Critical Incident Response
Proposals for the Request for Proposals put out a few weeks ago were due last week. Due to the low response of proposals, the ReCAST Team and the Advisory Team are looking at ways to revitalize and streamline the process moving forward. Stay tuned for updates as these changes are announced.
Register Now for Summer Capacity Building Institute Trainings
ReCAST Minneapolis has selected a new set of trainers for the spring and summer trainings for the Capacity Building Institute. These trainers will primarily focus on trauma awareness and education; healing and resiliency; and policy and systems change work across various communities in Minneapolis. Upcoming trainings include:
Calendar with descriptions of trainings
Registration form
 History of Race - Artist in Residence Projects
Northside Story Kickoff Event
The Oral History project entitled Northside Story will be having its kickoff event on June 28th from 6-8 p.m. at the Minneapolis Urban League. All are welcome to attend! Attendees will hear the stories of Northside residents, learn how others can share their stories at pop-up events, hear from City leaders, learn other ways to get involved and meet the team facilitating the project. Text the word NORTHSIDE to 484848 to register.
Please email ReCASTMinneapolisInfo@minneapolismn.gov if you feel you have experience and knowledge to share around the history of the Plymouth-Penn Corridor.
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 El Camino del Corazón Mural Dedication and Critical Response Protocol Sessions
Earlier this year, members of the community came together to share their immigration experiences and collaborate in the creation of a mural. The artwork in now complete and handing outside of Council Chamber on the third floor of City Hall.
On June 18, GoodSpace Murals, Comunidades Latinas Unidas En Servicio (CLUES), and the City of Minneapolis dedicated the mural to the participants of the project who had the courage to share their stories to allow for better understanding between City employees and our community.
On June 28, GoodSpace Murals will be hosting six Critical Response Protocol sessions to help City staff as well as interested community members more deeply understand the mural's imagery. The Critical Response Protocol sessions are structures processes that allows participants to pay close attention to a piece of artwork.
City staff can register for these sessions on COMET. Community members can email ReCASTMinneapolisInfo@minneapolismn.gov to register. The sessions will be held at the following times at City Hall in room 319 - 350 S 5th St.
- 9-9:45 a.m.
- 10-10:45 a.m.
- 11-11:45 a.m.
- 1-1:45 p.m.
- 2-2:45 p.m.
- 3-3:45 p.m.
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 CLUES Trauma Training Available Online
A ReCAST Minneapolis partner, Comunidades Latinas Unidas En Servicio (CLUES) offered training to City staff around immigrant and refugee trauma in 2017. Ensuring that City staff understand the trauma that is happening across the City will give them the tools and strategies to better serve those communities.
CLUES allowed us to film these courses and offer them as packaged video courses. These courses are now available for City employees and community members! There are 6 courses in the series. NOTE: These courses are 1-2 hours in length. Allow ample time to complete each course.
Please feel free to share these videos with your networks!
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Youth Participatory Action Research Project
ReCAST Minneapolis in partnership with North News of Pillsbury United Communities is conducting a YPAR (Youth Participatory Action Research Project) to gather the narratives and stories of youth (ages 16-25) impacted by trauma in and around their community.
Last week, ReCAST and North News presented at the Government Alliance on Race and Equity (GARE) Speaker Learning Series on the work of the five youth workers that have created, designed and implemented the project. Our Trauma troopers have conducted over 15 interviews. This YPAR project in helping ReCAST understand how youth define themselves, define their own interpersonal trauma, define community violence and trauma, understand their coping skills and practices and develop additional activities to support them with recovery and healing after traumatic events that happen to them and within their community.
If you know of any youth who would like to be involved, please email ReCASTMinneapolisInform@minneapolismn.gov.
ReCAST Minneapolis Connect
ReCAST Minneapolis Connect is live! This website is a network of providers - Community Cultural Healers and Mental Health providers - that will partner with ReCAST to offer services designed to promote healing and resiliency in our community. There are currently three providers signed up to be plotted on the map. We are looking for an additional 20 Community Cultural Healers and 20 Mental Health providers, agencies, organizations and individuals that provide services aimed towards supporting youth and families seeking resources after a traumatic event that impacted them, their family member, or their community. Please email ReCASTMinneapolisInfo@minneapolismn.gov with questions.
