Welcome

Create and Follow a Map to Wellness

Reduce stress in your life. Regain a sense clarity, balance and purpose. Work on a step-by-step process for personal health, cultural and spiritual well-being. Make an appointment with Semerit Seankh-ka, MD, MSW or Atum Azzahir, Elder. Call 612—721—5745

Develop a Birthing Team

A pregnant mother is supported and nurtured throughout the pregnancy, in labor, and delivery and post-delivery by family, friends and a doula, if desired. A doula is a woman who supports the mother in the birthing experience. Contact Akhmiri Sekhr-Ra, a doula who is on staff at the Center. Call 612—721—5745.

Create a Circle of Healing/Healing Circles

Practitioners and elders will help you create a network of people around you for information and support, gather a circle of supporters at a specific time for healing, and/or reflect on the message of dis-ease. Facilitators: Dr. Semerit Seankh-ka, MD, MSW or Atum Azzahir. Call 612—721—5745 for an appointment.

Allina Backyard Initiative

The Backyard Initiaitve is Allina's effort to galvanize a coalition of community residents and community-based, government, education and health care organizations towards improving the health and health care of residents of the communities within the Backyard: Central, Powderhorn Park, Corcoran, Ventura Village, Phillips West, Midtown Phillips, East Phillips.

If you are a resident of one of these neighborhoods, please come to participate:

 Valuing and Celebrating Senior Wellness

On the second Thursday of each month, from 12:30 - 2 PM, senior men and women 65-91 years old gather to reflect, eat and celebrate health. This is also a place where we restore the authority of the Elders. RSVP to Elder Atum at 621-721-5745.

Cultural Self-Study for European Americans

 The next European American Learning Community discussion will be next Tuesday, January 29th, from 6:30 - 8:00 PM in the Midtown Global Market (in the old Sears Building at Chicago and Lake Street), near Kitchen in the Market (the northeast corner), behind Jakeenos and the new Pasta Bar. We will be discussing Chapters 2 and 3 of Paul Starr's book, The Social Transformation of American Medicine, that describes how our health care system came to be the way it is today. These chapters describe the history of health care from 1850 - 1930.  You do not have to have read the chapters to participate -- everyone is welcome. 

  Contact Janice Barbee at janicegwb@yahoo.com for more information. We hope to see you there!