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October 17, 2018

ReCAST Year 2 Celebration

ReCAST's second year came to an end on September 29th. The ReCAST team would like to extend an invitation to Advisory Team members, partner organizations, and residents to join us in celebrating our accomplishments. This will be a time to come together to reflect on the past year, offer feedback to the team, and discuss year three projects. Details for the celebration will come soon so stay tuned!


ReCAST PhotoVoice Exhibition Announcement

Healing and Training

Intergenerational Pathways for Undoing White Body Supremacy - Monthly Practice Group with Rachel Martin

This monthly practice group will build on the ReCAST Capacity Building Institute training series: Antidotes to White Body Supremacy offered in August 2018. The group will provide City of Minneapolis employees and community members who attended the training with additional support in building personal and communal capacities for humility, resilience, reparative actions and healing. The group will also be open to others from the City and community who have a commitment to joining us in this work. We will continue to develop shared language around “racialized” stress responses in our white bodies and practice noticing - and mobilizing/settling out of - common personal and communal stress responses (cry for help, fight, flight, high freeze, collapse/submit and low freeze) during “racialized” interactions with fellow white people as well as people of color and indigenous people. We will focus on tracking our body sensations so we can replace even subtle habits that uphold white body supremacy with habits that undo it.

  • November 2, 9:30 a.m.-noon
    Walker Community Church - 3104 16th Ave S
  • December 7, 9:30 a.m.-noon
    Walker Community Church - 3104 16th Ave S

Register here


Youth Leadership

Trauma Troopers - North News Cover

Trauma Troopers interviewed 55 youth, ages 14-24, from 20+ different schools, with a series of questions about trauma. They published their findings in the September 27th edition of North News. General themes from interviews covered what trauma is, how youth deal with trauma and overall safety.


Technical Assistance RFQ Now Open

The City of Minneapolis is committed to healing and resilience grounded in the evidence of cultural experience and practice. The City seeks technical assistance support for the third year of the project implementation. Technical assistance support includes facilitations, planning, coordination of ReCAST grantee convenings, and monthly Network of Practice calls. View the RFQ.

Applications are due by 5 p.m. on November 2 to ReCASTMinneapolisInfo@minneapolismn.gov.


Resources and Events

Free Training for African American Men: Social Determinants of Health 

Join the Wilder Foundation for a free two-day training to discuss social determinants of health and how Black men can support women during their pregnancies and beyond. Breakfast and lunch will be served. 

  • October 26, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
    October 27, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
    Northpoint Health and Wellness Center, Rm 108
    1315 Penn Avenue N

Register by emailing Libby Freis at libby.freis@wilder.org

Join the MN Department of Health for a Monthly Well-Being and Resilience Learning Community

October Topic: Reducing Isolation and Promoting Connection Between New Immigrants and Minnesota Women

Social isolation and connectedness is a national concern; it is particularly acute among immigrants. Minnesota community members may want to support their newer neighbors but may struggle with how and where to begin. Learn about the Women's Friendship group, a simple and profound experience that has supported and enriched the lives of everyone involved. 

  • October 30, 10 a.m.-noon
    Webinar

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.