During this time of “shelter in place/stay at home,” Mobile Outreach Outdoor Drop-In (MOODI) offers hospitality, community care, nursing and outreach services daily between 1-3pm at Peavey Park to homeless, unsheltered homeless and housing insecure individuals and families.

Our effort is a collaboration between many community groups and agencies.  Guided by the people from the Cultural Wellness Center, Southside Harm Reduction, along with community volunteers, health, and homeless outreach workers. We are grounded in mutual aid and cultural wellness approaches to moving from race to culture and community healings.

The MOODI model is created by partners who have joined forces over the years to reverse the practice of individualism, loss of community, and loss of culture.  Our response to Covid-19 is to show up in community, practice physical distancing and share resources of basic needs, hospitality, including cultural and spiritual resources because we know that in this time we must unite.

We also hope to expand this care to basic needs delivery to unsheltered homeless encampments and to at risk for homelessness families and individuals isolated during this time.

Please join us in these community care efforts by donating supplies, gift cards, and money or by volunteering on or off-site.

To Volunteer: email covidmobileoutreachmn@gmail.com

Financial Donations: Go to Give to the Max Cultural Wellness Center for MOODI (Mobile Outreach and Outdoor Drop-In) and make a donation of any size.

Food, Supply, Gift Card Donation (below see below for the items needed at this time): Donations can be dropped off at Peavey Park in Minneapolis between 1-3pm daily.  To arrange to have your donation picked up email covidmobileoutreachmn@gmail.com.

What we need:

-Camping Supplies: Flashlights, Non-disposable Bags, Backpacks, Tents, Sleeping Bags, Tarps, Pots, Pans, Hand Warmers, Plastic Tubs with Lids

-Clothing: Hats, Gloves, Scarves, Jackets, Rain Gear, Underwear, Thermal Underwear, Socks

-Food: Disposable Cups, Bottled Water, Juice, Instant Coffee, Cocoa, Non-perishable Individually Wrapped Snacks (granola bars, chips, beef jerky, nuts)

-Hygiene Items: Toothpaste, Shampoo, Soap, Deodorant (prior items preferred in small travel sizes), Toothbrushes, Tissue, Hand Sanitizer, Respiratory Masks, Bandanas, Rubber Gloves

-Over the counter medications & supplies: Tylenol, Band-Aids, Pads/Tampons, Band-aids, Condoms

-Infant Care Supplies

-Gift Cards to grocery, hardware, or general stores