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SUMMARY:Financial Education Workshops
DESCRIPTION:This month\, the Karen Organization of Minnesota is hosting financial education workshops online for free to learn about setting financial goals\, budgeting\, and other important topics. \nUpcoming workshops:\nBudgeting Workshop: Thurs\, May 22nd\, 1-3 p.m. ONLINE \nCredit Workshop: Thurs\, June 12th\, 9:30-11:30 a.m. ONLINE \nSavings Workshop: Thurs\, June 26th\, 1-3 p.m. ONLINE \nSign-Up:\nComplete this form to register for an online financial workshop. After you submit the form\, you will receive an email with the link to join. \nOur workshops are open to Minnesota residents. Additional individual coaching services from KOM are available to residents of the Twin Cities Metro Area. \nIf you choose to participate in the workshop\, you may receive a $25 gift card for attending and participating fully. To receive a gift card\, you will be asked to show proof of your name and that you are Minnesota residents. \nWith questions\, please contact Latyran Adams \nLadams@mnkaren.org | 651-815-6844 \n  \nFree Karen Organization of Minnesota Financial Coaching Program\nOur Financial Employer Resource Navigators (FERNS) can help you make financial decisions that help you manage your expenses now and create pathways to build assets for the future. Our FERNS can help you create a budget\, understand and rebuild your credit\, strategies to pay off debt\, and build and savings plan to help you reach your financial goals. In addition\, our FERNS support you with career planning\, access to job training programs to support you with increasing your employer wage and assist you with job preparation and placement to stabilize your situation. \nTo schedule an appointment \nIf you have questions about Financial Coaching Program\, please email ladams@mnkaren.org.
URL:https://mnkaren.org/event/financial-education-workshops/2025-04-10/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250417T153000
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SUMMARY:Tea With KOM
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a new podcast-style series\, Tea With KOM\, where our Development Director\, Alice\, sits down with guest speakers from within KOM to discuss community stories\, news\, and other important topics. This engaging and informative session will give you an inside look at the work KOM is doing and how it impacts the community. Whether you’re a long-time supporter or new to KOM\, this is the perfect opportunity to learn\, engage\, and connect. \n\nClick here to join on Zoom\n\nUpcoming Sessions:\nThursday\, April 17th\, 3:30 – 4:30pm\nGuest Speaker: Suzanne Olive\, KOM Volunteer Coordinator \nTopic: April is National Volunteer Appreciation Month! Join us to hear about the impact volunteers have had on KOM throughout the years and what they’ve been up to this year. Suzanne is excited to tell you about the incredible people who have given time and skills to KOM’s mission. Suzanne has worked at KOM since 2017\, starting as an AmeriCorps VISTA. Throughout the years\, she’s helped coordinate KOM’s volunteer program\, oversee communications and outreach