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Hennepin-University Partnership
101 19th Ave. S.
330 H. H. Humphrey Center
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Fax 612-626-0273
Kathie Doty
Program Director
kdoty@umn.edu
612-625-4383
Dana Dumbacher
Graduate Assistant
dumba004@umn.edu
612-626-3255
Marin Phelps
Graduate Assistant
phelp183@umn.edu
612-625-9885
Collin Calvert
Graduate Assistant
calve054@umn.edu
612-625-1085
MANAGEMENT TEAM
Hennepin County
Commissioner Jan Callison, 6th District
David Hough, County Administrator
Lois Langer Thompson, Director of Hennepin County Libraries
Scott Martens, Chief Innovation Officer
University of Minnesota
Andy Furco, Associate Vice President for Public Engagement
Ed Goetz, Director of the Center for Urban & Regional Affairs
Tom Fisher, Dean of the College of Design
Laura Bloomberg, Associate Dean of the Humphrey School
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The Hennepin-University Partnership (HUP) is supported by the Hennepin County Board and the University of Minnesota. On behalf of the County Board, I serve as the Board lead, responsible for providing guidance and monitoring the progress of this important initiative. This update is intended to communicate within Hennepin County government and the University of Minnesota about HUP activities and outcomes. For additional information, please contact Kathie Doty at kdoty@umn.edu or me at jan.callison@hennepin.us.
- Jan Callison
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The Hennepin-University Partnership (HUP) is marking its 10th Anniversary connecting the State’s primary research university with the State’s most populous county. A celebration was held at the University’s Campus Club on June 25th where six notable collaborations were highlighted through presentations from partners. Festivities were capped off with an improv performance from the Theater of Public Policy. The Partnership has supported more than 150 collaborations between Hennepin County and the University of Minnesota since its inception. See the video of leaders reflecting on the HUP here: https://youtu.be/Zzo_2qZ0vj8
In June, the Hennepin-University Partnership, representing the University of Minnesota, was awarded the regional WK Kellogg Foundation Community Engagement Scholarship Award by the Association of Public & Land Grant Universities (APLU). The regional award qualified HUP to compete for the national C. Peter Magrath Community Engagement Scholarship Award at the annual Engagement Scholarship Consortium held at Penn State in September. Kathie Doty, HUP Program Director, and Commissioner Jan Callison, HUP Management Team member, attended the conference and made a presentation on the HUP to an APLU committee panel. The video entered into the competition can be viewed here: https://youtu.be/asllJDK8mkM
To enter the APLU competition, we were required to produce the video linked above showcasing what we do and how HUP interacts with the larger community we’re based in. To do this, we featured several projects HUP has assisted in at UMN and with Hennepin County. We featured Lois Langer Thompson from our Management Team, Carl Michaud from Environment & Energy, Judge Bruce Peterson from the 4th Judicial District, Hannah Dietrich, Community Corrections & Rehabilitation, Andrew Baker, Chief Medical Examiner, and two of our cohort members, Lisa Thornquist and Halston Sleets. Thank you all for your continuing collaborations with HUP and with assisting us present the work we do!
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Join the HUP on Facebook where University researchers, staff, and students can post their interests related to Hennepin County and vice versa. “Like” the page to pose questions, offer suggestions, refer people to materials and contacts, and exchange ideas! Join us at: www.facebook.com/HUPartnership
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Mixer 2015
On October 8, HUP hosted a Mixer event to facilitate connections between University faculty and staff and Hennepin County staff at the University’s Weisman Art Museum. Attendance at this event qualified attendeeds to apply for a Hennepin-University Collaborative Grant (HUCG) opportunity. More than 60 people participated in the Mixer.
THANK YOU! To our Mixer Table Hosts
HUP partnered with Cohort member Meg Knodl and her team of facilitators, which included two UMN staff, to make the mixer on October 8, 2015 a success. Thank you to Meg Knodl, Khalid Adam, Vanessa Bailey, Michelle Gensinger, Douglass Moon, Renee Reed, Alisa Salewski, and Jan Williams for your hard work and contributions!
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Hennepin-University Collaborative Grant Awardees
After the Mixer on October 8, attendees were invited to submit a letter of interest to qualify them for the Hennepin-University Collaborative Grant (HUCG), an award of up to $30,000. Seven letters of interest were received, and all were invited to submit a full proposal.
