 
Last week the CDC’s Division
of Adolescent and School Health (DASH) released the 2014 School Health Policies
and Practices Study (SHPPS) results on the DASH Healthy Youth website at www.cdc.gov/shpps.
The release
includes a
comprehensive report that includes results on the following topics:
- health education
- physical education and physical activity
- nutrition services and the school nutrition
environment
- health services
- counseling, psychological, and social services
- safe and healthy school environment
- physical school environment
- employee wellness
- family engagement
- community involvement
As part of
Minnesota Department of Transportation’s (MnDOT) work to achieve the Minnesota GO
Vision, MnDOT has teamed up with the Minnesota
Department of Health to develop a Statewide Pedestrian System
Plan.
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
Whether you
walk to work, to the corner store, or just for fun, we want to know what makes
walking enjoyable or challenging for you. Where would you like to walk? How far
do you walk? What would make walking easier for you?
Tell them what
YOU think. Please take the pedestrian surveys on what
makes your community walkable (Deadline: Oct 25) and features
to improve your walking experience (Deadline:Nov 29).
Join the open
discussion, and learn more
about the project today!
Opportunity to provide input on New MN Food Code!
There is an updated proposed draft of the Minnesota Food
Code posted for review and comment. A new revisor's version of proposed language for the
Minnesota Food Code (Minnesota Rules, Chapter 4626) is posted on the rule
revision website.
The site has an easy to use "Proposed Draft Food Code
Language Form" to suggest any changes to the draft language include a
reason for your proposed change, including why the change is needed and why it
is reasonable.
If you have any
questions, please contact:
Linda Prail, Rule Coordinator at 651-201-5792.
The Minnesota
Agricultural Education Leadership Council (MAELC) is now accepting grant
applications for the improvement of agricultural education across
Minnesota. Once again, the Strategic Initiatives program is available to
award competitive grant funds. New this year, the Common Fund grant
program will also be open for a second round of funding. MAELC will be
awarding over $200,000 between these two competitive grant programs. All grant
applications must be completed online here. Grants due
before midnight on November 16, 2015. A second round of Strategic Initiatives
grants will be due April 15, 2016
Strategic Initiative
grants are designed to help promote agricultural, food and natural resource
(AFNR) literacy initiatives across Minnesota in both formal and non-formal
education settings along with assisting secondary, post-secondary, and farm
business, management programs with the improvement and expansion of
agricultural education.
Click here for more information.
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