behavior
  • Career exposure through presentations by community professionals
  • Resume and interview coaching

TRANSITIONING OUT OF THE PROGRAM
  • Focus on successful family reunification, whenever possible
  • Contracted home visits to support families and the youth after the youth leaves the group home

LICENSED CARE
  • Licensed by the Minnesota Department of Corrections - 2960 Rules