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Project Description

Five Hundred Under 5 (FHu5) is a collaborative, multidimensional effort focused on two residential areas in North Minneapolis. In these two focus areas, the FHu5 collaborators hope to:

1. engage and empower residents and community leaders to shape, and respond to, the results of our work;
2. collect information that documents young children’s development of school readiness skills and the factors that promote this development; and
3. identify and initiate service expansion and improvement efforts that will help families promote school readiness for their preschool children.

More information on the project is available here. (pdf file)

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Project Staff

Scott McConnell, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator
Phone: 612-624-6365
Email: smcconne@umn.edu 

Lauren Martin, Research Associate
Phone: 612-626-8343
Email: mart2114@umn.edu

Brooke Rafdal, Graduate Research Associate
Phone: 612-624-0397
Email: rafda001@umn.edu

Allyson Candee, Research Associate
Phone: 612-626-8356
Email: cand0013@umn.edu 

Anna Shkolnik, Data Collector, Child Assessor
Email: shkolnik@umn.edu 

Related Resources

University of Minnesota Northside Partnership web site

University Northside Partnership web site

Strategic Initiatives and Community Engagement Department, Hennepin County

Folwell Center for Urban Initiatives

Northside Stories: A Collaborative Public Arts Project