Ellison Center

Therapy/mental health services: -provided over 4000 sessions to clients -served over 500 clients, most of them are children under the age of 5 or older children impacted by early childhood trama. -opened a second locaton in little falls to increase access to rural families. -secured referral relationships and collaborations with local professionals who impact the lives of children and caregivers -fundraised 70,000 to expand our office space to include 5 additional office spaces to add clinician in 2024

Parenting support services: -grant based services were provided to over 185 families. Services included virtual and in-person parent education classes and in-home or virtual home visits to families that have barriers to accessing mental health services. -funding was received in 2022 that carried over to 2023 but is not captured in 2023 revenue for this program area. -classes were provided in spanish and english. In addition, an affinity group was offered to african/aftrican-american/black caregivers by providers of color.

Training/reflective consultation: -we provided threee virtual trainings called lunch and lears, that were offered at a very low cost to professionals in our community and across the state that are in the field of infant and early childhood mental health. We had about 75 attendees at each sessions. -secured contracts with 18 agencies to provide reflective consultation & training to professionals supporting young children and their families. -providing mental health consultation to a domestic violence shelter to support their advocates who support the families.