WASHBURN CENTER FOR CHILDREN
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Mission Statement
Washburn Center for Children nurtures every child and family's well-being and full potential through transformative children's mental health care.
About This Cause
Washburn Center is one of Minnesota’s leading children’s mental health centers, caring for a wide variety of children’s needs associated with anxiety, depression, learning difficulties and trauma. We serve more than 3,900 children, birth through age 18, and approximately 11,700 family members each year.Our clinicians provide leading best practice interventions targeted to the individual needs of children. As a community mental health center with more than 65% clients coming from families with low-incomes, charitable contributions play a vital role in our work by ensuring that children and families can receive services regardless of their ability to pay. Washburn Center’s services help to address mental health problems that are negatively impacting children’s school readiness and educational achievement, providing the opportunity for children to have increased success in school and in life. As a 137-year-old nonprofit, Washburn Center remains committed to helping children overcome mental health challenges so they can recapture the joy of childhood and grow to become healthy adults. Support to Washburn Center provides therapeutic services for children like 10-year-old Omar who is building healthy relationships after a traumatic start in life. For Omar, success was remaining in his special education classroom for a semester without being suspended for aggressive acts. Omar’s social and emotional development had been severely impacted when he experienced abuse and neglect as an infant. He was adopted when he was two and in preschool, an observational assessment through Washburn Center’s Outreach program was the first step in connecting Omar and his family to a comprehensive set of services that addressed his severe emotional challenges. He struggled to build healthy attachments and lived in continual anxiousness that no one liked him. As he grew older, he frequently ran out of school, intentionally jumped into busy streets and instigated fights. A Washburn Center Case Manager helped coordinate access to stabilizing community resources. Omar also attended the Day Treatment classroom to learn self-regulation skills and build interpersonal skills that he could model in his special education classroom. Omar was proud of his successful semester with no suspensions, and his parents were grateful to know that Washburn Center’s continuum of services would support his healthy development.