Overview

Services

Services are tailored toward assisting individuals with normalized living as well as facilitating the highest level of functioning for individuals and families. Prevention of victimization and abuse are integral to several of our services. As a public service agency, each public assistance program is designed to provide a minimal level of family subsistence, adequate nutrition through food support, and medical care for all eligible citizens. 

Sherburne County human services are designed to assist individuals from public assistance to competitive employment encouraging self-sufficiency. Programs are also designed to promote and protects the health of residents through education, prevention services, regulation and advocacy.

Formation

Sherburne County Health and Human Services (SCHHS) formed in 2011, when the social services and public health departments merged in an effort to provide greater cohesion of services, while maintaining greater fiscal responsibility of public dollars. SCHHS is an individual department, under the autonomy of the government of Sherburne County, reporting directly to the Sherburne County Board of Commissioners. Within SCHHS, there is one Director, two managers, twelve supervisors, thirteen units, and approximately one hundred and eighty four staff.