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Welcome to Community Resources: Minnesota - a new podcast that I’m giving a try. Today is February 26th, 2022. My name is Jerome Evans, I host the TV Show Bottomless Coffee with Jerome and another podcast called Bottomless Coffee Podcast. Those two projects are based around conversation. But for this podcast - Community Resources Minnesota - I want to focus on sharing information about the community resources that we have at our disposal! 

Today I’m sharing information that was sent to me from The Minnesota Department of Health and from the CDC. 

For this episode we’re going to start with Announcements and then talk through Vaccine Events that are taking place around Minnesota and then finish up with CDC Updates.

Links to all of the info as well as additional resources are at BottomlessCoffeeShow.com/Community

Announcements

1 - Accidental Poisoning

Don’t let your kids ingest the COVID tests. You know how kids LOVE to explore things with their mouths. Keep your tests in a cool, dry place that is out of reach of your kids. And I know that some people are on here thinking that that should go without saying but - let’s be real - we’ve all got a lot going on right now and sometimes we need things pointed out to us. So - watch your kids and keep those tests out of reach.

2 - Deaf Blind Workshop put on by the Minnesota Commision of the Deaf, DeafBlind, and hard of hearing. 

Feb 28th 6 pm – 7:30 pm - https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/MNCDHH/bulletins/308f1c0

Have you ever noticed a person with hearing and vision loss in the community and wondered how to interact properly with them? One size does NOT fit all. People who are Deaf or Blind are from all walks of life and communicate in various ways. Join the Deaf Blind Workshop to find out more information.

3 - The Department of Human Services and YMCA are partnering on a Family Assisters program. I remember talking about this one last week! The Family Assisters connect families to community resources. The program erves refugees, asylees, & certain other humanitarian-protected immigrants. Please contact them to determine eligibility. The Family Assisters connect families to community resources like: Employment, ESL courses, Housing Energy assistance, Language access, Navigation, Letter-reading, Health care, Application assistance for public programs, Immigration services, and more.

4 - Public Engagement and Equity Update – Kids Deserve a Shot campaign ends on Feb 28th see attached Word document for more information. 

The Kids Deserve a Shot program provides a $200 VISA gift card to kids that get fully vaccinated in the months of January and February.

Vaccine Clinics

1. Rosewood Community Center COVID-19 gift cards, kids 5 and up Healing, Meditation and Music event Feb 26 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.  13885 South Robert Trail Rosemount MN HAVEN Int’l
2. HACER Aurora Charter School COVID-19  Vaccine Event Feb 26 11 a.m. 2 p.m. 213 East 26th Minneapolis MN 55404 See Flyer English and Spanish
3. ACER Vaccine clinic Feb 27th 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. 1535 Como Ave St Paul MN All ages 5+  $50 gift cards
4. COPAL The Center Clinic Vaccine event Feb 27th 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. Dodge Center 14 W. Main St   English, Spanish – see flyer
5. COPAL Community Vaccination event Feb 28th 3 p.m. – 7 p.m. Pfizer Folwell Community School English, Spanish See flyer 
6. HACER Academia Cesar Chavez COVID-19 Vaccine event Pfizer March 1 and March 22 2:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.  English and Spanish – see flyers
7. IANA family vaccine clinics February, March and April dates on Fridays.  See flyer for dates, locations and times in Bloomington, Minneapolis, and St Paul
8. Briva Health vaccine clinic every...