We believe everyone deserves the chance to live well and work well.
Avivo serves more than 11,000 individuals each year; helping them achieve recovery, find housing stability, and achieve employment and economic advancement. Serving Minnesota since 1960, we specialize in helping individuals and families who face complex barriers – poverty, homelessness, unemployment, chemical addiction or mental health concerns – achieve recovery and economic stability. Avivo’s holistic approach to providing chemical and mental health services, career education, and employment services embraces each person’s unique journey. Ultimately, our paired services lay a foundation of health, and social and economic wellness, that transforms lives.

Avivo is HERE. We work to end Homelessness. We provide Education and training. We support Recovery and mental health. We prepare people for Employment and success.

Our Mission
Avivo increases well-being through recovery and career advancement while working to end homelessness.

Our Vision
Our communities are free of economic and health inequities.

Our Commitment
We are committed to undoing racism and reducing disparities experienced by the people we serve.

Our Values

• We have an absolute commitment to the dignity of all people. We walk alongside our community without judgement while offering an integrated continuum of services to help people thrive. Everyone deserves to be happy, healthy and valued.
• We extend a radical welcome. Avivo provides hospitality in spaces that are safe, inclusive and culturally relevant to our staff, participants and community. We celebrate the power of living authentically and commit to fostering a culture that rewards the courage to do so.
• We lean into curiosity. We are encouraged, equipped and empowered to support transformational change. We ask questions, take risks, listen to those we serve, and humbly embrace learning. We are a community of professionals seeking to advance the science, art and life-changing impact of our work, while having fun doing it!

We believe that everyone deserves the tools to be well – to be healthy, and economically and socially well.