Videos

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota Foundation

View the work of the Blue Cross Foundation, making a healthy difference in people's lives by improving the community conditions where children and families live, learn, work and play.

Preventing Harm MN Healthy Homes Healthy Kids

Preventing Harm Minnesota's Healthy Homes Healthy Kids project improves the quality and safety of rental housing in the Phillips neighborhood in Minneapolis.

Carlton County Collaborative

Carlton County Collaborative's Jumpstart 4 Kindergarten Program helps children be prepared for kindergarten.

Twin Cities Local Initiatives Support Corporation

Twin Cities LISC's Building Sustainable Communities project helps connect community residents with each other, leading to better health

Healthy Legacy

IATP's Healthy Legacy program educates consumers on buying and using healthy products and works to change policies to protect consumers.

Greater Mankato Area United Way First Steps Collaborative

Greater Mankato Area United Way's First Steps Collaborative helps new parents access resources to ensure their children get their healthiest start.

NW Regional Sustainable Development Partnership PhotoVoice

See what NWRSDP is doing around the state to reduce children's exposure to toxic chemicals and improve access to healthy foods.

Looking towards the future

Dane Smith responds to The Unequal Distribution of Health in the Twin Cities report

Connect for Health Challenge

Learn more about the Connect for Health Challenge!

Viking Terrace Worthington

Learn how green renovation of an affordable apartment complex in Worthington, MN improved residents' health.

Critical Links: Community Health Workers (Espanol)

View a shortened, 10-minute version of the Critical Links: Community Health Workers program in Spanish.

Critical Links: Community Health Workers

Critical Links: Community Health Workers is a program about bicultural, bilingual health workers who bridge diverse communities and the health care system.

Critical Links: Community Health Workers (English)

View a shortened, 10-minute version of the Critical Links: Community Health Workers program in English.

Critical Links: Community Health Workers (Hmong)

View a shortened, 10-minute version of the Critical Links: Community Health Workers program in Hmong.

Critical Links: Community Health Workers (Soomaali)

View a shortened, 10-minute version of the Critical Links: Community Health Workers program in Somali.

Our Neighborhoods and Our Health

This video features highlights from the 4th Annual Upstream Health Leaderhship Award and Policy Program.

Faribault Diversity Coalition

This 5-minute video features the work of the Faribault Diversity Coalition, a grantee under Healthy Together: Creating Community with New Americans.

Growing up Healthy Intro

View an introduction to Growing Up Healthy: Kids and Communities

Ready4K

This 5-minute video features the work of Ready4K, an organization based in St. Paul that is working to ensure that all Minnesota preschoolers are fully prepared for kindergarten.

Shared Values: Health and Community Intro

View a 5-minute introduction of Shared Values: Health and Community - Shaping Minnesota's Future with New Americans

Shared Values: Health and Community

Shared Values: Health and Community - Shaping Minnesota's Future with New Americans explores how individuals and communities become more interconnected and healthier when there are strong social support networks and opportunities for people to work and bond together.

2007 Upstream Health Leadership Award Intro

View an introduction to the full Health Leadership: Action Steps program from the 2nd Annual Upstream Health Leadership Award and Policy Program.

2007 Upstream Health Leadership Award

View Atum Azzahir, Cultural Wellness Center, receiving the 2nd Annual Upstream Health Leadership Award.

Train the Trainer

As part of the PhotoVoice project, a curriculum on environmental health was developed for public health nurses to use with their clients.

White Earth Wild Food

See what the White Earth Tribal and Community College is doing to help students learn about wild food foraging and edible landscaping.

Community Health Worker Sheena Loth

Go with community health worker Sheena Loth on the job with Intercultural Mutual Assistance Association in Rochester.

Connecting our economy to our health

Nan Madden responds to The Unequal Distribution of Health in the Twin Cities

American Indian people hold visions and solutions

Justin Huenemann responds to The Unequal Distribution of Health in the Twin Cities report

How can environment affect our health

David Wallinga responds to The Unequal Distribution of Health in the Twin Cities report

What has helped to create better health outcomes

Atum Azzahir responds to The Unequal Distribution of Health in the Twin Cities report

Why is this study important

Tom Fulton responds to The Unequal Distribution of Health in the Twin Cities report

2006 Upstream Health Leadership Award

View the work of Native American environmental activist Winona LaDuke and the White Earth Land Recovery Project.

Camara Jones, MD, MPH, PhD

Moving Upstream: Naming and Addressing the Impacts of Racism on Health

The Context of Health: What is the Role of Leadership?

View the keynote presentation by Anthony Iton, MD, JD, MPH, Director and Health Officer, Alameda County Health Department from the 2nd Annual Upstream Health Leadership Award and Policy Program.

2008 Upstream Health Leadership Award

This 5-minute video recognizes the work of Dr. David Wallinga, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy in Minneapolis, recipient of the 2008 Upstream Health Leadership Award.

Our Environment & Our Health

View the 3rd Annual Upstream Health Leadership Award and Policy Program featuring keynote speaker Charlotte Brody, RN, co-founder of Health Care Without Harm.

Improving Access to Healthy Food

Learn how the Northwest Regional Sustainable Development Partnership is improving the community's access to healthy foods in northwest Minnesota.