Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metro Milwaukee

One-to-one mentoring program that addresses the needs of children facing adversity by creating, fostering, and supporting strong one-to-one relationships between youth and caring volunteer adult mentors.

Create Institute

Students apply their knowledge and develop new skills examining complex challenges of today and tomorrow through classroom experiences, field trips, and supplemental STEM challenges. College students and staff from the Create Institute at the Milwaukee School of Engineering mentor students and supervise projects.

Feeding America

Joined by student and parent volunteers, Feeding America hosts a monthly food pantry at the school for Forest Home families and neighbors.

Fork Farms

Learning to grow healthy food is an environmental/educational journey that fuels young minds and bodies. Forest Home Avenue School is honored to be one of the first MPS communities to partner with Fork Farms on this important mission. Fork Farms’ educators provide gardening guidance that keeps our gardens green and growing.

Girl Scouts

Girl Scouts of Wisconsin Southeast is the home base for Forest Home Avenue School’s two new troops: K4 through second grade and third through fifth grade. Through enriching experiences like extraordinary field trips, sports skill-building clinics, community service projects, cultural exchanges, and environmental stewardship, girls grow courageous and strong.

Northwestern Mutual Foundation

Forest Home Avenue School’s specialty STEM curriculum is made possible by mentorship, fundraising, and other support provided through Northwestern Mutual Foundation’s K12 Pipeline Partnership. Students, staff, and families experience the effects of this powerful partnership, from our Annual Hour of Code with Northwestern Mutual’s hiTECH STEM Outreach Team to strong student performance on statewide math assessments.

Reflo

Annually, Reflo works with partners including Milwaukee Public Schools, the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District, the City of Milwaukee, the Fund for Lake Michigan, Community Design Solutions and others to support Milwaukee-area schools in an intensive, collaborative process to design and then redevelop greener, healthier schoolyards. Forest Home Avenue School’s redeveloped schoolyard opens in 2024. Each redevelopment project is tailored to the specific needs and enthusiasm of the school’s community but often involves replacing seas of asphalt with green infrastructure including bioswales, rain gardens, and trees as well as outdoor classrooms, improved recreational facilities and arts opportunities. Designs go beyond removing pavement to maximize benefits for communities, the environment, and local economy.

School Community Partnership for Mental Health

Since 2009, the School Community Partnership for Mental Health (SCPMH) has provided intensive, on-site mental wellness programs and mental health services to students and families in Milwaukee Public Schools. The partnership began in just four schools and has now expanded to nearly 40 schools.

Sixteenth Street Community Health Centers

As Forest Home Avenue’s partner organization through the School Community Partnership for Mental Health, Sixteenth Street Community Health Centers therapists spend two days per week at Forest Home Avenue School, working with teachers, the school social worker, psychologist, counselor, and parent coordinator, to get to know students and families. As trusted members of our school community, therapists bring age appropriate, evidence-based wellness workshops and therapies to students and families.