ABA Therapy in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota
Brooklyn Park is a big city with two school districts and a lot of freeway around it — and both of our settings reach all of it. The Golden Valley center is about fifteen minutes south; in-home ABA (Applied Behavior Analysis) covers every neighborhood. Your family chooses one of the two.
We serve children ages 2–12, including school-age kids through 12, and we accept Medical Assistance — Straight MA and Blue Plus — with most eligible families paying nothing out of pocket.
- Drive to our center
- ~15 min
- County
- Hennepin County
- School districts
- Osseo 279 · Anoka-Hennepin 11
Not every ABA provider in Minnesota accepts Medical Assistance. We do.
Ability Avenues accepts Straight MA and Blue Plus, and we're enrolled in EIDBI (Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention) — the Minnesota benefit that funds autism therapy for eligible children. Most families we serve pay $0 out of pocket.
Center-based or in-home in Brooklyn Park?
Fifteen minutes puts the center inside an everyday radius for Brooklyn Park: closer than many families' own commutes, far enough that it's a real decision twice a day. We'd rather name that plainly than pretend it away.
In-home carries real weight here too. Brooklyn Park's size means a therapist coming to you saves the most drive time of any tier-one city we serve — and for children whose goals center on home routines, it's often the stronger clinical fit.
Either way, we run one program in one setting. Distance never assigns you to in-home, closeness never assigns you to the center, and if your first choice stops working, we switch the program whole — never split it.
One child, one setting: your child's program runs in the one you choose — and if it stops fitting, you and your BCBA (Board Certified Behavior Analyst) can switch, never split.
Getting to our center from Brooklyn Park
From most of Brooklyn Park, take I-94 or I-694 to the Highway 100 south exit and follow 100 to Duluth Street; the center sits on Lilac Drive North beside the highway. From the western neighborhoods, Highway 169 south to Highway 55 east runs about the same fifteen minutes.
It's counter-commute in the morning, which keeps early sessions realistic — several Brooklyn Park families do drop-off on the way to jobs downtown.
- Typical drive
- ~15 min
- Main route
- I-94/694 to Hwy 100 south, exit at Duluth Street
- Where you're headed
- 1415 Lilac Dr N, Suite 140, Golden Valley, MN 55422
Do you serve all of Brooklyn Park?
All of it — and in Brooklyn Park that's saying something. In-home teams work from the Zane Avenue corridor to the newer developments up by Highway 610, on both sides of the Osseo/Anoka-Hennepin district line.
The district line matters for school coordination, not for coverage: wherever in the city you live, both settings are open to you and the program is the same.
Ability Avenues supports Brooklyn Park families in both Osseo Area Schools (District 279) and Anoka-Hennepin Schools (District 11), and can coordinate with your child's IEP (Individualized Education Program) team in either.
Brooklyn Park questions, answered
The things Brooklyn Park families ask us most — coverage, the drive, and how starting actually works.
Which part of Brooklyn Park do you cover for in-home ABA?
All of it — north of 85th, south of 85th, east or west of Zane. Brooklyn Park is large, so we schedule routes deliberately, but no neighborhood in the city sits outside our in-home service area.
How far is your center from Brooklyn Park?
About fifteen minutes: I-94/694 to Highway 100 south, off at Duluth Street. Families in western Brooklyn Park often take Highway 169 to Highway 55 east instead — same time, fewer lane changes.
Our child is in Osseo schools; our neighbor's is Anoka-Hennepin. Does that change anything?
Only who we coordinate with. We support families in both districts and, with your permission, work alongside your child's IEP team in either one. Coverage, settings, and the program itself are identical across the district line.
Do we have to pick between the center and in-home right away?
You pick before therapy starts, with our help — it's part of intake, not a form you face alone. And it's one setting at a time: programs never straddle center and home, though you can switch later if your choice stops fitting.
Does Medical Assistance cover ABA for Brooklyn Park kids?
For eligible children, yes — Minnesota's EIDBI (Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention) benefit covers intensive therapy, and we accept Straight MA and Blue Plus. Not every provider in the metro takes MA; we do.
Near Brooklyn Park, too
Brooklyn Park touches several communities we serve — each page below speaks for its own city, drive times included.
See everywhere we serveAsk about availability in Brooklyn Park
Brooklyn Park families usually want three answers: is there an opening, which setting fits, and what will it cost. One call, all three — no paperwork first.