to create space at Washburn Center for Children in which staff

  • want to develop an understanding of their own cultural self
  • begin to notice the complexity around them
  • develop a deeper level of consciousness
  • are curious and want to see what is outside of their perspective and experience
  • To build a healthy multi-cultural workplace community that balances
    culturally responsive practice and collaboration with internal self-awareness and reflection.
  • To better ourselves and achieve our mission through nurturing those we serve.
  • To work toward advancing equity – this is a life long journey!

What we value

Cultural Responsiveness is essential to achieving our mission. Our aspirational aim is to advance equity and work toward building a multi-cultural workplace community that balances culturally responsive practice and collaboration with internal self-awareness and reflection.

This requires a commitment, by each and every employee, to increase awareness of our own cultural beliefs, values and biases, a commitment to self-reflection and individual growth, and an intentional commitment to actively integrating diversity, equity, and inclusion into our organizational cultural at Washburn Center. The on-going practice of learning, developing and action is guided by our core values:

  • We embody compassion
  • We practice resilience and hold hope
  • We build a multicultural community
  • We transform and grow

Partnerships

  • Dr. William (Bill) Allen – Healing Bonds
  • Appetite for Change
  • Association Allen’s Building Maintenance Inc
  • Cookie Cart
  • Cristo Rey
  • Dr. Anne Gearity
  • Hmong American Farmers
  • Innovative Office Solutions
  • KayeAnn Mason, MS, LICSW
  • Minneapolis Urban Scholars
  • Northside Achievement Zone (NAZ)
  • Larry Tucker, LMFT – Kente Circle

CARING FOR ORPHANED CHILDREN

EVOLVING TO MEET THE COMMUNITY’S NEEDS

A FOCUS ON CHILDREN’S MENTAL HEALTH

CREATING A CENTER OF EXCELLENCE

A new facility To Meet the community’s needs

Cadwallader C. Washburn, co-founder of the milling company that has since become General Mills, founded the Washburn Memorial Orphan Asylum after a mill explosion left several children orphaned.

After the orphanage closed in 1924, the nonprofit began providing services for children in foster care.

Washburn Memorial Clinic opened as a mental health clinic, laying the foundation for Washburn to become the leading children’s mental health center in the state.

The agency changed its name to Washburn Center for Children and, in the following year, received the Nonprofit Excellence Award from the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits.

Having recently doubled the number of children served, Washburn plans to construct a new facility that will offer more Twin Cities children a place to grow and heal. Grand opening is anticipated in 2014.