With more than 141 years as a community-based provider, Washburn Center for Children is a vital community resource, serving more than 4,200 Twin Cities’ children and their families each year. Our commitment is to make services affordable, accessible and culturally responsive for families -- and meets them where the live, learn and play. The mental health care kids receive at Washburn Center is a safety-net. Community-based mental health care is for all kids and families who need us, period. As an agency, Washburn is balancing community needs that are not going anywhere, financial sustainability and taking care of our staff so they develop and grow – sustaining this mission for this generation of children and those to come. Generous donors ensure financial sustainability is possible even in the reality of long-standing underinvestment in the mental health care system. When families thrive, communities, neighborhoods and schools are stronger.