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Trusted Messenger Initiative Grantees
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Saint Paul — Ramsey County Public Health's Trusted Messenger Initiative partners with community organizations to expand residents' access to accurate, culturally specific, and linguistically appropriate health information and healthcare services. Trusted Messenger organizations reach populations that are most affected by health inequities and address community needs in the following public health areas:
- Climate action.
- Clinical services.
- Environmental health.
- Family health and home visiting.
- Healthy communities.
- Women, Infants and Children (WIC).
Public Health is currently working with 11 local organizations listed below that were awarded grants to support their work through June 30, 2025.
Camphor Memorial UMC
Work focus: Healthy communities
- Health education and outreach projects aimed at supporting, educating, and promoting health and wellness and substance use prevention.
- Address chronic disease via health and wellness checks (blood pressure, blood sugar, etc.) and connection to services.
- Host annual health fairs.
Face to Face
Work focus: Clinical Services
- Wrap around health services for youth and young adults up to age 24.
- Offer medical care, including HIV testing.
- Mental health support, housing, employment and education resources.
- Provide assistance navigating MNsure insurance coverage.
Healthcare Reparations Cooperative
Work focus: Healthy Communities
- In-person and virtual political pedagogy programming.
- Community-led support around health equity and cultural healing.
- Connection to community and county programs and services.
- Dismantling systems to address systemic racism.
- Works with predominantly Black, community-led agencies in Ramsey, Dakota and other surrounding counties.
Frogtown Green
Work focus: Environmental Health
- Health Advocates, doing business as Frogtown Green.
- Protect the health of Frogtown, a diverse, low-income neighborhood in Saint Paul, through hands-on effort and resident organizing.
- Host Green Gathering events to foster in-person community relationship building and facilitate environmental health education.
Hmong National Development
Work focus: Healthy aging in community
- Provide information that is culturally specific and relevant to Hmong elders across generations.
- Connect Hmong elders to important healthcare and resources.
- Partner with Healthy Aging and Hmong Health staff.
Raices Latinas
Work focus: Healthy Communities
- Increasing awareness and access to culturally informed public health information across the lifespan.
- Supportive digital group chats and in-person groups.
- Mental health workshops with Latino therapists.
- Health workshops highlighting exercise programs like Zumba, using breathing skills for wellbeing and more.
- Raices Latinas works primarily with Spanish-speaking and immigrant families and people that lack economic stability and digital literacy skills across Ramsey and Dakota counties.
St. Mary’s Health Clinics
Work focus: Healthy Communities
- Connect Latino and Spanish-speaking communities and/or medically uninsured and underserved communities with health services.
- Host and facilitate health groups and informational webinars.
- Connect people with health services through outreach and engagement.
- Create and invest in a new service delivery model that centers community health worker engagement with clients to build relationships and trust.
The Healing Project of MN
Work focus: Healthy Communities
- Provide accessible, culturally affirming mental health care to historically marginalized communities.
- Offer therapeutic support to teens (ages 16+), young adults (ages 18-35), and college students across the state of Minnesota.
West 7th, Fort Road Federation
Work focus: Climate Action
- Fostering connections and promoting sustainable practices that improve the local environment.
- Host inclusive community events.
- Engage in environmental advocacy for proposed transit projects, prioritizing pedestrian bike safety, trees and green spaces, cleaner air, and sustainable water management practices.
Wilder African American Babies Coalition
Work focus: Family Health, Home Visiting and Birth Equity
- Pilot the Gentle Postpartum Recovery Project in conjunction with the Family Spirit Home Visiting Program to improve prenatal and postpartum care.
- Partner county home visiting staff with certified doulas to provide participants access to all available resources, referrals and free nutritious meals.
- Open to expand reach of programming to Dakota County.
- Works primarily with American and Native American birthing people, families, and caregivers most affected by disparities in birth outcomes.
Women’s Advocates
Work focus: Healthy Communities
- Pop-up advocacy events and media messaging/outreach for sexual violence services support.
- Educational videos and webinars that are available in multiple languages.
- Provide supportive housing opportunities for victim survivors.
- Safe Harbor advocate.
- Open to expand reach of programming to Dakota County.
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Amanda Vanyo
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