"Telling our stories, first to ourselves and then to one another and the world, is a revolutionary act." - Janet Mock

At RECLAIM we believe in this quote - but what does it mean to tell your story? Have you ever wanted to share your story and didn't know how? How do we create community by sharing our stories with one another.

RECLAIM will host multiple sessions in helping people participate in the revolution and learn how to share their stories. Join us Thursday November 7th and/or Thursday December 5th from 6-7:30 at RECLAIM and learn how to share your story, first with yourself and then with the world. Snacks provided.

Facilitated by Laine Mohnkern and Quinn Rivenburgh:

Laine Mohnkern (They/Them) is Reclaim's Clinical Director. In addition to being a therapist for almost 10 years and serving the queer/trans community for over 20, they are also a published writer, director and actor for over 15 years. They previously have helped others create their own stories, and they believe that communication, continued practice and hope will continue to benefit areas they are committed to and strive to bring these commitments and beliefs to their therapeutic work, advisory practices, training and writing.

Quinn Ribenburgh (they/them) is an art therapist at Reclaim, and an artist working in the media of cut paper, graphic memoir, puppetry, and large-scale installation. In their art, they explore the intersections of bodies, environment, gender, and relations across difference. Their emphasis is on accountability, manifesting the pull they feel toward stories that are left silenced or unspoken. They desire a world in which a multiplicity of identities, of personhoods, of ways of being are ecstatically celebrated. As an artist and art therapist, Quinn works to attend to the poetry and metaphor of our life stories.

Intersectional Allyship for Professional Helpers:
Working across differences in race, class, ability, gender and sexual orientation

With Dr. Felicia Washington Sy, Executive Director of RECLAIM

This interactive workshop offers practical solutions to working across difference. Participants will learn how to be an ally for peers and client’s whose culture differs from their own. The training design operates from the essential position that anyone in a place of privilege can be an ally. For example, people from majority culture can be actionable allies to people of color, and men can be allies to women, cis people can be allies to transgender and gender non-conforming people, non-disabled people can be allies to those with different abilities, economically privileged people can be allies to those who are not and so on. Many of us lack the tools to effectively engage in the process of allyship defined as, “a lifelong process of building relationships based on trust, consistency, and accountability with marginalized individuals and groups of people.” Please join Dr. Felicia Washington Sy as she engages workshop participants in the systemic process of critical self-reflection, values orientation, safe space creation, and speaking out against bias and discrimination. The workshop educates participants about social justice and actively becoming a bridge for inclusivity. Those who supervise cross-culturally are especially encouraged to attend.

This will be an opportunity to receive eight CEUs for social workers. MFT, LPC/LPCC, Psychologists and Nursing CEUs pending. Two ethic credits are also available.

November 15, 2019
8:30 to 4:30

PrairieCare Institute
1934 Hennepin Ave
Minneapolis, MN 55403

Cost: $129 with sliding scale and work exchange options
For more information contact info@reclaim.care or call 612-235-6743

Register at: reclaimCEU1.eventbrite.com. Priority registration by November 6.

This workshop is a program of RECLAIM. At RECLAIM, we increase access to mental health support so that queer and trans youth may be free from oppression in all of its forms. We provide financially and culturally accessible care to queer and trans youth and their families, develop practitioners, and partner in community through training and education at the intersection of gender and racial justice.

RECLAIM’s Gratitude Circle is a monthly gathering to express our gratitude to our community, donors, and other volunteers. So many people step up to make RECLAIM's work to increase mental health support for queer and trans youth a possibility and we want to thank them! This is designed to be a low-pressure, no commitment opportunity and is a great place to start if you want to get more involved with RECLAIM.

Activities will be different each time, but include: signing letters and writing postcards, making phone calls to donors, folding/stuffing/preparing mailings, and creating/delivering handmade gifts to our steadfast supporters. We'll also work on crafts and decorations in preparation for our annual Celebrate the Love brunch every February.

We'll have light snacks and lots of fun! 5:00-6:30 on the Third Monday of each month (unless otherwise indicated).

RSVP to Samuel at samuel@reclaim.care. You're invited to fill out our volunteer application, although this is not required.

RECLAIM has a number of upcoming volunteer opportunities for people who are passionate about supporting queer and trans youth mental health. This orientation will focus on introducing new volunteers to be ambassadors for RECLAIM and preparing for our Celebrate the Love brunch on February 29, 2019.

Lunch & snacks will be served.

RECLAIM ambassadors play a huge role in our community networking and outreach. Ambassadors attend tabling and other community outreach events to represent RECLAIM's mission, vision, and work. If you're excited about the work that RECLAIM does and love to talk to folks, this role is for you!

Celebrate the Love volunteers are critical to preparing for and putting on a welcoming, stylish, effective event -- from creating decorations and crafts, setting up, supporting our silent auction, and cultivating a hospitable atmosphere.

Please be sure to fill out a volunteer application at: https://www.reclaim.care/how-to-help/volunteer.html

RSVP and questions to grey doolin at grey@reclaim.care