What We Do

Mentoring

Family Friends outreach workers are present daily on the high school and middle school campuses to listen to and mentor students. These mentoring relationships often extend beyond the confines of school and carry over into the local coffee shops, pizza parlors and gymnasiums after school hours.

Parent Support

Family Friends maintains regular contact with parents in need of support and guidance. These relationships are ongoing throughout the school year and summer often enduring throughout the years.

Direct Financial Assistance

Family Friends provides immediate financial assistance to families in need of basic necessities such as food, clothing and rent. All assistance is referral based through school or community professionals.

Dental/Medical Care

Family Friends sponsors a dental van that provides critical dental services to those students who have barriers to accessing dental care. In addition, Family Friends assist families in accessing health care including partnering with the One Sight vision initiative through Lens Crafters.

SERVING THE MINNETONKA COMMUNITY BY PROVIDING LOVE, SUPPORT AND ENCOURAGEMENT TO YOUTH AND FAMILIES IN NEED
 

Summer Programming

Family Friends partners closely with other youth programs such as Timber Bay and Tree House throughout the summer. These partnerships are designed to ensure that more youth in need of additional support have weekly safe and supervised programming.

Partnerships

Family Friends maintains strong relations with a network of community agencies. Collaborative in nature, these relations often help puzzle together solutions for families in need.

Lasting Relations

Family Friends nurtures lasting relationships with youth and families that often endure through out the years.

Support Groups

Family Friends facilitates weekly support groups in the schools for students working through a variety of social/emotional issues