St. David's Center for Child & Family Development

This Give to the Max Day, help ensure that every member of our community can succeed, and thrive, with a charitable contribution to St. David’s Center for Child and Family Development. St. David’s Center has been helping children and families of all abilities with comprehensive services for 60 years. For children with emerging mental health concerns, autism, or other complex developmental delays, tailored care gives them the best possible start. St. David's Center prepares children for success in school, builds skills, improves mental health, strengthens parent-child relationships, and builds capacity for caregivers to support children.  

As we face the looming mental health crisis, in Minnesota and nationally, the needs of families are growing at a faster rate than ever. One in five children ages 3-17 has a diagnosable mental health issue, and yet only 20% have access to the services they need. It’s up to us to ensure the availability of mental health and pediatric therapies for all of Minnesota’s children and families.  

We know individualized early intervention makes all the difference in a child’s trajectory. 

At St. David’s Center, our compassionate mental health and Occupational and Speech therapy professionals combine their wealth of knowledge and skills to meet each child exactly where they are on their developmental path and tailor treatment that leads to trajectory-changing results. For years, we’ve heard from pediatricians and school districts that our collaborative approach to early intervention sets St. David’s Center apart—and sets families up for success.  

Your commitment to St. David’s Center directly supports over 6,500 children annually in our two centers in Minneapolis and Minnetonka, thirty partner sites in the community, and over 1,000 homes. Please help us continue this life-changing work by Giving to the Max!