MPR's Marisa Helms reports on Neighborhood House, a St. Paul community center providing services for the growing numbers of immigrants and refugees in the metro area. Neighborhood House is celebrating the grand opening of its new building in St. Paul, which is named after Paul and Sheila Wellstone.
The origins of Neighborhood House go back more than a hundred years. Neighborhood House has provided services to over one million people since it opened in the late 1800s. It is also is known as the birthplace of the Hmong Naturalization Act (the act gave citizenship to Hmong veterans who fought for the United States during the Vietnam war).