Hello!
Change Inc. kicked off the 2024-25 school year in a big way. We are providing School Based Mental Health and Crossroads services at 42 schools across the Twin Cities and launched into the year with 128 students enrolled at GAP School. Additionally, our Alianza program has expanded to include six staff members serving Latine childcare providers across Minnesota. And so much more!
While we continue experiencing growth as an organization, it has taken an enormous amount of hustle to sustain programming that was developed in response to the COVID pandemic. This included generating new sources of revenue to cover over $1million of COVID relief funding ending on June 30, 2024. We forecasted the sunsetting of this funding nearly one year ago and worked for many months to sustain our programming in the new school year. Through all of our efforts, the organization has actually expanded services overall for 2024-25, which includes the addition of five new staff members serving children and youth.
In addition to this shift in funding, Change Inc. transitioned Executive Directors in May 2024. While this transition was well planned and intentional, it is more change for the organization. We look forward to working together through this transition.
With all of this said, it feels like the theme of reNEW! was appropriate for the 2024-25 school year. While we are in a time of change, our commitment to our values and culture remains the same.
We look forward to sharing our reNEW! journey with you all this year!
Best,
Jill Johnson, M.A. Executive Director
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