Family Support Network (www.familysupport.org) is a 24 year old organization dedicated to preventing child abuse and neglect by promoting positive parenting, healthy families and homes where children are valued and loved. Each year, we serve nearly 2,500 parents and children from across Minnesota and help hundreds of communities and organizations to build stronger systems for preventing child abuse and neglect. Prevent Child Abuse Minnesota is an initiative of Family Support Network as a chartered affiliate of Prevent Child Abuse America.

Community-based, parent-led and volunteer-driven we use an innovative and results-focused national model focused on mutual self-help, empowering parents and facilitating local community solutions to child abuse and neglect. All programming is designed to build on existing family strengths and to preserve important family bonds.

In 1998, FSN assumed the responsibilities of the Minnesota Committee for the Prevention of Child Abuse (MCPCA) and became the state’s accredited affiliate of Prevent Child Abuse America (www.preventchildabuse.org), a national child abuse prevention organization that works to raise the general public’s awareness of child abuse and neglect and to promote services designed to support families in raising healthy, resilient children.

Our mission: To Prevent Child Abuse and Neglect through promoting positive parenting, healthy families and homes where children are valued and loved. Visit us at www.familysupport.org