Initiative
Child-Friendly City Initiative
Minneapolis is working toward UNICEF Child-Friendly City recognition, assessing needs and acting on what children and young people say matters.
The community assessment
Goal areas
Scored against UNICEF building blocks
Minneapolis is measured against the UNICEF Child-Friendly City goal areas.
See the goal areasTwo lenses
Youth and parent input
The dashboard gathers and compares young people's input alongside parents'.
How input is comparedVoice and supports
Participation and day-to-day supports
It separates children's voice in decisions from supports like health checkups, food security, and internet access.
Voice vs. supportsHow it connects
Feeds the assessment
Safety Perceptions Survey
Young people's survey responses land in the community-assessment data.
Take the surveyDashboard
Community Assessment
Explore the interactive assessment. Entries are saved only in your browser.
Open the dashboardBlog
Child-Friendly City posts
Updates and stories connected to the initiative.
Read postsSee how it all connects
The Child-Friendly City work sits inside the wider Minneapolis Youth Ecosystem.