Karen Organization of Minnesota

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Karen Organization of Minnesota KOM builds on the strengths of refugee and immigrant communities and removes barriers to wellbeing Who does KOM serve?

Mission Statement:
To build on the strengths of refugee and immigrant communities and remove barriers to achieving economic, social, and cultural wellbeing. Organization Overview:
The Karen Organization of Minnesota was founded in 2008 by refugees from Burma. As the first Karen-led social service agency in the U.S., KOM is often consulted by Minnesota and statewide agencies to learn about how to best serve refugees from Burma. While most of our clients are from Burma, we also serve clients from areas including Afghanistan, Ukraine, Southeast Asia, East Africa, and Latin America who now live in the Twin Cities. KOM offers employment and financial coaching services, social services, community health, and youth development programs to over 2,000 refugees and immigrants each year. Most of our staff and board members are from the communities we serve, giving us a unique ability to provide culturally responsive services and keep pace with the community’s changing needs. KOM provides services to all refugees from Burma in Minnesota, as well as other immigrant and refugee communities. Although KOM was founded by members of the Karen community, we serve all ethnic groups from Burma, including Karen, Karenni, Mon, Chin and more. As a member of the State of Minnesota’s Refugee Resettlement Network, KOM supports refugees from numerous countries including Afghanistan, Ukraine, Ethiopia, Somalia, and Latin America. KOM also welcomes diverse immigrants, refugees, low-income families and individuals, and English learners in our Career Pathways programs. KOM staff members speak English, Sgaw Karen, Pwo Karen, Karenni, Burmese, Thai, Hmong, Urdu, Dari, Pashto, and Spanish.

Congratulations to the Korean Service Center on their 35th anniversary! 🎉Our staff had a lovely evening celebrating with...
10/09/2026

Congratulations to the Korean Service Center on their 35th anniversary! 🎉Our staff had a lovely evening celebrating with our long-time partners at the Shoreview Community Center in September.

The Korean Service Center has partnered with us at KOM for over 10 years providing health and social services for elders, parents, and caregivers in the Karen community. From therapeutic stress management workshops to su***de prevention outreach, we are grateful for their contributions towards eliminating health disparities in the Asian communities.

💜As this October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, we also recognize KSC’s partnership in previous years creating culturally sensitive resources on mental health and domestic abuse.

*If you or someone you know is experiencing domestic violence, contact Minnesota Day One Hotline for confidential help 24/7 at 1-866-223-1111 (call) or 612-399-9995 (text); or call the National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-7233.

📲We can help you find support. Call the Karen Organization of Minnesota at ☎️651 788 7593 Monday – Friday 8:30am – 5:00pm, or visit us during walk-in hours Monday & Thursday from 9:00am – 3:00pm at 🏢2353 Rice St, Suite 240, Roseville, MN, 55113.

10/08/2026

Join Knya'Ni Club, KOM's youth after-school program, this fall! Come for tutoring, games, college tours, Karen & Karenni culture, and more. 📚🧩📓🖌️🎓

⏰Monday - Thursday, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
📆October 2026 - June 2027
📍Karen Organization of Minnesota
🙂Youth in grades 6th - 12th

Sign-up today by scanning the QR code on the flyer or go to our website at www.mnkaren.org/programs/youth-development/afterschool-program/
Students are welcome to join any time, but join soon so you don't miss anything!

Questions? Contact Pong Pop KOM Youth Development Coordinator at [email protected] or 651-202-3103.

Join Knya'Ni Club, KOM's youth after-school program, this fall! Come for tutoring, games, college tours, Karen & Karenni...
10/07/2026

Join Knya'Ni Club, KOM's youth after-school program, this fall! Come for tutoring, games, college tours, Karen & Karenni culture, and more. 📚🧩📓🖌️🎓

⏰Monday - Thursday, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
📆October 2026 - June 2027
📍Karen Organization of Minnesota
🙂Youth in grades 6th - 12th

Sign-up today: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=MyEdEIulkUqOsbIFq5f5jDkDMuEss8FAuQ4O5CafndtUOVQ5RklFNFhVR1RVR0EzQzlUNjg1RU1IOC4u&origin=QRCode&route=shorturl
Students are welcome to join any time, but join soon so you don't miss anything!

