- Advise and educate the governor, state legislature, and other policy makers on issues confronting persons of African heritage - Cultural and historical programming to celebrate and preserve the artistic, cultural, and historical heritages of Minnesota's Black community - Serve as a liaison to local, state, and federal government - Serve as a referral agency to assist African Americans and native Africans to secure access to state agencies and programs - Research issues affecting African Americans and native Africans, publicize accomplishments of African Americans and native Africans and their contributions to Minnesota

Provides culturally sensitive services for black women during their pregnancy and early postpartum journey so as to alleviate stressors that may lead to preterm birth or low birth weight babies, including: - Care navigation - Case management - Community resource referrals - Doula support during labor and delivery - Monthly support circles - New parent/family support - Perinatal yoga - Pregnancy related health screenings and well baby care

Clients are assigned a case manager who provides the following services: - Creates a care coordination plan, sets goals and assists with removals of barriers to care - Links clients to health care, mental health care services and other services for timely and coordinated access to medically appropriate levels of health and support services. Clients participating in MCM are also eligible for the 340B Pharmacy Program, and transportation.

Program includes three houses (9 single occupancy bedrooms) in the Lincoln Park neighborhood for individuals and families committed to pursuing long-term housing solutions. Participants should require little supervision, seeking to establish financial stability, develop goals and actively work to maintain housing. Focuses on those who identify as Black, Indigenous, or a Person of Color. Additionally, emphasizes on fathers and father-figures facing challenges not only in securing housing, but also in overcoming obstacles related to parenting.

Medtronic: Recruits for 2nd and 3rd shift jobs and offers an interactive course at Medtronic. The course helps participants build resumes, develop interview skills and offers personalized job coaching and training. EMERGE Career and Technology Center (ECTC), 1834 Emerson Avenue North, Minneapolis, MN 55411 Career Essentials Workshops: Learn how to professionally write a resume or conduct a successful job search through a 2-part MFIP/DWP workshop that provides the tools to develop career skills. Learn more about: - Basic resume writing, formatting tricks, basic resume etiquette - Insight to job searching tools and practices - How to write a targeted cover letter - Importance of professional emails - Workshop schedule and expectations - Computer lab for youth and adults EMERGE Career and Technology Center, 1834 Emerson Avenue North, Minneapolis, MN 55411 North @ Work: North @ Work is a collaborative meant to facilitate career training and employment services for African-American males, age 25 or older, living in north Minneapolis and looking for a career. This workshop is free and can connect participants to resources, training and a career with an employer. - Choose a career path - Attend training while working - Be guided by step-by-step partnerships to help reach goals - Launch a career with employers that are hiring now Twin Cities R!se, 1301 Bryant Avenue North, Minneapolis, MN 55411 Hire Ground: Helps participants learn the power of self-advocacy, soft and hard professional skills and habits. Participants also have the opportunity to discover their values, personality type, learning style, and learn how to talk about their skills and value they can bring to a professional audience and workplace. - Develop effective strategies for job searching - Learn the power of self-advocacy and habit - Practice interviewing skills - Resume and cover letter building - Modern day job market insight and know-how EMERGE Career and Technology Center (ECTC), 1834 Emerson Avenue North, Minneapolis, MN 55411 Cedar-Riverside Opportunity Center (CROC), 505 15th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55454 Global Career Development Facilitator Training An intense high impact course designed to equip career services employees with the needed industry tools to guide participants in their career planning and guidance. This GCDF® / CCSP Training course is intended for anyone providing career services in employment and workforce development, one stops, career centers, secondary and post-secondary education, veteran career development, career coaching, career advisors, human resources, government or other professionals that desire nationally recognized career training.

