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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.

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…

The Health Effects of ICE Tactics

Minnesota Women’s Press is gathering experts for a future online discussion with members, and deeper stories, about physical and mental health issues impacting children and adults. What do we do as a community to heal from what ICE agents have done?

RESOURCES: Mental Health and Trauma apps, website, videos, podcasts

Kids At Risk Action advocates for at-risk children through education…

Commentary: Listening to Minnesota Students Discuss 2026 Legislative Priorities

Roughly 70 mostly high school students from around the state assembled for the third annual Youth Summit held in the House chambers at the Minnesota state capitol — a caucus for youth leading each other in small group discussions about education, gun violence, housing, and mental health.

RESOURCE: Extreme Risk Protection Orders, what it does and who it might be for

The Hennepin County attorney's office has created a toolkit to help people understand the value of Extreme Risk Protection Orders, and the warning signs that might require it.

How Rochester and Duluth Respond to Mental Health and Substance Use Calls

“Ultimately the goal for us is to not have police officers involved with every single psych event or mental health crisis that goes on here in the city,” says Captain Jennifer Hodgman of the Community Services Division in the Rochester Police Department (RPD).

Recognizing Four Other Changemaking Voices This Year

Changemakers recognition is usually given to people who tend to be unknown outside of their immediate communities, and who have not yet appeared in our pages. This year we wanted to give recognition to two people for lifetime achievements as they step into retirement (Sue Abderholden and Pamela Zeller), Nekima Levy Armstrong and the impactful Target boycott protesting their pullback from diversity pledges, and the PFund Foundation for trans health.

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)