Washburn Center for Children has been honored at the 2024 Community Impact Awards. The awards by Twin Cities Business recognizes annually nonprofit and for-profit businesses whose efforts are moving the needle and making a difference in our state, from sustainability and social enterprise to community building and advancing racial justice.
In 2024, Washburn Center was featured for long-term impact at the Twin Cities Business Community Impact Awards as an organization that improves lives and make significant differences in our state.
Washburn Center has a legacy of innovation attuned to the communities’ needs as we evolve to establish the highest quality of children’s mental health. The mental health care kids receive at Washburn Center for Children is life changing. Our impact is measured by parents and caregivers. Last year, they shared that 97% would recommend Washburn Center to family or friends.
Community-based mental health care is for all kids and families who need us, period. It’s what makes us unique. We are 100% centered on children across a continuum of care – meeting them where they are developmentally, economically and geographically. We work to reduce barriers so children and their families can access care and discover healthy, lasting outcomes. They discover healthy, lasting outcomes.
One of Washburn Center for Children’s key differentiators is localized, community-based care by meeting children and families where they live, learn, and play: delivering therapy directly in homes, schools, emergency clinics, community centers, playgrounds and anywhere else kids need care most. A few key examples of this:
- Our therapists serve families in more than 11 counties in the core Twin Cities and suburbs and beyond.
- Traditional, brick-and-mortar clinics in Minneapolis, Brooklyn Park and Edina
- An extensive network of community-based, in-home mental health care to give families holistic, wrap-around care.
- Our therapists have offices more than 50 schools in Minneapolis, Bloomington, Eden Prairie and Burnsville-Savage-Eagan; plus several charter schools.
- More than 60 therapists meet families and provide services in family home environments.
- Partnerships with 3 major emergency care systems in the Twin Cities (Allina, Children’s MN, and M Health Fairview) to provide vital mental health emergency aftercare, free of charge to families.
Among the recent impacts of the team at Washburn Center:
- Expand our school-based program — one of the most effective ways to deliver mental health care.
- We began a new partnership with District 191 (Burnsville, Eagan and Savage) to support all its schools.
- Our team served 423 (56%) more children than last year, connecting 53 therapists to students in four school districts and specialty settings.
- Extend the Washburn Acute Response Model (WARM) program into MHealth Fairview. The WARM team connected 256 children with care following a mental health crisis in an emergency department, an increase of 59% from 2022.
- Respond to caregiver’s needs by launching weekend hours giving families a choice in accessing care while balancing their busy lives.
- Meet the language needs of clients. Washburn Center added 24 Spanish-speaking therapists in various programs.
- Provide training to more than 40 interns who hope to impact our communities by pursuing a bachelor’s, master’s, or doctorate in psychology, clinical social work, professional counseling and marriage and family therapy.
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