Project S.E.L.F. Achievements 2013

• Produced a S.O.M.A.L.I. Spoken Work CD
• Conducted inter-generational storytelling gatherings every Tuesday
• Assisted in coordinating a Somali Independence Day celebration where over 6,000 people attended!
• Hosted numerous community gatherings

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A Partnership Of Diabetics (A-Pod) 2013 Accomplishments

A-POD continued to host weekly or twice monthly 90-minute “Meet-ups” to provide the type of support lacking in many clinic/hospital-based programs.  Meet-ups focused on sharing personal experiences and tracking progress toward health goals.  Other activities included:

• Hosted a monthly Diabetes Breakfast in conjunction with Waite House, Native American Community Clinic,  Allina Health, International Diabetes Center and Novo Nordisk.
• Assisted regular A-POD participants in achieving D-5 goals for patients with diabetes.
• Initiated a twice monthly Latino A-POD group on Wednesday evenings with Amy Shellabarger and Lesley Mondragon, co-facilitators and CHAT members.
• Continued weekly East African A-POD group with Ifrah Alim, Sara Ali, Sahra Ali as co-facilitators and CHAT members. Gennet Beyan is an assistant facilitator.
• Mentored numerous Phillips Neighborhood Clinic (PNC)/University of MN Health Science students affiliated with the PNC CHAT group who attended Meet-ups and monthly breakfasts 

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Learning by the Circle of Healing CHAT in 2013

• Ways of knowing represent a form of study and knowledge integral to creating health and managing the complexity and unpredictability of health
• A paradigm shift is required to be better able to care for communities
• Practitioners of healing ways have a role in informing the design of health delivery models
• Cultural ways of knowing facilitate a deeper process through which the body may achieve health and healing

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