Health care professionals help increase voter registration through outreach | Entertainment/Life
, 2023-01-16 04:00:00,
Editor’s Note: This story, written by Callan Gray in KSTP.com in St. Paul, Minnesota, is part of the Solutions Journalism Network’s SoJo Exchange, a nonprofit organization dedicated to rigorous reporting on responses to social problems. Louisiana Inspired features solutions journalism stories that provide tangible evidence that positive change is happening right now elsewhere and in our own communities – solutions that can be adopted around the world.
So far, more than 450,000 absentee ballots have been accepted in Minnesota with less than a week to go until Election Day. Doctors, nurses and other health care personnel are helping provide a path to the polls through an initiative to increase voter registration.
At the MyHealth for Teens and Young Adults clinic in Hopkins, patients learn how to take care of their health and that of their community. Principal Connie Robertson shared the materials they use to talk to young people about voting.
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