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How Canopy Roots Is Attempting to Rewrite Crisis Response

This is a glimpse of emergency response led by empathy, not enforcement.

Commentary from Someone Who Knew the Shooter as a Child and Speaks About the Country’s Giant Unfulfilled Need

It's a snowball effect of multiple system failures at a national level, that every murderer was once a kid in someone's classroom who needed help, and that this issue is so much deeper and more complicated than we want to admit.

BOOK: A Memoir of Dementia

Dementia, that thief, moved into our lives in 1998. It picked the pockets of my husband’s mind: first, the front pockets that held his recent memories, then the back pockets, with the older memories.

SERIES: Healing & Caregiving

Our ongoing conversations related to caregiving (mental health, physical health, elders, children, disabled)

NEWS: NAMI Concerned That New Lawsuit Threatens Progress for Mental Health Care in Jail

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"Jail is hardly the place to make changes to antipsychotic treatment.”

EXPLAINER: How the Tax Bill Impacts Your Health Care, in Bite-Size Terms

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“Some people say, ‘Oh, Medicaid, it's for poor people in the cities,’ but it's not. It's throughout the whole state of Minnesota. Sometimes the percentage of the population that's on Medicaid is higher in rural areas.” 

Team Care Is Self-Care at Our Nonprofit

Throughout my decades of work with nonprofits serving victims and survivors of domestic and sexual violence, as well as working with BIPOC, immigrant, and refugee populations, I have come to recognize the importance of centering self-care as part of an organization’s work culture and programming.

Yes, You Can Create Art

Jinjer Markley is hosting a workshop for Minnesota Women’s Press readers June 7, 3:30–5pm, in Minneapolis.

COMMENTARY: Fighting for the Fallen, Caring for the Living

Veteran suicide deaths have claimed more than 100 Minnesota veteran lives per year during the past five years at a rate that continues to increase, especially among younger veterans.

COMMENTARY: Five-Year Reflection From House POCI Caucus

As part of our commemoration of the five-year anniversary of…

Finding the Words to Make a Difference, on Mother’s Day

Words matter. They frame experience, give us understanding, help us explain what is going on. Getting a diagnosis — however devastating — can also be a relief. Now you know. Now you’re not alone.

How the Arts Make Me a Better Politician

I could have never imagined that I would have the opportunity to fulfill an absurd childhood dream in my middle-aged years and become a ballerina.