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Welcome to Community Resources: Minnesota! Today is March 12th, 2022, it was -1 degrees this morning in Minneapolis, and it has NO BUSINESS being this cold in March. My name is Jerome Evans, I host the TV Show Bottomless Coffee with Jerome and another podcast called Bottomless Coffee Podcast. You can stream episodes at BottomlessCoffeeShow.com. 

Today on Community Resources Minnesota - we’re sharing information about the community resources that we have at our disposal.

Today that information is coming from The Minnesota Department of Health and the Minneapolis Health Department.

For this episode we’re going to start with Announcements, a job opportunity, a request for proposals for a community wellbeing grant, and then talk through Vaccine Events that are taking place around Minnesota.

Also - you can open up the description and read through everything I’m talking about. I’ll put links in the description when possible. But a lot of these announcements and events come with flyers. So you really should go to BottomlessCoffeeShow.com/Community and look through all of the supplemental info there as well.

And then one more thing - there’s really no reason to hoard information about community resources to yourselves. If you know about something that’s going on and want to share then send a quick email to Jerome@bottomlesscoffeeshow.com, okay? I’d love to help get the word out.

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Announcements

Last week we talked through the new CDC COVID Community Level Guidelines. As of today, March 12, the COVID Community Level in Hennepin County Minnesota is LOW. Here is what the CDC says is appropriate behavior when the COVID Community Level is LOW. 

“In areas where the COVID-19 Community Level is low—people, households, and communities can take minimal, practical precautions.”

So - that’s not NO precautions. That’s minimal, practical precautions. I would still suggest leaving a venue of someone is showing signs of COVID but for the most part you don’t have to give every stranger on the train side eye for sitting down in the seat next to you. Especially since it’s still required to wear a mask on the light rail.

1. Gov Walz Announces MN College Registration as part of ‘Kids Deserve a Shot’  See Word Document
2. Governor Tim Walz has announced the registration form is open for Minnesota parents whose 5- to 11-year-olds receive the COVID-19 vaccine to register for a $100,000 Minnesota college scholarship, the next phase of the “Kids Deserve a Shot” vaccine incentive program.
3. Any Minnesota parent or guardian whose 5- to 11-year-olds have ever received both doses of COVID-19 vaccine by April 11 can enter to win one of five $100,000 Minnesota College Scholarships. On April 15, the State of Minnesota will hold a drawing for five $100,000 scholarships valid at any public or private non-profit higher educational institution in Minnesota.
4. Some updates have been made to the Vaccine Data Dashboard. I reviewed the list of changes and the biggest update seems to be that they’ve included a tab for how many people are up to date on their vaccine. Right now up to date is defined as having the appropriate series of vaccination shots followed by the appropriate number of boosters. Of course the number of shots that you need to be up to date depends on the status of your immune system and the initial vaccine that you got. So - since I’m an adult and had Johnson and Johnson - I need that one initial shot and a booster to be up to date. Other people will need more or fewer shots to be up to date.
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