Roots Wellness Center

12/22/2025

📢 Immediate Openings for ARMHS Services!

Roots Wellness Center currently has immediate availability for ARMHS (Adult Rehabilitative Mental Health Services).

If you or someone you know could benefit from support with mental health skills, daily functioning, and recovery, please reach out to us today.

📞 Call: (612) 289-5656
🌐 Visit:

Our directive is to help these adults gain independence in their homes and community. The adults in this program develop stability and social competencies, as well as basic social and living skills, in order to better manage symptoms of mental illness.

12/08/2025

We Need Your Winter Clothing Donations! ❄️

Roots Wellness Center is collecting child and adult clothing to support our clients this winter—especially winter gear for kids in Children's Day Treatment Program.

We are looking for children’s clothing for ages 6–9, and some children currently wear men’s medium for shirts. Hats, gloves, scarves, coats, and jackets are also appreciated.

📍 You can drop off donations at our main office (1916 University Ave W, St. Paul, MN 55104) or contact Sara Ho (612) 464-5143 for more information.

Your donations will help keep families in our community warm and cared for this winter. ❤️

12/05/2025

⚠️IMPORTANT RESOURCE: The Bridge is a "Warming Station" for youth ages 10-17 to escape dangerous temperatures ❄️

When temperatures drop below 0, youth ages 10-17 are welcome to come in and find FREE warm clothing, hot drinks, food, and safety from dangerous temperatures. Youth are able to utilize our lobby to warm up, grab a warm coat, mittens and scarf, have a cup of hot cocoa/coffee, and charge their phone.

We are located at 1111 W 22nd St in Minneapolis, off of bus lines 2, 6, and 12.

👉Check ysnmn.org or the YSNMN app for more resources around the area. And for more ways to assist our youth, visit www.bridgeforyouth.org

12/05/2025

❄️ Subzero temperatures arrive tonight, and for our neighbors experiencing homelessness, these conditions can be life-threatening.

In St. Paul, Catholic Charities Dorothy Day Place offers daytime shelter from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. daily, and overnight emergency shelter across the street. If you or someone you know needs assistance finding shelter in St. Paul, call 651-266-1050.

In Minneapolis, Catholic Charities Mary F. Frey Opportunity Center is open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday, and 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. If you or someone you know needs shelter in Minneapolis, call 612-204-8200

12/04/2025

Please spread the word! 🌟

Roots Wellness Center currently accepting referrals for:

✅ Children’s Therapeutic Services and Supports (CTSS) – Trauma-informed support for children to build coping skills and thrive at home, school, and in the community.

✅ ARMHS – Therapeutic support at home or in the community.

✅ Walk-in COMP Hours – Mondays through Thursdays, 8:30 AM to 2:00 PM at 1916 University Ave W, St. Paul, MN 55104. Same-day support available!

✅ Pretrial Support – Do you have court coming up or know someone who does? We’re outside advocates committed to helping people navigate the system, connect to treatment, DAs, mental health services, and court advocacy. We can even arrange free Lyft rides from jail and assist with immediate access to treatment, housing, or mental health services.

📍 Serving clients in Ramsey County, Hennepin County & surrounding areas
Contact us: info@rwc-mn.com | (612) 289-5656
Learn more: rwc-mn.com

At RWC, we’re here to support the mental wellness of children and families—and help our community succeed! 💚

11/26/2025

Roots Wellness Center is excited to offer Children’s Mental Health Targeted Case Management for families in Hennepin County, starting January 1st, 2026! We are accepting referrals now, however, to complete the DA and determine eligibility.

We know how overwhelming it can feel for caregivers when a child is struggling emotionally or behaviorally. Families often face long waitlists, confusing systems, and disconnected providers.

Our case managers are here to guide, support, and advocate. We use a trauma-informed, culturally rooted, whole-family approach to make sure you get connected to the services your child needs—therapy, school supports, CTSS, psychiatry, community resources, culturally-rooted resources and more.

How to get started:

If you have a current DA, send it to info@rwc-mn.com

If you need one, make an online referral and we’ll assign a DA

RWC is committed to supporting Black, Brown, Indigenous, immigrant, and all families who deserve access to care rooted in dignity and healing. 💚

11/25/2025

We are honored to share that Roots Wellness Center has been selected for the 2025 Good Neighbor Award by the City of Saint Paul.

This recognition reflects the work we do alongside families, community partners, and systems who trust us to walk with them. It highlights not just our services, but our commitment to relational healing, cultural humility, and showing up with care in the neighborhoods we serve.

We’re proud of this acknowledgment and grateful for everyone who continues to build community with us. 🌱🤝💚🥰

Watch our highlight video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfq9ciUgddM

11/21/2025

Thank you to the City of Saint Paul for the Good Neighbor Award! These are challenging times in our communities and we are so proud of the amazing staff who authentically provide culturally rooted, somatic and holistic wellness services. Congratulations to the other businesses and runner ups!!

Nineth Annual Business Awards program recognizes five Saint Paul businesses for their outstanding service to the community.

