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To be added to the distribution list please email Health.MakingitBetter@state.mn.us.
- Don't forget!
- Gems
- Webinar ~ Healthy People 2020 Progress Review: Social Determinants of Health and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Health ~ Feb 5, 11:30am
- Webinar ~ Confronting Health Disparities in African American Communities ~ School of Public Health at Albany ~ Feb 19, 8am
- Webinar ~ Top Complete Streets Policies of 2014 ~ Smart Growth America ~ Feb 10, 12pm
- Webinar ~ Lessons from the Experts: 10 First Steps to Walkability ~ America Walks ~ March 9, 12pm
- Resource ~ Creating Smoke-Free Affordable Housing ~ Tobacco Control Legal Consortium
- Resource ~ Smoke-Free Housing Policy Factors ~ Public Health Law Center
- Report ~ Frequency and Characteristics Associated With Exposure to Tobacco Direct Mail Marketing and Its Prospective Effect on Smoking Behaviors Among Young Adults From the US Midwest
- Webinar ~ When Public Health Goes to Court: Judicial Structure and Functions ~ The Network for Public Health Law ~ Feb 5, 12pm
- Event ~ Communication Strategies to Reach Diverse Audiences ~ Feb 13, 12pm
- Workshops ~ GIS 101: Analyzing Data and Creating Maps ~ U-Spatial
- Call for Abstracts ~ 2015 APHA Annual Meeting Physical Activity Section
- Save the Date ~ Regional Learning Meetings ~ Community Engagement & Health Care ~ Feb, 9am-4pm
- Revised SHIP Monitoring & Evaluation Forms Due Date Table Posted to Web
- Save the Date ~ Regional Learning Meetings ~ Community Engagement ~ Feb, 9am-12pm
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Partnership4Health
has been partners with Creative Care for Reaching Independence (CCRI) since
April 2013 through their innovative health equity strategy. CCRI provides
services to families and individuals diagnosed with physical and/or mental
disabilities. They have been working closely with their Adult Rehabilitative
Mental Health Services (ARHMS) department. This department revised their client
measurable outcomes with in their Quality Assurance plan to focus on improving
client’s overall health by tracking specific treatment plan goals that focus on
physical activity, weight management or smoking cessation. Their goal was to
have 75% of their clients’ base population achieve that measure. At their last
quarter review, they have achieved 89% of their base population having met the
outcome measures. Kudos to Partnership4Health and CCRI!
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:
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To be more effective, public health, health care, and
prevention practitioners must understand the cultural context of their unique
community, and possess the skills and desire to work in those contexts.
Cultural competence, the ability of an individual or organization to interact
effectively with people of different cultures and backgrounds to produce
positive change, is a key component to achieving the Healthy People 2020 goal
of reducing health disparities and achieving health equity. This Progress
Review webinar will highlight the importance of social determinants of health
and cultural competence in working with LGBT and diverse populations to
eliminate health disparities and achieve health equity.
Registration is required to join this event.
This program focuses on the reality of African-American health disparity-why it
exists and the impact of environment, income and other determinants of health
on the incidence of diabetes, obesity and heart disease within African American
communities, and what can be done about it. Click here for more information.
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Join in for an online event to celebrate this past year's best policies and to hear how communities everywhere can create streets that are safer and more convenient for everyone who uses them. Click here to register.
Join celebrated speaker and walkability expert Mark Fenton for a
rapid-fire review of best practices for those beginning to build more walkable
communities. Many communities are overwhelmed by the apparent technical
challenges and cost of making themselves more walkable. But there are
compelling, cost efficient, often simple approaches that are ideal first steps.
Based on a series of interviews with some of the most experienced and
successful walkable community advocates and implementers in the United States,
this Webinar reveals starter-strategies that have been shown to work, and
why! Click here to register.
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Basic information for low-income housing providers to consider when
implementing smoke-free policies. Click here to view.
A chart comparing common smoke-free policy factors in private versus
publicly subsidized multi-unit housing. Click here to view.
Researchers examined the exposure to tobacco direct mail marketing and its effect on subsequent smoking behaviors in a US Midwest regional cohort of young adults. Click here to view the abstract.
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The judicial system plays an important role in advancing public health goals, and it is critical that public health practitioners, legal counsel, and other partners understand how the court system works and how courts are involved in public health matters. This webinar looks at the structure and essential functions of the state and federal court systems, including administrative courts; explores the Tribal court system; and examines the role of court watch programs in addressing public health issues. Click here to register.
