A partnership of three organizations – the school district, the county, and the foodshelf created by local churches – collaborate to build a facility to house a new service center model to support low income and new immigrant families in their community.


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The Regional Family Services Center will expand relief services to meet basic human needs and produce long term gains by increasing adult economic self-sufficiency and student academic achievement in northwest Hennepin County.  Three project partners are collaborating to build a 50,000sf expansion to the local Continuing Education and the Early Childhood and Family Center:  Community Emergency Assistance Program (CEAP), the lead partner, is a community-based charity providing food, clothing, and other assistance to low-wage families, senior citizens, and other vulnerable adults;  Osseo Area Schools (ISD 279) is the fifth largest school system in Minnesota and one of the state’s most diverse; Hennepin County Department of Human Services and Public Health is the third project partner.

50,000sf expansion to the local Continuing Education and the Early Childhood and Family Center: Community Emergency Assistance

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Results Achieved: Project underway, achieving to date 85% of a $14.5 million capital goal. During 2008 JPR Consulting lead the legislative relations and lobbying effort to secure a $2.0 million grant through a Minnesota capital appropriation; cultivated corporate and individual leadership gifts.