Questions? Contact Pong Pop KOM Youth Development Coordinator at [email protected] or 651-202-3103. View more info at www.mnkaren.org/programs/youth-development/afterschool-program/

🌱 Many thanks to Urban Roots and Fairview Health Services for working to make healthy food accessible to all. This garde...
10/06/2026

🌱 Many thanks to Urban Roots and Fairview Health Services for working to make healthy food accessible to all. This garden is a wonderful addition to our Rice Street community. Thank you for inviting us to the celebration!

🆕New community garden at the Fairview Rice Street Clinic.
📸 Pictured: Alice Buckner, KOM Executive Director, and Than Than, KOM Program Director for Health & Social Services.

Prepare for a career in Long-Term Care! Our next FREE Pre-CNA program is now open for January 2027🩺The Pre-CNA (Certifie...
10/05/2026

Prepare for a career in Long-Term Care! Our next FREE Pre-CNA program is now open for January 2027🩺

The Pre-CNA (Certified Nursing Assistant) class is for individuals who are interested in long-term care careers but are looking for extra language learning and hands-on practice before starting a CNA program.😷❤️

🗓Starting January 2027
⏰Monday & Wednesday, 9am - 12pm
📍Training will be held in person at KOM.

🌟Eligibility:
- MN resident
- Work authorized
- At least 18 years old and not enrolled in K-12 school
- Immigrant/refugee or child of immigrant/refugee
- Desire work in a long-term care career post-program completion, e.g. home health aide and CNA

🤓Interested? Complete the form on our website or scan the QR code on the flyer to be contacted about upcoming information sessions: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=MyEdEIulkUqOsbIFq5f5jF0LWIxtzTBNl50XYadeiFFUMFdXUkNaRENZWklCNDhLTE9ZQkVTV1FBNyQlQCN0PWcu

📲Questions? Contact: Lisa Khang at 651-253-3894 or [email protected]

TODAY, OCTOBER 2ND 10AM - 12PM at Allianz Field 🍎🥕🥦Free Farmers Markets through Keystone Community Services today, Octo...
10/02/2026

TODAY, OCTOBER 2ND 10AM - 12PM at Allianz Field 🍎🥕🥦
Free Farmers Markets through Keystone Community Services today, October 9th, and October 23rd. All are Drive-Through Events. 🚗

10/01/2026

Let's create a Karen community where everyone feels seen, valued, included, and supported.❤️
မီၤပကဒုးအိၣ်ထီၣ်ပှၤကညီတဝၢလၢပှၤကိးဂၤဒဲးဘၣ်တၢ်ထံၣ်အီၤ,ဘၣ်တၢ်ပာ်လုၢ်ပာ်ပှ့ၤအီၤ,ဘၣ်တၢ်ဒုးပၣ်ဃုာ်,ဒီးဘၣ်တၢ်ဆီၣ်ထွဲမၤစၢၤအီၤတက့ၢ်

Let's break the silence, reduce isolation, and build stronger connections.🤝
မီၤပမၤဟးဂီၤတၢ်အိၣ်ဘှ့ၣ်အိၣ်ဘှီၣ်,မၤလီၤစှၤတၢ်အိၣ်ထဲတဂၤ,ဒီးသူၣ်ထီၣ်(ဒုးအိၣ်ထီၣ်)တၢ်ဆဲးကျိးတၢ်ဒုးစဲဘူးလၢအဂံၢ်ဆူၣ်ဘါဆူၣ်တက့ၢ်

💜If you or someone you know needs support, call or text 988. 📲 Help is available 24 hours a day.
နၤမ့တမ့ၢ်ပှၤလၢနသ့ၣ်ညါမ့ၢ်လိၣ်ဘၣ်တၢ်ဆီၣ်ထွဲမၤစၢၤန့ၣ်,ကိးမ့တမ့ၢ်ဆှၢလီၤတၢ်ကစီၣ်ခီဖျိလီတဲစိနီၢ်ဂံၢ်၉၈၈တက့ၢ်. တၢ်မၤစၢၤအိၣ်ဝဲ၂၄နၣ်ရံၣ်အတီၢ်ပူၤလီၤ.

