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Kudos to CTG grantee Healthy Northland and the
American Lung Association. After nearly three years of hard work towards this
policy change, St. Louis County Health and Human Services has adopted a
licensing change which will require all home-based daycares in the county to be
completely smoke-free 24/7, beginning January 1st, 2015. Congratulations
to the Healthy Northland and ALA, as well as their various partners, on this big win!
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:
Each month, we will highlight one of your peers who has been a Basecamp superuser.
January's Basecampers are Leah Schueler of Kandiyohi-Renville and the Bicycle Alliance of Minnesota.
Leah and BikeMN are a great example of how Basecamp can foster new partnerships: Leah posted a survey to share as a resource which caught the eye of the Bicycle Alliance who in turn contacted them to partner on a Bike Friendly
Community Assessment and application. As a result, the City of
Willmar is on its way to becoming a Bike Friendly community.
Thank you, Leah and BikeMN for helping make Basecamp a go-to place.
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.
Maria Rudie, Health Care Coordinator, has accepted a
new position and will be leaving the Minnesota Department of Health and SHIP as
of Jan 9.
SHIP grantees that need assistance can contact either of the
following MDH (Health Care Team) staff with any clinical/health care strategy
technical assistance questions:
The Alcohol and Tobacco
Prevention and Control Unit (ATPC) within the Office of Statewide Health
Improvement Initiatives (OSHII) is hiring a Community Specialist to coordinate
grant activities and manage grantees funded under the Tobacco-Free Communities
(TFC) grant program. This is a reposting and is open to all qualified job
seekers until January 14, 2015. Click here for more information.
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If you like to watch
YouTube to learn how to do things, here is a great resource to learn how to use
a few quality improvement tools. The Western Region Public Health
Training Center from the Arizona Department of Public Health has developed a
Quality Improvement Series for YouTube. There are 5 videos within the
series detailing how to develop a Pareto Chart, a Histogram, a Fishbone
Diagram, an Affinity Diagram and an alternative brainstorming technique called
Brain Writing. They are between 3-5 minutes in length and could
easily be used for just-in-time training or on a list of resources for a QI
project team or QI council. Check them out today here.
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With the 2010 Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, the USDA set
new standards for school nutrition and wellness policies. The Rudd Center for
Food Policy & Obesity has just released an updated version of the WellSAT,
a tool used to evaluate the quality of written wellness policies. The update,
WellSAT 2.0, reflects new USDA school food requirements and current best
practices in all areas of nutrition and physical activity related school
wellness. To access both the original WellSAT and the WellSAT 2.0,
visit www.wellsat.org
Schoolyard gardens provide an incomparable, hands-on
opportunity to meet academic standards, engage with community partners, learn
about healthy eating, and connect with natural resources. Join in at the
Minnesota Landscape Arboretum and spend two days learning innovative strategies
for building, sustaining and engaging every in a thriving schoolyard garden. Click here for
conference information.
Mark your calendars for the
2015 PedalMN Bicycle Conference in Minneapolis May 4-5, 2015.
This year's conference theme is
"Building the Bike Friendly State." Bicycling promotes and supports
local economies, tourism, the environment, and health improvement. Learn how
you can make your community more bicycle friendly. For more info visit mndot.gov/bike
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ClearWay
Minnesota just released their new community-based funding initiative. The
Community Engagement grants initiative will provide funding to nonprofits,
American Indian Nations, local government entities and safety-net clinics that
work with people of low socioeconomic status (low SES – i.e., people with low
income and educational attainment). The focus of this funding opportunity is to
connect low-SES smokers to existing cessation services. Grants are for a
12-month period and range from $10,000-$50,000.
Click here for more information.
Many grantees are working with local groups/clinics on linking patients to
cessation services. This grant might be another opportunity for some
grantees to explore and help increase the impact of their work.
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Learn how workplaces and health departments can receive
recognition for their work to create breastfeeding friendly environments
through the Minnesota Department of Health’s new Breastfeeding Friendly
Recognition Programs.
Presenters: Susan
Bishop, Workplace Wellness Planner, MDH and Bonnie Brueshoff, Dakota County
Public Health, Director
Click here to join the webinar. Session password: P@ssw0rd
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The morning sessions of the Making it Better Regional Learning Meetings which were to cover tobacco are cancelled.
The afternoon SHIP planning session will be held as planned and will begin at 1pm. We apologize for the last minute change.
Are you interested in sharing your work
with others across the state? We are looking for volunteers in all strategy
areas to take part in a webinar series to do just that. Details below. If you
are interested, please complete this form and
we will be in contact later this month.
What: SHIP grantees share their work to
implement strategies including how this work has been done in ways that engage communities
and advance health equity. Purpose is to facilitate
information sharing and dialogue about successful and innovative
approaches, and other areas of excellence.
Who: SHIP grantees will
develop and present brief PowerPoint presentations using a common template. MDH
will develop the template and assist by reviewing the
presentations and coordinating the webinars. Multiple grantees will
present in each webinar.
Why: Grantees have requested an opportunity to
share their work with other grantees and to learn from other
grantees.
When: Roll
out multiple webinars in the time frame of mid-February on (to accommodate what
could be up to 8 webinars).
Dates & Locations:
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Feb 12 | Detroit Lakes
- Feb 17 | Minnetonka
- Feb 19 | Marshall
- Feb 24 | Rochester
- Feb 26 | Duluth
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The morning sessions of the Making it Better Regional Learning Meetings which were to cover tobacco are cancelled. We apologize for the last minute change.
Dates & Locations:
- Feb 12 | Detroit Lakes
- Feb 17 | Minnetonka
- Feb 19 | Marshall
- Feb 24 | Rochester
- Feb 26 | Duluth
Are you interested in sharing your work
with others across the state? We are looking for volunteers in all strategy
areas to take part in a webinar series to do just that. Details below. If you
are interested, please complete this form and
we will be in contact later this month.
What: OSHII grantees share their work to
implement strategies including how this work has been done in ways that engage communities
and advance health equity. Purpose is to facilitate
information sharing and dialogue about successful and innovative
approaches, and other areas of excellence.
Who: OSHII grantees will
develop and present brief PowerPoint presentations using a common template. MDH
will develop the template and assist by reviewing the
presentations and coordinating the webinars. Multiple grantees will
present in each webinar.
Why: Grantees have requested an opportunity to
share their work with other grantees and to learn from other
grantees.
When: Roll
out multiple webinars in the time frame of mid-February on (to accommodate what
could be up to 8 webinars).
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