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Community
paramedics are playing an important, new role helping people stay healthy and
reducing hospital admissions. Read about this and find other healthy stories in Hennepin
County’s online
public health magazine
called, "Healthy You, Healthy Hennepin".
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up for your free subscription.
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St. Anne’s Place
offers emergency shelter for women-led families experiencing homelessness. Families
may have been living with relatives or friends, in a car, outside, or in an unsafe
home.
St. Anne’s
Place is the first emergency family shelter in Minnesota to adopt the
research-based CARE (Child Adult Relationship Enhancement) model, developed to
help families overcome the trauma of homelessness.
Staff is available 24 hours a day to support families who
have been homeless to achieve housing and regain emotional, psychological and
social well-being.
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- Women
living at St. Anne’s Place are at least 18 years old (2/3 of women are
under the age of 30).
- Children
are newborn – 17 years old (over 80 percent are 10 years old or younger).
- Families
are referred by the Hennepin Country Shelter Team.
- The
average stay is 6-8 weeks.
Rochelle’s story
A recent resident of St. Anne’s Place, Rochelle, arrived at
the age of 19 with her two children, a three year old and a one year old. They had been homeless
several times. Rochelle was familiar with the trauma of childhood homelessness; she had experienced her own childhood homelessness and abuse and now found
herself experiencing this trauma as a mother with two kids.
At St. Anne’s Place, Rochelle and her kids were given their
own room and access to scheduled meals, laundry facilities,
a child enrichment room, and a health and wellness room. St. Anne’s Place program
staff helped Rochelle enroll her children in the PICA Head Start program and connected her
with a health care provider through MVNA to
address the kids’ immediate health needs.
Using the Child Adult Relationship Enhancement framework known
as CARE, St. Anne’s Place staff helped Rochelle work through her traumas using
a strengths-based model that gave her tools to focus on health and wellness, addressing
behavioral issues that arise from trauma. Because of the stability, education, and
care received while at St. Anne’s Place, Rochelle was able to rebuild a sense of efficacy and personal
control; her family is no longer homeless, she completed high
school and is now working to become a certified nursing assistant. (Rochelle’s
real name has not been disclosed to protect her privacy and safety.)
Providers, there is still time to let the people you serve know that the enrollment deadline for Mnsure has been extended. The new
deadline is Monday, December 28, 2015 to enroll in coverage and have a plan
effective on January 1, 2016.
MNSure's CEO issued a recent announcement about the extension:
“Our goal remains the same as
ever: To enroll as many Minnesotans as we can in quality, affordable health
insurance options. This deadline extension helps facilitate that—but only if
Minnesotans take advantage of it. Don’t delay—enroll today.” Allison O’Toole, MNsure CEO
Read more of the announcement or learn more about health coverage in Minnesota at www.mnsure.org.
Health
Fair 11, UCare, HCMC and MVNA partner to bring you this season’s Flu Fighter To-Go
clinics. Call Paula Abramson at 612-617-4724 or email flufighter@mvna.org to book your on-site flu clinic
today! Learn more about MVNA’s programs at www.mvna.org.
Help brighten the holidays. Gifts donated by community
members are used to fulfill youth wishes. On Monday, December 21 and Tuesday,
December 22 between 9:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m., volunteers are needed to help greet,
sort, stock, "shop", wrap and deliver gifts.
Three hour shifts are available at Minneapolis Avenues for
Homeless Youth, 1708 Oak Park Avenue North, Minneapolis, MN 55411. You must be
over 21-years-old to participate.
For more information and to sign up, go to VolunteerSpot.
Visit the United Way Twin Cities Volunteer Match
web site to learn about other volunteer opportunities. http://unitedwaytwincities.volunteermatch.org/
It’s almost tax time! Income tax filers who
made under $62,000 in 2015 and have a simple return can file free online at myfreetaxes.
Free, in-person tax
preparation help is available throughout the state of Minnesota. Providers, let the people you serve know they can find a
free tax preparation site and other tax resources at youclaimit.org.
Visit www.hennepin.us/hsphpartners to
sign-up for notices of contract opportunities and to find other provider
resources including this newsletter, a contracting guide, and information about
what to expect if you get a contract with the Human Services and Public Health
Department.
The County is working to be transparent and
accountable. Learn more about performance measures, plain language, and other
initiatives that encourage civic participation.
Visit open government
Find voter information online
Visit us at www.hennepin.us/hsphpartners and then take a two minute survey to tell us what you would like to see there. In addition to survey responses, we’re looking for people who would be willing
to participate in web page user testing. If interested, please share your
contact information when you take the survey.
Take the survey
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