On Aug 19,
the Scott County board expanded the tobacco section of the parks ordinance to limit
the use of any tobacco products, including electronic cigarettes, within the
park property and recreational facilities. The ordinance changes went into
effect upon the passage of the policy by the Board, and as previously mentioned
will include all park property grounds except roadways, parking lots,
individually rented campsites in County owned and operated campgrounds, and the
use of tobacco in traditional Native American spiritual or cultural ceremonies.
Special thanks to Pat Stieg of the BCBS Center for Prevention, who sits on the
county Parks Commission. More information about the new policy can be found here.
Kudos to PartnerSHIP 4 Health on the publication of Translation of Obesity Practice Guidelines: Interprofessional
Perspectives Regarding the Impact of Public Health Nurse System-Level
Intervention in the journal, Public Health Nursing. You can find the abstract here.
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 grant
managers for:
Do you have a suggestion or
general feedback (good or bad) you would like to share with MDH? If so, you can
now submit an online Grantee Feedback Form to OSHII. To access the form, click here.
This month, we are launching a new feature: Basecamper of the Month!
Each month, we will highlight one of your peers who has been a Basecamp superuser.
September's Basecamper is Michelle Trumpy from Dakota County Public Health.
Michelle has been active participating in discussions and posting helpful resources across multiple project areas. Thank you, Michelle for helping make Basecamp a go-to place for peer-to-peer sharing.
Remember: Basecamp is a great place to hold
discussions and share resources and events that focus on Health
Improvement. Local Public Health and Tribal Governments may sign up to use
Basecamp by sending an email
to the Making it Better Log account.
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Results Based
Accountability (RBA) indicates a performance measure is: A measure
of how well a program, process or activity is working. RBA has a
pain free exercise to identify 3-5 key performance measures for a
program.
Step 1 is to list your customers – the direct recipients of your
programs, processes or activities. Example: the SHIP Community
Leadership Team.
Step 2 is to list the key activities performed in
those programs, processes or activities (How much did we do?). Example: # of meetings held, # trainings completed.
Step 3
is to identify ways you could measure how well you did on each of those
activities (How well did we do it?). Example: % of
attendance at CLT meetings, % of positive training evaluations.
Step
4 is to identify ways you could measure whether your customers are better off
because of the activities you are performing. (Is anyone better off?).
Example: % of community partners who take action.
Check out the
RBA website for more information at http://resultsaccountability.com/ or contact Susan Brace-Adkins at 651-201-3875.
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Register
now for a webinar discussing the recently released
U.S. Report Card on Physical Activity.
Check out this video, which provides an overview of the groundbreaking United
States Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth released
earlier this year by the National Physical Activity Plan Alliance (NPAPA) and
ACSM. Featuring ACSM members Peter Katzmarzyk, Ph.D., FACSM, chair of the U.S.
Report Card Research Advisory Committee and Russell Pate, Ph.D., FACSM, chair
of the NPAP Alliance, the video reveals six key outcomes from the study and key
action steps needed to address current environmental deterrents when it comes
to physical activity. The report card is the first in a historic series that
will provide an unprecedented benchmark using a common methodology for this
critical public health issue.
You can view and share the video by clicking here.
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Project Watch, a project of the
Association for Nonsmokers – Minnesota, has released a new edition of their newsletter. Articles include FDA
regulations, e-cigarette marketing, the tobacco industry and marijuana, and
coupons promoting dual use.
The
CDC updated its official fact
sheet on smoking in movies. Among many important findings, some of the
highlights include:
"Giving
an R rating to future movies with smoking would be expected to reduce the
number of teen smokers by nearly 1 in 5 (18%) and prevent one million deaths
from smoking among children alive today."
"In
2012, the Surgeon General concluded that exposure to onscreen smoking in movies
causes young people to start smoking. Because of this exposure to smoking in
movies: 6.4 million children alive today will become smokers, and 2 million of
these children will die prematurely from diseases caused by smoking."
You
can help promote these findings by linking to the updated fact sheet,
spotlighting the risk posed to kids by movies with smoking, and emphasize that
the R-rating will save a million lives.
Federal regulators
are seeking public comment on smokeless tobacco maker Swedish Match’s request
to certify its General-branded tobacco products as less harmful than
cigarettes. Click here for more information.
CDC's
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) issued a notice
seeking public comment on a draft Current Intelligence Bulletin (CIB)
Promoting Health and Preventing Disease and Injury through Workplace Tobacco
Policies. Comments
are due on Sept 15. The Bulletin addresses the following topics: Tobacco
use among workers, Exposure to secondhand smoke in workplaces, Occupational
health and safety concerns relating to tobacco use and secondhand exposure,
Electronic nicotine delivery systems, and Workplace interventions to reduce
tobacco product usage and secondhand exposure.
In
an effort to rally youth to continue to decrease and ultimately eliminate
smoking, Legacy's truth youth smoking prevention campaign begins a bold and
exciting new chapter! Through the launch of the latest campaign execution,
"Finish It," Legacy seeks to empower teens to make the fight against
tobacco use their own tangible and achievable cause, and thus accelerate the
decline in teen smoking.
Legacy
is addressing
this generation of teens through TV advertisements, digital media and
social media to empower them to make their generation the generation that ends
smoking.
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Update:
In October, Amy Michael plans to attend a Master Training Session for the NDPP, if this happens, Amy will be able to hold the NDPP
Lifestyle Coach training at a much lower cost.
Opportunity:
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NDPP Lifestyle Coach Training is being
offered through Essentia Health on September 15 & 16 in Brainerd
- Time: 8:30a-4:30p both days
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Location: St. Joseph's Medical Center 523 North 3rd Street, Brainerd, MN
56401
- Materials: Manuals (will be provided)
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Lunch: Will be provided
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Free of charge
There are 8 spots available. If you would like to attend this training please
contact:
Norbert Knack, 218-786-4482, e-mail: NDPP@EssentiaHealth.org
Also please let Amy Michael know if you or you are sending someone to this
training.
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Join in to highlight efforts that improve access to healthy food for Minnesotans with
limited financial resources and launch the Minnesota Food Charter. The Food
Access Summit will provide social policy tools, training and action-oriented
ideas to educate and organize participants to support local, state and national
efforts to make the food system equitable for all. Click here for more information.
This
conference will provide a forum for sharing information on best practices in
engineering, enforcement, education, and emergency medical/health services and
for identifying new approaches to reducing the number of traffic fatalities and
life-changing injuries on Minnesota roads.
For
general information about the conference, including topics covered, intended
audience, and the annual awards presentation, please visit the statewide conference page.
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As you may know, there is an
adult education requirement for all MNCPD-approved trainers – “training related
to designing and delivering training to adult learners (completed) within one
year, if not already completed”. Some of you have taken college courses on this
subject that the MNCPD has verified and accepted. But if you still need to fill
this requirement, several in-person and online courses are being offered in the
coming months. Click here to find more information on the available trainings which are housed in the Child Care project on Basecamp.
Contact Joyce O’Meara if you have
questions.
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