Heart of New Ulm

Poker Walk June 3
2022-06-03 10:00 - 16:00 (America/Chicago)
The New Ulm Area Chamber of Commerce and Ameriprise Financial, with promotional support from the Heart of New Ulm, invite everyone in New Ulm to participate in the 7th Annual Poker Walk every Friday in June to promote financial and physical wellness.
Here’s how it works:

Every Friday during the month of June, check out the Chamber’s or Heart of New Ulm’s Facebook page for the week’s designated one-mile route, which will include stops at five participating Chamber businesses. You can also pick up a printed copy at the New Ulm Chamber office at 1 N. Minnesota St.
Participants need to stop at each business between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. and pick up a playing card, assemble their poker hand, and then stop at the Chamber office at 1 N. Minnesota St. to drop off and register their hand by 4:30 p.m. each Friday.
Each card has one, two or three star-hole punches. Make sure that the card you receive from each business is the same number of stars as your previous one. Poker hands must be submitted with all cards with the same number of star punches.
Email photos of yourself participating in the walk to chamber@newulm.com and you will be entered into a drawing for $10 in Chamber Dollars. Get creative, as these will be posted to the New Ulm Chamber Facebook page (for group photos, identify the people in the photo in your email).
The winning hand from each week will be entered into the Grand Prize Drawing to win $250 worth of gift cards to local businesses.

Worksite Wellness and Community Health Challenge Action Team Meeting
2022-05-24 13:00 - 14:00, 2022-04-26 13:00 - 14:00, 2022-03-22 13:00 - 14:00, 2022-02-22 13:00 - 14:00, 2022-01-25 13:00 - 14:00
Monthly 4th Tuesday of the month from 1-2pm

Downtown Action Team Meeting
2022-05-20 12:00 - 13:00, 2022-04-15 12:00 - 13:00, 2022-03-18 12:00 - 13:00, 2022-02-18 12:00 - 13:00, 2022-01-21 12:00 - 13:00 | New Ulm Area Chamber of Commerce & Visitor Center, 1 N Minnesota St, New Ulm, MN, 56073, United States
Every Third Friday from 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm.

New Ulm Bike Group
2022-05-19 17:30 - 18:30, 2022-04-21 17:30 - 18:30, 2022-03-17 17:30 - 18:30, 2022-02-17 17:30 - 18:30, 2022-01-20 17:30 - 18:30
3rd Thursday of the month from 5:30-6:30

Coalition for Active, Safe and Healthy Streets (CASHS)
2022-05-19 08:00 - 09:00, 2022-03-17 08:00 - 09:00, 2022-01-20 08:00 - 09:00
3rd Thursday every other month from 8-9am (odd months)

Food Environment Action Team
2022-05-17 09:30 - 10:30, 2022-04-19 09:30 - 10:30, 2022-03-15 09:30 - 10:30, 2022-02-15 09:30 - 10:30
Monthly 3rd Tuesday from 9:30-10:30

Brown County Chemical Health Action Team (CHAT)
2022-05-11 14:00 - 15:00, 2022-04-13 14:00 - 15:00, 2022-03-09 14:00 - 15:00, 2022-02-09 14:00 - 15:00
Monthly 2nd Wednesday from 2-3pm

Understanding NEAR Science: Building Self-Healing Communities
2022-05-03 09:00 - 14:30 | Turner Hall, 102 S State St, New Ulm, MN, 56073, United States
Registration link: https://tinyurl.com/NEARscience
NEAR Science stands for Neurobiology, Epigenetics, ACEs and Resilience research.
Addressing intergenerational and historical trauma is going to take a lot of creative solutions and approaches. Although a short presentation does not provide all the answers, the key goal of this presentation is to build a common language and understanding about Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and the related research as a starting point.
Understanding NEAR Science: Building Self-Healing Communities is presented in three sections:

Neurobiology & Epigenetics focuses on how our brains adapt to our environment during childhood and some basic concepts about related to how toxic stress can impact healthy development.
Key Findings from the ACE study highlights some of the data from the original ACE Study.
Resilience provides a framework for thinking about resilience, and focuses primarily on attachment and belonging, supporting individual capabilities, and culture, community and spirituality as key protective systems.

After attending this presentation, attendees are encouraged to think about how this information could be applied within their own “sphere of influence” (family, workplace, school, community, etc.).
Agenda:
9 – 9:30 a.m. — Registration, refreshments, icebreaker
9:30 – 11:30 a.m. — Presentation
11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. — Networking lunch (free)
12:30 – 2:30 p.m. — Presentation and reflection questions
Presenters:
Barb Sorum, Director of Prevention Initiatives, FamilyWise
Melinda Haupt, Masters in Social Work student, FamilyWise
Melinda is passionate about mental health and has years of Social Work experience, ranging from DD and MI to School settings.
Training curriculum created by

Worksite Wellness Networking and Training Event - Good Mental Health in the Workplace: Five Things You Can Do
2022-04-14 11:30 - 13:00 | Zoom
April 2022 HONU Worksite Event

The People Project Kick-Off Meeting
2022-01-25 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom
Employee Wellness Leaders
Join us to learn more about The People Project: Promoting Health Through Happiness
The Heart of New Ulm is pleased to offer New Ulm-area employers the opportunity to participate in The People Project, a free, unique project designed to help employees build resiliency.
The goal: Our goal is to create a community that flourishes where residents feel supportive connections to one another, individuals have honed resiliency skills, and the community culture attracts people to want to live and work in New Ulm.
We seek to do this by developing tools and implement a strategy to permeate within our existing social structures to promote fun, evidence-based mental well-being strategies that result in better connected, happier people. The strategies are based on the PERMA (positive emotion, engagement, positive relationships, meaning and accomplishment) theory of well-being.
Learn more and get started!
The People Project is recruiting organizations that wish to participate and asks for one or two representatives from each organization to serve
as champions.
Timing: January 25, 2022 – June 30, 2022
Time commitment for champions:
15-20 minutes per week

One kick-off meeting, 1 hour
Pre- and post-assessment, 15 minutes each
Champions launch monthly happiness tool
Mini-group meetings every month

Kick-off meeting via Zoom:
Tuesday, January 25, 2022
12 to 1 p.m.
Register For Kick-Off Meeting
Contact us for more information.
The People Project is modeled after The Bounce Back Project™ of Buffalo, Minnesota
