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Causes: Community Clinics, Health
Mission: Helping communities find solutions to chronic health issues in northeastern minnesota
Programs: Dementia friendly duluthour goal is to make the community more aware, informed, sensitive and supportive of people experiencing and caring for those with alzheimer's and other forms of dementia. Our objective is to improve awareness of the resources and organizations available to support people with dementia and their families and increase knowledge of dementia across the community. Ovationwe fund area organizations that provide peer-to-peer recovery programs for substance use disorders. By empowering our partners, we support advocacy - and innovative ways of achieving long-term recovery. In 2017 ovation, an initiative of the victory fund, was created as a program dedicated to finding solutions to and supporting recovery programs that increase the success of treatment of substance use disorders. In fiscal year 2017 the victory fund allocated up to $225,000 ($75,000 per year for 3 years) to develop, promote, and/or expand community-based recovery support which include, but are not limited to: - peer recovery support service programs - peer mentoring and coaching- peer recovery resource connections - recovery support for special populations - training academy/hub - community awareness/education - community sober housing - social support for recovery