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						Watercourse Counseling Center is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit 
						agency established in 1999 to strengthen our community 
						by supporting people in the journey toward emotional 
						wellbeing. We strive to improve community wellness by: 
						creating equitable access to mental health services, 
						bringing services into the community, building 
						partnerships to address community issues impacted by 
						mental health, and by mentoring mental health trainees 
						in community mental health. 
						We provide services in eleven primary 
						
						locations our two community clinics in south and north 
						Minneapolis and nine schools in Minneapolis where we 
						operate fulltime school based mental health clinics in 
						Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS);
						we also 
						provide outreach to clients in community locations and 
						through the community garden located at our south 
						clinic. Because of the diversity of settings in which we 
						work, we serve a wide range of cultural and ethnic 
						communities, including African American, Native 
						American, Caucasian, and Latino and East African 
						immigrant communities. In 2014, we worked directly with 
						925 clients, exclusive of parents and family members, 
						and around 50% of those clients were from immigrant and 
						refugee communities. 
						Over the past sixteen years, we have 
						adapted to changing community 
						
						circumstances and adjusted & expanded programs that 
						address a range of issues and challenges in the 
						community. We build our current services around 
						opportunities that are identified through collaboration 
						and continue to work with multiple partners. Because of 
						this focus, we have been able 
						to accomplish many things that would have been impossible for an 
						organization of our size working 
						independently. Now 
						it's time for us to update our infrastructure and 
						beautify our space, so we are able to maintain our 
						ability to be a strong, effective partner and community 
						neighbor. Our Renovation project plan includes three 
						phases: I) New addition; II) Green roof, Community Patio 
						and landscaping; III) Remodeling 
						of the main floor in 
						the old building. Construction begins this spring and 
						plans are to finish renovations over the summer so it is 
						completed before programs gear up in 
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