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2023 Changemaker Hli Xyooj: Bridging the Hmong Community

“How do I empower myself by empowering my community?”

The People Who Help Us Bloom

The nice thing about this holiday project is that we make the rules.

Youth Mental Health Facility Opens in East Bethel

Minnesota Commissioner for the Department of Human Services, Jodi Harpstead, said her department estimates that kids facing mental health issues that interfere significantly with home and school affect 9 percent of the state's youth.

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Values & Vision: Collective Action Against Aggression

It is time, she writes, to become our own protection system to thwart aggressors.

Discussing Domestic Violence and Homeless Youth at Legislature

Rep. Kristin Bahner (DFL–37B)  January 24 — Rep.…

A Piece of Family

Through making a story from the pieces of her life, I came to embrace Harriet as an unconventional sort of mentor.

Healthy Horses

When Mary Hartman sat down at her kitchen table in Rochester in 2017, she did not know she was about to start a six-figure business.

2022 Changemaker Kimberly Pilgrim: Champion for Resilience

She witnessed the power of standing up, facing fear, and finding one’s agency — a power she has guided other women to unearth within themselves over the past 25 years.

Dogs and Cats Are More Alike Than You Might Think

Curious — like my cat — I did some research.

Revisiting the Healthy Start Act

Of 23 people eligible for the program so far, four have been approved.

Values & Vision: “Take What You Need”

Thanks to underwriting from University of Minnesota Press, the third in our series of Values & Vision discussions will feature “Take What You Need: Life Lessons After Losing Everything,” by Jen Crow (Broadleaf Books), to be held online August 25, 7pm.

A Home Filled With Love and Structure

I wish more people would be involved with this work and understand that people who commit crimes need help. We are not monsters.

BookShelf: “When Women Were Dragons”

Invitation to readers: If you were alive in 1955, share what different direction you might have taken with your life had the opportunity been there — or what you did do that was considered nontraditional. Send to editor@womenspress.com.

Imagine the Year 2060

People emerged from their homes with shocked, confused stares, like deer emerging from forest wildfire.

How to Create a Village in an Urban Space

adapted from onthecommons.org