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November 1, 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 on December 18th. 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!


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.


Call to Copy Editors & Designers

ReCAST Minneapolis has submitted the year two annual report to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. The ReCAST team is looking for a copy editor and a designer to transform the annual report from a standard document to a creative report that will be available to community members. 

Please email ReCASTMinneapolisInfo@minneapolismn.gov for more information or with pricing estimates. 


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


Trauma Informed Services

ReCAST Connect 

At this time we are in the process of restructuring ReCAST Connect to give the best opportunity for providers either mental health or community cultural healers that are treating trauma and promoting healing in community to receive capacity building funds to continue to their work in community.

If you are a mental health provider or community cultural healer, we encourage you to consider placement on the Minneapolis ReCAST Connect provider map. Access the application here.


Youth Leadership and Development Update

MPR News Covers ReCAST PhotoVoice Project

Two high school photographers will be featured in their first gallery exhibit tonight as "Our Truth, Through Our Eyes opens in northeast Minneapolis. Their photos aim to bring people close to the trauma experienced by youth. 

Read the full article.

Kare 11 Covers Youth Participatory Action Research Project

Trauma. It often shows up in our lives unexpected. Teens and children need resources and people to talk to about the pain they've experience. A group of women from North Minneapolis are advocating for them. They call themselves Trauma Troopers. 

Watch the full coverage video. 


Shared Decision Making Update

Resilience 365 Projects Come Together for Final Evaluation Session

On October 23, the ReCAST Minneapolis team nearly 30 vendors who received funds through Resilience 365 for an evaluation meeting at North Regional Library. This was the first time since we launched the project in August that the vendors were able to come together in one place and learn about each other's work. The meeting, which was facilitated by Rainbow Research, proved to be immensely worthwhile, as vendors not only connected with each other but also shared out their activities and key takeaways from implementing critical work. The ReCAST Team extends gratitude to each of the vendors and their partners in helping us pull off such a successful project over the last several months. 


Resources and Events

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Toolkit on Organizing to Combat the School-to-Prison Pipeline

In this comprehensive repository, you will find interactive workshop ideas, reading lists, links to videos, short yet impactful infographics and one-pagers — all to help you build your arsenal against school push out.  By no means is this toolkit all-inclusive, but will hopefully give users a great spring board for discussions and activities that lead to targeted action. Contents are arranged in multiple categories and even cross referenced if applicable to more than one area.

View the toolkit

A Northside Assembly: Ward 5

Join Council Member Jeremiah Ellison to hear updates from the Ward 5 office and be prepared to share your vision, ideas, history and plan for the future.

  • Thursday, November 15, 5-7:45 p.m.
    UROC - 2001 Plymouth Ave N

More information

Neighborhood Board Representation Training

If you are a person of Color or know a Person of Color interested in joining their neighborhood association or district council, CURA's Neighborhood Organizing and Leadership Program is looking for participants for a free training to support and assist them in their journey toward leadership. They are looking for People of Color that want to create, change, and fight injustice in their community through neighborhood board membership..

The Board Representation Leadership Training for People of Color will be Thursday, November 15, 6-8:30 p.m. in the Freeman Commons - Room 205 at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs (301 19th Ave S.)

Register

Awaken the Inner Leader Conference

Join Hennepin County  for a youth-led conference to discuss topics that are important to young people in the community. There will be performances, speakers, panels and workshops for participants. Breakfast and lunch will be provided. 

  • Saturday, November 17, 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m.
    North Hennepin Community College
    7411 85th Ave N, Brooklyn Park 

Register


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. 

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