Rainbow Health, a non-profit shuts down [Video]

Former employees are shocked and heartbroken by leadership’s decision to close the nonprofit organization.

MINNEAPOLIS — Thousands of Minnesotans are in limbo after Rainbow Health announced it was closing immediately.

Rainbow Health is a nonprofit that specializes in helping members of the LGBTQ+ community. They served 2,366 Minnesotans last year, and former employees said they work with tens of thousands of people within a marginalized community.

“I learned a few minutes before 1 o’clock that I had before 5 p.m. to terminate services with my almost 40 clients, cancel all of my sessions for the rest of the day. I was booked until 7 o’clock. I had a client in the waiting room while staff was sobbing,” said former Rainbow Health Psychotherapist Lee Stark.

Stark said the organization’s closure could traumatize some of their clients.

“Many of the clients that we see, this is the only safe place that they have, the …