The faces of TCC represent the individuals and families we serve in the three counties of Crow Wing, Morrison and Todd.

One face is the child who gets a Head Start.  Our Head Start program provides health, education, parent involvement and social service to low-income families with preschool-age children.  Tour the Head Start pathway to self-sufficiency and meet these children in a Head Start Centers, child care facilities and their homes.

Another face represents the parent seeking opportunities for self-sufficiency.  A TCC parent may use one or more pathways as a steppingstone to meet his or her education and employment goals.  You may meet one of our Head Start parents helping in the classroom or on a field trip, serving on the parent-directed Head Start Policy Council, saving for a home through the SAVI program or securing a car loan.

The third face represents the community – its resources and expertise.   TCC participates in and provides leadership to community partnerships creating opportunities for low-income families to achieve self-sufficiency.

The focus of TCC is to encourage personal self-sufficiency through the development of human potential and creating economic self-sufficiency through the creation of business enterprise.

TCC’s Community Services Programs emphasize the development of skills and self-esteem, which advance individuals’ and families’ self-sufficiency.  These programs are described in the four pathways at the top of the page:  Car Loans/Transportation, Housing, Loan and Savings Programs and Head Start/Child Care

TCC’s Economic Development Programs provide incentives such as opportunities for small business ownership to low-income clients who have viable business ideas but lack the training and financial capacity to implement them.  To learn more about these opportunities, visit the green pathway and explore Self-employment Loans and SAVI.  Licensed family child care providers will want to check out the Child Care Business Loan.

TCC strives to realize its mission by upholding the values of individual dignity, self-esteem and quality of life through education, opportunity and creativity with a deep concern for ethics and community. 

Six goals in the long-range plan define the mission for communities in Crow Wing, Morrison and Todd Counties.