Community Resilience Roundtables:
Virtual Get-togethers

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Community Resilience Roundtables: Virtual Get-togethers

Thank you for your interest!  Our 2020-21 roundtables are now finished.  

If you would like to join another statewide conversation, the Center for Rural Policy and Development invites you to join their new “Interconnected Series” with the Citizens League.  Each event will begin with a look at CRPD’s latest research, followed by a panel discussion with speakers from urban and rural areas.

For more information and to register, please visit the CRPD website.

Learning Objectives:

  • Exploring new workforce tools
  • Understanding trends in health care
  • Accessing mental health resources
  • Reviewing new podcasts, blogs, and online learning
  • Connecting on critical work across communities

Description: Join county, city, township, and school board leaders for these free virtual get-togethers. Learn about research studies across Minnesota as well as a wide-variety of resources designed to support leaders and communities right now. Participants will also be invited to ask questions and weigh-in on emergent studies and opportunities.

  1. Learn more about the latest work of the Center for Rural Policy Development;
  2. Engage with COVID-19 resources from the University of Minnesota Extension;
  3. Apply community support strategies for mental health;
  4. Ask questions related to your work and access free resources available for you and your community.

Presenters:  Julie Tesch, President & CEO; Marnie Werner, VP of Research; Kelly Asche, Research Associate at the Center for Rural for Policy and Development
Emily Krekelberg, Extension Educator, Farm Safety & Health; Megan Roberts, Extension Educator, Ag Business Management

Center for Rural Policy and Development logoThe Center for Rural Policy and Development is a non-partisan, not-for-profit policy research organization dedicated to benefiting Minnesota by providing its policy makers with unbiased information and evaluation of issues from a rural perspective.

UM ExtensionUMN Extension's Rural Stress Task Force applies programming and expertise to help families respond to current economic, environmental, and societal challenges that affect communities across the state. The team works with state agencies and agricultural organizations as well as colleagues throughout the University of Minnesota.