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%3 • MAHUBE-OTWA Community Action Partnership, based in Detroit Lakes, will use $188,000 to make affordable chore and homemaker services available to older adults as well as complete home modifications, including building accessible ramps, in Otter Tail and Wadena counties. • Jewish Community Center of the Greater St. Paul Area will receive $99,999 to improve services to people with early memory loss and their caregivers over two years. • Volunteer Services of Carlton County is awarded $204,778 to deliver chore, transportation, caregiver respite and caregiver counseling services to people in Carlton and Aitkin counties. • Amherst H. Wilder Foundation of St. Paul is receiving $259,992 over three years to expand a chronic disease self-management program and to develop neighborhood -based Caregiver Cafes and a volunteer caregiver mentor program in Ramsey County. • Chatfield Lutheran Church is awarded $180,008 to develop and provide chore and homemaker services, transportation, chronic disease and falls prevention care, caregiver support and companion services to residents of Fillmore County over three years. • Pioneer Care of Fergus Falls is receiving $116,297 to assemble a community collaborative to use and study electronically monitored medication management in people's homes in West Central Minnesota. • Vine Faith in Action of Mankato is awarded $244,595 to provide services such as caregiver support, respite, chore and home modification services to about 900 elders in Blue Earth, Nicollet, Brown, Sibley, Le Sueur, Watonwan and Waseca counties. • ANGELS, a Living at Home/Block Nurse program based in McGregor, will receive $50,000 to assess the home modification needs of older adults in Aitkin County and build a database of volunteers to perform the needed home modifications so older adults may continue to live at home. • Great River Area Faith in Action, based in Becker, is awarded $293,998 over a three-year period to expand its Living Well at Home program into Princeton and St. Cloud, implement a respite program in Becker and begin a chronic care management services program in Sherburne and Wright County. • Oromo Community Inc. of Minneapolis and St. Paul is awarded $150,000 to employ coordinators to recruit, train, deploy and support 34 Oromo and Somali community volunteers to conduct weekly check -ins with elders in their community and perform chore and homemaker tasks as needed. h[ry://nnzgov/dhs