Our Mission: Providing education, mentoring and support services that build strong individuals and families in the Northland Community School District.

Core Values:

1. Education is an important key to building self-sufficient individuals and strong families.
2. Every person has value. We operate out of consideration for each individual’s dignity.
3. Strong families build strong communities.
4. Healthy families and community systems are essential to supporting sustainable change in individuals.
5. We strive for communities in which people are interdependent.
6. We collaborate with other organizations that support our mission.

The Northland Area Family Services Center was created as a unique way to give rural access to county and educational services, and to meet community needs through innovative programming. Incorporated in 1996 as a 501C3, we serve the Northland Community School District and parts of Leech Lake Reservation. This is a population of 4,474 people (5.26 persons per square mile). In our service area 20% of households make less than $20,000 and 11.9% or 536 people in our community live below the poverty line.