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Welcome to Community Resources: Minnesota! Today is March 23rd, 2022, it is 36 degrees today which means that it is 37 degrees warmer today than it was 2 weeks ago when I recorded the last episode of this podcast. That’s wild!

 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 but there’s A LOT this week. Definitely too much to go over in detail on the podcast. But here’s what we ARE gonna do.

 For this episode we’re going to start with Announcements, go through upcoming COVID Vaccine Events, and then touch on some training and events, funding announcements, and job opportunities that were also sent my way. 

 To get all the good details though - you do need to go to BottomlessCoffeeShow.com/Community. 

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.

Announcements

• Dream of Wild Health (DWH) Indigenous Food Share (IFS) Program
• Dream of Wild Health (DWH) announces that the purchase of shares in their Indigenous Food Share (IFS) Program (https://dreamofwildhealth.org/farm/ifs) opened to the general public in February. They have transitioned towards a sliding scale payment model which will increase food access to Native families in the Twin Cities. To make this possible, they've created the Indigenous Food Share Solidarity Fund, which will subsidize the cost of IFS shares for DWH program families and community partners who otherwise would not be able to afford a share. If you would like to support Native food sovereignty and help them reach their $10,000 fundraising goal, please do so by donating to the Indigenous Food Share Solidarity Fund (https://www.givemn.org/story/Indigenousfoodshare).
• Gov Walz Announces MN College Registration as part of ‘Kids Deserve a Shot’  See Word Document
• We’ve been through this one. You can enter to win a 100,000 college scholarship if your child, age 5-11, is fully vaccinated for COVID-19. That registration is open until around the middle of April. 
• Vaccine Data Dashboard Update
• We talked through this one last time as well. The dashboard is now tracking fully vaccinated people and defining that as having the appropriate number of initial shots AND a booster.
• Red Lake Nation Tribal College produced a video on COVID 19 vaccinations. It’s really good! Definitely worth watching and sharing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMu2YqGCIuA

Upcoming Vaccine Events

Yay! These are now organized by region. So we’re gonna go: North metro, East Metro, Northern Minnesota, Southern Minnesota, and then multiple locations. Hopefully that will help you find these events.

 North Metro - Hennepin County

• COPAL – COVID-19 Vaccine event...