Off the Charts: Examining the Health Equity Emergency - Minneapolis Schools Heal and Transform Through Grief and Trauma

Minneapolis Schools Heal and Transform Through Grief and Trauma

06/11/24 • 29 min

Off the Charts: Examining the Health Equity Emergency

Growing Through Grief is a school-based grief support and crisis management program supported by the Park Nicollet Foundation that provides children with peer support groups, individual counseling, and death-related crisis response after they’ve experienced the loss of a loved one.

Nicole Barnes, Growing Through Grief program manager, and Judy Brown, Minneapolis Public Schools mental health manager, outline the prevalence of childhood bereavement and share the C.A.R.E.S. (community, awareness, resiliency, empathy and strength) support group model. The episode will highlight how the partnership between health care and education systems brings additional resources to schools that share education and renewal practices with students that bring hope and healing.

Hosts: Kari Haley, MD, and Steven Jackson, MD

Guests: Nicole Barnes and Judy Brown

HealthPartners website: Off the Charts podcast

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Hosts: Kari Haley, MD, and Steven Jackson, MD

Guests: Nicole Barnes and Judy Brown

HealthPartners website: Off the Charts podcast

Got an idea? Have thoughts to share? We want to hear from you. Email us at [email protected].

Previous Episode

Institute for Healthcare Improvement's Equity Action Lab

Our focus on reducing disparities led to a partnership with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. A gap in care with our Somali patient population was discovered after reviewing numbers for colorectal and breast cancer screenings, pediatric immunizations and diabetes.

In the Season 4 finale, two HealthPartners colleagues, family nurse practitioner Munira MaalimIsaq and senior project manager Greg Fedio, share how the Equity Action Lab project, or what they and participants called "Open Faces," helped assess and better understand the gaps and determine steps for changes.

"Off the Charts" returns June 11.

Hosts: Kari Haley, MD, and Steven Jackson, MD

Guests: Munira MaalimIsaq, FNP; and Greg Fedio

HealthPartners website: Off the Charts podcast

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Next Episode

Equity and Creating Safe Spaces for Open Dialogue

It’s important to understand that equity, the quality of being fair and impartial, means we don’t all start from the same place. Equity in the workplace starts with commitment and alignment.

Rhonda Cox, vice president of people and culture for Saint Paul and Minnesota Foundation, shares why equity’s important to her and what inspired her to want to shape, create and influence workplace culture to be more inclusive and equitable for colleagues.

Hosts: Kari Haley, MD, and Steven Jackson, MD

Guest: Rhonda Cox

HealthPartners website: Off the Charts podcast

Got an idea? Have thoughts to share? We want to hear from you. Email us at [email protected].