Resources

Rice County Resources

    • Community Education/ Recreation

Northfield :(507)664-3550

    • Early Childhood Family Education

Faribault: (507) 333-6460

Montgomery / Lonsdale: (507) 364-8116

Morristown: (507) 362-4403

Northfield: (507) 664-3750

    • Head Start (0-5 Years)

Faribault : (800) 277-8418

    • Head Start (0-5 Years)

Northfield: (800) 277-8418

    • Faribault ECFE: (507) 333-6835 (ask for Cahrene)
    • Rice County Public Health:

(507) 332-6111 (ask for Lyndsey or Sara)

(507) 332-5940 (For Spanish speaking)

    • Car Seat Safety Website:

www.carseatsmadesimple.org or https://www.safekids.org/ultimate-car-seat-guide/

    • Baby Stop (for families with infants 0-8 weeks):

Faribault: (507) 333-6460

    • Baby Talk (for families with infants 0-12 weeks):

Northfield: (507) 664-3750

    • District One Hospital’s Lactation Consultant: (507) 497-3740
    • District One Hospital Women’s Health Unit: (507) 497-3743
    • LaLeche League International: www.llli.org 1-800-525-3243
    • Northfield Childbirth Education Northfield Hospital Childbirth education: (507) 646-1534
    • Northfield Hospital (Birth Center): (507) 646-1205
    • Somali Prenatal Program: (507)333-6460
    • Starting Together Childbirth Education Class District One Hospital: (507) 333-5518
    • Text4baby: An educational program of the National Healthy
    • Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition.

Get FREE messages each week on your cell phone to help you through your pregnancy and your baby’s first year. Registration is easy and can be done from your cell phone. Simply text the word BABY (or BEBE for Spanish) to 511411. You will be asked to enter your baby’s birth date & your zip code.

    • WIC (Women, Infants, Children) – Breastfeeding Education:

(507) 332-5906/ 645-9576/744-5185 / TDD 332-6248

Parents Forever Online Courses

    • For parents in separation/divorce.

http://www.extension.umn.edu/family/parents-forever/

    • Rice County Family Home Visiting Programs Healthy Families Southeast Minnesota lea (An in-home service through the Public Health Nursing Service)

(507) 332-6111 / 645-9576 /

744-5185 / TDD 332-6248

    • MN Family Planning Program

www.dhs.state.mn.us/familyplanning

For an application call:

1-888-702-9968

    • Northfield Women’s Center

www.northfieldwomenscenter.org

(507) 645-7638

    • Planned Parenthood of Apple Valley

(952) 890-0940