{"id":132833,"date":"2018-09-21T22:00:58","date_gmt":"2018-09-22T03:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lptv.org\/?p=132833"},"modified":"2018-09-21T23:34:04","modified_gmt":"2018-09-22T04:34:04","slug":"crow-wing-county-partners-with-bridges-of-hope-to-build-a-self-healing-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lptv.org\/crow-wing-county-partners-with-bridges-of-hope-to-build-a-self-healing-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Crow Wing County Partners with Bridges of Hope to Build a Self-Healing Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper aligncenter\" style=\"width:100%px;\"><div class=\"fluid-width-video-content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mKmSifqQTGE?wmode=transparent&color=white&rel=0&showinfo=0\" width=\"100%\" height=\"56.2\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n<p>Crow Wing County is facing their health and social issues within their neighborhoods head-on by building a self-healing community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCrow Wing County has been trying for a really long time to solve a lot of social issues related to child protection, substance abuse, mental health, and we know we can\u2019t do it all on our own,\u201d Kara Terry, Crow Wing County\u2019s Community Services Director, said.<\/p>\n<p>So, the county reached out to Bridges of Hope, and together they came up with a self-healing community model.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis model really started in the state of Washington, in several counties in Washington in the 1990s,\u201d Kassie Heisserer, Bridges of Hope\u2019s Executive Director, said. \u201cBased on that, the communities there started to see some amazing outcomes for health.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The model forces conversations to happen between people, to really find out what is going on in the communities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis model actually gets into the community,\u201d Terry said, \u201cto ask the community what they need, as opposed to us going in, telling them what they need.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been spending a lot of time having conversations with people who are working in the community and who live in the community,\u201d Amy Wyant, the project\u2019s coordinator, said.<\/p>\n<p>The project will start in the communities of northeast Brainerd near Garfield and Lowell Elementary, but the plan is to expand to all of Crow Wing County. The County used a Geographic Information System, also known as GIS mapping, to decide what neighborhoods to implement the self-healing community.<\/p>\n<p>Now, it\u2019s time to find the issues and come up with solutions to fix them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat can we do practically that is going to help people, and help them sooner rather than later,\u201d Wyant said.<\/p>\n<p>The self-healing community model will try to build stronger relationships within Crow Wing County, and as a result, the county will see great outcomes, but the change will not happen overnight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the really important stuff, the outcomes, or the actual impacts on the community, a reduction in child protection, a reduction in suicide rates, an increase in school attendance, those are going to take a while,\u201d Terry said. \u201cWe are thinking at least five years if not ten.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The project is still at the beginning stages of talking to community members and finding out what issues people are dealing with, but Crow Wing County hopes to see vast improvements within the community in the next several years.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about the Self-Healing Communities project, visit the link below.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/bridgesofhopemn.org\/self-healing-communities-project\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crow Wing County is facing their health and social issues within their neighborhoods head-on by building a self-healing community. \u201cCrow Wing County has been trying for a really long time&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":108563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[97,51,1,6449],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lptv.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132833"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lptv.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lptv.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lptv.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lptv.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lptv.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lptv.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lptv.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lptv.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lptv.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}