Oct. 6: Next chance to influence light rail
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Penn Avenue Resident Charles Caldwell said, “this is the same meeting as seven months ago, just new people, but saying the same thing.” The Northside Transportation Network Sept.
U President visits UROC
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University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler’s visit to the Urban Research Outreach/Engagement Center Sept 20 for “Community Day” was just one stop in an inauguration whirlwind week.
Navigators chart course of recovery for tornado victims
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Managing residents through unplanned setbacks isn’t new for Shiloh Temple International, a North Minneapolis church.
Plymouth Avenue bridge update
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The City of Minneapolis Sept. 2 made some final financial arrangements for repairing the Plymouth Avenue Bridge next year, and the project is set to cost less than was initially expected.
NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES | North Minneapolis Hmong students save school bus transportation to Hopkins
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This past week, about 80 North Minneapolis Hmong students boarded school buses to start their new school year in Hopkins and Wayzata schools.
‘Free range’ recycling: Pilot launched in two neighborhoods
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A pilot program in two Minneapolis neighborhoods will evaluate a different way to collect recyclables from residential customers. During the pilot, about 470 households in the Willard-Hay neighborhood and about 560 households in the East Calhoun neighborhood will not need to sort their recycling. They will simply separate the bottles, cans and papers from their trash and place them in a new recycling cart.The “one-sort” pilot kicked off on August 15 in Willard-Hay and August 23 in East Calhoun. The program will measure the amount of recyclables that residents set out, the marketability of the recyclables collected, and the costs of this type of recycling program compared with the current multi-sort recycling program. The results of the pilot program will be presented to the City Council for consideration in future recycling operations.This pilot is an effort to identify the most suitable recycling program for Minneapolis residents. Continue Reading
New commercial proposed on Plymouth and 2nd Ave. N.
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Does anyone remember when 129 Plymouth Ave. N wasn’t vacant? Take a good look, it might not be vacant for long.
‘For our people, by our people’
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Turning Point, Inc., a North Minneapolis-based private mental health and chemical health agency, soon plans to open its doors for a “Culturally Specific Service Center.” The one-stop comprehensive approach to addressing dysfunctional individuals and families will take into account the history of Black people and the disparities they must still contend with in their daily lives.“We have been working on this for a long time,” notes Turning Point President/CEO Vincent “Peter” Hayden, who has long dreamed of establishing a culturally specific “one-stop” service center. He believes that existing local organizations aren’t working in a collaborative fashion to better serve the Black community.“We are not working together as Black people — we are still trying to be the big person on the block,” admits Hayden.He credits COO Elizabeth Reed, who joined Turning Point nine years ago, for beginning this past spring to move his dream forward into reality and establishing the Culturally Specific Service Center (CSSC). Two local job training programs, Goodwill/Easter Seals and Twin Cities Rise, will have office space there as the CSSC’s inaugural tenants. The anticipated start date is sometime in October or November of this year.Speaking exclusively to the MSR, Hayden and Reed defined “culturally specific” as an integrated system of services for people who are members of a specific racial or ethnic group as well as people who are poor and are disenfranchised from mainstream society. This includes people who may be mentally ill, homeless, dependent on alcohol or other drugs, in jail or prison, military veterans and domestic violence victims.The CSSC will serve the Black community by providing culturally specific services that address all the issues surrounding dysfunctional individuals and families with the objective of equipping them to become self-sufficient and reducing or eliminating the disparities that ail the community.Simply put, a client will be able to come to one location for all the services they need. They can be connected to any other social service agency through the CSSC, and if they are receiving services from multiple agencies, they can have one primary case manager, one point of contact who can help them define all their needs and coordinate their services — and all culturally specific.Says Reed, “This is based on all of us talking together for this one person [the client] to have one general case manager that is interacting with all the other managers in each of those [social service] facilities. Continue Reading
Minneapolis Urban League down but not out
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In June 2008, after a decade of serving as the president and CEO of Minneapolis Urban League (MUL), Clarence Hightower resigned his position.