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Contact: Lori Imsdahl, Hennepin County communications, 253-720-9030
Hennepin County’s Community Health Improvement Partnership (CHIP) has awarded grants to community organizations to work on projects that target mental wellbeing and housing stability.
Hennepin County received funding from the Cross-sector Innovation Initiative (CSII), a partnership between the Center for Sharing Public Health Services and the Public Health National Center for Innovations that is supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
CSII grants use innovative methods or promising practices. The community organizations funded through CHIP will work with their communities throughout the process. Additionally, the funded organizations will share lessons learned and make recommendations for future CHIP priorities.
Grant recipients
Annex Teen Clinic
Young people will integrate their lived experiences accessing sexual/reproductive healthcare with healing work, training, and discussion on systemic racism and historical trauma. They’ll create provider guides to ensure services are trauma-informed and advise Annex staff on an in-depth curriculum for CHIP organizations.
Raices Sagradas
The Healing Circles project will train 20 Latinx church leaders in the basics of trauma and small group facilitation. Those leaders will work with groups of 30 to 50 participants on regular church activities and form healing circles where participants can share their experiences and offer mutual support.
Tasks Unlimited
Envision Community will complete a research and design project that helps the housing community understand how safety and social connectedness are interrelated for people experiencing homelessness. The findings and actionable ideas will guide Envision's rental community and will be shared with other rental communities and CHIP.
Twin Cities Recovery Project
Twin Cities Recovery Project will expand its grief and trauma programming from housing complexes into the community so more people can access services. They’ll also work with the community to better address needs related to Covid-19 and the death of George Floyd.
“This is an exciting new chapter in CHIP’s partnership with the communities we serve,” said Susan Palchick, Hennepin County Public Health director and CHIP co-chair. “Community organizations are in the driver’s seat in terms of determining local needs, ideas and solutions.”
The Community Health Improvement Partnership of Hennepin County (CHIP) includes organizations across the community that target community health issues together for greater impact. Partners include public health agencies, health care organizations, housing developers and providers, cultural and faith-based organizations, schools, and human services organizations. CHIP received the CSII grant in January 2020 to work more closely with communities on CHIP’s priorities with a focus on health and racial equity.
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