🤝Please reach out to the Karen Organization of Minnesota if you or your loved ones are experiencing social isolation. We have support groups for adults and seniors.
ဝံသးစူၤဆဲးကျိးဘၣ်ကညီကရၢမဲၣ်နံၣ်စိ ထၣ်ဖဲနၤမ့တမ့ၢ်ပှၤလၢနအဲၣ်တူၢ်ဘၣ်တၢ်အိၣ်ထဲတဂၤပအိၣ်ဒီးတၢ်မၤစၢၤကရူၢ်လၢပှၤနီၢ်ဒိၣ်ဒီးပှၤသးပှၢ်အဂီၢ်

ℹKaren Organization of Minnesota | 651 788 7593 | 2353 Rice St, Suite 240, Roseville, MN, 55113

Our Karen community. Our strength.
ပပှၤကညီတဝၢ. ပဂံၢ်ပဘါ.
Together, we create hope.
တပူၤဃီ,ပဒုးအိၣ်ထီၣ်တၢ်မုၢ်လၢ်

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SAVE THE DATE | မၤနီၢ် ကညီနံၣ်ထီၣ်သီ မုၢ်နံၤဝဲအံၤ❤️Join us for the Karen New Year Celebration 2766!📅 January 2nd & 3rd,...
09/29/2026

SAVE THE DATE | မၤနီၢ် ကညီနံၣ်ထီၣ်သီ မုၢ်နံၤဝဲအံၤ❤️
Join us for the Karen New Year Celebration 2766!

📅 January 2nd & 3rd, 2027
📍 Minnesota

Come together with our community to celebrate Karen culture, traditions, music, dance, and the New Year! More details coming soon. Stay tuned!

"Biking at Minnehaha Falls was fun. You have to work hard as a team. It’s good exercise. At the same time it was relaxin...
09/28/2026

"Biking at Minnehaha Falls was fun. You have to work hard as a team. It’s good exercise. At the same time it was relaxing with friends and family afterwards. I had a great time and enjoyed every moment of it," shared a student from our KOM summer youth weaving program.

Thanks, again, to Tickets for Kids Charities - MN for this opportunity for kids and parents to take a break from their daily routine and get outside this summer. Our group tried the two and four person bikes at the Minnehaha Falls Wheel of Fun Rentals. Although the hills were challenging, they pushed through and learned how to work together.
We hope our families encourage others in their circles to get out to the parks and bike!🚲

09/24/2026

September is Su***de Prevention Awareness Month. 🩵This year, we are Changing the Narrative on Su***de by starting conversations, reducing stigma, and reminding one another that no one has to struggle alone.
လါစဲးပထဲဘၢၢ်မ့ၢ်ဝဲ,တၢ်သ့ၣ်ညါပာ်ဖျါထီၣ်တၢ်ဒီသဒၢတၢ်မၤသံလီၤသးအလါလီၤ.
တနံၣ်အံၤ, ပကဆီတလဲတၢ်ထံၣ်တၢ်ကတိၤဘၣ်ဃးဒီးတၢ်မၤသံလီၤနီၢ်ကစၢ်သး, ခီဖျိတၢ်စးထီၣ်တၢ်ကတိၤသကိးတၢ်, မၤစှၤလီၤတၢ်လၤကပီၤဟးဂီၤအပနီၣ်, ဒီးဒုးသ့ၣ်နီၣ်သကိးလီၤပသးတဂၤဘၣ်တဂၤလၢတၢ်လၢပလဲၤခီဖျိတဖၣ်န့ၣ်ပတဘၣ်လဲၤခီဖျိအီၤထဲတဂၤဘၣ်

If you or someone you know needs support, call or text 988. 💜Help is available 24 hours a day. 988 Su***de & Crisis Lifeline
နၤ မ့တမ့ၢ် ပှၤလၢနသ့ၣ်ညါမ့ၢ်လိၣ်ဘၣ်တၢ်ဆီၣ်ထွဲမၤစၢၤန့ၣ်, ကိး မ့တမ့ၢ် ဆှၢလီၤတၢ်ကစီၣ်ခီဖျိလီတဲစိနီၢ်ဂံၢ်၉၈၈တက့ၢ်. တၢ်မၤစၢၤအိၣ်ဝဲ၂၄နၣ်ရံၣ်အတီၢ်ပူၤလီၤ.

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Address

2353 Rice Street, Ste 240
Roseville, MN
55113

Opening Hours

Monday 8:30am - 5pm
Tuesday 8:30am - 5pm
Wednesday 8:30am - 5pm
Thursday 8:30am - 5pm
Friday 8:30am - 5pm

Telephone

+16517887593

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