The Girl Scouts develops future leaders by helping girls discover new skills, connect with others, and take action in their communities through a nurturing all-girl environment that strengthens a girl's courage, confidence, and character. Programs center on Girl Scout Leadership Experience or GSLE, a collection of engaging, challenging, and fun activities such as: - Earning badges and doing community service projects - Field trips, hands-on program events, and learning opportunities - Life skills - Outdoor opportunities - Science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) - Selling cookies and entrepreneurship

- Academic Wellness and Success Program: School-linked program designed to increase the availability of mental health services to children Pre-K to 18 years old of African descent who are uninsured or underinsured in their homes, schools, communities, and in the African American Child Wellness Institute offices through the use of face-to-face and telehealth platforms. Provides approximately 8-10 hours of direct mental health services including mental health screenings, diagnostic assessments, and psychotherapy treatment including individual, group, and family sessions through the use of cultural specific providers. - Counseling, Outreach, and Public Education Campaign: Addresses COVID-19 prevention and vaccine hesitance within the community by mobilizing four different teams that serve a region that includes the Twin Cities metropolitan area. Services include a 24-hour Community Mental Health and COVID-19 hotline, individual and group crisis counseling (within multi-family settings and outside of the home), individual and group outreach services, as well as brief educational or supportive contact, public education, assessment, referral, and resource linkages, as well as community networking and support. ? - Healing Circle, The: Provides a sacred space where community-based challenges are addressed in an orderly manner. Life and death issues such as COVID-19, community violence, and systemic racism are discussed. Provided in collaboration with the Conversations with Al McFarlane program which airs of KFAI Radio Station and is streamed live on Facebook and YouTube. - Mura Moms: Pre-meditated pregnancy and motherhood project which provides alternative methods of engaging African American women in the process of examining how their stress, depression, anxiety, and substance use are harmful to their own well-being as well as that of their baby, and to allow them to learn culturally appropriate stress reduction techniques and coping mechanisms in supportive environments. Overall goal is to improve birth outcomes among low income African American women struggling with chemical use and/or mental health issues. To accomplish this, both parents are invited to develop knowledge, partnerships, skills, and behaviors that promote wellness, safety, and respect in their homes and in the community. Provides intensive support including intake, education, mentorship, and wellness coaching services to up to 15 women per class. - Project Mura: Pre-meditated parenting BootCamp which provides three intensive BootCamp trainings annually for parents who are raising uninsured or underinsured children of African descent ages birth - 18 years old. Services include diagnostic interviews, individual psychotherapy, family therapy, group therapy, crisis intervention, and other services. Clinicians provide cultural consultations and care coordination services with other mental health providers, schools, medical personnel (such as nurses, primary care providers, personal care attendants, pediatricians, and psychiatrists) as well as other entities such as religious and social service organizations to provide multi-systemic support. Individual wellness coaches facilitate the development of family wellness plans for each program participant. Services are provided within an African-centered context.

Provides multiple programs to help reduce isolation and create culturally inclusive spaces for elders. Conversations and Coffee: A cross generational weekly event for elders to connect with one another and get in tune with what's going on in their neighborhoods. Program includes: - Elder Tablet Program: Provides the elder members tablets and training on technology and having meaningful conversations together. Program offers home visits to drop off the tablet and teach them how to get connected. Tech support is provided while they have the tablet. - Elders Advocacy Program: Offers a comprehensive advocacy service tailored to the unique needs of the elder members. Support ranges from groceries to travel and medical assistance, and providing a helping hand in various areas.

Strong Fast Fit provides wellness through play, movement, meals, and relationships with peers and trusted adults for youth ages 7-17 years. The afterschool programming occurs within a group setting with youth from similar backgrounds to develop healthy habits and practices. Families are involved weekly in nutrition education and fitness activities.

Outreach and support for the Black, Indigenous, or People of Color entrepreneur includes entrepreneurial technical assistance, access to capital, a peer network support system, referrals, advocacy, and business coaching services.

