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Part 3: Co-Created Events to Address Community Bullies and Inspire Collective Healing

This Talk & Do group is in the process of creating ideas for a series of quarterly community gatherings — with funding that eventually travel around the state in different permutations based on local needs and participants — to feature cultural activities, resource fairs, shared meals, and intergenerational forums about topics that could include "addressing bullies," "building resilience" and "co-creating joy."

Talk & Do: Mothers in Greater Minnesota Call for Anti-Racist Education and Accountability (Part 1)

Yes, kids will be kids, “until you teach a child what they can and cannot do, and then they're going to be a different kind of kid.” By humanizing school systems, kids can “show up as whole people, not scared, not timid, and not head on a swivel — learning is not taking place in those situations, when we're just trying to get through a day.”

Talk & Do: Steps to Get From Crisis Response to Community Healing (Part 2)

“What I hope will come out of this winter are a reinvestment in mutual aid that is community-organized and led. That is whole-community resilience. These systems could keep being strengthened if they keep being nurtured.” Society has “not yet started to see the mental health impacts” these crises will have on children over time.

Survivors of Domestic Violence Share Inadequacies of the Legal System

A new short documentary produced by Battered Women's Justice Project centers the stories of two domestic violence survivors. A recent panel discussion unpacked what society needs to be able to recognize and do.

TALK & DO: Recovering From the Trauma of ICE Operations – What Do We Do Next? (Part 1)

With thousands of masked and armed federal forces now mostly…

COMMENTARY: Compulsory Safety — What Black Rural Families Need

"The systemic failure at the heart of the issue: The lack of consideration for Black children in Minnesota's education system has produced generations of predictable and preventable harm."