Goals and partners

We help provide stable housing and education for children and their families. Read about our program goals and partners.

Goals

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Housing stability

Our goal is to help families:

  • Find or keep housing in their home school's busing zone
  • Find long-term housing stability

Educational stability

Our goal is to help increase:

  • School continuity
  • Student attendance
  • Student performance
  • Parent involvement

We also seek to reduce student behavior interventions.

Partners

Our partners make a difference in the lives of area families. See what they do.

City of Minneapolis

  • Fund and sponsor the program

Minneapolis Public Housing Authority

  • Fund and run the program
  • Provide housing navigation support

Minneapolis Public Schools

  • Refer eligible households into the programs
  • Assist with gathering documentation for enrollment
  • Coordinate the SHSS Parent Advisory Council

Hennepin County

  • Provide technical support and collaboration
  • Coordinate services and resources
  • Provide resources for the Housing Stability Plus program through:
    • The State’s Local Homeless Prevention Aid program
    • Homework Starts with Home

YMCA of the North

  • Provides support services for program families

Pohlad Family Foundation

  • Provides funding for the Housing Stability program

Contact us

Jamie Radel

Community Planning & Economic Development

Phone

612-673-5263

Address

Public Service Building
505 Fourth Ave. S., Room 320
Minneapolis, MN 55401