Neighborhood House in St. Paul

When families and individuals in St. Paul want to make a change in their lives, Neighborhood House is here to help. We are a multi-service agency, providing wrap-around services for people when they need it most. Neighborhood House helps people with basic needs, education, multiple youth programs, and health and well-being. All of our programs are offered for free to participants.

Neighborhood House is one of the most important institutions in the history of St. Paul’s West Side. Neighborhood House has been a welcoming presence for thousands of refugees and immigrants since its founding in 1897 by the women of Mount Zion Temple, who worked to help Eastern European Jewish families settle in the St. Paul area.

For more than a century, Neighborhood House has supported families in times of transition or need from more than 50 cultural and ethnic populations, drawing people from diverse communities in St. Paul and beyond. The demographic makeup of Neighborhood House’s service population has changed with each successive wave of newcomers — Mexican immigrants after World War II, Hmong refugees in the 1970s and 80s, and Somali and Karen most recently. What has not changed is our unbending commitment to help families move from “survive” to “thrive.”

Today, Neighborhood House serves more than 15,000 people at six locations throughout the City of St. Paul.

Programs at Neighborhood House are offered free of charge to our participants

We offer services in the areas of basic needs and lifelong learning. We have six Family Centers to help people with food support and housing. Our lifelong learning programming takes place at our West Side location in the Paul & Sheila Wellstone Center for Community Building.