ReCAST Resilience 365 Community Voting Process Answer Choices Responses I live in South Minneapolis 31.05% 964 I live in North Minneapolis 34.11% 1059 I live in Cedar Riverside 5.19% 161 I work in Minneapolis 35.39% 1099 I do not live or work in Minnepolis 0.00% 0 I live somewhere else in Minneapolis 6.92% 215 3105 Do you live or work in Minneapolis 40.00% 35.00% 30.00% 25.00% 20.00% 15.00% Responses 10.00% 5.00% 0.00% I live in I live in I live in I work in I do not live I live South North Cedar Minneapolis or work in somewhere Minneapolis Minneapolis Riverside Minnepolis else in Minneapolis Ripple Effect Proposals Projects Answer Choices Responses Budget Project Name: Young Parents Facing Homelessness Project Team: Lutunji Abram, Professor Emerita Sandra McNeel Project Description: Conduct a training for parents that encourages/inspires parents to become increasingly engaged in their children’s IEP’s (Individual Education Plans). Provide a list of resources to assisting parents with elementary and high school aged Family youth. Coordinate MPS representative to assist parents to utilize their child’s parent portal to gain access with teachers regarding their child(ren’s) school progress. Conduct two to three in‐house workshops for Parents which will motivate and inspire parents to be active in creating the educational pathways for their children. (Even through transition) Create a campaign to encourage parents to go back to school or access training. Target Community: Working with teen and young parents including fathers Minneapolis ages 18‐24 40.32% $ 2,250.00 Project Name: Twin Cities Recovery Social Club Project Team: Marc L. Johnigan, LaTricia Tate Project Description: The participants will have the opportunity to discuss their feelings, concerns and develop a deeper understanding of their trauma/grief. The outcomes are to Increase participants' knowledge, understanding and recognizing their feelings and emotions; Increase participants' knowledge of the emotional stages during the grieving process; Increase participants' ability to demonstrate improved behavior, attitudes and habits; and Increase in participants' knowledge of the key definitions and components dealing with trauma/grief. Target Community: African American community between the ages of 18‐55 years of age 30.98% $ 2,250.00 Project Name: Tortoise at the Town Center Project Team: Brandon Burbach; Houston White Project Description: One small business, HW Mens Room, is expanding on local ownership in the Camden Neighborhood by creating a public gateway for all colors and races and creeds, with the vision of creating Camden Town Center. Research shows that for a new place to thrive, at least 8 elements need to be included. In this proposal we seek to start the process of establishing a public art district in Camden Town Center with the purchase a 5'2'' tortoise statue to spark community conversation. Target Community: Camden Neighborhood Residents 31.63% $ 694.00 Project Name: Star‐lite: MPLS Project Team: Donna L. Minter; Crixell Shell; Claire Moran; Antony Stately; Patina Park; and Laura Jones Project Description: We are partnering with the Native American Community Clinic (NACC) and the MN Indian Women’s Resource Center (MIWRC) and their community partners to provide the STAR‐Lite Training to 20 individuals in Minneapolis in September 2018. STAR‐Lite is an evidence‐based, interactive training integrating neuropsychology, trauma healing and resilience, restorative justice, nonviolent conflict transformation, and broadly defined spirituality. Target Community: Division of Indian Works, the American Indian OIC, Little Earth, and other Native American Indian community groups. 18 and older 31.01% $ 2,250.00 Project Name: Next Step Narrative Medicine Workshops Project Team: Farji Shaheer, Constance Rhodes, Reverend Nicole Smith, and Dr. Syl Jonee Project Description: The idea is to have several workshops for Next Step patients who are healing from their trauma. Next Step patients are victims of a gun shot or stabbing who are also under the age of 28. We use the narrative medicine approach when working with them individually, now we would like to do it in a group setting. Narrative Medicine is exchanging a story for a story with patients. It helps them to heal from the trauma of being shot or stabbed. Target Community: Next Step patients at both Hennepin County Medical Center and North Memorial Hospital 34.13% $ 2,250.00 Project Name: Minnesota Black Girl Magic Project Team: Kendra Barnes, Anika Bowie, Lenora Culverson, Demetria Dyer, Fardosa Hassan, Shanene Herbert, Jessica Jordan, Brianna Shareef, Keinesha Weekes, and Ashley Aguy Project Description: Through retreats, the Minnesota Black Girl Magic Showcase aspires to: (1) enrich the educational experience of Black girls by motivating them to focus on their studies, celebrating their academic success, connecting them with academic supportive resources; (2) provide encouragement to Black girls battling negative societal messages concerning their beauty and health through self‐empowerment workshops and exposure to stories and