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Oct

09

Benefit Analysis

Report finds that early intervention to avoid sex trading and trafficking of Minnesota's female youth passes rigorous beneft-cost test with a return on investment of $34 in benefit for each $1 in cost.

This study was commissioned by Minnesota Indian Women's Resource Center with funding from the Nathan Cummings Foundation. Additional support was provided by the authors.

For additional copies of the full report, or a copy of the executive summary, please contact the Minnesota Indian Women's Resource Center at 612-728-2000, or Suzanne Koepplinger at skoepplinger@miwrc.org, or Joni Buffalohead at jbuffalohead@miwrc.org  or http://www.miwrc.org/aboutus

 

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Aug

09

"MIWRC Executive Director Suzanne Koepplinger attends signing of Tribal Law and Order Act at the White House."

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Aug

06

MIWRC Sex Trafficking Report Released

The Minnesota Indian Women's Resource Center (MIWRC) of Minneapolis, MN has released its ground breaking report on the scope of sex trafficking of American Indians in Minnesota.

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Jul

13

Trafficking presentation power point

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Mar

03

Suzanne's Visit to the United Nations

     Suzanne Koepplinger, MIWRC's Executive Director, was invited this March to attend a reception for the United States Mission at the United Nations hosted by the Honorable Susan Rice, Permanent Representative to the UN, in NYC on Wednesday, March 3rd. 

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“My name is Ashley I am 26 years old and I’m an enrolled member from the Standing Rock Sioux Nation. I’m engaged to my loving fiancée Wayne and we have three Sons and One daughter. I’ve been here in the Twin Cities since March 2009. I relocated here from Bismarck N.D shortly after I received my degree in Nutrition from United Tribes Technical College. Being that my Fiancee was from South Minneapolis and my admiration for the Indian Community I was excited for the move. Times got hard because we didn’t have our own place and jobs didn’t come by easy which made us vulnerable and often stressed. With our good faith and sobriety, I began searching for more support and encouragement and that is when I came across the Minnesota Indians Women’s Resource Center. I was happy to find out that MIWRC was willing to help my family out being we were a two parent family. I appreciated that I could be completely honest with my family’s situation and not have to worry about being discriminated against for being with my Fiancee. Eventually we found jobs and were on the right path to independence but as usual theirs always those obstacles that come up and we had a couple for instance, we had a car but needed car insurance and we found a place to live but didn’t quite have enough for first months rent and deposit fortunately, MIWRC was able to assist us financially with our situation. They paid two months car insurance and also helped pay for our 1st months rent. I am so grateful for the programs at MIWRC they gave my family and I the head start we needed to become financially stable. The workers were friendly and very informative especially Karen and Tamara who went great lengths to make sure my family and I were taken care of. Thank you so much MIWRC! ”

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