In this edition:
- ReCAST Year One Report Submitted
- ACTING BLACK: Demystifying Racism Performance and Community Event
- Psychological First Aid Training for City Staff
- Expert Panel Comes Together for Last Session of Trauma Training Dec. 14
- Mapping Prejudice Needs Your Help to Make History!
- Minnesota's Hate Crime Hotline
- ReCAST Minneapolis Sponsors Community Members to Attend Kente Circle's Training Institute
- Program Staff Present at 2017 Overcoming Racism Conference
- Isuroon Presents an evening discussion: Brave Conversation About Solution Thinking Outside the Box
- Apply to Serve on Minneapolis Public School's New Climate & Safety Advisory Committee
- Volunteer for North High School's Annual Social Emotional Learning Institute
- Proposal Submission Deadline for 2018 National Health Outreach Conference has been extended!
- City Invites Community to Discuss Minneapolis 2040
ReCAST Year One Report Submitted
Sept. 30, 2017, ended the first year of ReCAST Minneapolis and with the first year coming to a close, the ReCAST team worked together to complete and submit an annual report to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). The report highlighted a variety of activities that were implemented under each goal category. Some of the activities described in the annual report included:
- Capacity Building of City Staff through Safe/Brave Space Conversations, Trauma Education Training, and Custom Secondary/Vicarious Trauma Training
- Capacity Building of Community Members through the Capacity Building Institute, the community-led response to the announcement of the Yanez Verdict, and My Brother's Keeper.
The second year of the grant will bring many more activities and the team is working hard to complete and implement those activities.
 ACTING BLACK: Demystifying Racism Performance and Community Event
Part spoken word, part stand-up comedy, part Ted Talk complete with PowerPoint presentation, Acting Black is a 60-minute solo show created to inspire open and honest conversations about race and diversity.
Using the power of art to investigate difficult concepts Acting Black takes us to the roots of American racism and its consequences for all of us by exploring the evolution of the Black stereotype, tracing the birth of its beginning from a single individual on a specific night in Louisville, Kentucky in 1828 to the racial conflicts we still endure to this day.
Acting Black provides its audience with a context and the critical tools to engage in the most important part of its presentation and that is the facilitated discussion that follows the performance, usually lasting 30-45 minutes.
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Nov. 14 from 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Capri Theater - 2027 W. Broadway Ave., Minneapolis
This event is free and open to the public! Please register on Eventbrite. Acting Black is co-sponsored by the Minneapolis Equity & Inclusion Team under ReCAST Minneapolis and the Minneapolis Black Employee Network (MBEN).
Please email questions to ReCASTMinneapolisInfo@minneapolismn.gov.
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 Psychological First Aid Training for City Staff
Psychological First Aid training is being offered to first point of contact staff and leaders. This training is meant for a variety of staff including housing inspectors, community engagement specialists, 911 and 311 operators and others. Cultural, somatic and psychological first aid is an evidence-based, trauma-informed approach built on the idea of human resilience.
Goals and outcomes include:
- Better City responsiveness when navigating trauma and civil restlessness issues.
- Better City responsiveness to communities of color as it relates to trauma and civil unrest.
- Better educational knowledge relating to health, productivity and quality of life for employees.
New dates for City employees:
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Mon.-Tues., Nov. 20-21 from 8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
University of Minnesota Urban Research and Outreach-Engagement Center
2001 Plymouth Ave. N.
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Mon.-Tues., Dec.18-19 from 8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
University of Minnesota Urban Research and Outreach-Engagement Center
2001 Plymouth Ave. N.
City employees can register in COMET.
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Expert Panel Comes Together for Last Session of Trauma Training Dec. 14
The last session of the CLUES trauma trainings will be a panel discussion featuring experts in the mental health field, as well as those from immigrant and refugee communities coming together to discuss the trauma they have experienced.
- Dec. 14 from 9 a.m. - noon at the Central Library in the Pohlad Room
The facilitator, Mauricio Cifuentes, is the Senior Division Director of Health and Well-Being for Comunidades Latinas Unidas En Servicio (CLUES). Previously he trained in Colombia as a lawyer where he practices and taught law for almost twenty years until he shifted his focus to pursue clinical social work. Cifuentes received his masters in Social Work and moved on to earn his Ph.D. in Social Work writing his dissertation focused on social stigma as a barrier to remaining in therapy for Latino clients from the perspective of Latino clinicians.
