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Please welcome Kevin Hardwick, Better Futures' new Director of Integrated Care and Supports!

 

We are pleased to announce, Kevin Hardwick has assumed the new role of Director of Integrated Care and Supports at Better Futures Minnesota. Kevin is responsible for overseeing the delivery of the four core components of our integrated care model:

  • Life coaching
  • Access to a health home and mental wellness services
  • Pathways to stable jobs
  • Stable housing services  

 

Kevin is an accomplished behavioral health clinician and pastoral care provider.  For more than 25 years, he has provided clinical case management services and behavioral health therapy for homeless families and at-risk adolescents and adults. 

 

Please join us in welcoming Kevin to the Better Futures community.  

 


 

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

KSTP TV Story: Better Futures MN Helping People With Second Chances by Going Green

 

KSTP TV aired a news story this month regarding Minnesotans getting a second chance to build a new life by tearing down homes. The story featured the good work Better Futures Minnesota is doing by taking apart and recycling homes, while giving workers a new start.

 

The story reports: "In this type of green deconstruction anything in the home that can be saved is sold or recycled."

 

"The method we use will achieve a recycling or reuse rate of about 90 percent, so only about 10 percent of these buildings will end up in a landfill," said Steve Thomas with Better Futures Minnesota.

 

> Learn more about our deconstruction work 

 

> Check out the KSTP TV Story! 

Trauma-informed Care Training was Informative!

 

Earlier this month, The National Center for Trauma-Informed Care (NCTIC) provided trauma-informed care training at Better Futures. Over 100 practitioners from the Twin Cities attended the event.

 

Trauma-informed care is a successful approach that is being used in a wide range of service systems. This approach recognizes the negative and lasting consequences trauma has on those who have experienced adverse events in their lives. The basic premise of trauma informed care "ask those you serve what happened to them ... Instead of what's wrong with you" - speaker M.D. Brian R. Sims.

 

Practitioners walked away with:  

  • A better understanding of trauma-informed care techniques
  • New information to help incorporate values and approaches focused on safety and prevention for clients and staff
  • Tools to create strengths-based environments and practices that allow for client and survivor empowerment
  • Strategies to improve and target staff hiring practices
"Trauma-informed care is about doing no more harm" - says William Kellibrew IV, motivational speaker at the training.

 

Kellibrew wrapped up our Trauma-informed care sessions by singing an inspirational song cover by Josh Groban "You Raise Me Up."

 

> Review the Power Points used in the training:

> Check out our blog regarding trauma-informed care!

 

 Special "thank you" to Medica Foundation and SAMHSA's 

National Center for Trauma Informed Care for sponsoring this training.


 

Medica Foundation