Strategies for
recreation and natural resources professionals to get your message out to
diverse audiences; how to speak to diverse communities in a way they can
connect to.
Part of the MN
Children & Nature Connection Brown Bag Lunch Series, 12-1pm.
REI Bloomington
750 W American Blvd
Bloomington, MN 55420
(952) 884-4315
For more
information and registration, click here.
U-Spatial is a University of Minnesota program that supports GIS
and spatial analysis of geographic regions. Technical assistance they provide
includes a series of workshops on GIS and GIS applications – including the free
7-hour workshop “GIS 101: Analyzing Data and Creating Maps” as part of its Spring 2015 Training Schedule. To
receive updates on U-Spatial training and activities, go to the “U-Spatial
Mailing List Sign-Up” on their Contact
Us webpage.
The
American Public Health Association (APHA) Physical Activity Section invites
students, educators, researchers, health professionals, and community members
to submit abstracts for the APHA 143rd Annual Meeting to be held October
31-November 4, 2015 in Chicago, IL. They are seeking abstracts that address issues of physical activity and public
health with particular emphasis on research, practice, and policy.
They welcome all submissions related to physical activity and public health;
however, abstracts with outcomes and results are preferred and topics of
particular interest for 2015 include:
- Impacts and outcomes of policies that
promote or discourage physical activity and sedentary behavior in diverse
settings (e.g., schools, communities, worksites, faith-based, etc.).
- Use of policies to address health
inequities and disparities in physical activity participation at all levels of
implementation (local, state, national, etc.).
- Factors influencing the development,
adoption, implementation, and/or acceptance of policies that promote physical
activity or discourage sedentary behavior.
- Perceptions of and adherence to policies
and policy actions among diverse stakeholders (e.g., policymakers, policy
implementers, those affected by policies, etc.).
- Development and/or implementation of
physical activity-related policies that positively impact outcomes other than
physical activity and health (e.g., economic development, environmental
impacts, vehicle traffic calming, etc.).
Click here for more information.
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- Feb 12 | Detroit Lakes | Essentia Health St Mary’s, 1027 Washington Ave, Detroit Lakes, MN 56501 | Stewardship (Mid Campus 2C) Conference Room
- Feb 17 | Minnetonka | Ridgedale Library, 12601 Ridgedale Dr, Minnetonka, MN 55305 | Robert H Rohlf Room
- Feb 19 | Marshall | Southwest Health & Human Services, 607 West Main Street, Marshall, MN 56258 | 3rd Floor, Rooms 4 & 5
- Feb 24 | Rochester | Minnesota Department of Health, 18 Wood Lake Dr SE, Rochester, MN 55904 | Large Meeting Room
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Feb 26 | Duluth | Lake Superior College, 2101 Trinity Rd, Duluth, MN 55811 | Room S1981 **No afternoon Health Care Session in Duluth**
The revised table of SHIP 3 Monitoring & Evaluation Due
Dates is now posted to the SHIP 3
Evaluation web page. This table was released to grantees via email in
December. Two newly revised Intake & Reach forms have just been posted
online: A revised Intake Form now contains the “Date Partnership Ended” field,
and a revised Schools Reach Form has been repaired so that all checkboxes will
now print. No other changes to Intake & Reach forms were made. Intake &
Reach forms are optional for grantees to use to collect data, and the most
recent versions may always be found on the SHIP web site.
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Dates & Locations:
- Feb 12 | Detroit Lakes | Essentia Health St Mary’s, 1027 Washington Ave, Detroit Lakes, MN 56501 | Stewardship (Mid Campus 2C) Conference Room
- Feb 17 | Minnetonka | Ridgedale Library, 12601 Ridgedale Dr, Minnetonka, MN 55305 | Robert H Rohlf Room
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Feb 19 | Marshall | Southwest Health & Human Services, 607 West Main Street, Marshall, MN 56258 | 3rd Floor, Rooms 4 & 5
- Feb 24 | Rochester | Minnesota Department of Health, 18 Wood Lake Dr SE, Rochester, MN 55904 | Large Meeting Room
- Feb 26 | Duluth | Lake Superior College, 2101 Trinity Rd, Duluth, MN 55811 | Room S1981
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