testimonies of black voices who speak on self love; (3) interrupt and redirect cycles of trauma by identifying triggers and connecting program participants with professionals who can help them develop the healthy coping skills. Target Community: Black Girls who live in Minneapolis neighborhoods Jordan, Hawthorne, Near North, Harrison, Cedar‐ Riverside, and Folwell 49.74% $ 1,600.00 Project Name: Liga Latina Sabatina Project Team: Karla Arredondo, NENA Community Organizer; Becky Timm, NENA Executive Director Project Description: A joyous bilingual celebration of the Liga Latina Sabitina / Saturday Latino League inaugural season will take place on Saturday, September 22, 2018. In its first year, this free volunteer‐led league attracted 24 youth soccer teams from all over Minneapolis to compete weekly at Bossen Field from May through September. This celebration will be an opportunity for area families, many of them immigrants, to connect, celebrate and share their vision for their community. The celebration will also honor Jose Garcia and his son who shepherded the idea of a free youth soccer league from a vision to reality this year. Target Community: Youth of Color Ages 8 – 16 in Nokomis East Neighborhood 36.25% $ 2,250.00 Project Name: Lifting Every Voice! Project Team: Susan Ann Gust ‐ Project lead, Alley Communications Transition Team Project Description: The Alley Newspaper is 42 years old, one of the oldest community newspapers in the Twin Cities. It has been a community‐governed, nonprofit media source since its beginning. This is a perfect time to transition leadership and include more cultural perspectives and voices. Our hope and our goal is that The Alley Newspaper can continue with deeper cultural representation that will assist in the trauma healing of the community, lifting up its incredible resiliency and advocating for systems change through community‐governed media. Target Community: Midtown Phillips Neighborhood 33.61% $ 2,250.00 Project Name: Free community Reiki for Women of Color, LGBTQ community, and healing practitioners Project Team: Erica Wallace Moore, Reiki Master Practitioner Project Description: Anticipated Outcome: For under‐voiced, under‐heard, and important communities across Minneapolis to be tended to, loved, and cared for. Increased diversity and access to alternative, holistic care. Results: More compassionate and aligned support for ourselves, each other, and our greater purposes. Participants will feel more comfortable seeking alternative care. Community Reiki will be a source for healing outreach during situations that include trauma and crisis. Target Community: Women of Color, LGBTQ, and healing practitioners. 25.51% $ 2,250.00 Project Name: FAIR School P. E.A.C.H ‐ Peer Educator Activists for Community Healing Project Team: Mary Pat Cumming Project Description: This project will train high school students to be mental health peer educators for their school community and neighborhoods. Many students who attend FAIR School in Downtown Minneapolis have experienced trauma, especially gun violence and racial oppression. Students will be trained as mental health Peer Educators to support and educate their peers at school and in the community about mental health, resources, and healthy self‐care through mindfulness practices. Students at FAIR School will create portable labyrinths that can be used back in their communities for mindfulness practice. Target Community: Our target audience will be high school students who attend FAIR school and reside in North Minneapolis, Phillips, and South Minneapolis. Students will be in grades 10 ‐ 12 and will be African American, Native, LatinX, and White ages 15 ‐ 18 33.06% $ 1,580.00 Project Name: Activism Requires Healing Project Team: Ralph Crowder, Makeda Zulu‐Gillespie Project Description: This project will bring a group of families together who, in the 60s, took on a set of values and created a way of being that was more in line with who we are as African people. The goal is to bring these families together with a community healer to process what happened to us and to begin our healing journey. Brother Resmaa Menakem, Elder Atum or another healer who is NOT from this geographic community would sit with us to process, cry, write, dance, drum and heal so we don't repeat the same negative patterns. Target Community: Ralph Crowder family; El ‐ Kati family; Zulu Family; Hickman Family; Matey‐Keke Family; and Propes Family 32.73% $ 2,250.00 Total $ 21,874.00 I choose not to fund any projects in this category. Please provide a reason below. 7.44% Wave Effect Answer Choices Responses Budget Project Name: Minnesota Fight Club Project Team: Jihad Muhammad Project Description: Minnesota Fight Club aims to reduce trauma from inner‐city gun violence by providing a boxing and MMA sparring platform for members of the community, with intention of the platform to serve as an outlet for aggression in a safe and constructive environment. Target Community: Minnesota Fight Club's target audience are youth of color 12‐25 years old, living in inner‐city neighborhood effected by gun violence.