In 1993, St. Louis Park was the first city in the nation to embrace Search Institute’s developmental assets framework as the guiding approach to community-wide mobilization on behalf of young people. Together, we have worked for over three decades to ensure that this philosophy became deeply rooted in St. Louis Park and the surrounding communities.

Enter COVID and the opportunity to reflect on the impact we were having. With the Prouty Project, Children First developed a new strategic plan that included a focus on five critical milestones in a child’s life – kindergarten readiness, early grade reading, middle grade math, high school graduation, and post-secondary enrollment/post-secondary completion/career readiness. These milestones are moments in a child’s development that, when outcomes can be improved, will yield better lifelong success for a child.

We welcome our friends, neighbors, and colleagues in St. Louis Park, Hopkins and the surrounding communities to join us in this important work.

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