Spring/Summer 2016 The Open Door The News & Views of East Side Neighborhood Services, Inc. HIGH RISE MOBILE FOOD SHELF EXPANDING THE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP AND EAST SIDE e High Rise Mobile Food Shelf program is expanding! Starting in April four new apartment buildings will begin receiving regular food shelf deliveries (bringing our total to 40). e new sites are: •Upper Post Veteran’s Community at Fort Snelling •Riverview Apartments, near the Minneapolis VA hospital •Bii Di Gain Dash Anwebi (“Come in. Rest.” in Ojibwe) in the Phillips neighborhood of Minneapolis •Brooks Landing, Brooklyn Center Participants will receive up to 2 deliveries a month with at least 15 pounds of fresh fruits & vegetables, meat, dairy, bread and other non-perishable food being given each time. Our program model works with resident volunteers who receive the food, set up ‘the store’ and allow customers to shop. Eight to twelve residents at each building have already come forward to volunteer. Our food is supplied through one of our funders Hennepin County and partnerships with Second Harvest Heartland and e Food Group food banks, direct donations from Whole Foods, e Lone Grazer Creamery, Sam’s Club, and Bix Produce and purchases from wholesalers. is expansion is made possible with the help of a $75,000 grant facilitated by Hunger Solutions MN, with funds coming from the State of Minnesota. e funding allowed us to refrigerate our existing dock truck, ensuring safe transport of perishable foods, purchase additional protein and cultural specific food items, and add one part-time driver. During the first week of March e Family Partnership and East Side proudly opened the 5th Drop-In Child Care Center in Hennepin County. e site will be staffed by East Side and managed by e Family Partnership. Pictured from left to right: President of East Side Bill Laden, MACC Vice President of Service Network Innovations and Collaboration Darlynn Benjamin, e Family Partnership Director of Drop-In Child Care Amy Hofer, NECDC Director Margie Bragg, and e Family Partnership Vice President of Early Childhood Services Kay Tellinghuisen. IN THIS ISSUE • High Rise Mobile Food Shelf Expanding • The Family Partnership and East Side • Youth Department Ad- visory Council • Camp Bovey Registra- tion is Open! • East Side Transportation • East Side After School Programs • Youth Department Arts & Learning Grant • The Benefit to Care Givers of Adult Day at Friendship Center • Empowering Vital Aging • Centennial Campaign Award • Senior Community Service Employment Program • Mill City Charity Golf Tournament • East Side Wine Tasting • More upcoming events
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Spring/Summ
er 2016
The Open DoorThe News & Views of East Side Neighborhood Services, Inc.
HIGH RISE MOBILE FOOD SHELF EXPANDING
THE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP AND EAST SIDE
The High Rise Mobile Food Shelf program is expanding! Starting in April four new apartment buildings will begin receiving regular food shelf deliveries (bringing our total to 40). The new sites are:•Upper Post Veteran’s Community at Fort Snelling•Riverview Apartments, near the Minneapolis VA hospital •Bii Di Gain Dash Anwebi (“Come in. Rest.” in Ojibwe) in the Phillips neighborhood of Minneapolis•Brooks Landing, Brooklyn Center
Participants will receive up to 2 deliveries a month with at least 15 pounds of fresh fruits & vegetables, meat, dairy, bread and other non-perishable food being given each time.
Our program model works with resident volunteers who receive the food, set up ‘the store’ and allow customers to shop. Eight to twelve residents at each building have already come forward to volunteer. Our food is supplied through one of our funders Hennepin County and partnerships with Second Harvest Heartland and The Food Group food banks, direct donations from Whole Foods, The Lone Grazer Creamery, Sam’s Club, and Bix Produce and purchases from wholesalers.
This expansion is made possible with the help of a $75,000 grant facilitated by Hunger Solutions MN, with funds coming from the State of Minnesota. The funding allowed us to refrigerate our existing dock truck, ensuring safe transport of perishable foods, purchase additional protein and cultural specific food items, and add one part-time driver.
During the first week of March The Family Partnership and East Side proudly opened the 5th Drop-In Child Care Center in Hennepin County. The site will be staffed by East Side and managed by The Family Partnership. Pictured from left to right: President of East Side Bill Laden, MACC Vice President of Service Network Innovations and Collaboration Darlynn Benjamin, The Family Partnership Director of Drop-In Child Care Amy Hofer, NECDC Director Margie Bragg, and The Family Partnership Vice President of Early Childhood Services Kay Tellinghuisen.
