 
Happy streets mean healthy communities: they’re good for
health, for business and for the environment.
The Statewide Pedestrian System Plan will recommend
policies, projects, and programs that will help make walking and rolling safe,
convenient and desirable for all in Minnesota.
The plan will include recommendations for state, regional
and local partners from transportation engineers to city councils to public
health practitioners
Learn about community engagement tools and how to use them
to support the statewide pedestrian plan. This webinar will share available
resources, provide communications tools and walk through how to use them.
Participants attending this webinar will be able to:
- Describe the available
community engagement and communications tools for the state pedestrian
plan
- Identify opportunities
to use the engagement and communications tools and resources in their
communities
- Implement and execute
tools to help gather community input, which will inform the state plan
Click here to join the webinar. session password: Oshii2015#
MDH encourages attending a special pre-conference session for SHIP
grantees , local public health and planning professionals.
Planning and Public
Health - Afternoon Dialogue – Sept 23, Bemidji
Time: 1:00-4:30pm
A time to continue the
conversation from the morning session for attendees not registered for
the APA-MN Conference
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afternoon session also serves as the NW & NE Regions Making it Better
Regional Learning Meeting: Healthy Eating & Active Living
- Agenda
2015 Minnesota Chapter of the American Planning
Association Conference Sept 23-25, Sanford Center Bemidji
MDH recommends attending the conference. It will
be a great opportunity to learn more about the current planning trends and strengthen partnerships to help advance local
SHIP efforts.
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When: 11:30am, Wednesday Sept 23 through 12pm, Friday, Sept 25
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Details: Registration & session information will be released Aug 1 on APA MN.
A
new report, Designed to Move: Active Cities,
is a blueprint for city leaders in creating an active city, regardless of city
size or location. The report shows that cities with physically active
populations are not only more economically competitive - they also benefit from
increased productivity, improved school performance, higher property values,
and improved health and well-being.
Free webcast presented by the New York State WIC Program and
University at Albany School of Public Health.
Viewers will gain a better understanding of the challenges
that mothers and employers face when breastfeeding mothers return to work and
will learn strategies for providing meaningful support while complying with
federal and state labor laws. Viewers will also learn what resources are
available and where to find them.
Intended audience: employers, human resource professionals,
small business owners, WIC staff, health care providers, child care providers
and breastfeeding mothers
Find registration and additional information here.
Voices for Healthy Kids, a joint initiative of the Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and American Heart Association (AHA) works to help
all young people eat healthier foods and be more active.
Nearly one in three children and teens are overweight or obese.
By engaging, organizing and mobilizing people in communities across the United
States, Voices for Healthy Kids will make the healthy choice the easy choice in
the places where children live, learn and play.
Their vision at Voices for Healthy Kids is to see every child with
healthy foods and drinks at home and in school, safe streets for biking and
walking, and places to play after school. They are working to ensure that the
places where children live, learn and play make it easy and enjoyable for them
to eat healthy foods and be active.
These toolkits are designed to help coalitions educate their
communities on ways to make this vision a reality. They can be ordered online.
It takes teamwork to create social change and you need a diverse
team with common goals. For walkable community initiatives, the team
often starts with advocates - for health, for children and people with
disabilities, and for social equity. But, it is also essential to recruit
local government officials to the team - especially, traffic engineers, town
planners, and elected policy makers. Join councilwoman Elaine Clegg,
planner Roger Millar, and engineer Gary Toth to learn how best to engage each
of these critical stakeholder groups in your community. Click here to register.
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