Collaborator links for more information:

• African American Family Services
  Minneapolis: 612-813-0782, St. Paul: 651-642-0021
  * Helps the African American individual, family and community reach a greater state of well-being through the delivery of community-based, culturally specific chemical health, mental health, and family preservation services.
  
  
• Center for Victims of Torture
  612-436-4800
  * Works locally, nationally and internationally to heal the wounds of torture on individuals, their families and their communities and to stop torture worldwide.
  
  
• Centro
  612-872-1412 Refer out to La Opportunity 612-872-6165
  * Multifaceted social service agency serving the Latino community for over 29 years.
  
  
• CornerHouse
  612-813-8300
  * Assesses suspected child sexual abuse, coordinates forensic interview services, and provides training for other professionals.
  
  
• Family and Children's Service
  612-339-9101
  * Counseling, prevention, intervention and systems change programs that focus on building strong families, vital communities and capable children.
  
  
• Healthy Families Housing Provider Network
  * The Healthy Families Network is a collaborative service initiative to promote the mental and chemical health of supportive housing residents, strengthen the capacity of resident parents to care for their children and provide comprehensive services to children themselves. This initiative is centered on the Provider Group, a network of 17 non-profit agencies that provide supportive housing to families.
  
  
• Hennepin County Children's Mental Health
  * Offers counseling to children who may have witnessed violence.
  
  
• Minneapolis City Attorney's Office
  612-673-2010
  * Represents the City and its elected officials in all civil (non-criminal) matters, as well as providing a wide range of legal services for City officials and departments. In addition, the City Attorney's Office prosecutes misdemeanor, gross misdemeanor and petty misdemeanor crimes.
  
  
• Minneapolis Police Department
  612-348-2345 (non-emergency)
  * Implementing effective prevention strategies and reducing crime in collaboration with the community and criminal justice partners.
  
  
• Minneapolis Public Schools
  612-668-0000
  * Ensuring that all students learn by supporting their growth into knowledgeable, skilled and confident citizens capable of succeeding in their work, personal and family lives into the 21st Century.
  
  
• Minnesota Department of Human Services, Children's Mental Health Division
  
  
• National Alliance on Mental Illness
  651-645-2948
  * Nation's largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to improving the lives of persons living with serious mental illness and their families.
  
  
• SAVE (Suicide Awareness Voices of Education)
  952-946-7998 [Note: this is not a crisis or counseling service; in an emergency call 1-800-273-8255)
  * Preventing suicide through public awareness and education, eliminating stigma and serving as a resource to those touched by suicide.
  
  
• Tubman Family Alliance
  612-825-0000
  * Offers a full range of family violence prevention and intervention services for men, women and children. Services in Hennepin, Washington and suburban Ramsey Counties (MN) include a 24-hour crisis line, legal advocacy, violence prevention education in the schools, in-home support, counseling services, and short-term crisis shelter for women and children who have experienced domestic violence.
  
  
• University of Minnesota Institute of Child Development (Fiscal Agent)
  612-625-7849
  * Connects research, teaching, policy and community practice regarding children and families.
  
  
• Washburn Child Guidance Center
  612-871-1454
  * Helps children at risk lead successful lives by providing assessment, consultation and therapeutic services for children, families and schools in the Twin Cities metro area.
  
  
• Women of Nations/Eagle's Nest
  651-251-1603
  * Provides shelter, crisis intervention, and advocacy for Native American and other battered women and their children in St. Paul, MN.
  
  

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