- Academic Wellness and Success Program: School-linked program designed to increase the availability of mental health services to children Pre-K to 18 years old of African descent who are uninsured or underinsured in their homes, schools, communities, and in the African American Child Wellness Institute offices through the use of face-to-face and telehealth platforms. Provides approximately 8-10 hours of direct mental health services including mental health screenings, diagnostic assessments, and psychotherapy treatment including individual, group, and family sessions through the use of cultural specific providers. - Counseling, Outreach, and Public Education Campaign: Addresses COVID-19 prevention and vaccine hesitance within the community by mobilizing four different teams that serve a region that includes the Twin Cities metropolitan area. Services include a 24-hour Community Mental Health and COVID-19 hotline, individual and group crisis counseling (within multi-family settings and outside of the home), individual and group outreach services, as well as brief educational or supportive contact, public education, assessment, referral, and resource linkages, as well as community networking and support. ? - Healing Circle, The: Provides a sacred space where community-based challenges are addressed in an orderly manner. Life and death issues such as COVID-19, community violence, and systemic racism are discussed. Provided in collaboration with the Conversations with Al McFarlane program which airs of KFAI Radio Station and is streamed live on Facebook and YouTube. - Mura Moms: Pre-meditated pregnancy and motherhood project which provides alternative methods of engaging African American women in the process of examining how their stress, depression, anxiety, and substance use are harmful to their own well-being as well as that of their baby, and to allow them to learn culturally appropriate stress reduction techniques and coping mechanisms in supportive environments. Overall goal is to improve birth outcomes among low income African American women struggling with chemical use and/or mental health issues. To accomplish this, both parents are invited to develop knowledge, partnerships, skills, and behaviors that promote wellness, safety, and respect in their homes and in the community. Provides intensive support including intake, education, mentorship, and wellness coaching services to up to 15 women per class. - Project Mura: Pre-meditated parenting BootCamp which provides three intensive BootCamp trainings annually for parents who are raising uninsured or underinsured children of African descent ages birth - 18 years old. Services include diagnostic interviews, individual psychotherapy, family therapy, group therapy, crisis intervention, and other services. Clinicians provide cultural consultations and care coordination services with other mental health providers, schools, medical personnel (such as nurses, primary care providers, personal care attendants, pediatricians, and psychiatrists) as well as other entities such as religious and social service organizations to provide multi-systemic support. Individual wellness coaches facilitate the development of family wellness plans for each program participant. Services are provided within an African-centered context.

- Women's primary treatment and relapse prevention program - Women's co-occurring disorder treatment program - Women's African-American specific treatment program - Women's complex co-occurring program

An intergenerational approach to preventing unintended pregnancy, STIs and HIV/AIDS among African Americans living in North Minneapolis and provides: - Community-based HIV and STI testing (at the R.E.A.C.H. office and offsite) - Parent/Adult Workshops: 'It's That Easy', 'Celebration of Change for African-American Families' and 'Parents as Sexuality Educators' - CRUSH Collaborative: Facilitation of the CRUSH Youth Council, aimed at bringing awareness of chlamydia to youth in their communities - HIV, STI and sexuality education for young people in classroom and community settings, including evidence-based curricula 'Making Proud Choices!' - Peer education training - Community partnerships and collaboration

The program is designed to educate clients with HIV about transmission and how to reduce its likelihood. It includes the provision of information; including information dissemination about medical and psycho-social support services and counseling to help clients with HIV improve their health.