Study Sessions Taking Place to Learn About City Processes
The City Coordinator's department is hosting a series of study sessions meant to be informational for new and returning policymakers taking place prior to the term's strategic planning kick off. This is an eight part series of cross-departmental topical sessions taking place through July. These sessions are open to community members as well and will be held at City Hall (350 S 5th St., room 319).
- Transportation and Infrastructure Study Session
June 14, 10:30 a.m.-noon
- Community Trust and Transparency Study Session
July 19, 10 a.m.-noon
- Public Safety Study Session
July 30, 10 a.m.-noon
- Land Use Study Session
August 2, 10 a.m.-noon
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Mapping Neighborhood History: Reclaiming/Reframing Fair Housing
This will be the first gathering of "Racism, Rent and Real Estate: Fair Housing Reframed" event series to learn more about the history and impetus of fair housing laws, and share you knowledge about the history of your family and neighborhood. Galvanizing the community conversation, speakers will include 8th Ward Minneapolis City Councilmember and Council Vice President Andrea Jenkins; lifelong neighborhood resident and community leader, Greg McMoore; and Kirsten Delegard, Director of Mapping Prejudice.
- June 21, 6-8 p.m.
Sabathani Community Center
310 38th Street E, Suite 101
More information
Neighborhood Hub Presents Renter's Rights and Responsibilities Workshop
Join the Neighborhood Hub for a workshop on Renter's Rights and Responsibilities with Mary Kaczorek, Housing Attorney from Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid and a mini Expungement Clinic with housing attorneys with the Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid. If interested in the mini expungement clinic, please contact the Neighborhood Hub to learn what documents to bring.
- June 30, 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m.
3120 Washburn Ave N.
More information
Building Sustainable Communities
Washburn Center for Children invites you to join them for the 3rd Equity & Access discussion: Building Sustainable Communities featuring Elizer Darris. Elizer is the Lead Consultant with the Darris Consulting Group, which aims to inspire hope and spark dialogue centered on the power of individuals to effect change in their world.
- July 19, 1:30-4:30 p.mm
Washburn Center for Children
1100 Glenwood Ave
Register
North Star Black Cooperative Fellowship
The North Star Fellowship is a six-month fellowship focused on Black American Cooperative Economics. North Star teaches Black Cooperative Economic local and national history, rethinking capitalism, support and network new black coop enterprises and their leaders, analyze local cooperative resources and institutions and support emerging cooperative businesses. The North Star Black Cooperative Fellowship is centered on the history of Black cooperative economic thought and practice. Priority will be placed on applicants who share the ancestry of Enslaved Africans in the United States and place value on their legacy of cooperative economics and collective care.
More information and application
Art and Healing: In the Moment Exhibit
Art and Healing: In the Moment is an exhibition of artwork made by community artists in response to the fatal shooting of Philando Castile. Castile was an African-American man who grew up in Saint Paul. On July 6, 2016, he was fatally shot by a police office in the nearby town of Falcon Heights after being pulled over for a traffic stop. He was 32 years old.
In the months after Castile's funeral, artists across the community were motivated to make art, some of which they gave to his family - gifts intended to help the people closest to Castile process their grief and start to heal, while also bearing collective witness to the tragedy to his untimely death. The family, moved by this generosity, approached the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia) with a desire to publicly share these artworks, which includes video, sculpture, posters, paintings and quilts.
The exhibit will be at the Minneapolis Institute of Art from June 17 - July 29, 2018.
More information about the exhibit
University of Minnesota's Health Disparities Round Table 2018
Incarceration: A Public Health Issue
The 2018 Health Disparities Round table is an annual event offered by the Midwest Center for Life Long Learning in Public Health (MCLPH) and was video taped of April 6, 2018.
The MCLPH, within the School of Public Health, is a member of the Association for Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH) and an approved Continuing Education partner with the National Board of Public Health Examiners (NBPHE). Up to 3CPH recertification credits, 2.25 continuing education credits, or 2.5 standard Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credits for attorney's can be earned by completing this course.
More information and registration
Job Opportunities
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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