Minnesota Legislature
Community Supports / Social Asset Working Group
Scope: To define, identify, and promote social asset programs and initiatives, and illustrate the return on investment of such programs and activities.
Group Leadership
Representative Morrie Lanning, Task Force Chair
rep.morrie.lanning@house.mn or 651-296-5515
Pam Johnson, Minnesota Community Action Partnership
pamjohnson@minncap.org or 651-645-7425 x 2
Proposed 2011 Legislation
Meetings - Upcoming and Archives
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Additional Resources and Reading
- Dropout Prevention: School Community Collaboration (Regional Educational Laboratory at Learning Point Associates)
- Listening to New Voices Youth Voices on Staying in School & Dropout Prevention in Minnesota (Konopka Institute)
- Analyzing the Social Return on Investment in Youth Mentoring Programs (Wilder Research)
- Economic Benefits to Halving Minneapolis' Dropout Rate (Alliance for Excellent Education)
- Getting To Outcomes With Developmental Assets (Search Institute)
- A City Platform for Strengthening Families and Improving Outcomes for Children and Youth (National League of Cities)
- A proposal to advance the Circles of Support (CAP White Paper)
- Creating an Infrastructure to Support Asset Building across a Community (Search Institute White Paper)
- Citizen's League Pathways to Prosperity Project
- Ideas
Public Members
Mary Nienow, Child Care Works
Stan Groff, Second Harvest Heartland Food Bank and Food Shelf
Joan Wittman, Sisters of Carondolet
Marsha Cressy, STEP
Effie Coup
Kim Shaff, CAP of Ramsey and Washington Counties
Daniel DuHamel, Office of Economic Opportunity - DHS
Daniel Hicks, Senate Majority Research
Angie Miller, CAP Duluth
Xavier Bell, CAP Duluth
Teresa McCauley, WomenVenture
Alice Moren, Kootasca CAP
Jim Woehrle, Kootasca CAP
Wendy Heath, Tri-CAP
Mary Ackerman, Search Institute
Susie Schatz, Lutheran Social Service of MN
Gregory Gray, Community Action of Minneapolis
Penny Clements, Circles of Support -- Itasca County
Jenny Schwope, OESW
Marie Melroe, OESW
Staff
Greg Hubinger, Legislative Coordinating Commission