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When Graceโs anxiety became too big to wrap her arms around, she turned to Amberwing โ Center for Youth & Family Well-Being. There, she learned the skills to breathe through difficult moments while feeling validated and supported along the way.
Amberwing โ Center for Youth & Family Well-Being was created by the Miller-Dwan Foundation to provide the greatest level of compassion and skill, in the most welcoming of healing environments. Set in a restful wooded area, Amberwing brings together the combined resources of community philanthrophy and a health system to create a national model for effective mental health care.
A travel and outdoors enthusiast in his 70s, Eliot had no plans to slow down or cut back on his daily three-mile hikes. Then, a Parkinsonism diagnosis changed everything.
When it feels like everything is closing in at once, who do you entrust with the care of your beloved grandmotherโthe one who made everyone around her feel so special? For Jessie and her dad Bruce, Solvay Hospice House became a beacon of compassion, understanding and peace for their Evelyn at the most difficult time.
COVID-19 knocked Wayne down, hard and fast. Over the next 3 months, he slowly got back up with the steady help of a dedicated team of rehabilitation specialists who were learning, like the rest of the world, how to adjust during a pandemic.
Getting kids in speech therapy to open up and engage isnโt always easy. But having a cheery black Lab retriever there to greet you and learn alongside you can help. Thatโs what speech pathologist Chelsea hoped for when she sought out a facility dog.
When it comes to traumatic burn injuriesโthe kind caused by extreme heat and cold, chemicals, electricity and moreโthe right care can make a life-or-death difference.
When your world is changing fast, both inside and around you, it helps to have the right people and skills to lean on. Kale Pierson and his family found that at just the right time.
Kristin Chederquist embraced some of the biggest challenges with bold love. In the last days of her life, Solvay Hospice House offered Kristin and her family space to experience dignity, comfort and peace.
Emotional pain from the past can splash into life and relationships without warning. To brace those waves, the Fermenich family tunes into faith, humor and the tools they learned from Amberwing โ Center for Youth & Family Well-Being.
Before the accident, Tammy Jensenโs typical day was a busy, noisy, go-get-โem affair. The mother of two zipped back and forth from Buhl to Duluth, Minnesota for work, where she saw orthodontics patients each day
Julia Koepp is a seventeen-year-old student, artist and mental health advocate who found help for anxiety at Amberwing โ Center for Youth & Family Well-Being.
She wants to go into the mental health care field when she graduates. For now, sheโs using her voiceโand her artโto share messages of support and healing.
When the health of someone you love is diminishing, you want to give them more time somehow. Those were the feelings of Jim Larson and his four boys when they decidedโalong with their beloved wife and mom, Aliceโthat it was time to move her to Solvay Hospice House.
Miller-Dwan Foundation has added psychotherapist Rick Gertsema, MS, LP to its staff to help it develop and launch initiatives that will allow it to leverage its unique strengths to create a healthy, vibrant, resilient community free from mental health crisis.
When someone you love passes away it can be a complex emotional journey, marked by a mixture of grief, love and acceptance. And in the end, there can be a constant battle between wanting to remain strong and supportive while grappling with the intense pain of witnessing the challenges your loved one endures. Janet Peterson experienced all of those emotions
Over 1 in 10 youth in the U.S. are experiencing depression that severely impairs their ability to function at school or work, at home, with family, or in their social life. (Source: mhanational.org) Thirteen-year-old Sylva falls within that โ1 in 10″ statistic. Her courage in advocating for herself and seeking the help she needed was remarkable and so was the
The Miller-Dwan Foundation has a long history of addressing the most pressing challenges facing our region with creative solutions such as: Supported Polinsky Medical Rehabilitation Center’s innovative rehab programs. Solvay Hospice House’s dignified end-of-life services. AmberwingโCenter for Youth & Family Well-Being’s youth mental health programs. HopeX, multiply community healingย Right now, we are facing a new public health threat. Accelerated
The state of our minds can be felt in every part of our body, making the bond between our mental and physical health undeniable. This mind-body connection underscores Miller-Dwan Foundationโs decision this past year to acquire Courage KennyโNorthland programming from Allina Health, renaming and rebranding it Northland Adaptive Recreation (NAR). โThe goal of Northland Adaptive Recreation is to broaden recreation