May 11, the Jeffers City Council unanimously passed
a Tobacco-free Park Policy, which includes prohibiting the use of e-cigarettes,
for their city park, basketball courts, tennis courts, and community gathering
area. Congratulations to Jeffers for being one of the few cities in Cottonwood
County to pass a tobacco-free park policy. The policy will be effective on June
1, 2015. Kudos to Des Moines Valley Public Health TFC for assisting Jeffers in
the policy development process and working with city officials to communicate
the new tobacco policy.
May 13, the St. Louis County
Board of Commissioners passed a strong e-cigarette policy that includes
limiting the use of e-cigarettes anywhere smoking is prohibited and closed the
sampling loophole, including vape shops. Kudos to Jill Doberstein, a ClearWay
grantee at American Lung Association, for her hard work, to the many volunteers
who testified including physicians, a pharmacist, public health, students,
and many more.
Do you have a resource or success story (“gem”) to share for a future issue? Submissions for each week’s Thursday publication are due by noon every Tuesday to Health.MakingitBetter@state.mn.us or community specialists for:
Featured Speaker, Stephen M. Dent, founder Partnership Continuum, Inc., Minneapolis, Minnesota, has over 20 years' experience helping businesses improve performance and operating margins through strategy, quality, process, and partnering improvement methods. The goal of the Partnership Development Webinar is to share expertise and experiences on best approaches to partner with community organizations in ways that value community concerns. As a result of participating in this webinar participants will learn and understand:
- the key stages of the Partnership Continuum’s Partnering Model;
- strategies and planning to reduce partnership failure;
- the Six Partnering Attributes and how they create the culture of the partnership; and
- the key attributes that build trust.
Webinar participants will also be offered a no-cost online Partnering Quotient Assessment and online workbook from the Partnership Continuum.
To register for this WebEx training session, click here and register. Once you are approved by the host, you will receive a confirmation email with instructions for joining the session.
Hosted by the Minnesota Department of Health – Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Division, Office of Statewide Health Improvement Initiatives and Health Partnerships Division.
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Countless studies and reports have shown that when students are active, they learn better. The Minnesota Active Schools initiative is a partnership between MDH and MDE to support schools in their efforts to increase physical activity opportunities both with and outside the school day. This webinar provides SHIP grantees the opportunity to learn about the initiative and how they can access the resources and trainings that is available to assist them in school partnerships. Any questions Mary.Thissen-Milder@state.mn.us
Learning Objectives: Understand how the Minnesota Active schools initiative can assist in SHIP grantee work through:
- Gaining an understanding of the Active schools
- Identifying how to best address the need for physical activity with school partners
- Accessing resources that include both materials and available workshops in increasing physical activity opportunities in the Active School Strategies
- Identifying Minnesota success stories applicable to their regions
Click here to join the webinar. Session password: Active2015#
MDH
& the University of MN have developed two new modules Tools to Implement
Healthy Eating Strategies now available through MN TRAIN.
Tools
to Implement Healthy Eating Strategies- Part 1 Assessment
This module is to help Public Health
Professionals apply policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) approaches,
engage communities, and use planning and assessment tools as they undertake
Healthy Eating strategies. This module covers the following objectives:
- Understand the role assessment plays in PSE approaches to
healthy eating
- Practice integrating assessment into healthy eating
strategies
- Understand when to use - and how to access - specific healthy
eating assessment tools
Tools to Implement Healthy Eating Strategies-
Part 2 Engagement
This module is to help Public Health
Professionals apply policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) approaches,
engage communities, and use planning and assessment tools as they undertake
Healthy Eating strategies. This module covers the following objectives:
- Understand the role assessment plays in PSE approaches to
healthy eating
- Practice “turning ‘they’ into ‘we’” by integrating engagement
into work plans and practice
- Apply specific engagement tools for healthy eating
MDE-FNS
is excited to offer a School Lunch Scramble 2015 training opportunity on
Tuesday, June 16 and Wednesday, June 17. Participants will be able to
select from a variety of school food service topics. New this year participants
will have three options for attending the Scramble:
- View
the webinar sessions at one of four outstate educational service cooperative
locations.
- Attend
live sessions at MDE in Roseville.
- View
the webinar sessions via any computer (at home, the lake, school, etc.)
NOTE:
All School Lunch Scramble sessions can be counted toward the new Professional
Standards annual training requirements for the 2015-16 school year.
