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Feel Good About Online Shopping! FlipGive 9509

June 10th, 2014|Updates|

Help Semcac by online SHOPPING! Shop with a variety of retailers and Semcac will receive a designated % or amount as a donation from that retailer.  You receive the full amount of the eGiftcard or items you purchase and a designated amount will be donated to Semcac from the company you order from. Visit  http://flipgive.com/c/9509    June 1 - July 31, 2014   Shop for yourself or for others - eGiftcards and online purchases make giving presents EASY! Purchase a $50 Restaurants.com eGiftcard for only $20!  (And $10 will be donated to Semcac from Restaurants.com!) It's a winning purchase for [...]

Rising STD Rates in Winona Reflect Greater Awareness, Testing

May 7th, 2014|Semcac in the Media|

Rising STD Rates in Winona County Reflect Greater Awareness, Testing  May 06, 2014 6:34 am  •  By Hannah Jones  - WinonaDailyNews.com The latest data on Winona’s sexual health may just be enough to kill the mood. The bad news: chlamydia rates in Winona have risen since 2012, according to the most recent sexually transmitted disease report from the Minnesota Department of Health. The numbers reflect a statewide increase in chlamydia and gonorrhea rates in the past year. The good news: Representatives at Winona Health and Semcac say that increase is likely just a reflection of a significant increase in testing over the past [...]

Semcac offers Steele County residents nutritional meal option as they age

April 25th, 2014|Semcac in the Media|

southernminn.com  |  By ASHLEY STEWART astewart@owatonna.com  Posted on Apr 23, 2014    by ASHLEY STEWART For 13 years, Marlene Grunhovd has eaten lunch at SeniorPlace in Owatonna. And for a good reason. “My doctor said he doesn’t worry about me as long as I’m eating here,” she said. Grunhovd isn’t alone. Each day, Semcac, a non-profit Community Action Agency that serves southeastern Minnesota, provides about 200 hot, nutritious mid-day meals to people 60 years old and older and Head Start students in Steele County, said Deb Praus, site manager for Steele County Semcac. Semcac offers senior dining options at the Blooming Prairie Senior Center, [...]

Community Action Reaches the 50 Year Milestone

April 22nd, 2014|Updates|

Nationally, Community Action Agencies have been helping people for 50 years, in 2014! On August 20, 1964 in Washington, DC, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Economic Opportunity Act (EOA). The EOA created a variety of programs, including Community Action Agencies, to help address the War on Poverty. Semcac was one of those agencies established to address local poverty problems in rural, urban and suburban communities across the country. Semcac was established in 1966. Semcac, a Community Action Agency, will reach the 50 year milestone in 2016.   "In the last 50 years, Community Action has been extremely successful helping people achieve [...]

Rolling Hills Transit, MN Public Transit Assoc newsletter

April 4th, 2014|Semcac in the Media|

Rolling Hills Transit is featured in the MN Public Transit Association newsletter, In Transit, page 7 Rolling Hills Transit By LAURA EASH I recently spoke with Erlene Welshons, Transportation Director of Rolling Hills Transit, Semcac’s transit system. This Community Action Agency (CAA) was founded in the 1960s to help fight the War on Poverty and serves low-income populations in seven SE Minnesota counties (limited services in another four). All are welcome to ride Rolling Hills Transit! Erlene told me the name Rolling Hills Transit came from a Semcac employee contest. Bus driver Wayne Sandberg submitted the winning name and he won a Minnesota Zoo prize. Erlene helped design the new logo. With the new name and logo [...]

Health Screening Offered in Rushford, Tri-County Record

April 4th, 2014|Semcac in the Media|

Free health screening offered in Rushford Fillmore County Public Health (FCPH) and Semcac are partnering to host a low-cost blood pressure, cholesterol and glucose screening on Wednesday, April 16, 2014 from 7:30 to 9:30 AM at the Tenborg Center in Rushford. The cost of the screening is $11.00 and due at the time of service. To participate in the screening you must: • Be 18 years of age or older. • Not currently receiving medical treatment for cholesterol. • Fast or not eat anything for at least 8 to 10 hours prior to your screening. You may drink plain water, [...]

Get Yourself Tested Awareness Week, Semcac Clinic

April 4th, 2014|Updates|

April is STI/STD Awareness Month and Semcac Clinic in partnership with WSU Health will host GET YOURSELF TESTED AWARENESS WEEK, April 7 - 11. Get Yourself Tested (GYT) campaign is a youthful, empowering social movement to reduce the spread of sexually transmitted infections among young people through information, open communication with partners, health care providers, and parents, and testing and treatment as needed. GYT is supported by a broad coalition of partners nationwide, including: MTV, the Kaiser Family Foundation, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It launched in 2009 as a special promotion of It's Your (Sex) Life, an [...]