The Cultural Wellness Center
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Incubated initatives are small profit and non-profit businesses that have been nurtured into existence using the Cultural Wellness Center as an umbrella, or an 'incubator.' Most of these business owners are members of the Cultural Wellness Center and have been trained in its Cultural Wellness approach to understanding what culture is and how to use it as a resource.
Backyard Initiative
Citizen Health Action Teams (CHATs)
A Partnership of Diabetics (A-POD) CHAT:
This CHAT works to support diabetes self-management and recovery through networks of family, social, and community-based resources that effectively complement the work of health care providers.
CONTACT: ROBERT ALBEE
Anchor Families CHAT:
This team is seeking to establish “anchor families” on each block who can teach life skills and guiding values to youth as well as connect youth and their families to resources for wellness.
CONTACT:ANGELICA BUENROSTRO
Circle of Healing CHAT:
Members of this CHAT come together as practitioners interested in creating a more formalized network of people (Circles of Healing) around Backyard residents to provide better information and support for healing and reflection about the message of dis-ease. This network serves both the Backyard community receiving care and the healing practitioner community in the Backyard.
CONTACT:MINKARA TEZET
Communications CHAT:
This group is working to lessen or eliminate the divide between people who have information and those who don’t so that everyone has the opportunity to be engaged in a healthy community.
CONTACT: SUSAN GUST
Growing the Backyard CHAT:
This group is focusing on finding ways to support healthy eating though accessibility to healthy foods and educating about healthy practices across cultures.
CONTACT: TIM PAGE
Latino/a Environmental Health Begins at Home CHAT:
This group is looking at the impact of environment on the health of residents in the Backyard.
CONTACT: BERTA RUIZ
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Out in the Backyard CHAT:
A team that is working to connect individuals from all cultures who are LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) with the resources they need to be healthy and safe
CONTACT: MILI DUTTA
Project S.E.L.F. (Save Educate Liberate Free) CHAT:
Project S.E.L.F. aims to assist youth, elders, and families in healthy living and artistic expressions through poetry, open microphone performances, information workshops, and community dialogue.
CONTACT: AMGED YUSUF
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Rebirthing Community CHAT:
This team is focused on bringing elders and youth together through mentoring and visual arts for a “rebirthing” of community.
CONTACT: DEE HENRY WILLIAMS
Somali Women's Health CHAT
We are working to promote communication, understanding, and support among women of the Somali community who have children in the judicial system by creating spaces and systems for them to talk to each other, connect to each other, and assist each other.
CONTACT: BISHARO GARDAD
TEENS Project
is a peer to peer youth leadership and entrepreneurial skills development organization. Members of the TEENS Project organize and staff the BYI Resource Center housed in the Midtown Global Market.
CONTACT: CARL LOBLEY
Principles that Guide that Backyard Initiative
1. Residents who live in the Backyard, whether they are homeowners, renters, homeless workers, business owners, parents, grandparents, must always be consulted, involved, engages, listened to and treated as partners.
2.Any assement of needs or assets, strengths or weaknesses, must be done by or with the residents.
3.The Backyard initiative must listen to and take direction from the many diversse peoples and cultrues that live in the area.
4.Those who are taking the lead in the Backyard Inititative must include those who live in the area and people who are from the different cultural communities.
The CHAT is composed of a group of people who work together on a common concern or issue in order to improve the health of the community and build community.
Therapeutic Massage Bernadette Bauer, Massage Therapist
Relaxation Massage, Massage Pressure Points, Deep Tissue Massage, and Swedish Massage, at $45/Hour. Call: for an appointment.
Twin Cities Birthing Project Pilot
The Birthing Project is a volunteer effort that utilizes the inherent strengths of our community to encourage better birth outcomes by providing practical support to women during pregnancy and for one year after the birth of their child.
The project is a "sister to sister" model with each volunteer (Sister Firiend) paired with a pregnant woman. The pregnant woman is enrolled in the Twin Cities Healthy Start Proogram and receives individual case management through The Family Partnership or the MN. Visiting Nurse AGency. The pregnant women range in age from 18 to 44 years old and in situations from married and employed but without the benefit of health insurance to unmarried with risk factors such as chronic disease, substance abuse and/or lack of basic resources (housing, etc).
Have questions? Contact: Akhmiri-Sekhr-Ra, Volunteer Twin Cities Birthing Project Pilot Director / Certified Perinatal Educator
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