St. Anthony New Brighton Family Services Collaborative

Overview

The St. Anthony New Brighton Family Services Collaborative brings service systems together to coordinate and integrate services for children, youth, and families.

Our Vision is to develop healthy, well-adjusted youth, supported by informed and caring families, in a welcoming and concerned community.

Core Values

The following core values establish and drive the work of all Collaboratives to foster well-being and resilience:

Strengths based.
Child centered, youth guided, and family driven (increasing voice and choice).
Holistic family, community, and systems approaches.
Culturally and economically affirming, responsive, and inclusive.
Equitable communities reducing disparities and increasing opportunities.
Research informed and data driven.

Priorities

Guiding Principles

Each local Collaborative fulfills the mission and guiding principles to meet priorities by:

Identifying needs.
Creating or sparking new approaches to meet needs.
Building and supporting trusting community partnerships to respond to the needs of families and communities.
Improving and increasing access to services and helping families navigate service systems.
Encouraging and aligning child-serving systems to ensure a continuum of care.
Enhancing capacity by integrating funding and improving the flexibility, efficiency, and use of existing resources.