The Family Partnership Is Helping Minnesotans during COVID-19, and You Can Help!
Minnesotans are stepping up and making a difference during the COVID-19 pandemic, and I want to make sure people know about all the organizations out there doing great work and helping during this crisis and beyond. I’m profiling a different nonprofit each day to share their information and their story.
Today’s featured nonprofit is the Family Partnership, led by my good friend Molly Greenman. Founded in 1878 by volunteers as the Minneapolis Humane Society to address the gap in services to children, the organization has a rich history of involvement and service to the community and has evolved over the years to meet the needs of its constituents: it founded the first Big Brothers and Boys Clubs, was instrumental in serving families involved in World War II, and was the first family service agency in the country to provide counseling for LGBTQ individuals and families. It got its current name in 2010, and in 2011 it merged with Reuben Lindh Family Services, expanding its offerings in prenatal and preschool ages.
The organization offers programs and initiatives dedicated to reducing and preventing poverty, expanding opportunities for immigrant families and families of color, and healing the damaging effects of poverty and adverse experiences on children, youth, and families. In recognition of our increasingly racially and ethnically diverse world, it is intentional in its outreach to the communities of color and new immigrants with culturally appropriate and multilingual services.
The Family Partnership continues to operate during the COVID-19 pandemic, offering mental health, home visiting, unified therapy rehab (occupational, physical, speech) and PRIDE (Promoting Recovery, Independence, Dignity, and Equality) services remotely with secure technology tools. It also provides a page of resources and links on its website to numerous resources for families during these difficult times. Trying to encapsulate all that the Family Partnership does in this brief article would do this nonprofit a disservice. Head over to their website to learn more about what they do and how your donation can help.
The Family Partnership’s new preschool bus. The Family Partnership
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Jonathan Palmer
Jonathan has been collecting and reading for over 45 years, has seen nearly every comic-book movie and most cartoons, and is a fount of obscure superhero knowledge that would make Dwayne McDuffie smile.
