Washburn Center for Children

Community Based ServicesCase Management services provide Hennepin County families with children experiencing severe emotional disturbances access to a variety of social services, including mental health, educational, interpersonal, vocational, medical, dental, insurance and recreational services. Case Managers serve children, ages three through 18, advocate on behalf of the children's needs and coordinate care across multiple providers. In 2024, 605 children received Case Management services.(Continued on Schedule O)Crisis Stabilization provides intensive in-home therapy, skills building and caregiver support to increase stability and help children with severe emotional and behavioral difficulties avoid hospitalization or out-of-home placement as well as support them as the transition back in to their homes. In 2024, 416 children, ages three to 18, received crisis services.Early Childhood Outreach provides observational assessment of children in Hennepin County childcare and preschool settings. The program offers consultation and collaboration with teachers and guardians to identify and address social, emotional, behavioral and/or developmental concerns. Training to teachers is available on request. This program served 65 children in 2024, from birth to kindergarten.Intensive In-Home therapy is available for families whose children, ages five to 17, are at risk of being removed from their homes or receiving a higher level of care due to social and emotional difficulties and conflict within the family system. Therapists collaborate with caregivers in the home setting to improve family functioning and help children develop life skills to increase stability across settings. In 2024, 167 children were served in this program.Family Focused provides intensive in-home family therapy and a therapeutic preschool to strengthen the parent/child relationship and support the healthy functioning and development of children who are having social, emotional or behavioral difficulties and/or experiencing environmental stressors. This program served 264 children, from birth to kindergarten in 2024, 42 of those clients were also served in the milieu component of this program.

Outpatient Individual & Family TherapyThe Outpatient Therapy program provides mental health assessment and treatment for a wide range of mental health concerns for children from birth to age 18. Located at clinics in Minneapolis, Brooklyn Park and Edina, the Outpatient Therapy program served 929 children in 2024.School-based mental health services offer families convenient on-site access to assessment, treatment and school consultation. Washburn Center clinicians are located at several schools in the Bloomington, Burnsville-Eagan-Savage, Eden Prairie, and Minneapolis public school districts along with a few charter schools. An expansion into the (Continued on Schedule O)Columbia Heights public schools classroom therapy support started in August 2024. The age of the clients varies by school but the program as a whole serves kindergarten through 12th grade. This program served 1101 children in 2024.