presentations\, and develop paid internship positions. \nThursday\, May 15th\, 6:30 – 7:30pm\nTopic: May is Mental Health Awareness Month\n\n\n\nလါ​မ့ၤ​ (ဒ့ၣ်​ညါ​) မ့ၣ်​ဝဲ​ဒၣ်​ သး​ဒီး​တၢ်​ဆိ​က​မိၣ်​ တၢ်​အိၣ်​ဆူၣ်​အိၣ်​ချ့​တၢ်​ပာ်​သူၣ်​ပာ်​သး​အ​လါ​\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for a vital conversation on Zoom with KOM health program staff this Mental Health Action Day on Thursday\, May 15th\, 2025. \n\n\nConversation topics: \nWhat are the mental health challenges for our community? \n\n\nWhat free programs and services are available at KOM or locally in response to these challenges? \n\n\nHow can I get involved as a volunteer? \nWhat are some easy ways to improve our daily mental wellbeing? \n\n\n\n\nဟဲ​နုာ်​လီၤ​က​တိၤ​သ​ကိး​တၢ်​ဒီး​ပ​ဝဲ​ က​ညီ​က​ရၢ​မဲၣ်​နံၣ်​စိ​ထၣ်​ KOM\, တၢ်​အိၣ်​ဆူၣ်​အိၣ်​ချ့​ပှၤ​တ​ဝၢ​ပှၤ​မၤ​တၢ်​ဖိ​တ​ဖၣ်​လၢ​ Zoom (စူ​မ်​) အ​ပူၤ​ လၢ​သး​ဒီး​တၢ်​ဆိ​က​မိၣ်​တၢ်​အိၣ်​ဆူၣ်​အိၣ်​ချ့​တၢ်​ဟူး​တၢ်​ဂဲၤ​မုၢ်​နံၤ​လၢ​ မုၢ်​လွံၢ်​နံၤ​ (မုၢ်​ပျဲၤ​)\, လါ​မ့ၤ​ (ဒ့ၣ်​ညါ​) ၥ၅​သီ​\, ၂​ဝ၂၅​ န့ၣ်​တ​က့ၢ်​. \n\n\nတၢ်​ဂ့ၢ်​လၢ​တၢ်​က​စံး​က​တိၤ​သ​ကိး​အ​ခိၣ်​တီ​တ​ဖၣ်​: \n\n\nတၢ်​ကီ​တၢ်​ခဲ​လၢ​အ​ဘၣ်​ထွဲ​လိာ်​ဃုာ်​ဒီး​သး​ဒီး​တၢ်​ဆိ​က​မိၣ်​တၢ်​အိၣ်​ဆူၣ်​အိၣ်​ချ့​လၢ​ပ​ပှၤ​တ​ဝၢ​အ​ပူၤ​န့ၣ်​မ့ၢ်​မ​နုၤ​သ့ၣ်​တ​ဖၣ်​လဲၣ်​? \n\n\nလၢ​တၢ်​က​ဘှါ​ဆှဲ​တၢ်​ဂ့ၢ်​ကီ​သ့ၣ်​တ​ဖၣ်​အံၤ​အ​ဂီၢ်​\, က​ညီ​က​ရၢ​မဲၣ်​နံၣ်​စိ​ထၣ်​ KOM\, မ့​တ​မ့ၢ်​ လၢ​လီၢ်​က​ဝီၤ​ပူၤ​\, တၢ်​ရဲၣ်​တၢ်​ကျဲၤ​ဒီး​တၢ်​ဆီၣ်​ထွဲ​မၤ​စၢၤ​အ​ကျိၤ​အ​ကျဲ​ န​ဒိး​န့ၢ်​အီၤ​သ့​ လၢ​တ​လၢာ်​အ​ပှ့ၤ​အ​က​လံၤ​မ့ၢ်​မ​နုၤ​ သ့ၣ်​တ​ဖၣ်​လဲၣ်​. \n\n\nယ​မၤ​သ​ကိး​တၢ်​ဒ်​ပှၤ​မၤ​တၢ်​လၢ​တၢ်​သး​အိၣ်​မုာ်​သး​မၤ​စၢၤ​တၢ်​တ​ဂၤ​အ​သိး​က​သ့​ဒ်​လဲၣ်​? \n\n\nကျဲ​လၢ​အ​ညီ​က​တၢၢ်​လၢ​က​မၤ​ဂ့ၤ​ထီၣ်​ပ​သး​တၢ်​ဆိ​က​မိၣ်​တၢ်​အိၣ်​ဆူၣ်​အိၣ်​ချ့​န့ၣ်​မ့ၢ်​တၢ်​မ​နုၤ​လဲၣ်​? \n\n\n\nThursday\, June 19th\, 3:30 – 4:30pm\nTopic: Continuing the Conversation about Mental Health in the Karen Community\nJoin our Development Director and one of our community health staff for a casual conversation about mental health challenges for our community\, with time for questions and meaningful discussion. \n\nHow to Join\nThese sessions will be delivered online on Zoom and are open to everyone\, no RSVP needed. All we ask is that you join in the first 15 minutes. Join on Zoom here. \nOur Tea With KOM sessions are completely free to tune into and we encourage all to join us. \nWith questions\, contact Alice Buckner.
URL:https://mnkaren.org/event/tea-with-kom/2025-04-17/
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SUMMARY:Apprentice Ready Info Sessions
DESCRIPTION:Interested in exploring a career path? Join us for an Information Session for our Apprentice Ready programs at the Karen Organization of Minnesota. You’ll get all the details about our program options and the jobs you can do in the trades after completing our training.\n\n\n\nMeet at KOM on Friday at 9 a.m. on April 18 or May 23!\nSign up here to let us know you’re coming and receive a reminder email.
URL:https://mnkaren.org/event/apprentice-ready-info-sessions/2025-04-18/
LOCATION:Karen Organization of Minnesota\, 2353 Rice Street\, Suite 240\, Roseville\, MN\, 55113\, United States
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SUMMARY:Karen Culture Presentation - ONLINE!
