Our Work
Programs
Healthy Community Initiative actively supports these local, community-driven programs:
Growing Up Healthy
Enhancing social connectedness and cultivating neighborhood leadership among low-income, immigrant, and refugee communities within Rice County
Programming includes:
Youth Engagement
Housed within the Youth First initiative, local youth are supported to be actively engaged in civic life.
Programming includes:
Northfield Community College Collaborative (NCCC)
Offering in-person and online community college classes, tutoring, career planning assistance, and other support to anyone who has graduated from high school or has a GED
Realizing Individual Student Excellence (RISE)
Serving Faribault High School students who are looking for tutoring, academic advising, and social-emotional support, including first-generation college attendees, low-income youth, and students of color.
Tackling Obstacles and Raising College Hopes (TORCH)
Improving high school graduation and postsecondary participation rates of Northfield youth in grades 6-12 who are low-income, potential first-generation college attendees, and/or students of color.
Systems Transformation
Healthy Community Initiative convenes or is an active participant in these collective impact groups:
Education Partnerships Coalition
A coalition of community-driven, data-informed organizations building a bipartisan movement committed to upward economic mobility, self-sufficiency, and self-determination for Minnesota’s children, youth, and families.
Faribault Cradle 2 Career
Connects residents, school staff, community leaders, and service providers to focus collective efforts on addressing pivotal areas of a child’s development: early learning and development, elementary benchmarks, successful transition to middle school and high school, on-time high school graduation, and successful enrollment and matriculation from postsecondary education and career tracks. It utilizes a data-based framework to ensure that children and youth are supported from birth through high school and beyond!
Northfield Promise
Connecting and aligning resources, programs, and institutions to achieve community-level change for children and youth in Northfield
Programming includes:
Rice County Chemical and Mental Health Coalition (RCCMHC)
Improving the chemical and mental health care systems in Rice County by addressing prevention, intervention, and treatment efforts
Programming includes:
Rice County Family Services Collaborative
Supporting the availability of comprehensive services that enhance and strengthen children, youth, and families
Rice County PRIMEtime
Providing free out-of-school-time and summer enrichment programs for more than 3,000 Rice County youth
Programming includes:
Rice County Ready for Kindergarten Coalition
A Northfield Promise initiative that has expanded countywide, this coalition develops collaborative initiatives in support of children being ready for kindergarten.
Additional support provided to
HCI also provides administrative, communications, fundraising, and data support to other local programs.
Northfield Youth Sports Collaborative
Increasing the involvement of low-income youth in local sports associations and working to overcome barriers that may prevent young people from participating, providing 300+ scholarships annually.
Visit northfieldsports.org for more information and to see current sports opportunities.
Learn About HCI
We collaborate across Rice County, supporting initiatives and helping other organizations leverage their resources for the benefit of youth and families.