Care Providers of Minnesota is located—and our members operate—on the ancestral lands of the Dakota1, Lakota and Ojibwe2/Anishinaabe People. We acknowledge the Ho-Chunk, Cheyenne, Oto, Iowa, Sac. Fox, Arapaho, Omaha, Ottawa, Ponca, Sauk, Winnebago, Wyandot, and the other nations of people who also called this place home. We pay respect to their elders, past and present.
Minnesota is undergoing an unprecedented demographic shift, becoming increasingly diverse and aging rapidly. Recent data from the 2020 U.S. Census shows that people of color make up nearly 24 percent of Minnesota’s 5.7 million residents, up from about 15 percent 10 years ago. The demographic changes were driven by growing populations of Black, Asian, Hispanic and multiracial residents along with the number of white Minnesotans declining for the first time in state history.
Care Providers of Minnesota acknowledges that our Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC), LGTBQ+, immigrant and refugee, and all marginalized voices have been neither equally/fully visible nor respected in our communities. Our goal is to create communities and systems that support our workforce and leadership development within our workforce and also support aging with dignity, quality and a spirit of well-being in Minnesota for all.
We strategically focus on several key areas including education, advocacy, workforce development and quality–each focus has significant intersections with equity considerations, noted below. To be effective in supporting all members on their journeys to operational excellence, we need to address the equity tensions inherent in the work we do, and the opportunities to be more inclusive in our strategic work.