Four proposals qualified for review by HUP’s Management Team, which selected the final awardees and chose to fund two proposals. Funding went to the application titled “My Voice, My Choice: Homeless Youth Inform Development of Employment Interventions”. This project will examine homeless youth's perceptions of their education and employment interests and needs; exploring youth's recommendations for the development of employment interventions; and bringing youth voice and choice to the pilot programs so as to address their employment barriers. The HUP Management Team also made a partial award to a second application, “Developing a Design Process Prototype for Person-Centered Service Delivery”. This project will utilize design thinking to shift the organizational culture in Hennepin County toward a person-centered service delivery model that encourages creative ideas and finds innovative solutions to problems. They will aim to create a tangible, documentable design process prototype for person-centered service delivery that can be replicated for case manager-facilitated moves for those individuals currently living in Adult Corporate Foster Care who desire to live in more community-integrated settings of their choosing.
Innovation Day with CIE
Hennepin County’s Center for Innovation and Excellence held an Innovation Day on November 17 at Hennepin County’s Government Center. The purpose of this event was to highlight the innovative work various departments in Hennepin County’s government is doing. The Hennepin-University Partnership hosted a table at this event with prizes and information about the HUP. Featured here is HUP Graduate Assistant Dana Dumbacher and Michelle Sorenson from Resident & Real Estate Services on the day of the event. Thank you to Michelle for spreading your knowledge about what HUP can offer at Innovation Day!
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GRA Elections Division – Graduate Research Assistant
The Hennepin County Elections Division hired a Graduate Research Assistant to collect and analyze information and data to be used by County staff in determining strategies to increase voter registration. Claire Psarouthakis, a first year MPP student at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, will be working with Ginny Gelms in the Elections Division over the fall and spring semesters to complete a project outlining recommendations to increase voter registration in Hennepin County.
Social Work Intern Instructor for Child Welfare Field Placement Lab
Hennepin County Human Services Department and the University’s Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare (CASCW) have established a collaboration to implement a “learning lab” field education model for Child Welfare Training Scholars. This is a particularly critical partnership as child welfare reform continues within Hennepin County and across the State of Minnesota. Scholars complete a 600 hour field placement in Hennepin County with social workers and supervisors across a variety of units. Their educational experience takes place under the supervision of Melissa Mendez, the onsite University of Minnesota field instructor, and her supervisor Liz Snyder, CASCW's Director of Professional Education. Students receive additional field instruction and 1:1 supervision in this model, enhancing the child welfare experience. This collaboration was established in HSPHD in 2011 and has continued to flourish with the commitment and collaboration between HSPHD's Janine Moore and Traci LaLiberte at CASCW. This partnership is expected to continue and is currently funded through the summer of 2017.
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Key Collaborator: Ray Ideen
Ray Ideen, Administrative Leader for the Center of Innovation and Excellence for Hennepin County, coordinates the county side of the Hubert H. Humphrey (H.H.H.) International Fellowship Program and the Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders. The H.H.H. International Fellowship Program offers a year-long opportunity for professionals from around the world to exchange knowledge and experience, gain professional enrichment, and obtain non-degree, graduate-level study at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs. Hennepin County partners with the International Fellowship Program at the Humphrey School to provide International Fellows with an overview of Hennepin County Public Policy and Administration. Hennepin County offers an in-depth, multiple-day orientation to its services and business lines, including personal welcomes from the County Commissioners, County Administrator, County Attorney, and Sheriff. Mr. Ideen has coordinated this partnership for the past 3 years.
With the Mandela Washington Fellowship, several county departments have hosted between one and four Young African Leaders to share knowledge on specific areas of interest. They have an opportunity to network with local government leaders at Hennepin County, and are provided a professional development session. Hennepin County hosted Mandela Fellows for the past two years and this experience has been a highlight of the fellowship experience.
“Our goal working with International Fellows at Hennepin County is to provide access to leadership and our work. We create opportunities to leverage and exchange knowledge of public management in local government, but we learn as much from them as they do from us. International Fellows bring a new perspective to the work we do and inspire us to think about our work from a global perspective.” – Ray Ideen
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Fernando Burga
Fernando Burga is an assistant professor for the Master of Urban and Regional Planning (MURP) degree program at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs. His research deals with equity in urban planning particularly in relation to the incorporation of immigrants. He combines planning history, ethnographic fieldwork, and design techniques to evaluate how planning addresses immigrant life but also to show how immigrants can engage planning to assert agency, build political power and mobilize immigrant-based planning agendas. Fernando is also working on a project focusing on urban planning and policies as they relate to Latino immigrant communities across Minnesota. Additionally, he is teaching a class on site planning for food justice by partnering with Ramsey County Food and Nutrition Commission (FNC) to explore incorporating food access and equity into the Saint Paul and Ramsey County Comprehensive Plan.
On December 18th, Fernando will be presenting as part of our Brown Bag Series, The U Comes to You: Hennepin-University Partnership Research and Policy Brown Bag. He will be presenting at the Government Center at 11:30am in Room A 1412 on “Beyond Arm Chair Theorizing: How Can Academics and Professionals Re-Imagine Community Based Research".
For more information and to RSVP go here.
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