Journie 8 Step Program

Collaborators 

Lead Organization: Journie

Contact: NASHAUNA JOHNSON LENOIR ; Email: TBD ; Phone: TBD

Known/Likely Collaborators: 125 Live (aka Rochester Senior Center) ; Boys and Girls Club of Rochester ; Journie ; OpenBeam ; Rochester Area Foundation ; Rochester Public Schools ; United Way of Olmsted County

Potential Collaborators:

Related Projects

RISE for Equity Podcasts ; RISE for Youth

Impacts 

Major Impact:  Children & Youth

PlanScape Impacts :

Level 1: Children & Youth, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Mentoring, OpenBeam

Level 2: African American

DMC Impacts:

Education/Learning Environment

Community Health Impacts:

Type of Project

Programming  

Journie's workshop, 8 Steps to Promotion, is an intensive, 8-week program that uses interactive learning experiences to prepare youth for life and leadership. Participants who complete the program gain life skills in a variety of realms, including financial literacy, coping skills, healthy relationships, and educational and career planning.

Units include:

Video Recording

8 Step Program

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Sept. 16^th: Workshop: Finding your First Customers and sell without being salesy; Sept 21^st: Workshop: Financial Literacy; Sept. 28^th: Workshop: How to Start a Business from Scratch (Part 1); Oct. 5^th: Workshop: How to Start a Business from Scratch (Part 2);

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Rochester by mid-October

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"Abolishing racism, hate crimes, and white supremacy isn’t a problem for one group to face alone; it’s a shared burden that requires a strong and unified response."

August 2024 Report : Age-Friendly Olmsted County (AFOC) activities implementing the Age

Friendly Olmsted County 2022-2025 Action Plan since our annual report in February 2024.

3Q2024: July 2024 Admin Message and Reports

Newsletter Highlights:

Systems Change Designation; Data Updates; Network Updates; Contributors

Home Ownership Creation Program - Prairie Ridge: "NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the Common Council of the City of Rochester, MN hereby approves the contribution of $4,000,000 to the Prairie Ridge development to support the creation of 201 for-sale homes via the Home Ownership Creation Program.

The framework defines structural racism as the “totality of ways in which societies foster racial discrimination through mutually reinforcing systems of housing, education, employment, earnings, benefits, credit, media, health care and criminal justice.”

2Q 2024: June 2024; May 2024 - Admin Message, TBE Report; April 2024 - Admin Message, TBE Report

1Q 2024: Feb 2024 - Admin Message, TBE Report; Jan 2024: Admin Message, TBE Report

Special callouts: Women in Construction; City of Rochester Equity in Development 

June 24, 2024 City Council Study Session: Justice Equity Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) Audit per Goodenough 

Departmental Audit reports of: Human Resources; Rochester Public Library; Parks & Rec 

SASSA to receive $1M from MN to train workers for high-demand employment. 

The funding is awarded under the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) Targeted Populations Workforce Competitive Grant Program.

"Example of careers they are interested in include radiology, artificial Intelligence, surgery, aeronautical engineering, psychology, sports, business administration and many more!"