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Providing care for people experiencing homelessness as they recover from serious illnesses
Hennepin County Family Home Visiting partnership with Minneapolis Early Childhood Family Education
Hennepin County community-based immunization events.
While COVID remains an important public health issue, it no longer dominates our day-to-day work. In 2023 we were able to apply the lessons we learned during the pandemic to strengthen our department and better serve the current and future health needs of the people of Hennepin County.
Hennepin County is working with many partners to address the maternal health disparities that Black and American Indian people face. Through this work the Birth Justice Collaborative was created.
The SHAPE survey – conducted every four years since 1998 – asks Hennepin County residents about the factors that influence their health, such as diet, physical activity, housing, health care, and more.
Hennepin County Community Health Improvement Partnership – or “CHIP” – has provided funding directly to people and organizations in the community to work on issues related to housing stability and mental well-being.
Twin Cities Recovery Project (TCRP) Inc is one of the 17 organizations Hennepin County has contracted with to provide opioid services to groups disproportionately impacted by the epidemic.
This is how Hennepin County is increasing resiliency to climate change.
This is the story of how Hennepin County Public Health and our partners responded to the HIV outbreak among people who inject drugs.
Latisha Edwards is a social worker at Hennepin County Cope, a 24/7 mobile crisis response program.
Check out what Hennepin County Public Health accomplished in 2022.
The opioid and HIV epidemics cannot be addressed in isolation. As part of its opioid prevention response, Hennepin County is partnering with the Aliveness Project, a Minneapolis nonprofit that’s tackling HIV.
For many people, Hennepin County Health Care for the Homeless is their only access to health care. When COVID-19 hit, staff figured out how to respond.
During COVID-19, Hennepin County provided 2.7 million masks (and counting) to our community -- with the help of over 600 community partners. Here's the "behind the scenes" story.
Between January 2020 and July 2022, Public Health's logistics team has supported 187 COVID-19 testing events. They’ve also supported 516 vaccine events where 35,676 people have received 71,845 vaccines.
Hennepin County Public Health supported more than 160 community-based vaccine events between April 2021 and today.
Implementing the navigation center phone line was an important accessibility improvement undertaken by the county and a commitment to equity in the vaccine response.
During the pandemic, dozens of staff provided food, medications, and other essential services to Hennepin County residents who'd tested positive for COVID-19.
Due to COVID, many kids fell behind on childhood immunizations. Baby Tracks is taking innovative approaches to help.
Through a unique partnership, House of Dance Twin Cities is using dance and music to bring people together, build trust and friendship, and promote COVID-19 vaccination.
The county has partnered with dozens of community partners to administer the COVID-19 vaccine.
The strategic plan charts a course for the future of Hennepin County Public Health and its service to the county.
News of the opioid epidemic has gotten lost beneath COVID-19. Here's what's going on.
A message for people and communities in Hennepin County to take heart and take steps to stay healthy and safe from COVID-19.
Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, Franny Dorr, a Hennepin County epidemiologist, has spent hours on the phone, talking to people with COVID-19 and people they may have exposed.
Three staff at the Hennepin County Public Health Clinic describe how they've adapted their work to serve clients safely.
When Avra's daughter was nine weeks old, Minnesota had its first confirmed case of COVID-19. Throughout the subsequent shutdowns, one thing's been constant: WIC.
Learn how Hennepin County's Strong Beginnings partnership to trying to help children get the quality childhood care they need to support optimal brain development.
Check out what Hennepin County Public Health accomplished in 2019.
Each week, Naomy provides mental health care to people experiencing homelessness in the Twin Cities.
Sisters Olivia and Sylvana had never taken swim lessons before Hennepin County's Make a Splash program. Now they’ve learned to float, kick, glide, and are starting to practice swim strokes.
A paid internship at Brooklyn Center High School is empowering youth to act as peer sexual health educators and to identify health issues they can improve within their school district.
Tyrone Patterson serves in the Army and provides clinical care to people with mental illness. For many years, he’s also struggled, sometimes silently due to stigma, with his own mental illness.
Each week, injection drug users visit Hennepin County Red Door Clinic’s syringe exchange program. The program has a surprising number of public health benefits.
Learn how kids, adults, and families are staying active, having fun, and connecting with their communities through the Step to it challenge.
For two decades, Dr. LaVonne Moore has been on a quiet crusade. Her passion project? Helping women all over the Twin Cities overcome barriers to breastfeeding.
Women face barriers to breastfeeding, especially women of color. A WIC program is trying to help by pairing breastfeeding mothers with women who have experience breastfeeding their own children.
Moving from Zimbabwe to Minnesota gave Fadzai Manungo eye-opening insights into health equity.
In 2009 an ambitious health and wellness initiative launched in south central Minneapolis. It's driven entirely by the community.
In January 2016, Toni Plante's 15-year-old daughter Ana took her own life. Read this article to hear Toni's story and to learn about local suicide prevention resources.
From a windowless basement office, Urban Landreman and Mei Ding oversee a survey that assesses the unique health issues facing Hennepin County residents.
Arnetta Philips and others are leading a community campaign to show people that menthol tobacco is harmful -- and that campaign is leading to new legislation.
Many people have barriers to receiving regular, preventive care. Cheryl Branch, a senior community health worker with Hennepin County Child and Teen Checkups, uses songs, humor, and personal stories to break those barriers.
Jeanie was 17 when her father was diagnosed with prostate cancer. Nine years later, he died from the disease.
This misunderstood mental illness affects two to five percent of the population.
This bacterial infection doesn't always cause symptoms -- and it's increasing in broader segments of the population at an unprecedented rate.
After a horrific sexual assault, this survivor created a forum for other sexual assault survivors to heal.
It's invisible and odorless but dangerous. Are you at risk? A simple test will tell you.
It can be tough to control. These men are teaching other men how.
It’s a mid-July mid-afternoon and the movie “Wet, Hot American Summer” is playing at the Uptown.
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