He will be joined by:
- Ahmed Ismail Yusuf, author of three books: Gorgorkii Yimi, Lion's Binding Oath, and Somalis in Minnesota. His mental health publications appeared in the Journal of Muslim Mental Health, Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, and International Society for Traumatic-stress Studies, Psychiatry times;
- Foua Choua Khang who balances the world of the new and the old between her colleagues at Health East/Fairview as well as within the social dynamics of the Xiong clan. Foua Choua identifies as a practicing Hmong woman as well as a Community Health Worker. Bridging between the western and eastern approaches to health and well-being, she hopes to accomplish world peace someday;
- David Soto, a Financial Empowerment Coach, has provided services based around financial capability since 2011. His knowledge of the U.S. financial system, in conjunction to his upbringing with Latino roots, allow for a culturally relevant approach to the delivery of services. Being a DACA recipient, he holds a unique, yet common perspective around the challenges that surround the immigrant community.
This panel discussion is open to City employees as well as community members. City employees can register in COMET. Community members can email ReCASTMinneapolisInfo@minneapolismn.gov to register.
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 Mapping Prejudice Needs Your Help to Make History!
From Historyopolis, a team of historians are relying on volunteers to make the first-ever map of racial covenants for an American city.
Racially-restrictive deeds --or racial covenants, as they are also known--prohibited people who were not white from purchasing or occupying homes. One common deed in Minneapolis stipulated that the "premises shall not at any time be conveyed, mortgaged or leased to any person or persons of Chinese, Japanese, Moorish, Turkish, Negro, Mongolian or African blood or descent."
These kinds of restrictions were used all over the United States, serving as the building blocks for a forgotten system of American apartheid. But no one has ever mapped when and where they were embedded into the urban landscape.
Most Minneapolitans think that their city was never burdened by the Jim Crow-type formal segregation of the American South. The city never had segregated watering fountains. But it was blanketed by racially-restrictive property deeds, which kept many desirable neighborhoods in the city exclusively white for most of the twentieth century.
Mapping Prejudice wants to illuminate these forgotten boundaries of race. It is a collaborative effort by researchers at Augsburg College and the University of Minnesota to find and map all the properties in Minneapolis reserved for white people during the twentieth century.
Community volunteers are making this possible. Our team has identified 5,000 racially-restrictive deeds. We are certain that we will find another 15,000 covenants. But we need help reading and classifying the historic deeds that we have flagged as likely to contain this language.
This is a simple task that can be done from any computer with an internet connection. For a more detailed description, please see our online tutorial.
We are also happy to speak to groups or classes. Please use the contact form on our website to get in touch if you would like to host a volunteer training.
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Minnesota's Hate Crime Hotline
Minneapolis is committed to human rights and racial equity for everyone who lives, works in, and visits our city. To advance this mission, the Minneapolis Department of Civil Rights has partnered with the Minnesota Department of Human Rights, the St. Paul Department of Human Rights, local law enforcement agencies, and the FBI to provide a new tool for reporting violations of existing human rights laws and ordinances in the city of Minneapolis and around the state. Anyone subjected to a bias-motivated incident in Minnesota is encouraged to call 612-673-3000 (311 if within Minneapolis).
What is a hate crime?
Any crime against a person or property motivated by prejudice against someone's race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, ethnicity, gender or gender identity.
What is discrimination?
Discrimination is an action or a decision that treats a person or a group negatively for reasons such as their race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, ethnicity, gender, or gender identity.
To report a Hate Crime, call (612) 673-3000
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ReCAST Minneapolis Sponsors Community Members to Attend Kente Circle's Training Institute
Last week, ReCAST Minneapolis program staff and partners attended Kente Circle Training Institute's Fall Conference - Healing in Community: Shifting the Burden of Dismantling White Supremacy. Through ReCAST funding, we were able to sponsor 40 community members to attend the conference. Throughout the conference, participants learned tangible skills to address white supremacy in their environments. In addition, participants learned about how stress and trauma impacts the way that people are able to constructively address racism and oppression.
More information about Kente Circle
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Program Staff Present at 2017 Overcoming Racism Conference
On Saturday, Nov. 4, ReCAST Minneapolis program staff presented for a breakout session at the Overcoming Racism Conference. Workshop participants had an opportunity to learn about ReCAST's work in light of the 18-day occupation as a result of the office involved shooting of Jamar Clark in Nov. 2015. Staff and workshop participants offered their reflections of this tragic event and also assisted ReCAST staff in thinking through how the City can develop a critical incident response protocol to prevent and promote healing when traumatic events happen in community.
More information about Overcoming Racism
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 Guest speaker, Judge LaJune Lange, will be explaining the legislation bill HF 2621 Female Genital Mutilation, the problems and unintended consequences for families with children, and for the overall state.
