East Side Neighborhood Service Inc

Camp bovey - located in gordon, wisconsin, camp bovey offers nature education and outdoor skills through residential camp sessions for youth, ages 9-13, and family groups each summer. Camp bovey programming was paused during the summer of 2023 to focus on generating additional income through private rentals. Out-of-school time (ost) programs - from january august of 2023, our five ost programs provided academic enrichment and mentoring for 362 k-12th graders. Of youth surveyed, 97% said they enjoy their experience and feel cared for by staff and 98% of parents surveyed felt the program supported their child's academic development. In august, we reduced our program size to two sites luxton learners and mulberry junction following a loss in funding. Menlo park academy - menlo park academy is an alternative high school within the minneapolis public school district that enrolls an average of sixty 11th and 12th grade students each year. Most are significantly behind in credits and come to menlo to progress toward graduation. Menlo park embraces students who feel disenfranchised from traditional school settings and struggle to engage. The school utilizes social-emotional learning strategies to create a safe, welcoming, and inclusive environment to revive students' enthusiasm to learn, grow, and achieve. Menlo enrolled 54 students in 2023, and graduated seven, with five scholarships awarded.aspire - this program addresses school attendance for referred students by eliminating barriers and providing support to families and connecting them to services to meet their needs. In 2023, aspire served 215 youth and their families. 75% of the families who accessed the program resolved attendance issues and avoided truancy. 100% of families received assistance with accessing distance learning materials and resources when needed, and with registering for in-person learning and getting school supplies if needed.

Creative arts therapy - provides trauma-informed preventative and needs-based programming to individuals and groups. The program is designed to enrich self-esteem and interpersonal skills, support development of healthy coping methods, and encourage healthy risk-taking. Creative arts therapy served 27 youth through individual and targeted group therapy; of these, 88% were bipoc. 135 additional youth were served through group prevention activities.family healing - this program takes a trauma-informed approach to addressing relationship violence and seeks to heal and transform abusive behaviors so that clients and their families can thrive. In 2023, 143 individuals were served by the program, with over 60% successfully completing the program.northeast child development center (necdc) - early childhood education for children from six weeks through preschool. The program helps children to develop physically, socially, and cognitively according to individual learning styles. In 2023, 97 children were enrolled, including 23 infants, 29 toddlers, and 45 preschoolers. Of these children, 74% of infants, 76% of toddlers and 87% of preschoolers are developmentally on track, and those assessed as not on track were referred to additional support services, including mental health, speech, occupational and physical therapy.

Food programs - provide food support for minneapolis and hennepin county residents who may have difficulty accessing traditional food shelves or grocery stores. We have two brick and mortar food shelf programs and a mobile food shelf program serving 50 low-income apartment buildings. Food programs distributed 987,069 pounds of food to 10,527 participants in need in 2023. Over half of the food distributed was fruits and vegetables.

Youth employment - offers youth ages 14-21 opportunities to develop and achieve goals for academic success, provides job skills and career development, and helps forge connections between training, internships, and volunteer work to help youth gain on-the-job experience. The program placed and supported 31 low-income youth and young adults in paid internships designed to build workplace readiness skills.