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Avivo receives grant to expand street outreach team to better respond to opioid epidemic

“The need for harm reduction has grown exponentially over the past decade and especially over the past few years." Thanks to a generous grant from the Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts, Avivo is adding a harm reduction expert to its street outreach team.

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Avivo and Wildflyer Coffee partner to help end youth homelessness in the Twin Cities

Avivo and Wildflyer Coffee, a nonprofit coffee shop in Minneapolis with a focus on ending youth homelessness, are helping young people change their lives through employment, finding stable housing, and planning for the future.

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We believe everyone deserves the chance to live well and work well.

Avivo serves nearly 10,000 individuals each year; helping them achieve recovery, find housing stability, and achieve employment and economic advancement. Serving Minnesota since 1960, we specialize in helping individuals and families who face complex barriers – poverty, homelessness, unemployment, chemical addiction or mental health concerns – achieve recovery and economic stability. Avivo’s holistic approach to providing chemical and mental health services, career education, and employment services embraces each person’s unique journey. Ultimately, our paired services lay a foundation of health, and social and economic wellness, that transforms lives.

Avivo is HERE. We work to end Homelessness. We provide Education and training. We support Recovery and mental health. We prepare people for Employment and success.

Chemical & Mental Health

Assessments, addiction treatment programs, mental health services, and more for individuals and families.

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Employment services

Unique to low-income adults, youth, single parents, immigrants, individuals with disabilities, and more.

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Avivo Institute of Career & Technical Education

Our licensed school of career and technical education offers credentialed training with employment services.

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Ending Homelessness

Street outreach, housing case management, Avivo Village indoor shelter, and more. Avivo believes housing is a human right.

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Takeerah

“I have never met two people who care about their students like [instructors] Mickey and Bill. [It] made me feel different about humanity.”

After losing everything, becoming homeless, and needing to start over, Takeerah saw that the only way to push her life forward and take care of her family was to go to school and get training for a career. A year later, she and her family have an apartment and she is working in a career she loves! Read Takeerah’s story

Toni

“This is the first time in years that I had a place where all my boys could come and visit.”

For two years, Toni lived in a tent in south Minneapolis along the Midtown Greenway. She moved into a new efficiency apartment last December and is happy to leave the vulnerability and harshness of homelessness behind. Read Toni’s story

Kamilla

“Avivo came to help me. It felt good, like I wasn’t alone. Like you won’t sink. Like someone is helping you.”

Kamilla is excited for her new career and new direction in life thanks to a unique program at Avivo that helps homemakers who need to pivot and fully provide for themselves and their children. Read Kamilla’s story

Jai

“I feel more capable to do all the things I want to do now that I’m not concerned about where I’m going to be sleeping. That was questionable for a long time…”

Jai shares that the combination of therapy at Avivo and finding permanent housing has “unlocked something” in them, which allowed them to create art and feel stability they hadn’t felt in years. Read Jai’s story

Charley

“I’m so appreciative of Avivo… I hadn’t worked in 10 years, and I hadn’t even done an employment interview in a number of years, so starting the process I was extremely nervous … Thankfully, I had a lot of people [at Avivo] I was able to lean on to help support me in the process.”

Ten years ago, Charley was experiencing homelessness and had entered a treatment program. Now, he’s graduated from the Avivo Institute of Career & Technical Education and is starting a new career. Read Charley’s story

1,265

individuals found work or entered careers

9,784

individuals served last year

1,133

people moved from public assistance to employment

99%

of people served live in poverty

2,511

Individuals increased wellness through chemical & mental health services

62%

of individuals served are people of color