Freeport West
2219 Oakland Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55404
Phone: 612-824-3040
Fax: 612-824-0379
Freeport West is a multi-faceted, community-based human services organization that contributes resources, teaches new skills and actively supports the strengths and efforts of youth and families. We work with those youth and families most likely to experience poverty, oppression, institutionalization and violence.
A wide range of hand-on assistance is offered, such as housing, in-home parenting training, assessment and advocacy. We also work with outside agencies for access to additional services. Freeport provides all of its services free of charge to participants.
Our Programs
Freeport FamilyWorks provides parenting skills and helps families with children at risk of neglect or abuse.
Community Connections works with families and youth in local emergency shelters.
Project SOLO provides support for homeless/at risk-teens and teaches them life skills as well as providing transitional living services.
StreetWorks and its twelve member collaborative agencies provide street outreach, referrals and resources to homeless youth.
Health and Wellness provides families and youth with opportunities to increase their wellness by participating in fitness training and nutritional education experiences.
Freeport St. Paul is a youth center that provides support for at-risk and homeless youth and offers arts and cultural programming.
Facilities
We have three locations to support our programs and operations. The Administrative offices, as well as FamilyWorks, Community Connections, Health and Wellness and StreetWorks are located at 2219 Oakland Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55404.
Project SOLO is located at 2222 Park Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55404, which is adjacent and across the parking lot from 2219 Oakland. The St. Paul youth center is located at 861 Selby, St. Paul, MN.
History
Freeport was founded in 1970 by a group of activist youth who started a group home for at-risk youth. Over the years, it has provided services for group homes, ILS homes, a shelter, family reunification, parenting and family assessments, community building, youth services and health and wellness programming.
Mission
To support the efforts of families and communities to create environments where all children thrive
- The children, families, and communities with whom we have joined guide our efforts.
- We partner with others to expand resources and increase the effectiveness of support provided to families and communities.
- We contribute resources, teach new skills and create experiences that facilitate healthy learning, and actively support the strengths and efforts of youth and families.
- Work with those youth and families most likely to experience poverty, oppression, institutionalization and violence.
- Because we believe that poverty, oppression, institutionalization and violence are barriers to the creation of healthy environments, we actively
Vision
Freeport’s efforts are guided by the vision that “Children thrive in families and communities joined together in creating adequate resources and ample opportunities to contribute to one another’s well-being.”