City of Minneapolis, MN Minneapolis Health Department, 14 Nov 2016

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From YouTube: Multicultural Health Storytelling, November 14, 2016

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Minneapolis Health Department co-designed and co-piloted storytelling as a new community engagement process to inform the
department’s health policy and programmatic work for the well-being of city residents. This process involved completing and video recording a series of intergenerational storytelling events from December 2006 to June 2007 in multicultural communities:
African American, American Indian, Caucasian, Hmong, Latino, Somali, and Vietnamese.
There is a workbook that goes with the video available on our website: www.minneapolismn.gov/health

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I really think that we can do a lot with this. This.

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Is really mad? The way we do things in.

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Public health, they captured my attention as well as my heart.

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It was an opportunity to really work with one of the major institutions in the community to try and see how we could work together to create something different I've.

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Been a public health professional for almost a decade in Minnesota, and this is probably the most exciting project I've ever been involved with.

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We live in a very, very diverse community and we want to serve our entire Community. You know when we talk about Community I, don't look at Community as just my group of people, without that Global Perspective I think we're going to shortchange ourselves and our children.

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The department was really interested in developing an Urban Health agenda for the City of Minneapolis. We developed this community advisory committee, the co-ownership.

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The mutual risk taking was really an important component so that we all felt that we were standing on the same ground. So.

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We tried to choose representatives of the communities that reside in Minneapolis, some of the larger ethnic racial groups.

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We want people to know what we're thinking, what we're feeling what our experience is. We often do it by sharing our stories. People from the other communities began saying well, yeah storytelling is a big part of what we do in our community as well. We.

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Really want the communities to Define what health means to them tell.

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Us a time when you're, healthiest and happiest it's.

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Around honest dialogue, what.

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Mean to be healthy.

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The similarity is just outstanding. What was.

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Kind of a beautiful Synergy at the end, when out of all these individual storytelling sessions, we were able to really identify these powerful, compelling themes that came out of each of our communities.

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You know when we go to the doctor. We always have somebody go along with us, especially sibling or sister or whatever in the family, and what I heard from the other community all the same thing.

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The focus in most Latin countries is the entire family. It's very holistic and people do things together. Everyone told a story about how what they thought helped them is to do activities together to have meals together to dance together. You.

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Go to the doctor and you have a diabetic child and and the doctor talks to you about the child and how you need to alter the meals of that child. But this child lives in our family and and we need to look at it holistically children really make you turn.

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Situation around yeah, like a year and a half ago, like a pregnant, that's already changed my life.

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We didn't want just a statistical analysis. You can pick that up anywhere, because the statistics really don't tell the story. You're.

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Getting input you're getting valuable information from people that usually the public health officials ignore.

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Bang bang download.

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Historical experiences we've been through 400 years of health and we're reclaiming who we are and the fact that we've weathered all that and we've come out on the other side and we're still here and we're still strong, is really a pretty amazing story.

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Resiliency is just part of of what we identify in that group, as just part of who we are and that we have to get to another level.

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Many of you get and tell the truth. Eight hours of sleep straight without any help.

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Ninety percent of the women only got four hours of sleep a night and so we're dealing with a sleep, deprived uncircle of women.

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There's a lot of trust that is weighted into this prior to people accepting to be videotaped and uh and to tell their stories. We.

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Have to do what we have. What we're doing right now is to actually come out to the community and talk to them and have the community themselves organize this group and built that relationship.

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They came in as active listeners and Learners, and that is where the miracle right for me.

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If you use your voice wisely, you can create health and healing you can help somebody out of a place that seems impossible to get out of.

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Literally intact, spiritually intact.

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It's really important to maintain the connection between mental health, well-being in your mental health and spirituality.

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Come on now, 20 years old, you.

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Need to be praying, you need to be doing non-traditional types of things that will sustain our health and improve our health. Thank you.

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In America we have, you know treadmill. We have all of this sorts of exercise. They can't afford those.

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Grande Grande.

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Some of the mother said: I fear taking my asking my children to play outside, because I don't want to be perceived as a negligent, mom and I. Don't want the neighbors calling them on me and as a result, because I am so busy. I have to cook. I have to clean I have to do all this stuff and I can't monitor them. At the same time, I lock them in my house even during summer.

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God Is So merciful that it's always healing itself for you to just work with it, and so, if we would see our kitchens as a healing laboratory, you know we either take our health away or we give ourselves help.

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Your hospital is your kitchen you're. The first position right.

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When people have been removed from culture, they become unhealthy physically, emotionally a lot of times. The way they find their way back to health is by uh re-engaging with their their traditional.

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Culture, she would pick these these special medicines a couple years back. My auntie took me out took me and my sister out to the woods you know and I didn't pay attention, but my sister paid attention now my sister she's she's kind of like strong, and she knows what medicines to use when she has like a headache or a backache or any kind of aches in her body, you know sometimes I wish I would have paid attention.

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I feel like proud of her all the time, because she's able to you know and all these traditions and keep them alive well,.

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I'm, hoping more than anything, is that the citizens of this community become engaged in their health.

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You there are a lot of native people that don't like to go to doctors and won't because of the situation that exists there. Hospitals that want to be test people, because they smell a strange substance on them and and don't have the education in college or in their professional development. That would bring their attention to people who do use certain Sage before they have babies. Most.

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Of the that's always want to go to doctor, they they need an interpreting. They need people there to translate whatever they needed to. However, they still like to see, if there's a Vietnamese doctor among doctor there, so they can easier to talk to them to open even better.

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It's critical to understand that cultural framework, if you want to help support a community's health.

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How do we get to the point where we can actually trust the people that are supposed to be providing services for us.

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When people go in to be diagnosed, African-American people diagnosed for a certain things, a doctor would look at them and once they was giving them medication for high blood pressure, they didn't even have high blood pressure. They just assumed because she was- or he was African-American- that they had high blood pressure. Even.

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If the doctor isn't black, if they are culturally competent, I have the same effect. You know if they know my culture.

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Thank you. This is the first time that the City of Minneapolis, Department of Health and Family Support, has had an event accessible in so many languages at one time we wanted to move in this direction in the year 2009 in the most culturally and linguistically diverse City in the state.

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Our next step for tonight is to hear from you of what additional ideas do you have to make the whole city of Minneapolis healthier.

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Major mainstream institution, like the health department, had never come to them before and said. Tell us your story and, and the health department was there.

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How do you use the stories within people? How do you use the wisdom people hold, how do you use the teachings that they have and how do you begin to use that to rethink engagement with Community relationships with community and, more importantly, partnership with communities.

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It's only when you can get into a place where you can be truly vulnerable and you can truly talk about what what are the real issues and what are the for the real impacts that I think that you can really begin to make change.

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One person said that the most important thing that we can do and not to mistake, silence for happiness.

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I also want to thank Gretchen Emily and the City of Minneapolis Health Department for actually putting this together and actually listening to what we had to say. Please.

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I was moved close to tears many times even in sessions where they weren't speaking English. Just because of the the feeling and emotion that you could understand, with or without language.

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The health department has a responsibility to act on what you have shared with us. How are we supporting family? How are we asking people who get our money to be true to culture or to represent culture as they help people, and so that is one concrete way that we have begun and I think we. We have a lot more to learn about how to do that with integrity.

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To do research on us, the community, but with us as a community.

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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for trusting us with your stories. You.

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Have to listen for change, you know it's the Searchers who get the answers. It's not the planets. You.

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Know I mean it's even cost effective because they will be more effective programs, because they're designed by the consumer more.