After school programs for youth at Minneapolis Public Schools locations
Promoting families healthy growth and development through education, support and community building.
Minneapolis Kids provides year-round, fee-based, school-age childcare for families with youth enrolled in High Five/Minneapolis Kids Jr through 5th grade during the school year (entering grades K-7 during the summer).
Teen Parent Services is dedicated to keeping teen parents on the track to graduation by providing them with parenting education and supports while providing high-quality early childhood education services to their children.
Adult Enrichment Academics
Adult Enrichment Health, Wellness & Safety
Adult Enrichment Writing
Adult Enrichment Yoga & Mind-Body Practices
Adult Aquatics
See the best of our Minneapolis outdoor athletic facilities as we offer summer sports camps for youth. Young athletes will get a taste of a high school field experience. Don’t miss it as it comes through your neighborhood.
Spend quality time with your child learning and playing together. Parent discussion will examine topics through the lens of fatherhood. Explore the joys and challenges of being a dad.
An opportunity to provide a culturally and linguistically specific ECFE experience to families from Afghanistan.
An opportunity to provide a culturally and linguistically specific ECFE experience to families from India.
Here's your chance to spend some uninterrupted time together participating in toddler-friendly activities that support growth and development.
This course will provide participants with the knowledge and skills needed to prevent, recognize and respond to aquatic emergencies; and provide professional-level care for breathing and cardiac emergencies, injuries, and sudden illnesses until emergency medical services (EMS) professionals take over. Successful completion will award an American Red Cross certificate: Lifeguarding (Including Deep Water) with CPR/AED for Professional Rescuers and First Aid that is valid for 2 years.
This course requires completion of online modules (about 7 hours) that must be completed before the first day of class.
ALL Class Sessions MUST BE ATTENDED in order to receive a certification.
PREREQUISITES (View video of these skills here)
▪ Be at least 15 years old on or before the final scheduled session of the Lifeguarding course.
▪ Successfully complete the two prerequisite swimming skills evaluations on the first in-person session to continue with the course.
■ PREREQUISITE 1: Complete a swim-tread-swim sequence without stopping to rest:
* Jump into the water and totally submerge, resurface then swim 150 yards using the front crawl, breaststroke or a combination of both. (Swimming on the back or side is not permitted. Swim goggles are allowed)
* Maintain position at the surface of the water for 2 minutes by treading water using only the legs
* Swim 50 yards using the front crawl, breaststroke or a combination of both
■ PREREQUISITE : Complete a timed event within 1 minute, 40 seconds:
* Starting in the water, swim 20 yards. (The face may be in or out of the water. Swim goggles are not allowed).
* Submerge to a depth of 7 - 10 feet to retrieve a 10-pound object.
* Return to the surface and swim 20 yards on the back to return to the starting point, holding the object at the surface with both hands and keeping the face out at or near the surface.
* Exit the water without using a ladder or steps.
