Today, 32 years later, with an annual budget of just under $2,000,000 and approximately $6,000,000 in property, we have become an award-winning, multi-program human service agency that provides comprehensive services to hundreds of homeless and disadvantaged families.  

A central theme at Perspectives is working with the "total family", a methodology listed in “Best Practices” as providing most effective programming.  Beyond this philosophy, our uniqueness also comes with our expertise in providing services to children and families of different cultures. Our diverse program staff is made up of professional, licensed social workers, chemical dependency counselors, early family educators, licensed elementary teachers, a teacher/chef, experienced youth workers, mental health workers, community developers, and advocates for homeless women and children. Our administrative staff includes Certified Fundraisers, CPAs, and professionals in public administration.

Perspectives is located in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, a first ring suburb of Minneapolis. Our attractive family-friendly 22,000 square foot building houses our entire staff as well as our children and parent education programs. Our center is complete with reception area, offices, visitation rooms, classrooms, a multi-purpose room, group rooms, a large training room, Family Resource Room, and a spectacular children's commercial/learning kitchen/classroom known as Kids Cafe.

Perspectives has always been committed to creating an attractive center that provides a feeling of welcome and care for the families we serve. For that purpose, over the last nine years. we have invested more than $1,500,000 in the redesign and reconstruction of the Family Center. In 1999, we completed our Kids Cafe.  In 2000, we built new classrooms and launched our Reach for the Stars Children's Program. In 2002, we built our playground, and in 2003 we completed a $450,000 build out, which included an additional 6,000 sq. feet of classrooms for our Kids Connection Program. In 2005, we renovated our 2nd kitchen, which is used for our Parenting Time Program.

Supportive Housing Program

Our largest innovative, Perspectives' Supportive Housing Program is just down the road from our Family Center.  Located in an affordable housing neighborhood, called Louisiana Court, Perspectives has gradually acquired five apartment buildings; two of these buildings were purchased at the end of 2001 – after a $2,000,000 capital drive. At the end of the summer in 2002, our Supportive Housing Program expanded its services and became the largest Supportive Housing Program in Minnesota; housing at any given time 52 mothers and over 100 children.