- Nov. 13, 5-7 p.m. at the Humphrey School of Public Policy
301 19th Avenue South, Minneapolis, 55455
5-5:30 p.m. Registration and Refreshments
5:30-6:30 p.m. Program and Panel Discussion|
6:30-7 p.m. Q&A
Register here
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Apply to Serve on Minneapolis Public School's New Climate and Safety Advisory Committee
Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) is looking for a diverse group of individuals to apply by Nov. 17 to serve on the new Climate & Safety Advisory Committee (CSAC). The charge of this group is to help put practices in place that will ensure each school is safe and welcoming for all staff and students. The committee will include:
- 2 students
- 2 parents
- 2 teachers
- 2 educational service professionals (ESPs)
- 2 non-classroom staff members
- 2 principals
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4 community organization representatives
Applications from prospective committee members will be reviewed by an MPS leadership team and will be notified of acceptance by Nov. 27. The committee's first meeting will be on the evening of Dec. 4. This committee will meet monthly. Transportation, childcare and interpretation can be provided as needed.
More information and application
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Volunteer for North High School's Annual Social Emotional Learning Institute
On Nov. 17, 2017 North High is collectively trying to transform the culture and climate of its school rooted in power, positivity, and progress. Using Social Emotional Learning Core Competencies as a point of inspiration, students and staff will engage in an all day institute where they attend 90 minute workshops together, geared toward addressing the social and emotional needs of the school community.
The workshops are intended to be highly engaging while reiterating he important of social and emotional intelligence. The intent is for students and staff to walk away feeling empowered, positive and progressive.
If you are interested in volunteering your time, knowledge and services to North High School staff and students, please fill out this form.
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Proposal Submission deadline for 2018 National Health Outreach Conference has been extended!
Deadline for proposal submissions: Nov. 13, 2017
Proposals are now being accepted for the 2018 National Health Outreach Conference (NHOC) May 2-4, 2018 at the Radisson Blu Hotel, near the Mall of American in Bloomington, Minnesota. For more information and selection criteria, visit the Call for Proposals web page.
Goals of the 2018 National Health Outreach Conference
- Fostering a culture of health through community-based strategies.
- Encourage health equity.
- Creating improvement in health through disruptive change and innovation.
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Promoting co-creation with communities to ensure relevance and reduce barriers to positive change.
Suggested proposal topics
Proposals that include (but are not limited to) the following topics of interest in the fields of community health, safety, and wellness:
- Multi-level community/place-based initiatives
- Systems-level strategies
- Health equity initiatives
- Behavioral and mental health initiatives
- Financial wellness initiatives
- Healthy aging strategies
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Collaborative strategies with health care entities
To learn more about requirements for proposals, the submittal process, and how to submit proposals, go to: 2018 National Health Outreach Conference Presentation Proposal.
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City Invites Community to Discuss Minneapolis 2040
Over the past year, City planners have been doing a lot of listening about the future of Minneapolis. One theme they have heard is that everyone must benefit from a growing city. Done right, population growth can help our city become a healthy, sustainable, and thriving place for all. They have some ideas on how to achieve that, and would like to hear your thoughts.
Engage in Person at Community Meetings in December
Please attend one of the following interactive engagement events. Each event will feature the same family-friendly activities created by artists and City-staff, as well as free food from local businesses.
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Saturday, Dec. 2
10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Van Cleve Park Gym
901 15th Ave. SE
Co-hosted by SE Como, Wait Park, and Marcy-Holmes neighborhoods
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Tuesday, Dec. 5
5:30-7:30 p.m.
Fairview Park Gym
621 29th Ave. N
Co-hosted by Hawthorne neighborhood
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Saturday, Dec. 9
10 a.m. -noon
Roosevelt High School gym
4029 28th Ave. S
Co-hosted by Standish Ericsson and Corcoran neighborhoods
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Monday, Dec. 11
5:30-7:30 p.m.
Martin Luther Kind Park multi-purpose room
4055 Nicollet Ave.
Co-hosted by Tangletown, Kingfield, Armatage and Lowry Hill East Neighborhood Association
Engage Online and with your friends
- Starting Nov. 20, visit www.minneapolis2040.com and check out the new interactive content and leave feedback
- Follow the plan on Twitter @Mpls2040
- Sign up for the email list
- Download the Meeting-in-a-box tool kit to host your own engagement meetings and report back
About Minneapolis 2040
Minneapolis 2040 is an upgrade to the City' Comprehensive Plan, a document that shapes how Minneapolis will grow and change. The plan will cover topics such as housing, job creation, the design of new buildings, and how we use our streets.
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About ReCAST Minneapolis
The Resilience in Communities After Stress & Trauma (ReCAST) Minneapolis Program is funded through a multi-year grant from the Department of Health and Human Services' Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). ReCAST Minneapolis is intended to assist high-risk youth and families, and promote resilience and equity in communities that have recently faced civil unrest through the implementation of evidence-based violence prevention and community youth engagement programs, as well as linkages to trauma-informed behavioral health services. SAMHSA created the ReCAST Program to support communities that have lived through demonstrations of mass protest in response to police-involved shootings of unarmed African-American males.
For more information, please email ReCASTMinneapolisInfo@minneapolismn.gov.
This update was developed [in part] under grant number 1H79SM063520-01 from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The views, policies, and opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of SAMHSA or HHS.
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