IN THIS ISSUE • High Rise Mobile Food
Shelf Expanding
• The Family Partnership and East Side
• Youth Department Ad-visory Council
• Camp Bovey Registra-tion is Open!
• East Side Transportation
• East Side After School Programs
• Youth Department Arts & Learning Grant
• The Benefit to Care Givers of Adult Day at Friendship Center
• Empowering Vital Aging
• Centennial Campaign Award
• Senior Community Service Employment Program
• Mill City Charity Golf Tournament
• East Side Wine Tasting
• More upcoming events
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EAST SIDE TRANSPORTATIONThis van is the result of donations from the NE Minneapolis Lions Club, East Minneapolis Exchange Club, and Kiwanis Club of Northeast Minneapolis. East Side Youth Programs send a giant thank you to these community organizations for their generous contributions! Additionally, the Transportation Department added another new bus and a mini van for Senior Transportation use in the beginning of 2016.
YOUTH DEPARTMENT ADVISORY COUNCILThe Youth Department Advisory Council is in its 4th year of convening, in conjunction with receiving our federal 21st Century Community Learning Centers grant. We meet quarterly and youth have the opportunity to be leaders from their program sites, by sharing their experiences with the larger ESNS youth department. The council has also included parents and community members. Some highlights from this year include reviewing the results of department-wide participant surveys, creating wish lists to inform program managers, and connecting through games and dinners. The advisory council is excited to take on upcoming community projects, and provide more options for youth leadership!
YOUTH DEPARTMENT ARTS & LEARNING GRANTYoung people at Heritage Academy and Menlo Park Academy are “composing” a new way to look at the world around them. The East Side Youth department received a $10,000 Arts Learning Grant from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council to explore composition through sound and photography. Teens from Menlo VIBE and Heritage Academy will be working with musicians from the Six Families collective and photographer Mohamud Mumin through the end of May, improvising and recording sounds and creating portraits of their community. We will also go on joint field trips to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts & MCAD. Save the date for Thursday, May 26, 2016 for a public presentation of our final images and sounds! Location and time TBD.
EAST SIDE AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAMSThe Mulberry Junction crew has had an eventful winter full of field trips, such as hiking alongside the Mississippi River, meeting large birds at the University of Minnesota Raptor Center, and snow tubing at Elm Creek! Looking ahead to summer, the K-5th grade students enrolled in Summer on Second will be studying water quality and the effects of human impact on wetlands and water sources in Minnesota. Thanks to the generosity of the Three Rivers Park District for multiple scholarships, the students will spend Wednesdays surveying wetland invertebrate species, learning about animal life indicators of water quality levels.
But that’s not all! Summer on Second students will also participate in a 4-part canoeing series at Lake Calhoun. Paddle in hand, the students will learn about wetland ecology, wetland habitats, and Dakota Indian history. This experiential learning series was made possible by the support of the Minnesota River Valley Audubon Chapter which generously awarded East Side with both funding and a large donation of binoculars! Summer on Second is still accepting registration for Summer 2016. Contact James Whitt [email protected] or (612) 787-4029 to discuss enrollment options.
REGISTRATION IS OPEN!Visual/Performing Arts
8-14 year olds - June 27 to July 1
Explorers 9-14 year olds - July 4 to 15
Adventurers 8-14 year olds - July 18 - 22
Hodagers 9-14 year olds - July 25 to August 5
ES/MACC Leadership Week 8-14 year olds - August 8 to 12
www.esns.org/CampBovey
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Visit www.esns.org for more information about what’s happening at East Side.
SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICE EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM (SCSEP)
Are you 55 or older and looking for work? Contact SCSEP at (612) 787-4066 or email [email protected]. To qualify you must live in Hennepin County, be unemployed, and income eligible. Go to www.esns.org/SCSEP for more details.
THE BENEFIT TO CARE GIVERS OF ADULT DAY AT FRIENDSHIP CENTER
Care givers may have a hard time trusting that others can care for their loved one as well as they do. In some ways that may be correct. One who has the history of what works or doesn’t work has a definite advantage over a new care partner. However, Adult Day at Friendship Center staff work to find out from family what already works to make a transition as smooth as possible when a caregiver is ready for assistance. The caregiver, the client, and the staff work together to ensure that a sense of joy is first and foremost in client care.
