Resilience 365 Funding Process Presented to City Council
On August 28th, ReCAST Program Manager, Ebony Adedayo, presented about Resilience 365 to the Committee of the Whole. In the presentation, she discussed the overall process of receiving applications and the community voting. The presentation highlighted decisions made along the way, barriers of the process and lessons learned.
View the video of the presentation.
View the presentation PowerPoint.
 Resilience 365 Awarded Project Featured by MPR News
"Guns down, hands up."
That's what Minnesota Fight Club founder Jihad Muhammad says before every match. It's what he asks his fighters to say on camera before they touch gloves with their opponents and duke it out in a Minneapolis public park.
A physiology major at the University of Minnesota who hopes to become an emergency room doctor, Muhammad, 21, said he launched the club over the summer as a way to help curb gun violence in the city by giving young people an outlet for aggression that doesn't involve guns.
Read the full article
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 Trauma Stewardship Institute Training Sept. 26
Transforming Trauma - How We Do This Work and Sustain It
Join ReCAST for a training featuring the author of Trauma Stewardship, Laura van Dernoot Lipsky. Participants will leave with increased awareness of vicarious and secondary trauma; increased language to those experiencing vicarious trauma so they can better understand what is happening to their bodies; and deepened ability to individually and collectively sustain themselves as they continue to do this work. This training is free!
Register now!
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Oral History Project
The 4000 More Creative team has collected oral histories from 43 Northside residents about their experiences growing up on the Northside. The team completed audio recordings of all of the interviews that will remain unedited. The team then transcribed the interviews and identified common themes that cam up throughout the project. They plan to present their findings to the ReCAST team in the next couple of weeks. Stay tuned for more updates and information about how to listen to the interviews.
Youth Participatory Action Research Update
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. This YPAR project is designed to support ReCAST and our community to 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.
We have hired 5 Youth workers that have created, designed and implemented the project and these youth workers have conducted over 50 interviews. We are now in phase 2 of this project where we are looking at the data and coding them in to different themes. For example: Police interactions, Trauma support services, Safe adults in the lives of youth, existing and non-existing youth services and programs.
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.
There are 15 providers signed up to be plotted on the map and ReCAST has given out $62,000 in funding. We are looking for an additional 20 individual Community Cultural Healers and Mental Health providers to apply for reimbursement funds for up to $2,500. We are no longer accepting applications for agencies and organizations.
View the ReCAST Minneapolis Connect Map
Become a ReCAST Minneapolis Connect Partner
Neighborhood and Community Relations Hosts Community Connections Learning Lab Series
The Community Connections Learning Lab Series consists of eight, 90-minute labs on effectively engaging multiple segments of the community in Minneapolis. Those who complete at least seven of the eight learning labs will earn a Community Connector Certificate.
City staff, neighborhood organizations and community partners are invited to learn effective community engagement strategies, including considerations about:
- Accessibility.
- Immigration and refugee status.
- Gender dynamics, religion and norms.
- Historical experiences and trust in government.
- Culturally specific media, communication styles.
- Significant institutions, nonprofits, sacred spaces.
- Major events, holidays or festivals.
To view the schedule and enroll in the Learning Labs, please visit www.minneapolismn.gov/ncr/learninglabs.
Building Resilience: Preventing Diseases of Despair
The Catalyst Initiative of the Minneapolis Foundation invites you to join us for the 2018 unConference, Building Resilience: Preventing Diseases of Despair.
Please join us as we explore strategies for primary prevention of addiction and suicide.
Building Resilience is an all-day event centering community voices, emergent research, and trauma responsive approaches to supporting individual and collective resilience, hosted in the model of Intentional Social Interaction.
- Sept. 18, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Saint Mary's Event Center - 2540 Park Ave. #28
Professional development certificates are available upon request.
RSVP via email to elexis@marnitastable.org
Bicultural Healthy Living Community Forum Hosted by Asian Media Access
Asian Media Access will hosting a Bicultural Healthy Living Forum focusing on the effects of maltreatment on the developing brain, the Adverse Childhood Experiences Study (ACES) and ways of promoting resiliency in the school and community settings. ACES experiences affect student’s ability to do well in school, both socially and academically. Most importantly, how communities of color can work together, and draw on cultural assets to bring justice and equity back to self-heal the communities holistically.
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September 27, 9 a.m-3:30 p.m.
UROC - 2001 Plymouth Ave N
*Free & Lunch will be provided RSVP by: Monday, September 24, 2018
Save the Date: 5th Annual Trans Equity Summit
This theme for this year's Summit is health and wellness, with sessions on making healthcare more accessible and accepting the transgender community, learning skills to improve mental health and resiliency, and tackling pervasive issues relating to health and social support.
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Oct. 4, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Hennepin Theater Trust - 900 Hennepin Ave
Free and open to the public. Registration and additional information will be made available at www.minneapolismn.gov/TransEquity. The 5th Annual Trans Equity Summit is hosted by the City of Minneapolis in partnership with the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board.
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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