Welcome

The Backyard Initiative is Allina's effort to galvanize a coalition of community residents and community-based, government, education and health care organizations towards improving the health and health care of residents of the communities within the Backyard: Central, Powderhorn Park, Corcoran, Ventura Village, Phillips West, Midtown Phillips, East Phillips.

If you are a resident of one of these neighborhoods, please come to participate.

Got Sun?

The Cultural Wellness Center is inviting YOU to join us to conduct a community-based research study to see if Vitamin D supplementation will reduce blood pressure in study participants with low Vitamin D levels and pre- hypertension.

If you are between 18-50 years of age and don’t have high blood pressure you may be eligible to participate. Eligible participants must not be taking any blood pressure medications, have history of heart, liver or kidney problems, or diabetes. Participation in the study will involve several visits to the Cultural Wellness Center.

Eligible participants will be reimbursed for their participation in the study. Please call (612) 722-3169 or email DaylightStudy@ppcwc.org for more information.

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Cultural Self-Study for European Americans

This group meets every month to provide a space for those of us of European American heritage to share the knowledge we are gathering about our present day culture and root cultures and to provide support and resources for each other. Root cultures are those ancestral cultures which still affect our present day lives and which have great knowledge and wisdom to bring forth to address the voids and gaps in our present day culture. 

The Roots of Whiteness

Thursday, January 26, 6:30 - 8:30 PM

Watch an excerpt from the documentary, Race: The Power of an Illusion, and discuss the roots of whiteness.  Contact Janice Barbee at janice@ppcwc.org for more information. Discussion will take place at the Cultural Wellness Center, 2025 Portland in Minneapolis