Matches youth with an adult mentor that offer guidance and support

Medtronic: Recruits for 2nd and 3rd shift jobs and offers an interactive course at Medtronic. The course helps participants build resumes, develop interview skills and offers personalized job coaching and training. EMERGE Career and Technology Center (ECTC), 1834 Emerson Avenue North, Minneapolis, MN 55411 Career Essentials Workshops: Learn how to professionally write a resume or conduct a successful job search through a 2-part MFIP/DWP workshop that provides the tools to develop career skills. Learn more about: - Basic resume writing, formatting tricks, basic resume etiquette - Insight to job searching tools and practices - How to write a targeted cover letter - Importance of professional emails - Workshop schedule and expectations - Computer lab for youth and adults EMERGE Career and Technology Center, 1834 Emerson Avenue North, Minneapolis, MN 55411 North @ Work: North @ Work is a collaborative meant to facilitate career training and employment services for African-American males, age 25 or older, living in north Minneapolis and looking for a career. This workshop is free and can connect participants to resources, training and a career with an employer. - Choose a career path - Attend training while working - Be guided by step-by-step partnerships to help reach goals - Launch a career with employers that are hiring now Twin Cities R!se, 1301 Bryant Avenue North, Minneapolis, MN 55411 Hire Ground: Helps participants learn the power of self-advocacy, soft and hard professional skills and habits. Participants also have the opportunity to discover their values, personality type, learning style, and learn how to talk about their skills and value they can bring to a professional audience and workplace. - Develop effective strategies for job searching - Learn the power of self-advocacy and habit - Practice interviewing skills - Resume and cover letter building - Modern day job market insight and know-how EMERGE Career and Technology Center (ECTC), 1834 Emerson Avenue North, Minneapolis, MN 55411 Cedar-Riverside Opportunity Center (CROC), 505 15th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55454 Global Career Development Facilitator Training An intense high impact course designed to equip career services employees with the needed industry tools to guide participants in their career planning and guidance. This GCDF® / CCSP Training course is intended for anyone providing career services in employment and workforce development, one stops, career centers, secondary and post-secondary education, veteran career development, career coaching, career advisors, human resources, government or other professionals that desire nationally recognized career training.

Workshop provides young BIPOC women with the resources and training they need to pursue careers in the arts and technology-driven industries. Offers access to high-quality technology and training. The program focuses on the skilled trades, arts, robotics, and technologytics, and technology.

After school youth center providing free meals to youth daily and including food and grocery assistance to families in need when necessary. The Center offers life preparedness programs like ABCs program, a culturally responsive workshop that prepares youth for adulthood by helping them develop financial literacy and healthy habits through hands-on workshops on budgeting, healthy living, and leadership skills. Works with Duluth Public Schools and Community School Collaborative to support students by ensuring that they are doing well in school and on track to graduate to their next grade level. Neighborhood Youth Services (NYS) programming focuses on healthy living, art awareness, cultural awareness and sensitivity, academic achievement, community awareness and service learning.

Provides transportation in the form of bus passes, and cab rides where utilizing public transportation is not an option, for core medical services including medical case management, HIV care and treatment, mental health, support groups, benefits counseling, and more.

Works with families to ensure that agency decisions, acts, rules, programs, procedures and other policies are in compliance with the laws that protect children of color in the Minnesota child protection system. The types of problems dealt with include: - Child protection matters such as child out-of-home placement or foster care issues - Failure to comply with the Indian Child Welfare Act or the Minnesota Indian Family Preservation Act - Social service issues such as delays in service provision, lack of service provision, or failure to provide interpreters during intake, investigations, meetings, court appearances, etc. - Unjust or discriminatory treatment by child protection services - Accepts complaints on child protection and investigates active child protection and CHIPS cases to ensure state and federal child protection and child placement laws are followed.

Offers a gender-specific lodging program which provides clients with a free place to live while receiving treatment. Offers chemical dependency, co-occurring disorder, men's complex co-occurring disorder program, and African-American specific programs. On-site Suboxone and psychiatric medication providers.

Career Staffing: Provides community-based staffing services that connect adults to employment on a temp-to-hire basis; offers assistance with resume creation, classroom instruction, interview training and more, and temporary employment opportunities. North@Work: Provides skills building opportunities and connections to livable wage employment opportunities for African American men ages 25 - 60.

YouthPower is an organizing hub where Black youth can gather, reflect, express themselves, build skills, organize, and advocate for serious change on issues that affect their lives.

A year round program that empowers between 25 - 30 BIPOC youth and young adults, by equipping young entrepreneurs with the tools and knowledge they need to succeed in business, while also preparing them for the challenges they will face as minority business owners. Focuses on business development for entrepreneurs of African Heritage. Program goal is to create an entrepreneurial ecosystem that will support diverse business owners who incorporate their cultural heritage into their businesses.

- Men's primary chemical dependency treatment and relapse prevention programs - Men's co-occurring disorder treatment program - Men's African-American specific treatment program - Men's complex co-occurring program - Men's evening outpatient