Registration
is on a first-come, first-served basis as some of the sessions have limited
seating. You may choose to attend morning sessions, afternoon sessions or both.
View
the agenda, course descriptions and access the registration links.
Another Walk! Bike! Fun! Training! Let your schools, active
living coalitions, afterschool program coordinators, YMCA, community education,
law enforcement and health care facilities know:
Brooklyn Center | June 11
The Food Access Summit will soon be upon us. It is scheduled for Nov 8-10. There is now a call for proposals for the summit. Please consider submitting a proposal about your work or encourage others. Note the RFP deadline of June 1, 2015. You can find the RFP here.
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When: May 28, 2015 10 am – 11 am and 11 am – 11:30
Q&A
Level: 102/Basic
Audience:
- Any grantee new to POS concepts and PSE options
Recommended pre-work: Review webinar Why
Point of Sale Matters to Public Health
Learning Objectives: By
the end of this webinar, participants are expected to be able to
- Broadly understand the Foundational and Advanced
approaches to POS
- Identify the mechanisms for implementing POS strategies
at the local level
- Incorporate basic concepts of POS approaches and
strategies into application and work plan
Description: The retail environment is critical in
tobacco control. The availability, promotion, and marketing of tobacco
(and related devices and products) at the “point of sale” significantly impacts
initiation and use, contributes to health disparities, and can serve as a
barrier to successive quit attempts. Fortunately, a number of strategies
are available for communities who want to change how these products are sold.
This webinar will provide an overview of foundational and advanced POS
approaches, identify the mechanisms for implementing these strategies at the
local level, and help grantees incorporate POS into their work.
Click here to register.
Key findings: Significant predicators of hookah trial include college enrollment; alcohol, marijuana, and cigarette use; and perceptions that hookah is less harmful than cigarettes. Click here for the abstract.
The Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe (CRST) is the first tribe in South
Dakota to go smoke-free. On May 5, the CRST Tribal Council officially approved
the reservation's Smoke-free Air Act, prohibiting smoking and the use of
electronic cigarettes in all indoor public places and workplaces, including
restaurants and tribal offices.The Act also restricts outdoor smoking to 50
feet from any public building. Protecting tribal members from secondhand smoke
is critical, given a smoking rate among CRST tribal members of approximately 51
percent, compared to 19 percent nationally.
The tribe's landmark Smoke-free Air Act was the result of more
than six years of hard work led by the Canli (Lakota for "tobacco")
Coalition of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, a group of healthcare providers,
cultural leaders, educators, environmental workers, community elders and youth.
The coalition and other tribal leaders worked relentlessly to promote
smoke-free air and educate the tribal community about the dangers of commercial
tobacco and second-hand smoke. Since 2009, the Tobacco Control Legal Consortium
has provided the tribe with legal technical assistance. By this spring, tribal
members of all ages supported the Smoke-free Air Act. Thanks to the passion and
commitment of the coalition and other tribal leaders, the Smoke-free Air Act is
now in effect.
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Health Powered Kids is a free program that provides
schools, community groups and families, fun easy-to-use information about
health and fitness for children ages 3-14. Starting now,
users no longer need to enter a username and password to get into the website.
Simply visit healthpoweredkids.org and immediately start looking for ways to help kids lead a
more healthy life. Be sure to check out our latest lessons on concussions, eye health and bad breath!
Contact them at healthpoweredkids@allina.com with any questions.
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Featured Speaker, Stephen M. Dent, founder Partnership
Continuum, Inc., Minneapolis, Minnesota, has over 20 years' experience helping
businesses improve performance and operating margins through strategy,
quality, process, and partnering improvement methods. The goal of the
Partnership Development Webinar is to share expertise and experiences on best
approaches to partner with community organizations in ways that value community
concerns. As a result of participating in this webinar participants will learn
and understand:
- the key stages of the Partnership Continuum’s Partnering Model;
- strategies and planning to reduce partnership failure;
- the Six Partnering Attributes and how they create the culture of the
partnership; and
- the key attributes that build trust.
Webinar participants will also be offered a no-cost online
Partnering Quotient Assessment and online workbook from the Partnership
Continuum.
To register for this WebEx training session, click here and register. Once you are approved by the host, you
will receive a confirmation email with instructions for joining the session.
Hosted by the Minnesota Department of Health – Health
Promotion and Chronic Disease Division, Office of Statewide Health Improvement
Initiatives and Health Partnerships Division.
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