Public Health Innovation Project Showcase

St. Louis County Public Health is hosting Innovation Project Showcases to highlight the success of five projects that have been implemented by area agencies thanks to funding from the county. Each project addressed a health priority, including mental wellness and mental health support, youth substance use and food insecurity.

A second of the two showcases, on Feb. 9 in the Lake Superior Room of the Duluth Government Services Center, will feature the work of:

• American Indian Community Housing Organization, which has developed a community kitchen in its Gimaajii-Mino-Bimaadizimin building. This helps address food insecurity in the Duluth area by increasing direct access to prepared meals for AICHO program participants and the wider community and also creates access to a commercial kitchen for food producers.
• Stone Soup, a partnership that addresses food insecurity and provides mental health support for people in the Hillside and West Duluth areas. Stone Soup involves Ecolibrium3, the Duluth Community Garden Program, Community Action Duluth and the Duluth Children’s Museum.
• Recovery Alliance Duluth to expand its programming to northern St. Louis County, offering peer recovery support, education and awareness to eliminate stigma surrounding recovery and substance use.

In 2020 St. Louis County put out a request for proposals, inviting community organizations to submit ideas, which the county would help fund, to address priority health areas that had been identified in the St. Louis County Community Health Assessment. Five community organizations applied, and the County Board approved investing more than $360,000 to support these agencies in implementing their proposed projects.

To register for the showcase visit eventbrite.com.