Roots Wellness Center

04/21/2026

We are super excited to announce that we've been chosen, alongside Women's Advocates, Inc., to receive proceeds from the Voices of Hope concert on May 8th!!! Songs are written by singers at Stillwater and Shakopee Correctional Facilities, and performed by alumni and friends. The women chose domestic violence as their theme and the men chose mental health 🩷

04/21/2026

Spring cleaning season is here 🌱

As you go through your closet, consider setting aside items to donate.
We are currently accepting men’s court-appropriate clothing and shoes only (no women’s clothing needed at this time). These items help individuals show up with confidence for important moments.

We are also always accepting donations for infants and toddlers, including diapers, wipes, and other essentials.

Your extra items can make a real difference in someone’s life.

📍 Drop-off at 1916 University Ave.
📩 Questions: 612-289-5656, info@rwc-mn.com

04/21/2026

We are super excited to announce that we've been chosen, alongside Women's Advocates, Inc., to receive proceeds from the Voices of Hope concert on May 8th!!! Songs are sung by singers at Stillwater and Shakopee Correctional Facilities. The women chose domestic violence as their theme and the men chose mental health 🩷

04/21/2026

🚨 Now Hiring: Alternative Response Community Responder (St. Paul, MN) 🚨

We’re looking for a Community Responder to support individuals, families, and neighborhoods through non-emergency situations. This role focuses on de-escalation, resource connection, and community-based problem solving.

Pay: $25–$27 per hour
Location: Community-based (St. Paul, MN)
Full-time | Contract through 2026 (with potential extension)

Benefits include:
• 13 days PTO + 2 floating holidays
• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Term life insurance

Key responsibilities:
• Respond in pairs to community calls
• Assist with conflict resolution and minor disputes
• Connect individuals and families to community resources
• Support youth, families, and individuals in non-emergency situations
• Follow up and document incidents as needed

Ideal candidates have experience in social services, community engagement, crisis intervention, or related fields, and are comfortable working in dynamic, real-world community settings.

To apply, please visit:

04/21/2026

The JPA agreement was signed between Maplewood Police Department and Roots Wellness Center/Ramsey County for Appropriate Response Initiative, TODAY, at City Hall. Thank you, Ramsey County Commissioners and Ramsey County, for your support!!!

04/17/2026

🌿 We’re Hiring: CTSS Behavioral Health Practitioner 🌿

Roots Wellness Center is looking for a CTSS Behavioral Health Practitioner to join our team.

This role provides in-home and telehealth mental health skills services to support children and adults in managing symptoms and building day-to-day coping skills.

We’re a team that values community, cultural responsiveness, and social justice in the way we provide care.

What the role looks like:
• In-home and telehealth work
• Flexible full-time or part-time schedule
• Clinical supervision and support
• Community-based mental health services

We’re looking for someone who:
• Has experience or interest in behavioral health
• Can work independently in the field
• Is organized and comfortable with documentation
• Values culturally responsive and trauma-informed care

BIPOC, bilingual, and LGBTQ+ applicants are strongly encouraged to apply.

📩 If interested, send your resume or questions to: info@rwc-mn.com
🌐

04/15/2026

Immediate openings in our virtual IOP for substance use, which is holistic, somatic and culturally rooted. As we also expand into northern counties and rural areas with ARMHS services and virtual therapy, the real and dire substance use concerns in rural areas cannot be denied. Many folks would like a trauma informed, culturally rooted, somatic and holistic treatment approach and want options outside of their smaller towns for IOP treatment! 

04/14/2026

Roots Wellness Center is a grassroots, immigrant-owned mental health and recovery services agency focused on holistic, culturally rooted, de-westernized wellness supports. We understand that systems create inequitable barriers and challenges for those with marginalized identities. We address such barriers to equitable care by providing decolonized services that view individuals and families not just within their environmental contexts and the lens of systemic oppression, but also intergenerational and decolonized healing.
 
Our mission is to expose the systematic nature of trauma and oppression, and empower the liberation of the bodies, minds, and spirits of those in our community through holistic, cultural, somatic, and systematic support.
Every contribution helps us expand services, support families, and ensure accessible care for those most affected by systemic barriers.
Follow this link or the link in our bio to donate:
https://www.givemn.org/organization/Roots-Wellness

04/08/2026

Thank you, MinnPost for sharing the stories of those on the ground, and how the "Big Beautiful Bill" is hurting the people who are trying to survive on very little, people who depend on Medicaid for their healthcare.

