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GRAND FORKS – Grant support from the Myra Foundation will allow The Village to purchase client furniture for the offices and breakroom furniture for our staff. The Village Family Service Center is grateful to the Myra Foundation!
ST. CLOUD – Girls 360º Group, a program of The Village Family Service Center in St. Cloud, has received a grant from the Women's Fund of the Central Minnesota Community Foundation. The agency will use the grant to provide an eight-week session of Girls 360º Group. The group helps girls by educating them on a full spectrum (360 degrees) of topics relevant to a teenage girl’s life. The group is [...]
FARGO – Big Brothers Big Sisters of The Village Family Service Center received a grant from the Robert E. Herman Charitable Trust. Grant funds will enable staff to provide direct services to at-risk youth and help to recruit adult volunteers who mentor them. Specific tasks to be performed with grant funds include enrollment of youth and mentors, recruitment of volunteers, background checks, mentor [...]
BISMARCK – The Village Family Service Center has received a grant from the Tom and Frances Leach Foundation. These funds will provide behavioral health services, such as mental health counseling and in-home family therapy, to uninsured and underinsured people in the Bismarck area. The Village’s Bismarck office is located at 2207 E. Main Ave. For more information, call 701-255-1165.
FARGO – Big Brothers Big Sisters of The Village Family Service Center has received a grant from the Alex Stern Family Foundation to empower youth in the Fargo-Moorhead community. Big Brothers Big Sisters matches kids ages 6 to 14 with volunteer “Bigs” who spend about four hours a month with their “Little,” either at the child’s school or doing activities in the community. These relationships [...]
MINOT – St. Joseph’s Community Health Foundation awarded The Village in Minot funds to assist with providing behavioral health services to the uninsured and underinsured. The grants were officially awarded at a luncheon in Minot on November 16.
MOORHEAD – The Otto Bremer Trust recently awarded The Village Family Service Center grant funding to support its Professional Development for Community Impact initiative. The grant dollars will allow the nonprofit organization to train Minnesota clinicians in EMDR – Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. EMDR involves reprocessing memories that have essentially become stuck in the brain [...]
Two 6-week classes offered by The Village Family Service Center; no cost for Douglas County residents ALEXANDRIA – Two Love and Logic® parenting groups are planned at The Village Family Service Center, 4133 Iowa St., Suite 105, Alexandria: Parenting the Love and Logic Way® will meet from 4 to 5:30 pm Tuesdays, Sept. 6 through Oct. 11. This group teaches parents tools to stay calm, set limits, and [...]
6-week Parenting the Love and Logic Way group offered for no cost at The Village Family Service Center ALEXANDRIA – Douglas County parents can learn tools to stay calm, set limits, and put an end to arguing and back talk during a six-week group starting Tuesday, Feb. 15, at The Village Family Service Center, 4133 Iowa St., Suite 105, Alexandria. Parenting the Love and Logic Way® will meet from 4 [...]
BISMARCK – The Village Family Service Center has received a $5,000 grant from The Tom and Frances Leach Foundation. These funds will go toward providing behavioral health services, such as mental health counseling and in-home family therapy, to uninsured and underinsured people in the Bismarck area. The Village’s Bismarck office is located at 2207 E. Main Ave. For more information, call 701-255 [...]