The next ReCAST Minneapolis Advisory Team Meeting will be held Tuesday, August 21 from 10 a.m.-noon at the Neighborhood Hub (3120 Washburn Ave N). The ReCAST team will give a general update on all of the areas of work as well as report out on the Resilience 365 Funding process. Community members living in North, South or Cedar Riverside are invited to attend!
If you have been a thought partner with ReCAST or are currently serving on the Advisory Team, please complete this brief, 10-question survey. The feedback will help shape how we staff, support, and grow the influence of the Advisory Team in the years ahead.
Please email ReCASTMinneapolisInfo@minneapolismn.gov with questions.
Upcoming CBI Classes
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Wilder Foundation - Sindy Morales Garcia and Kristen Johnson
Tuesday, August 21 and Thursday, September 6; 6-8 p.m. These
trainings will provide community residents concrete tools to improve their capacity to
effectively engage with systems – sharing their input skillfully and
with confidence. Community residents will leave feeling grounded in the value
they bring to their community and ready to effectively share their insights and
perspectives.
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Melissa Olson
2-week series; Saturday, August 25 and Saturday, September 8; noon-3 p.m. The
first training will provide a political education by historicizing the
beginnings of Minneapolis as a “resource city” in the latter half of
the 19th century. Presenters will describe how Minneapolis emerged as a
resource city and the ways it continues to divorce itself from the violent
economic dispossession of Dakota and Ojibwe peoples. The second training begins
with the birth of the American Indian Movement (AIM) in 1968 in Minneapolis.
Through photographic essay and archival audio and visual material, the training
will re-visit key moments in the history of the American Indian Movement in
Minneapolis.
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Minnesota Department
of Health *New Opportunity*
2 part series; Thursday, August 30 (Neighborhood Hub) and Tuesday,
September 18 (North Regional Library); 1-4 p.m. The Community Readiness Assessment (CRA) model provides an accessible
and relatively fast way of assessing a community’s level of readiness on a
given issue. It is an assessment tool that can be used and scored by community
members with minimal training; allowing the community both to save the funds by
not hiring outside experts and to use their own experts and assess to find
solutions. With leading this assessment the community builds their capacity to
address this and other issues and make community efforts successful. In both
presentations we will use a variety of learning modalities which include
presentation, small group discussion, interactive exercises and reviewing
available tools and resources for implementation.
ReCAST Minneapolis Connect
ReCAST Minneapolis Connect is in full swing! The ReCAST team invites you to connect with community cultural healers or mental health providers in your neighborhood.
- Community Cultural Healer: Individuals from a particular culture and/or ethnic group whose work is rooted in traditional practices as sources of healing and resiliency, rather than western scientific practices alone.
- Mental Health Provider: Professionals who provide therapeutic treatment.
Providers are invited to join the provider map as well as apply for Connect Funds that are available to enhance and expand your work in community.
View the ReCAST Minneapolis Connect Map
Become a ReCAST Minneapolis Connect Partner
Provide Feedback on Minneapolis' 2019 Budget
The Mayor's recommended 2019 budget is out and ready for public comment. Your comments will be shared with the Mayor and City Council members as they settle on the final budget for next year. Visit the City of Minneapolis' web page to view the proposed budget.
CLUES Fiesta Latina 2018
August 18, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. - 797 E 7th St., Saint Paul This family friendly community event will highlight the vibrancy of the Latino culture with delicious Latino food, music, folkloric and contemporary dances, free backpacks, raffles and prizes, art and crafts, fitness activities, free health exams and other fun activities for the whole family!
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Este evento comunitario apropiado para la familia destacará la vitalidad de la cultura Latina con deliciosa comida Latina, música, danzas folklóricas y contemporáneas, mochilas gratis, rifas y regalos, actividades físicas, chequeos de salud, arte, artesanías y otras actividades divertidas para toda la familia!
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Gay Straight Alliance: A Critical Community Resource for LGBTQ Mental Well-Being
Tuesday, August 28, 10 a.m.-noon, webinar Disparities in mental well-being among LGBT youth in Minnesota are profound. LGBT youth living in rural areas have very few safe spaces for real interaction and self-identification. This makes their journey through sexual identification and "coming out" to family, friends and community more difficult. Learn about how a partnership with youth and a local Gay Straight Alliance helped to identify, document and showcase the experiences of rural Minnesota LGBT youth using video and other creative outlets. Understand the National and State statistics to provide context for a deeper understanding about rural Minnesota LGBT youth and their involvement in a GSA (Genders and Sexualities Alliance), and consider opportunities for how your community can provide safe spaces for youth programs and schools, especially rural communities.
Register here
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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