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Lake Center for Youth and Families reports steady caseload, asks council to continue five-year support
Summary
Lake Center community outreach coordinator Linda Madsen presented the organization's 2024 annual report, detailing counseling, intervention and enrichment programming, client counts, funding sources and a new education engagement program covering multiple local districts.
Dr. Linda Madsen, community outreach coordinator for the Lakes Center for Youth and Families, gave the Forest Lake City Council an annual update on the nonprofit’s programs and finances, and thanked the council for the city’s five-year funding agreement.
“We have 3 areas of programming…enrichment programming, intervention and counseling,” Madsen told the council, summarizing long-running services that began with a 1976 effort by then-Forest Lake Police Chief Jim Trudeau to offer an alternative to court for youth with minor offenses.
Madsen reported program statistics for 2024: the…
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