On-going Outreach Programs
Step to It Southside
A weekly walking club for
community members of all ages
EVERY WEDNESDAY!
Step to It Southside is still steppin’ through the winter months. We meet at Sabathani Community Center (310 East 38th Street), room 120, at 8AM and walk indoors. Snacks and beverages are provided.
Please join us and bring a friend!
If you are not able to make it every week, please keep track of your daily steps in Step to It log. Then turn your steps into a walk leader when you have the chance to attend.
For questions about the walk, please call: Sara 612/238-2391 or Tanya 612/596-0742.
The Step To It Challenge
The Step To It Challenge is a walking program that persuades and motivates people of all ages to take that most important step...to get started. It is a six-week physical activity program that encourages family members, co-workers, neighbors, friends and schoolmates to come together as a team to participate in a friendly community challenge. There is no limit on who can participate. It is a great way to enjoy time with your neighbors or your family.
The Spring Challenge begins April 19th.
Each team's goal is to accumulate the most steps by the end of the six-week challenge. Both the team with most overall steps AND the team with the highest average number of steps per team member win! So it doesn't matter if your team has many members or just a few.
The Step To It Challenge is a great way to promote health and fitness to the entire family, neighborhood or community. It is also a chance to build family and community unity while having fun!
To learn more about the program or to download registration forms, please visit www.steptoit.org, for more information please call Sara at 612-238-2391 or Dianne at 612-348-7550.
Plain Talk / Hablando Claro
Southside Community Health Services has diligently been serving the community for over 30 years. Throughout our long commitment to health, we have believed and continue to believe in providing health care to everyone. To show our commitment to the community, we formed an outreach department.
The outreach department’s mission is to work in partnership with the community to ensure optimal health and well being of all people through dynamic and responsive process respecting the diversity of the community. SCHS understands that some of society’s major problems such as violence, teen pregnancy, and child abuse/neglect will only be solved when community members and organizations ban together to seek positive solutions. We have collaborated with other health care providers and institutions to improve the health of the people.
While doing outreach in the Minneapolis communities, we noticed that the emerging issues in specifically the Bryant and Central neighborhoods were the high rates of teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections (STI’s). Minneapolis has the highest rates of gonorrhea and chlamydia among African Americans among 50 of the largest cities in the United States. Although the teen birth rate has declined over the past decade, teen pregnancy is still prevalent in many low-income communities of color. The rates for both Hispanic and African American teens remain higher than for other groups.
While in the last few years, the number of teen pregnancies within the African American population has decreased, the proportion of the teen births to Hispanic mothers has risen in Minneapolis. Teen pregnancy in both the African American and Hispanic population still remains a disconcerting issue due to the tremendously high rates in Minneapolis.
The Southside Community Health Services Outreach Department began developing the strategies to address these issues with full force. As a result of this process, a partnership
with the Annie E. Casey Foundation and Public/Private Ventures was formed.
Concern for America’s at-risk, sexually active youth prompted the Annie E. Casey Foundation to develop Plain Talk – a unique approach to the prevention of teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. Hablando Claro is the program name used in the Spanish-speaking sites. The Plain Talk/Hablando Claro strategy is quite simple: if you increase adult/teen communication about sex, and increase sexually active teens’ access to contraceptives, you will decrease the number of unwanted pregnancies, STDs and HIV/AIDS.
It is our hope that through the efforts of Plain Talk, we will be able to increase the communication between teens and adults about sex and reproductive health in the communities of south Minneapolis. Southside Community Health Services outreach department has made an extra commitment to go the lengths necessary to bring optimal health back into the community and Plain Talk is the perfect place to start. Do you talk Plain Talk?
To learn more about the program, please contact Camille at 612-238-2392.
Upcoming Events
2007 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
TRANSCULTURAL MENTAL HEALTH
The International Conference on Transcultural Mental Health is a program element of the WFMH Center for Transcultural Mental Health, and will be organized under the sponsorship of the World Federation for Mental Health.
This will be a two and a half day conference focusing on issues relating to transcultural mental health services, with emphasis on Depression and its associated disorders.
The conference will have an international focus, while paying specific attention to issues of greater relevance to the North American mental health services, education, advocacy and policy community.
It will also be designed to serve as a forum for identifying and sharing “best practices” in transcultural mental health.
The projected time for holding the conference is in October 2007 to take advantage of the October 10, 2007 launch of World Mental Health Day (the theme of which will also focus on transcultural mental health). It would be preferable for the conference to be scheduled so that it coincides with WMHDay on October 10. The conference will be hosted in the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro area.
Kiri Davis
Filmmaker Kiri Davis, A Girl Like Me, is coming to the Twin Cities.
Robin Hickman/SoulTouch Productions, the Walker Art Center, African American Family Services and Southside Community Health Services are proud to be a part of presenting Kiri and her acclaimed film A Girl Like Me in the Twin Cities. We are excited she will be coming March 6th-11th to support and celebrate SoulTouch Production's Lovin' the Skin I'm In movement and Plain Talk’s goal of developing strong young women.
March 8th Kiri will be at the Walker Art Center as part of their Women in Film series. There will be an event open to the public on March 10th at Dunwoody Institute.
For more details, please contact Camille at 612-238-2392