11/20/2025

Today marks Give to the Max Day, an important opportunity for us to achieve several key goals:

- Update the building in the retail space next door
- Hire a fourth community responder for ARI
- Afford employee health insurance costs in 2026
- Buffer against Medicaid changes
- Maintain current employee benefits while growing our existing programs

Your support can make a significant difference!!! Fiscal sponsorship through Indigenous Roots!!

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11/18/2025

Roots Wellness Center is on the brink of launching one of the most important initiatives in our organization’s history — a community-rooted Alternative Response to Police program in a small city in Ramsey County. This pilot has the power to transform public safety, reduce harm, and ensure our neighbors are met with compassion, not criminalization. Peace without Police.

We are so close — but we need your help.
Because of county budget constraints, we are short the funding needed to hire our 4th full-time Community Responder, which is essential for running the model safely in pairs and providing reliable response. To fully implement this program, we are seeking $125,000 to cover:

✨ A 4th FTE responder
✨ Living-wage pay + benefits
✨ Responder gear & equipment
✨ Vehicles + insurance
✨ A full month of intensive training
✨ Community engagement sessions across the city
✨ Administrative and program overhead

This investment is not just about staffing — it’s about creating real alternatives to police intervention, reducing unnecessary crises, and building a model of safety that is culturally responsive, trauma-informed, liberatory, and rooted in care rather than punishment.
We have been incredibly blessed to have fiscal sponsorship from Indigenous Roots Cultural Arts Center, whose leadership, support, and vision have carried us to this point.

We are also deeply grateful to Raj Sethmager and the entire ARI Steering Committee, whose dedication has helped shape this program every step of the way.

If you or someone you know is able to help us reach this goal, please reach out. Your support will quite literally transform what public safety can look like for our families, youth, and neighborhoods. We are grateful for fiscal sponsorship from Indigenous Roots Cultural Arts Center and for public safety funding from the Pohlad Foundation.

Thank you for believing in this work.
Thank you for believing in us. 💚

11/10/2025

Now Accepting CTSS Referrals! 🌿✨
Roots Wellness Center currently has openings for Children’s Therapeutic Services and Supports (CTSS)!

Our CTSS program provides individualized, trauma-informed support for children experiencing emotional or behavioral challenges. We work closely with families to help kids build coping skills, strengthen relationships, and thrive at home, school, and in their community. 💚

📍 Serving clients in: Ramsey County & Hennepin Counties & surrounding areas
📞 Refer today or reach out to learn more: info@rwc-mn.com
| (612) 289-5656

At RWC, we’re here to support the mental wellness of children and families through compassionate, culturally responsive care!

10/30/2025

This is the moment for foundations and funders to actually step up. I’m tired of the philanthropic industrial complex and the top-down mission drift it enforces, as well as the gatekeeping of who is deserving and who is not. The whole racial and moral superiority complex keeps us sick.

We need to also examine the belief that nonprofit structures are safer in terms of protecting tax dollars. Nonprofits are not inherently better, safer, or more ethical. They’re just as prone to mismanagement, fraud, and collapse, often made worse by disengaged and uninformed boards of directors. It would be funny if it wasn't. The philanthropic industrial complex is real.

Too many people are underreacting. Far too many people do not care because they think it won’t affect them. It started with immigrants. It won't stop with immigrants.

From a founder’s perspective, we need to talk about financial sustainability in our field and the oppressive beliefs baked into the nonprofit industrial complex. We are expected to be grateful for cost-reimbursement contracts that expect Black and Brown community providers to give endless emotional and intellectual labor for nothing. We are expected to survive on razor-thin margins that make it impossible to pay people what they deserve. Now, pauses on payments for services being rendered to the most vulnerable.

DHS looked the other way for years while billions in fraud flowed through the system.

And now, the same agencies that ignored the fraud are punishing everyone, including the organizations doing the real, ethical work — by pausing payments and starving programs that people depend on to survive.

Nonprofits and for-profits are not immune to the pressures of capitalism. We have to bill insurance to pay staff, keep the lights on, and keep food on the table for clients and ourselves — literally and figuratively. Health insurance costs for employees are skyrocketing. The price of food has doubled. Liability insurance has gone up because of the bad actors in our field. And yet, cost-reimbursement contracts provide zero cushion for overhead, turnover, unemployment, or inflation. Medicaid pauses, SNAP being cut, Medicaid cuts, the housing crisis, etc. We still need to make payroll, providers need to survive their own lives, and the community is in dire need of support.

Our staff deserve better. Our communities deserve better. It's not only about you.

The Real trickle-down effect is that the people with the least are always harmed the most. Bad actors — and the system’s failure to hold them accountable — end up punishing everyone. Especially the people relying on services for their health, safety, and survival.

To Foundations and Funders: People’s trauma is getting deeper by the minute. The behavioral-health field — the community-based, culturally rooted, somatic-healing spaces — are the ones holding it all together.

We need help. Not another roundtable or promise of “support someday.” We need actual investment — unrestricted, flexible, and fast. If you mean what you say about equity, community, and healing — act like it.