501(c)(3)Non-profit
Wellness in the Woods is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that provides programs and activities centered on advocacy, education, and expanding statewide peer networks.
As an organization we are dedicated to improving access to mental health and substance use recovery care for all residents of Minnesota with a focus on reaching underserved communities.
Our Mission
Our mission is to provide accessible, affordable and helpful peer led resources with compassionate and nonjudgmental support and advocacy, and opportunities for those who are experiencing or have been affected by mental health and substance use challenges, to be heard.
Minnesota Charitable Organization Initial Registration & Annual Report
Our Values
respect
Respect for the people we work with and serve. We value each person’s abilities, qualities, and achievements. We walk alongside of the person as they determine and pursue meaningful changes for their lives.
integrity
& actions
We do what is right when no one else is watching. We act with honesty, honor, and truthfulness.
responsibility
We recognize and accept that we are answerable, or accountable for our decisions, actions taken, and their consequences that are within our power, control or management.
transparency
We are upfront, open, and visible to ourselves and others. There is great value associated with the honesty, exposure, and vulnerability of a culture where information can flow freely.
Our Story
Wellness in the Woods became a reality in March of 2013, when several consumers of mental health services came together to create an organization that will work to help rural Minnesotans be healthy and stay well.
Wellness in the Woods is a nonprofit agency promoting wellness in eight dimensions including: Physical, emotional, vocational, social, spiritual, intellectual, environmental and financial.
We specialize in advocacy and education work with and for persons with a mental health and substance use lived experience and hold each community member in unconditional high regard by providing wellness and strength based services in rural Minnesota.
Our organization is considered “consumer run”. This means that all of our board and staff with have a lived experience with a mental illness and substance use recovery. We want to work to decrease the stigma that surrounds asking for help, getting healthy, finding good support networks and living well in a part of Minnesota that we all call “home”!