City of Minneapolis, MN Minneapolis Health Department, 16 Dec 2022

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Commissioner's Corner 12-16-22

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Hello and happy Friday, everyone I just wanted to take a minute to check.

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In with this week's topic for the commissioner's Corner about our work to become a trauma-informed organization, we started working on becoming trauma-informed before covet hit when former City Health, commissioner Gretchen muzikant, championed the idea in part because of our long-term connection with the community health, Improvement partnership or chip of Hennepin County, and because early on, we recognized that policies and practices of the City of Minneapolis can hurt those that we're trying to serve the need for becoming trauma-informed was intensified by covid, the murder of George, Floyd and civil unrest, with both raised our awareness of trauma in our communities and deepened our commitment.

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This is a long-term priority for our department, especially as trauma not only impacts external stakeholders and partners, but also impacts our own staff and how we show up for and relate to, each other and our communities working to prevent trauma. Is Not A, New Concept for the health department think covet share power advisory committee, that was a violence, prevention, racial Equity impact, analyzes, school-based clinics, Healthy, Start, trainings and, of course, our connection to chip.

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We offer a virtual trauma, 101 learning opportunity for staff as a foundational opportunity to get information and help people ground themselves in the work that we're doing together. These are available on our SharePoint site. My Hope Is, that after watching this week's commissioner's Corner, which provides the back story for why becoming trauma-informed organization is so important to our department.

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All new staff and those who might need a refresher will review here is the link to the SharePoint site.

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We also conducted a baseline training and are recruiting for a leadership team to help us implement the work of becoming trauma-informed post-assessment.

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Please let Patty bowler know if you're interested thank you and participating in this journey and have a safe and healthy weekend.