Southside Family Nurturing Center

Our Pre-K class graduated at the beginning of August. What an amazing group of kids who are heading off to Kindergarten next month! Some of these students had been with us since they were toddlers!




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Assisstant Teacher Organization Summary: Southside FamilyNurturingCenter is a holistic social service agency with over 40 years of experience serving families in the Phillips community and surrounding neighborhoods...

What a fun day at the playground! During the summer, Southside students go on field trips twice a week! We explore different parks throughout Minneapolis and have a great time.

Rock painting in the Bear classroom! What a fun sensory experience while working on fine motor and color theory skills.

The Bobcat classroom released the butterflies we have been raising. We have been having so much fun learning about caterpillars, butterflies, and their life cycle.

Planting in our garden beds! The kids had so much fun digging and planting tomato and pepper plants today!

We have been so happy with the weather this past week! Playing outdoors is an important part of our program. Not only do children develop gross motor skills outside, but they are also practicing body awareness, turn taking, fine motor skills, academic skills, executive functioning, and more!

Our Pre-K classroom just finished up a unit learning about color. The students explored color mixing, shading and tinting, color fading, and we finished the unit with a multi-day self portrait project.

Board games are a fun way to work on problem solving, turn taking, following directions, academic concepts, and fine motor skills. This game is a cooperative game to race snails to the finish line.

Today our Pre-K students were experimenting with absorbency as a part of our unit on wind and water. We made predictions about what materials would absorb or repel water and then experimented to see if our guesses were correct.

First snow is magical! Our students had so much fun playing and exploring outside today.

We made applesauce today in the Bobcat classroom! The students had so much fun making and tasting.

Today we had so much fun making and exploring the different properties of slime!

The Bear Class is busy this week exploring and playing with different materials.

We love music class! Every week Southside students get group music therapy. Students work on turn taking, following rhythms, exploring instruments, following directions, and so much more!

The school year has begun at Southside Family Nurturing Center and the kids in the Bobcat class (Pre-K) are having so much fun exploring their classroom and making friends.

Last week, SSFNC's Executive Director, Julie Ellefson, was featured on Insight News with Al McFarlane. This in-depth interview touches on the impact and importance of Southside Family Nurturing Center's dual-generation program.

https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&v=1392220567857126

If only, you could come inside to see what happens with children and families at Southside Family Nurturing Center! Next best is our new video, voices telling our story and demonstrating the value of early intervention: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giq310Yk5wQ.

See and hear what happens when we commit and invest in building strong families and big futures across race and income.

Thank you!
Your support is a big part of our story.
Donate: ssfnc.org

The Equity Equation: The Value of Your Investment

must respond boldly with investments so that all Minnesotans get through the crises and thrive while building a more equitable economy.

Thank you for the investments in your budget proposal to build toward a thriving Minnesota where all our communities are healthy, safe, and economically secure

Invest in equity! Support SSFNC's dual-generation and trauma Informed program on Give to the Max Day. Your gift advances health and education equity for families at-risk and your generosity is more impactful than ever during these times of uncertainty. https://www.givemn.org/organization/Ssfnc

Support Southside Family Nurturing Center on GiveMN Southside Family Nurturing Center is grounded in the belief that every child, parent and family has the capacity to reach positive short-term goals and long-term outcomes, given a community of nurturing, love, education and support. From the very beginning, SSFNC has...

SSFNC’s executive director Julie Ellefson recently shared her thoughts on the importance of investing for equity and Southside's new awareness campaign, We Rise: Breaking Cycles, Building Equity.

Read it here: https://www.minnpost.com/community-voices/2020/09/true-equity-will-only-happen-with-a-different-investment-from-what-weve-made-in-the-past/

Ensuring that every child–inclusive of race, culture and socioeconomic status–is nurtured in mind, body, soul, and community is vital to the health of our society and our collective future. “Given the current state of our world, we need to invest like we have never invested before.”– Julie Ellefson, SSFNC Executive Director

Curious about SSFNC’s new We Rise: Breaking Cycles, Building Equity campaign? Sign up for our monthly e-newsletters to stay in the loop here: https://www.ssfnc.org/contact/

Contact Us Looking to make a gift? Thank you! Click below: Southside Family Nurturing Center 612-721-2762 | 612-721-1301 (fax) | [email protected] 2448 18th Ave S | Minneapolis, MN | 55404

Do you know of a Twin Cities organization or leader serving communities similar to ours who may be interested in implementing Southside’s holistic, dual-generation, early childhood education and home visiting model?

