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Community Innovation Grant Awardees
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Saint Paul – Ramsey County Public Health awarded 11 community organizations grants to support their vital and innovative work.
2023-2024 Grant Awardees
Community Healing Services
Funds will be used to cover start-up costs, resources and supplies, operation, program design, relationship strategies and short-term development. Priority areas:
- Racial and Health Equity.
- Healthy Eating, Active Living, and Tobacco-Free Living.
- Mental Health and Well-being.
- Climate Change.
- Homelessness.
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Dayton's Bluff
Funds will be used to compliment engagement efforts in three programs: Eating, Moving, and Growing on the Bluff which will promote healthy eating, active and tobacco-free living while encouraging residents to connect with each other in the Dayton’s Bluff neighborhood. Priority area:
- Healthy Eating, Active Living, and Tobacco-Free Living.
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Elpis Enterprises
Funds will be used to retain a licensed clinical social worker on a consultant basis to assist in designing and launching an in-house mental/emotional health & wellness component for trainees. Priority area:
- Mental Health and Well-being.
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Emma Norton Services
Funds will be used to refine the Living Room model through research, staff training, community outreach and other program refinements in advance of launching the service in 2024. Priority area:
- Homelessness.
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Face to Face
Funds will be used to implement and evaluate services. The goal is to continue implementation of the program, while also doing more intentional evaluation of the “whys” behind youth violence. Priority area:
- Violence Prevention.
Karen Organization of Minnesota
Funds will be used to improve internal evaluation processes and conduct a program evaluation with participants. The resulting information will help to map the network of interventions available to youth with opioid misuse, assess factors that make interventions more or less effective with Karen youth, and obtain input from youth participants and their parents about the impact of case management on their recovery. Priority area:
- Opioid Crisis and Response.
Learn more about Karen Organization of Minnesota
Northeast Youth & Family Services
Funds will be used support the program and staffing costs. Priority areas:
- Racial and Health Equity.
- Mental Health and Well-being.
Learn more about Northeast Youth & Family Services
Rice Street Gardens
Funds will be used to enhance the physical environment, particularly a shelter for gardeners’ respite and gathering space for community and an outdoor sink as a space to wash produce before returning home. Priority area:
- Healthy Eating.
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Somali Community Resettlement Services
Funds will be used to host community engagement events. Priority area:
- Racial and Health Equity.
Learn more about Somali Community Resettlement Services
Steve Rummler HOPE Network
Funds will be used to support their Overdose Prevention (ODP) Program to expand awareness of the overdose reversal medication naloxone; provide a wider range of options for Ramsey County residents seeking free naloxone education; and make sure that harm reduction tools, like naloxone and fentanyl test strips, are accessible to Ramsey County residents as the risk of overdose continues to grow.Priority area:
- Opioid Crisis and Response.
Learn more about Steve Rummler HOPE Network
Urban Roots
Funds will be used to support projects across three tracks: Market Garden, Conservation and Cook Fresh. These youth-led projects and activities address immediate community needs correlated with the impacts of systemic racism, including nutritional security, fresh food access, creating paying jobs, green space access and urban agricultural education. Funding will support the East Side Urban Tree Canopy Project, mobile demonstration kitchen, community food distribution, community gardens and Mobile Market pop-ups. Priority areas:
- Racial and Health Equity.
- Healthy Eating.
- Climate Change.