Registration is open for the SUD Shared Solutions Summit on Jan. 10-11, where participants will begin work on a strategic action plan to improve Minnesota's substance use disorder treatment system. Learn more and register online at https://t.co/8i1Y95xC3v.
.@MDHCommMalcolm leaves @mnhealth with multi-decades of transformative public health successes -- in tobacco prevention; health care reform and long-term care. Thousands of Minnesotans are alive today because she took #COVID19 seriously from Day One of pandemic
Commissioner Jodi Harpstead presented a 2022 Circle of Excellence award today to Housing Matters Executive Director Patrick Harrington for the organization’s work to meet the needs of people experiencing homelessness in the Bemidji area. Congratulations!
Thank you @NewsHour for this coverage, and for calling out the aid disparity given recent demonstration of what has been possible for #Ukraine. Every child deserves a chance. No child should starve with so much wealth in this world.
Recently returned from a reporting trip to #SouthSudan, a country facing a perfect storm of starvation inducing conditions. One editing marathon later, and our piece will be on @Newshour tonight - please watch
A new chapter begins… Day one as Assistant Commissioner for Behavioral Health, Housing, and Deaf & Hard of Hearing Services for @MinnesotaDHS. Excited for the journey ahead!
Woke up with my mind stayed on freedom & @funderstogether new strategic framework for housing justice as racial justice. Rooted in love & disruption. https://t.co/JpAsrufbXK
A White House security official testified that "members of the Vice President’s detail were starting to fear for their own lives…,”
"It was disturbing. I don’t like talking about it, but there were calls to say good-bye to family members,”
I stand with Lady Ruby Freeman and the incredible example of courage and strength she and her daughter Shay Moss have shown, in the face of mortal threats that no election worker anywhere should ever experience. It happened here. #January6thCommitteeHearings
Astounding quote from the chair of the MN Senate’s Public Safety Cmte on banning police from belonging to white supremacist groups, criminal gangs, etc:
“People have a right to associate.” #mnleg
“Thank goodness that couldn’t happen here” said no parent with a kid in an American school this week. Or BIPOC person stopped by the police. Or grocery shopping. Or going to the movies. Or…
45-day application period for frontline worker pay likely to be open June 8 through July 22, 2022 (subject to change); outreach tool kit here: https://t.co/TZQOmIY2ey #frontlineworkerpay#COVID19#equity#LTSS
This kind of ugly imagery fuels extremism, hatred, and violence. It has no place in Minnesota politics, and every candidate should condemn it. https://t.co/kTp49zOpwC
@annymoliva@naehomelessness This is fantastic news for our country and everyone facing homelessness or other housing crises. Ann, so grateful to you for the leadership, smarts, and heart you bring to this work!
@TristaMatas This is phenomenally good news and great leadership on a pervasive issue that impacts every dimension of our communities. Thank you @TristaMatas, @melvincarter3, @jaimetincher and your colleagues for being a champion for these investments!
Thread: The #EndingHomelessness Act released by House Financial Services Chair @RepMaxineWaters is a groundbreaking proposal to that would provide #housing vouchers to everyone who needs them.