We’d love to hear from you! Please reach out to Julie Ellefson at [email protected] to start a conversation.

Last night, our executive director Julie Ellefson spoke with Jearlyn Steele on WCCO Radio about all things Southside, including our new We Rise: Breaking Cycles, Building Equity awareness campaign. Give it a listen here:

https://wccoradio.radio.com/media/audio-channel/8-30-20-steele-talkin-a-wholesome-nurturingmp3

Southside Family Nurturing Center is excited to announce the launch of our new awareness campaign – We Rise: Breaking Cycles, Building Equity!

Inspired by the strength of our community, this campaign aims to enhance understanding about the Phillips community, and invites partnerships to build health and education equity through SSFNC’s holistic model of nurturing children and families.

Learn more about the campaign here: https://www.ssfnc.org/news-events/

We appreciate the outpouring of support and concern for the safety of our families, staff and building during recent rioting in our community. It is important to acknowledge that the events surrounding George Floyd's tragic death are the result of systemic racism for which we, as an organization, are committed to dismantling. We are still here, still assisting families with basic needs support, and available to support families recovering and experiencing trauma from it. As far as we can tell, no direct physical harm has come to the families we serve or to our diverse staff. Thank you for your care during these challenging times.

Join Dessa for a literary reading! She's supporting SSFNC with donations from the event tonight.

A literary reading on Instagram live, Thursday nights at 7:45pm Central Time.
Link: Instagram.com/dessa
Dress code: Cocktail attire from the waist up.

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MN's nonprofits, like SSFNC, deliver critical services for people across our state and need support right now to meet the growing needs wrought by the Covid-19 pandemic. Join us in letting elected officials know how we can come together. Sign our Action Alert here https://bit.ly/2JgF2tC

Ask Legislators to Help Nonprofits During Covid-19 Ask Legislators to Help Nonprofits During Covid-19 Support Unified Legislative Recommendations Please join Greater Twin Cities United Way and our partners to ask for important legislative action to support nonprofits during the Covid-19 pandemic.  We urge you to contact the Governor and legislators...

Sledding was just as fun today as it was 2 years ago!We love that our students are with us from the time they are toddlers until they are off to Kindergarten.

Field trip to the Bell Museum!




@ Bell Museum

Yay for playing in the snow!

Thanks to all who donated to our bus campaign. 65 people gave. We exceeded our goal and we purchased two busses! Enjoy this little video slideshow. https://spark.adobe.com/video/XabHzl1W4s5hD

Bus Thank You A story told with Adobe Spark Video.

Exploring shapes in the Bear classroom! . . . . #ssfnc #earlychildhoodeducation #handsonlearning

Southside Family Nurturing Center (SSFNC), celebrates 45 years of nurturing children, building on families' strengths, and creating safer futures with them in the Phillips Neighborhood of South Minneapolis. Please consider a donation to help purchase two buses to ensure the children continue to get to and from preschool, field trips, and supportive family events at SSFNC. You can learn more and make a donation online at https://www.ssfnc.org/.

there are few things more amazing to see at Southside than our kids who started in the bunnies class (our youngest class) and grow up through the years with us. We have the bunnies (our toddler class), the bears (preschool), and the Bobcats (prekindergarten). This kiddo has been through all three! We have loved watching her grow.

#transformationtuesday there are few things more amazing to see at Southside than our kids who started in the bunnies class (our youngest class) and grow up through the years with us. We have the bunnies (our toddler class), the bears (preschool), and the Bobcats (prekindergarten). This kiddo has been through all three! We have loved watching her grow. . . . . . . . . . . #SSFNC #children #earlychildhood #education #school #grow #preschool

We are so excited for this beautiful weather!

Advance health and education equity across race and income with a gift to Southside Family Nurturing Center as part of . https://www.givemn.org/organization/Ssfnc

Support Southside Family Nurturing Center on GiveMN Southside Family Nurturing Center is grounded in the belief that every child, parent and family has the capacity to reach positive short-term goals and long-term outcomes, given a community of nurturing, love, education and support. From the very beginning, SSFNC has...