Canvas Health, Inc.

Canvas Health’s vision is to be a recognized leader in community mental health, respected for our clinical quality, innovation, and adaptation to a rapidly changing health care and social services environment. We do this through a triple aim of continually 1) improving client health outcomes, 2) improving client engagement and experience, and 3) lowering the total cost of care.
By offering a safety net to our community made up of a continuum of care of 30+ program for families and individuals of all ages, Canvas Health strives to ensure that all our neighbors get the best care, regardless of their circumstance or affliction.

Canvas Health bring hope, healing, and recovery to the people we served by identifying the afflictions in our community, over excellent treatment, and continuing to support our clients through ongoing care, as well as connection and coordination with partners.
Canvas Health’s palette of services has grown to 30+ programs by identifying and meeting community needs of mental health care, substance use counseling, housing, job training, sexual violence prevention, and so much more. Canvas Health’s treatment excels by ensuring clients can receive care no matter their means and receive it in a way that’s best for them, whether in one of our seven clinics, in their home, or via video call.

Canvas Health incorporated in 1969 as a community mental health center—part of President Kennedy’s “bold new approach” to care. Since its inception, the agency has been recognized as a dependable, compassionate, and innovative safety net for the community, serving those with complex needs who may otherwise not be able to afford care. Canvas Health offers services in homes, schools, community spaces, via telehealth, and through our seven clinics in the Twin Cities metro.

Canvas Health’s leaders are experienced and respected veterans in their fields and its staff are skilled and impassioned advocates for our clients and mission, trusted by peer agencies and governments to be there for our community.

Each year, Canvas Health serves over 8,500 clients and offers community education on topics such as suicide prevention and sexual violence prevention to over 45,000. Our services are well-liked by clients, including 96% of our adult clients on our most recent survey. Recent accomplishments include:
• Piloting and launching telehealth across our network.
• Canvas Health is meeting more clients in their homes and out in the community than ever before—half of all clients.
• Abuse Response Services now provides healthy relationship/sexual violence prevention education in every Washington County public high school, with early expansion into middle and elementary schools.
• Won a State Innovation grant to provide some of the first mental/chemical health day treatment in Minnesota schools.
• Canvas Health expanded its jail substance use program with the help of Medica to the Chisago County Jail, offering those services for the first time to those inmates.