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.
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An opportunity to provide a culturally and linguistically specific ECFE experience to families from Afghanistan.
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 India.
Here's your chance to spend some uninterrupted time together participating in toddler-friendly activities that support growth and development.
Give the gift of learning. Gift vouchers can be purchased in a variety of denominations and can be used for most Community Education Youth & Adult Enrichment classes. Some restrictions apply.
This four-part class will examine “How do we effectively bring our community together to achieve our mutual goals? How can we sustain community effectiveness over time?” Come join our class to learn different community organizing methods and practices. Grounded in the philosophy that “we are all teachers and we are all learners”’ each participant will come with a project in mind that they want to apply new skills to whether that is a block club, mutual aid project, community event or a community organizing campaign. Each session will include participatory exercises that practice a skill such as community organizing plan, 1-on-1s, issue identification, root cause analysis, and figuring out systems. Each session will include participants sharing their community organizing concepts and/or project.
If class is full, please enroll for the waitlist. We will contact you if a space becomes available.
This class is priced on a sliding fee scale. Please pay the price you are able. This helps to ensure that Community Education can provide quality opportunities for all of our participants.
Joan Vanhala has an over 30 years experience as a community organizer from block club to neighborhood organizing along with coalition organizing and targeted organizing campaigns. As a Phillips resident, Joan has organized successful local and regional campaigns such as Midtown Greenway, Good Neighbor Agreement with Smith Foundry, Seward Longfellow Restorative Justice Partnership, Stops for Us Campaign on the Green Line, and the Equitable Development Scorecard. In addition, Joan worked at Hennepin County for 8 years facilitating authentic community engagement on the Metro Blue Line Extension Project.
Joan Vanhala
