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August 16, 2018

Upcoming Advisory Team Meeting

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.  


Minnesota Spokesman Recorder Article

Resilience 365 Funds featured in Minnesota Spokesman Recorder

The 'bad guys' invest in trusted community groups - Minnesota Spokesman Recorder 08/08/2018

Just this month, ReCAST Minneapolis awarded nearly $500,000 to fund more than 29 community projects through a participatory budget process. More than 3,000 residents voted in the selection process.

The ReCAST Team has started developing contracts and the projects will be underway soon!


Healing and Training

Upcoming CBI Classes

  • 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. 
  • 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.
  • 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.

Trauma Informed Services

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


Opportunities for Community Involvement

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.


Resources and Events

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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!


More information

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. 


For reasonable accommodations or alternative formats please contact ReCASTMinneapolisInfo@minneapolismn.gov or
by phone: 612-673-2958. People who are deaf or hard of hearing can use a relay service to call 311 at 612-673-3000. 

TTY users can call 612-673-2157 or 612-673-2626.

Para asistencia 612-673-2700, Yog xav tau kev pab, hu 612-673-2800, Hadii aad Caawimaad u baahantahay 612-673-3500.