Our partner, Dr. Nathan Bertelsen with the University of Minnesota, spoke to Nina Moini on MPR’s Minnesota Now program, discussing the new Asylum Medicine Clinic recently opened at CVT’s St. Paul Healing Center. Dr. Bertelsen said that asylum seekers in Minnesota can now receive free forensic medical and mental health evaluations at the clinic. He spoke about the process and the trauma-informed approaches CVT and our partners take for these evaluations, noting the importance of keeping things positive for each client who comes in: “We start before the client event walks in the door to make it a positive, warm environment.”

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New Minnesota Clinic for Asylum Seekers is First of its Kind in State

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Minnesota Public Radio