DESCRIPTION:Are you interested in learning more about Karen (K’nyaw) culture? Join us for our Karen Culture Presentation online every other month.\nDuring this presentation\, participants with learn about the Karen (K’nyaw) history\, culture\, and resettlement in the U.S. We will explore the history of the Karen and how they became refugees\, and discuss how the Karen have adapted to life in the U.S. We will also give a brief overview of Karen culture\, covering everything from food\, to clothing\, to family\, to communication styles\, and more. Come with open ears and any questions.  \nThis presentation will be delivered online. RSVP on Zoom to one of our upcoming sessions to receive the link: \nRSVP here  \n*Suggested donation of $15 to help cover staff time and preparation:  \nDonate here \nWant to request a presentation for a different date tailored to your group? Please see our Karen Culture Presentations page for more details and to fill out a request.
URL:https://mnkaren.org/event/karen-culture-presentation-online-4/2025-04-18/
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SUMMARY:Karenni Kay Htoe Boe Festival
DESCRIPTION:The Karenni Community of Minnesota is hosting their Kay Htoe Boe celebration on April 19th. Check out their flyers below and Facebook page for more information.\n\n\n\n\nSchedule of Events:\nSaturday\, April 19th\n10:00am: Main Ceremony\n3:00pm: Entertainment\nLocation: Como Park Senior High\nSunday\, April 20th\n8:00am – 9:00pm\nVolleyball Tournament\nLocation: North Dale Recreation Center\n\n\n\n\nThe Karenni people are known as the “Red Karen” and live in a small\, mountainous region to the north of Karen State and west of Thailand. There are over a dozen ethnic Karenni subgroups\, but they all speak the same language (with only small variations in dialect). The most important celebration for Karenni people is Kay Htoe Bo. This festival reflects the story on how the earth came into being. During the celebration\, Karenni people dance around a pole in order to maintain good health.
URL:https://mnkaren.org/event/karenni-kay-htoe-boe-festival/2025-04-19/
LOCATION:Como Park Senior High\, 740 Rose Ave W\, St Paul\, MN\, 55117\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250420T080000
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SUMMARY:Karenni Kay Htoe Boe Festival
DESCRIPTION:The Karenni Community of Minnesota is hosting their Kay Htoe Boe celebration on April 19th. Check out their flyers below and Facebook page for more information.\n\n\n\n\nSchedule of Events:\nSaturday\, April 19th\n10:00am: Main Ceremony\n3:00pm: Entertainment\nLocation: Como Park Senior High\nSunday\, April 20th\n8:00am – 9:00pm\nVolleyball Tournament\nLocation: North Dale Recreation Center\n\n\n\n\nThe Karenni people are known as the “Red Karen” and live in a small\, mountainous region to the north of Karen State and west of Thailand. There are over a dozen ethnic Karenni subgroups\, but they all speak the same language (with only small variations in dialect). The most important celebration for Karenni people is Kay Htoe Bo. This festival reflects the story on how the earth came into being. During the celebration\, Karenni people dance around a pole in order to maintain good health.
URL:https://mnkaren.org/event/karenni-kay-htoe-boe-festival/2025-04-20/
LOCATION:Como Park Senior High\, 740 Rose Ave W\, St Paul\, MN\, 55117\, United States
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SUMMARY:Financial Education Workshops
DESCRIPTION:This month\, the Karen Organization of Minnesota is hosting financial education workshops online for free to learn about setting financial goals\, budgeting\, and other important topics. \nUpcoming workshops:\nBudgeting Workshop: Thurs\, May 22nd\, 1-3 p.m. ONLINE \nCredit Workshop: Thurs\, June 12th\, 9:30-11:30 a.m. ONLINE \nSavings Workshop: Thurs\, June 26th\, 1-3 p.m. ONLINE \nSign-Up:\nComplete this form to register for an online financial workshop. After you submit the form\, you will receive an email with the link to join. \nOur workshops are open to Minnesota residents. Additional individual coaching services from KOM are available to residents of the Twin Cities Metro Area. \nIf you choose to participate in the workshop\, you may receive a $25 gift card for attending and participating fully. To receive a gift card\, you will be asked to show proof of your name and that you are Minnesota residents. \nWith questions\, please contact Latyran Adams \nLadams@mnkaren.org | 651-815-6844 \n  \nFree Karen Organization of Minnesota Financial Coaching Program\nOur Financial Employer Resource Navigators (FERNS) can help you make financial decisions that help you manage your expenses now and create pathways to build assets for the future. Our FERNS can help you create a budget\, understand and rebuild your credit\, strategies to pay off debt\, and build and savings plan to help you reach your financial goals. In addition\, our FERNS support you with career planning\, access to job training programs to support you with increasing your employer wage and assist you with job preparation and placement to stabilize your situation. \nTo schedule an appointment \nIf you have questions about Financial Coaching Program\, please email ladams@mnkaren.org.
URL:https://mnkaren.org/event/financial-education-workshops/2025-04-24/
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