FAMILYMEANS

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Youth development - familymeans provides free, high-quality after school and summer programming for youth ages 5 through 18 living in the mobile home city of landfall, minnesota, and the privately-owned cimarron mobile home community in lake elmo, minnesota. Both communities are home to low-income, diverse, and at-risk populations of youth who are socially and physically isolated from surrounding communities. Each site offers a children's program and a teen program. The goal of the youth development initiatives is equipping youth to learn, thrive, connect, and contribute throughout their lives. Participating youth can explore art, science, music, cooking, and technology skill-building in a free-choice, drop-in environment. Activities also include field trips, community service, sports, fitness and recreation, leadership development, and organizing community events. Help with schoolwork is available daily.the ready to be program guides teens in thoughtful preparation for postsecondary life. In 2024, 211 children and youth attended our programs. In year-end surveys, youth state that our programming connects them with caring and responsive staff, offers them new learning opportunities, helps them develop relational skills, guides them about their futures, and enables them to contribute to community life.

Employee assistance - companies contract with the organization to provide services that nurture a healthy workforce and work environment. Under this benefit, employees and their family members have access to legal services and the organization's programs for confidential help with personal matters. The program also provides training, mediation, critical incident stress debriefings and consultation to management.