Kudos to Tobacco-Free
Communities grantee, Quin Community Health Services, for working with Marshall
County Commissioners to adopt a new ordinance for Clean Indoor Air in Public
Places and Places of Work. The Marshall County Board voted unanimously on February
3, 2015 to prohibit the use of electronic cigarettes in all public
indoor places where tobacco is prohibited within Marshall County.
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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Training Opportunity for private and charter schools:
Last fall the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE)
hosted trainings on the Smarter Lunchroom Movement. The training was such a
success that MDE is planning to offer one more Smarter Lunchroom training in a
condensed format specifically for private and charter schools. The registration
link is below.
Description: The mission
of the Smarter Lunchrooms Movement is to equip school lunchrooms with evidence-based tools that improve child eating behaviors and thus improve the health of children. The Smarter Lunchrooms
Movement was started in 2009 with the goal of creating
sustainable research-based lunchrooms that guide smarter choices. Smarter Lunchrooms
demonstrate core values including:
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Low cost/no-cost solutions
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Lunchroom environment focus
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Promotion of healthful eating behaviors
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Sustainability
Who should attend the training: Staff that work with School
Nutrition Programs from private or charter schools.
Register here!
The National Complete Streets
Coalition examines and scores Complete Streets policies each year, comparing
adopted policy language to the ideal. Ideal policies refine a community’s
vision for transportation, provide for many types of users, complement
community needs, and establish a flexible project delivery approach necessary
for an effective Complete Streets process and outcome. Different types of
policy statements are included in this examination, including legislation,
resolutions, executive orders, departmental policies, and policies adopted by
an elected board. Download the full report, including the list of top 10
Complete Streets policies from 2014 as well as a full explanation of our policy
evaluation. Click here to view the report.
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 free webinar reveals
starter-strategies that have been shown to work, and why!
This webinar is
a companion to the Every Body Walk! Collaborative practice guides series. Register here.
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The Minnesota Department of Health has a limited number
of educational materials available for use throughout your community! These
materials could be distributed to local partners, such as schools, clinics, or
community organizations or given away at local events.
To request items, please complete our online form here.
Due to the limited amount of materials available, we
cannot guarantee you will receive the quantity you request or that requested
items will arrive in one shipment.
Through
with Chew Week (Feb 16-22) calls attention to
the dangers of smokeless tobacco, which includes chewing tobacco and snuff.
While most awareness campaigns focus on cigarettes and smoking, this week is
designed to educate people who use smokeless tobacco and promote cessation.
Tobacco
Free Colorado has information available here about Through with Chew Week:
The
CDC developed a Swiss cheese press release for Through with Chew Week – click here.
And
remember My Last Dip, a website to
help people quit smokeless tobacco use.
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Building Healthy Schools: HIA on
Planning School Construction Projects in Minnesota
Public Health Law Center
recently released a final report and recommendations for Building Healthy
Schools, Health Impact Assessment on Planning School Construction Projects in
Minnesota, the final report and recommendations on the HIA conducted
Minnesota’s school construction and siting guidelines.
The report addresses and has recommendations
for the following:
- Food environment:
for example, school kitchen equipment and set up; along with cafeteria set up
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Location efficiency:
for example, considering SRTS, and maximizing opportunities for joint use
agreements
- Physical Activity: for
example, classroom configurations that maximize active classroom and
appropriate space allocation for quality physical education
The report can be found here.
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