CLEARCorps/Minnesota is operated locally by The Sustainable Resources Center (SRC). Based in Minneapolis, SRC is a non-profit organization working to strengthen communities so children and families thrive. SRC focuses efforts on energy use and environmental issues. CLEARCorps/Minnesota began in Minneapolis and expanded to St. Paul and then rural Minnesota to respond to the statewide concern for lead poisoning.

SRC has developed a holistic approach to housing through our weatherization and lead programs. While Weatherization programs began addressing indoor air quality issues such as carbon monoxide and ventilation to reduce moisture, Lead Hazard Control programs began addressing lead dust contamination exposures. At SRC these two protocols have become intertwined in a working recognition of healthy housing principles that can improve the indoor environment at the same time creating more durable, comfortable and safe housing stock.

Through our delivery of weatherization and lead hazard control, SRC has come to incorporate healthy housing protocols into all our activities. Our programs offer a unique opportunity to view healthy housing protocols at work on the ground level. We are positioned to offer the opportunity to help improve homeowner health while lessening the burden of incurred health related costs on the family and to enhance the value of the home. By reclaiming the value of homes in our communities, we improve asset retention and value to low-income homeowners. CLEARCorps/Minnesota is a vital part of these activities.

The CLEARCorps Interactive Theater Project was also developed at CLEARCorps/Minnesota and is now being replicated at CLEARCorps affiliates around the country, using artistic expression as a new and exciting method for creating community dialogue and social change. The centerpiece of this project is Jimmy’s Getting Better, a full-length play created to raise local awareness and spur community action to prevent childhood lead poisoning.

Local partnerships

• Allina Health Care
• Blue Cross/Blue Shield
• Central Community Housing Trust
• Children’s Defense Fund
• City of Minneapolis
• City of St. Paul
• Community University Health Care Clinic
• First Plan Blue
• Greater Metropolitan Housing Corp.
• Greater Minneapolis Day Care Association
• Green Institute
• Hawthorne Area Community Council
• Health Partners
• Hennepin County
• Hennepin County Medical Center
• Housing Resource Centers
• Indian Health Board
• La Clinica on Lake
• Legal Aid Society/ Mid-MN Legal Assistance
• Medica
• Metropolitan Health Plan
• Minneapolis Center for Neighborhoods
• Minneapolis Foundation
• Minnesota Children’s Health Environment Coalition
• Minnesota Habitat for Humanity
• Minnesota Housing Development Corp.
• Minnesota Visiting Nurses Agency
• Neighborhood Revitalization Project
• Northside/Southside Neighborhood Housing Services
• Park Nicollet Clinics
• Pillsbury United Communities
• Pilot City Health Center
• Pilot City Neighborhood Services
• Project 504
• Project for Pride in Living
• Reuse Center
• St. Paul/Ramsey Co. Public Health
• State of Minnesota
• University of Minnesota
• Way to Grow
• U-Care Minnesota

Local funding and in-kind contributions

• City of Minneapolis
• Hennepin County
• Minneapolis Foundation
• Park Nicollet Clinics
• State of Minnesota
• Valspar Paint Manufacturers

Contacts

Chris Hale
Executive Director
CLEARCorps/Minnesota
Sustainable Resources Center
1081 10th Avenue SE
Minneapolis, MN 55414
Phone: 612-872-3289
Fax: 612-870-0729
c.hale@src-mn.org

Dan Wiersgalla
Program Director/Metro
CLEARCorps/Minnesota
Sustainable Resources Center
1081 10th Avenue SE
Minneapolis, MN 55414
Phone: 612-872-3287
Fax: 612-870-0729
d.wiersgalla@src-mn.org

Megan Curran
Program Director/Education and Outreach
CLEARCorps/Minnesota
Sustainable Resources Center
1081 10th Avenue SE
Minneapolis, MN 55414
Phone: 612-872-3282
Fax: 612-870-0729
m.curran@src-mn.org

CLEARCorps/Minnesota Team

Aree Bruder
Tenzin Choeying
Samuel J. Degear
Sadie R. Gannett
Naasir J. Gari
Tina E. Gerard
cami J. Harris
Annalisa J. Hultberg
Nancy E. Iverson
Ebronie T. Julius
Benjamin T. Rancourt
Bradley S. Rausch
Margaret M. Tyler

Ahmed M. Abdullahi
Katie K. Austad
Kathy Clouser
Ellen M. Fraizer

Internet links

Sustainable Resources Center

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