P-EBT benefits for 2020-2021 school year available starting in late March

More help is on the way for hundreds of thousands of hungry Minnesota children for the 2020-2021 school year. To ensure children receive the food benefits known as Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer (P-EBT), families should make sure they are approved for free or reduced-price meals at their school through the National School Lunch Program as soon as possible.

Navigating who is eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine and where, when, and how to get it is very challenging right now. 

Several locations may be offering the vaccine as supplies become available to them.

What’s New?

State of Minnesota’s COVID-19 Community Vaccination Program (CVP)

The State of Minnesota will be opening a new community vaccination site this week in Rochester for a one-day vaccination clinic. The large-scale, semi-permanent site will be the third of its kind, joining vaccination sites in Minneapolis and Duluth that launched last week. The Rochester site will be able to serve approximately 1,500 people. This week’s vaccination clinic will be for people 65 years of age and older.

Local COVID-19 vaccination clinics continue to be scheduled for designated Olmsted County businesses, organizations, and employees following CDC guidelines for prioritization of those most at risk of exposure or complications from COVID-19.

The Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) team within Olmsted County’s Adult and Family Services department has recently been recognized as a nationally certified program by the DBT-Linehan Board of Certification. Olmsted County joins only two other programs in the state of Minnesota to have received this high honor.