Community Advisory Board Member

What is STAR House?

STAR House opened this month as a crisis nursery serving children in Ramsey County. We provide 48 hours of safe, welcoming care to children and resources for parents as they navigate the immediate crisis. STAR House needs community input to ensure that children and families experience our house as a home.

What is the Community Advisory Board?

The STAR House Community Advisory Board will provide insight, knowledge, and recommendations to ensure that the families and communities we work with provide direction and input to inform and elevate the quality of services provided and organizational direction. STAR House needs the voices of community members who have accessed family services and members of Ramsey County’s racially and culturally diverse communities.

Topics that STAR House will request advisory board member feedback and guidance on may include:

• Providing feedback on the organization
• Input on projects to support children and families
• Monitoring how programs are working and evaluating strengths, weaknesses, and changes needed
• How to grow a positive public persona to effectively reach Ramsey County families
• Service projects

Who can serve on the Community Advisory Board?

Our hope is to have a Community Advisory Board which represents the racial and cultural diversity of Ramsey County. Advisory Board members will have a variety of experiences, knowledge, and skills which may include:

• Experience accessing or providing family services
• Experiences with poverty or serving families experiencing poverty
• Experience navigating government and social service systems
• Experiences advocating for culturally specific community needs

What is the commitment?

The Community Advisory Board will meet every other month (six times a year) at our location in St. Paul. Meeting time and duration will be determined by members to accommodate busy lives, which will include both in person and online meetings. Board members will be advocates for families accessing our services as well as connectors sharing information about STAR House and our services back with their networks.

Why should you participate?

Share your knowledge to improve family services for our community in Ramsey County.

Be part of something new! Your input can have a huge impact on how STAR House serves the community!

• Give back and spend time with other fun community members.
• Participation in the Community Advisory Board is a valuable experience which can grow your skills and be included in a resume.
• Advisory Board members will be compensated for their time with a gift card.

Next Steps

We will hold two optional informative meet and greets at the times below. Please RSVP to info@starhousemn.org to let us know you are interested in attending. We will send a link or the STAR House address.

On these dates:

• Sunday, December 15th from 3:00pm to 4:00pm via Zoom.
• Tuesday, December 17th from 10:00am to 11:30am at STAR House.

Following these information sessions, we will conduct interviews with all interested individuals.