Donna Kavanaugh, Director of Adult Day at Friendship Center, was touched by a client’s family when they came to visit and explore Friendship Center for their loved one. They shared their brother’s story about his past and his life since suffering a stroke. The client was fine at home, but was sleeping a lot of the time. The family wanted to increase the client’s quality of life!
This client, being post stroke, is unable to talk, and is paralyzed on one side. He also suffers from memory loss and doesn’t understand when asked a lot of questions. Since verbal communication is only 7% of all communication, he is able to communicate his wants, needs, and desires. He arrives in the morning with a smile and reaches out for a hug. He places his head on your shoulder and feels the touch of another human being. After his foot pedal is removed, he insists on wheeling himself around the room to greet everyone else with a hug. He is engaged in the hellos and good-byes. Throughout the day he teases everyone. He is truly a joyful spirit among us. His care givers not only receive a break from care giving, but are happy to hear he has made friends and is engaged in activities. Since he used to be a carpenter, it’s important to him to exercise and work his hands with arts and crafts. His caregivers are reassured their loved one is in a safe place with professionals who care about each and every client.
Adult Day at Friendship Center is available for people 55 and older. We work with abilities and push past the disability. Everyone comes for a different reason, wanting to make new friends, and a chance to belong to a community as well as for better health and fitness. Our programs are geared to improve mind, body and spirit. Our clients talk of their new family at Friendship Center, feeling accepted and cared for. If you know of someone who could benefit from our program, please call Donna at (612) 781-2052. We can explore this option in healthcare together to see if this is the right fit for your loved one.
EMPOWERING VITAL AGING East Side has been awarded a Live Well at Home grant from the Minnesota Department of Human Services to expand our services for older adults. The result is a new program called Empowering Vital Aging (EVA).
EVA promotes access to community-based services for older adults to Live Well at Home. The goal of EVA is to leverage the broad array of programs for older adults at East Side and to serve as a connector to additional opportunities/services and supports that allow for improved health outcomes and vital aging.
As part of this goal, East Side has added several evidence-based health and wellness classes to our calendar of ongoing activities. Upcoming classes include A Matter of Balance, Managing Concerns about Falls, Wednesdays, March 30 – May 18, 1:30-3:30 pm. Living Well with Chronic Conditions, Thursdays, May 5 – June 9, 1:30-3:30 pm. Tai Ji Quan: Moving for Better Balance, Mondays and Wednesdays, May 2 – July 27, 10:00-11:00 am. All classes will be at East Side. Contact Brenna with questions and to register (612) 787-4055.
Please visit EVA’s Facebook page to stay up to date on what’s happening. We’ll be celebrating Older Americans Month in May with fun and interesting social and educational programming! We look forward to seeing you!
CENTENNIAL CAMPAIGN AWARDSue Sjoselius, Director of Risk Management and Marketing at Northeast Bank was presented with an award from East Side President Bill Laden (right) and Board Vice Chair Harvey Johnson (left). The award was given to recognize Sjoselius for her long-term commitment, leadership and hard work on East Side’s Centennial Campaign. Her efforts helped East Side raise over $230,000 to support future programming. As chairperson of the Centennial Gala, Sjoselius led the planning committee and worked closely with staff to assure a memorable event.
THE OPEN DOOREast Side Neighborhood Services, Inc.1700 Second Street NE • Minneapolis, MN 55413(612) 781-6011 • www.esns.org
UPCOMING EVENTS
East Side Wine TastingMay 12 at the Nicollet Island Pavilion
TOURNAMENT REGISTRATION INCLUDES: • 18 holes of golf • golf cart • patio party at Sarna’s • awards & drawing for prizes
CONTEST HOLES • closest to the pin• longest putt• longest drive - men’s & women’s
Call Karen at (612) 787-4014 to register. Or register online at
www.esns.org/Events
Organized in 1915, East Side Neighborhood Services, Inc. (ESNS) is a non-profi t human service agency that provides social and other services to individuals, families and neighborhoods primarily of Northeast and Southeast Minneapolis and surrounding communities. Its purpose is to assist people of all ages and backgrounds in realizing a higher quality of life.
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