2023
March
The C2DREAM CONNECT MAGAZINE
The C2DREAM Magazine is a quarterly publication. Read about upcoming events, project and core updates, as well as featured articles, and community and research news.
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EVENTS
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PROJECT UPDATES
Healthy Immigrant Community
The first 6 months of the intervention is completed. There will be 12 peer-led group-based sessions completed in the next 6 months.
Working/Braiding Together and Growing Stronger
Wítaya woȟtani k´a čhaǧé š’agya (Dakota)
Maamawi Gidani-Mashkawiziimin (Ojibwe)
We welcome Dr. Katie Johnston-Goodstar to the team!
SCORE
Smoking Cessation Outreach for Racial Equity
Project 2 has finalized the baseline for survey measures. We are read for patient recruitment and plan launch recruitment efforts in February.
Dr. Johnston-Goodstar is an Associate Professor in the School of Social
Work specializing in Indigenous youth studies, decolonization and systems transformation, youth participatory action research (YPAR), indigenous and participatory methods. She has over a decade of experience in co-designing and implementing Participatory Action Research projects generating knowledge for Indigenous youth and community well-being.
Working/Braiding Together and Growing Stronger
Project 3, Duluth, Launched Jan. 21 with Community Lacrosse event
On Saturday, Jan. 21, the Center of American Indian and Minority Health (CAIMH) at the University of Minnesota hosted a traditional lacrosse teach-in and scrimmage for Native American students of all ages. Over 100 people attended at Denfeld High School for what is hoped to be the beginning of a traditional Native Lacrosse youth league in Northeastern Minnesota.
The hope is to strengthen student and community awareness of Native strengths and knowledge. Also, this event featured Native artists and businesses. Baby Cakes Wild Rice Bakery made 150 wild rice cupcakes and Avery Makes Room For Them provided chicken wild rice and squash wild rice soup. Nationally known company, Heart Berry, donated jerseys for all players and their families.
Working/Braiding Together and Growing Stronger
Project 3, Twin Cities kicking off this season
The pilot project is being finalized to include traditional lacrosse two times per week and a healthy eating class once per week. The project will take place at the American Indian Magnet School in St. Paul as part of the Flipside After school Program.
Twin Cities Native Lacrosse will implement the traditional lacrosse program and Dream of Wild Health has been involved in the formation of the Healthy eating and cooking curriculum.
About 50 kids went to play traditional lacrosse at Denfeld High School in Duluth on Saturday, Jan. 21. Teenage kids dominated the playing field in a large game covering two basketball courts. Anyone was welcome to play and families joined in as well.
Tentative timeline for programming is March 27 - May 11, 2023.
Photos by Hannah BlueDog Crow.
CORE UPDATES
ADMINISTRATIVE CORE
2nd C2DREAM Annual Conference - May 2023
The Conference Planning Committee has been working diligently to plan this year's event. The conference will be held in Rochester, MN at the Mayowood Stonebarn on May 23, 2023. Registration will open in the next few weeks. We highly encourage you to attend the event and invite your community partners.
2023 NIMHD MCD-DR
Annual Scientific Meeting
C2DREAM staff, faculty and investigators will have the opportunity to attend the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities annual meeting in Bethesda, MD. Tentative dates are Sept. 12-15. Two days will be dedicated to the Scientific Meeting and the remaining two to the Early-Stage Investigator Skills Development Workshop.
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT CORE
Land Acknowledgement Community of Practice: Last Session
We have completed seven of eight CoP sessions. During the series, seven different Indigenous community members and leaders shared their stories, worldviews, the history of their ancestors, and their thoughts on land acknowledgments and this CoP process. Members of C2DREAM and partners who attended engaged in discussion with the speakers.
There is still one more session in the series. In the last session, we will discuss what we have learned and the next steps for C2DREAM in this process. If you did not attend any of the previous sessions or watch any of the recordings, we recommend you view the recordings on the Google Site if you plan on attending the last session
ADMINISTRATIVE CORE
SAVE THE DATE!
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT CORE
CBPR Community of Practice with SaLaHmo
The Community Engagement (CE) Core has partnered with a team from SoLaHmo Partnership for Health & Wellness (SoLaHmo) to host a Community of Practice (CoP) around the topic of Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR).
The SoLaHmo team will lead three sessions discussing the fundamentals of CBPR. If you are interested, please scan the QR code or click the link to fill out the interest form
INVESTIGATOR DEVELOPMENT CORE
Announcing Cycle 2 Pilot Grant Program Scholars
7 promising early-stage investigators selected in January 2023 to conduct innovative community-engaged pilot projects across Minnesota
Meeting dates for this Community of Practice:
Monday, March 27, 2023 4:00pm-5:30pm via Zoom
Monday, April 3, 2023 4:00pm-5:30pm via Zoom
Monday April 10, 2023 4:00pm-5:30pm via Zoom
We invite you all to join us in congratulating and welcoming the C2DREAM Pilot Grant Program - Cycle 2 Scholars. New scholars and their mentors attended a virtual Kickoff Event on Friday, January 27th to orient them to C2DREAM and resources available across our cores.
Scholars will be busy in the upcoming months working with their respective IRB and C2DREAM staff during the pre-award phase, and awards are contingent on final approval from NIH. Scan the QR code for more information on the program scholars.
Cycle 2 Program Scholars
Contact us
General and Administrative Core: C2DREAM@umn.edu
Communications Coordinator, Hannah BlueDog Crow spier023@umn.edu
Community Engagement Core: C2DREAM-Engage@umn.edu
Investigator Development Core: c2dream-idcore@umn.edu
ID Core Pilot Grant Program: c2dreamgrants@umn.edu Follow
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