I am truly proud of the team at RWC and the compassion that they provide to the people in our doors. I was not able to heal from the racial trauma I needed to heal from when I went to treatment in Minnesota.

We do things the ROOTS way, our own model, Regulate to Liberate, which is truly helping to shift how we think about addiction. The system is profiting off of people's pain and oppression, therefore recovery is an act of resistance and liberation:

Patients and providers in Minnesota fear federal cuts to Medicaid will disrupt treatment services for people with substance use disorder.

04/07/2026

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey appeared to take the event in stride, saying: “If making fun of me raises more money for rental assistance, that’s a great outcome.”

04/07/2026

We have more to add to our chronicles of the Minnesota DHS fraud reaction nightmare.

We learned this week that DHS is currently aware of suspicious billing activity at a large White SUD organization in the Twin Cities. They have concrete reasons to be concerned. But has their billing been suspended? No. Innocent before proven guilty.

Fortunately, due to advocates calling, Roots Wellness Center had our funding turned back on within one week, but after a large of amount of time wasted on our end. Our funding was only reinstated after advocates stepped in. That should never be the requirement for basic fairness. We have passed CTSS and ARMHS Certification reviews, vendor compliance audits at Hennepin County, MDH audits, insurance audits and 245G licensing audits. But...guilty until proven innocent.

This larger White agency has even been telling clients who want to transfer to Roots Wellness Center for treatment that they cannot come, saying their insurance won't cover it and we're closing down. False.

Well, we are very much OPEN.

Yes, it's a challenge in this climate, no doubt. Insurance is denying, participants are losing their insurance, UCare still owes money from 2025, and a county failed to submit TCM rates to DHS until this month.

Walz picked Optum for these audits, and they are notorious for denying claims and are under investigation by the DOJ, from what I understand.

Thankfully, the Women's Foundation of Minnesota, the MN Black Collective, as well as the Janisha Gabriel Movement Protection Fund, helped us out. They also allowed us to sustain our rapid response therapy line and cover $30k in mutual aid requests. Thank you to the community for your donations as well, and to Indigenous Roots Cultural Arts Center for being our fiscal sponsor. Lastly, our own fiscal discipline has given us a temporary cushion to help us sustain through difficult times. But cost reimbursement contracts with 10% indirect make it difficult.

We have received an incredible amount of run around from DHS and the background studies department. There are very few people at DHS who are concerned about how this impacts the most vulnerable people at the end of the day, and would rather send you to the MHCP help desk than actually do their job and help providers. The run around demonstrates a full display of incompetence or concern at the state. It's embarrassing.

When I emailed DHS and pointed out these disparities, they got defensive that I would even suggest there is racial bias. Really? A White Youtuber can come to MN to spin this narrative about people of color and fraud and look at how BIPOC orgs are being targeted. The media fails to report on the massive amounts of fraud committed by White organizations.

Do I making everything about race? Yes, I do. Because everything is. We're all born into the white 'supremacist' society. We live in a racialized society.

People are going without medications and healthcare, don't have housing or food, and DHS wants to act like it doesn't target BIPOC organizations disproportionately.

A few county Commissioners have really shown up in Ramsey County as well, thank you to the elected officials who take their office seriously, and serve the community, not the county's interests only (McMurtrey and Miller)

04/06/2026

During the peak of ICE occupation of Minnesota, we launched a free therapy line for families & individuals affected by ICE. Since then, our Rapid Response hotline has supported over 100 people, including children as young as 5 years old receive ongoing mental health care. This work has been sustained by community support. But our funding is now running out. Without additional support, we will be forced to end this free therapy line, cutting off a critical lifeline for families navigating fear, trauma, and uncertainty. Because of donors like you, we’ve been able to keep going longer than expected. Today, we’re asking for your help to continue. Every little bit helps.
With your support, we can continue helping our community heal; one call, one family, one life at a time.
Donate today. Share if you can. Stand with our community. https://www.givemn.org/story/kue44g