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Today~ Nov 20 ~ TFC Grantee Meeting ~ Brooklyn Center
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Today ~ Nov 20 ~ 9am ~ Metro Worksite Wellness Networking Meeting
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Today ~ Nov 20 ~ 11am ~ SHIP Health Care Call ~ 1-888-742-5095 ~ Participation Code: 9821141691
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Today ~ Nov 20 ~ 1:30pm ~ Introduction to Behavioral Economics (Family Child Care version)
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Monday ~ Nov 24 ~ 2pm ~ Conference Call ~ Metro Smoke-Free Housing Collaboration ~ 1-888-742-5095 ~ Participation Code: 9821141691
Kudos to TFC grantee Quin Community Health Services for
working with the Marshall County Commissioners who unanimously voted to update
their county tobacco ordinance. Updates to the ordinance include: increased
administrative penalties for sales to youth or other violations, mandatory
annual training for tobacco retailers, setting a minimum price for individual
cigars, and prohibiting the smoking or sampling of tobacco products and
electronic cigarettes within licensed retail establishments. The updated Marshall
County Tobacco Ordinance went into effect Nov 1.
Cottonwood, Jackson & Nobles Counties have
contracted with four communities to develop an Active Living Plan by spring
2015. Those communities include Jackson, Mt. Lake, Worthington and
Adrian. Each community will contract with the Southwest Regional
Development Commission in Slayton to complete the planning process. Upon
completion of the plans, funding will be available through SHIP-Cottonwood,
Jackson & Nobles Counties to support activities and projects related to
evaluation, engineering, enforcement, education and encouragement of walking
and bicycling in these communities. Projects and activities will be
completed by Oct 2015.
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:
There will be no Making it Better Log next week due to the Thanksgiving holiday.
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This
video is an effort to talk about the narratives of communities of color and
American Indians around health and health equity in Minnesota. To create this
video, Voices for Racial Justice (OAP) had powerful and intentional conversations with members of these
communities. Their main goal is to promote the creation of safe and open spaces
where communities most impacted by inequities can have these critical
conversations from our own, and in many cases so unique, perspective.
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The
Public Health Law Center is developing a series of resources designed to help
child care providers and other early childhood educators understand how Farm to
Child Care strategies complement existing licensing, quality ratings, and best
practices standards, and can be integrated into child care programs to support
healthy child development. These resources are available here.
The 2015
Pedal MN Bicycle Conference, in Minneapolis on May 4-5, 2015, is seeking
breakout session proposals. The conference theme is "Building a Bike
Friendly State." They are looking for communities and partnerships
to share stories of how they are building
a better place to bike--through better
planning, policies, infrastructure, events and strategic funding. Bicycling
promotes and supports local economies, tourism, the environment, and health
improvement. Share what you're doing to get more people on bikes more often,
see more details and submit a brief proposal by Dec 1 here.
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On Nov 10, 2014, MDH
released results for the 2014 Minnesota Youth Tobacco Survey, which found a
significant drop in youth smoking. However, more students are using
e-cigarettes. Follow this link to download the 2014 MYTS Toolkit, which
provides resources to help you take advantage of this new data, such as data
highlights, talking points, an infographic, and more.
You can find an updated policy guide
with options and pointers for communities and policymakers to consider when
drafting or implementing laws or policies that regulate e-cigarettes and
similar devices here.
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Opportunity
for FREE Diabetes Prevention Program Lifestyle Coach Training Dec 1
& 2. This
training is being offered by Essentia Health in Duluth and Norbert Knack will
be the Lifestyle Coach Trainer. If you would like to attend this training
please let Amy Michael know she will forward your information on the Mr. Knack.
Are
you or someone you know Interested in I CAN Prevent Diabetes/Diabetes
Prevention Program Lifestyle Coach Training? If so please
contact Amy Michael and let her know: How many you might be sending to the
training. Where you are located, if you might have access to free meeting
space for the training. Amy is trying to put together some ICPD/DPP
training in regional locations. Let us know. You can send an e-mail
to Amy Michael.
We
are looking to see who is interested training to teach Tai Ji Quan: Moving
For Better Balance or A Matter of Balance. Amy Michael is working
with the MN Agency on Aging and we are looking to see how many are interested
in getting you or your partners trained to teach one or both of these
programs. Tai Ji Quan: Moving for Better Balance is a two day training
and A Matter of Balance is a two day training but is sometimes done in one long
day. If you are interested in learning more about the Tai Ji Quan program
you click here, for A Matter of Balance information you can click here. If you are interested please contact Amy Michael.
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A
national discussion is underway about the causes and effects of income and
wealth inequality, including recent attention to the role of the U.S. tax code.
The federal tax code contains more than $1 trillion in tax subsidies known to
policymakers and economists as "tax expenditures" because they are a
form of spending through the tax code. Of these subsidies, more than half
a trillion, $540 billion, support some form of savings or investment (e.g.,
higher education, retirement, homeownership); but wealthier households receive
most of the benefits. The
webinar will feature new data and insights from CFED, PolicyLink, and the
Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, along with a discussion about how tax policy
proposals expand savings and investment opportunities for lower-income
households and households of color. Click here to register.
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We are pleased to inform you that the Public Health Law
Center (PHLC) is now available to provide legal technical assistance to SHIP
grantees for issues that impact access to healthy foods in child care, school,
worksite, health care and community settings being addressed through SHIP
healthy eating strategies. Legal technical assistance includes providing legal
research and analysis of legal issues (but specifically excludes providing
legal advice or legal representation).
For
more information about the PHLC and available resources to support your work,
please visit the PHLC website at: www.publichealthlawcenter.org.
Additionally, a webinar discussing the legal technical assistance from
the PHLC is available at: http://www.publichealthlawcenter.org/webinar/introduction-public-health-law-center
PHLC
attorneys providing the legal technical assistance include Mary Marrow, Julie
Ralston-Aoki and Natasha Frost. Mary will serve as the primary contact for
requests, so please direct your requests to her at 651-695-7605, mary.marrow@wmitchell.edu.
Other
updates to the Training & TA Guide include:
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The four Regional
Development Commissions contracts in northern
Minnesota have ended. Please contact
Matthew Dyrdahl or Amber Dallman with Active Living questions.
- Contracts for Kinsale Communications, SDK
Communications, and CreatinINCommmon have also ended. Contact your
Community Specialist with communications questions.
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Bicycle Alliance of Minnesota will
continue to provide limited support. Further
details are in development and will be announced soon.
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U of MN Extension is no longer
contracted by MDH, but is continuing to partner on
this work. The details are under development and will be announced soon.
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Both ANSR and ALA have staffing
updates in their profiles.
You can find the revised guide here.
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No announcements
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