 |
|
In 2000, Oklahoma voters made a momentous decision to create TSET. Although the 15th anniversary celebration is coming to a close, the work to improve the health of every Oklahoman continues.
If you haven't watched the documentary film; Oklahoma TSET: Keeping the Promise for Health, click here to check it out. |
Pictured above from left to right: TSET
Board Member, Don Millican; TSET Program Manager, Sharon Howard; State
Representative Seneca Scott; Superintendent Deborah Gist; Tulsa Public School
Board President, Lana Turner-Addison; Nutrition Educator, Andrea Lynch; Assistant
Athletic Director for Activities, Elizabeth Herbert; Child Nutrition Director,
Kit Hines; TSET Executive Director, Tracey Strader and TSET Board Member, Bruce
Benjamin.
TSET Executive Director, Tracey Strader and Board Members,
Don Millican and Bruce Benjamin presented a $50,000 grant award to Tulsa Public
Schools in
December. The District will use the TSET funds to purchase Health Education
Curriculum and training on the curriculum for staff, employee wellness programs
and each of the high schools will receive blender bicycles for their smoothie
bars as a fun and unique way to engage students in active and healthy
living.
The TSET Board of Directors approved $79,000 in incentive grants for communities and school districts at their quarterly board meeting.
Grants were awarded to four cities and two school districts as part of the TSET Healthy Community and Healthy Schools incentive grant programs at the TSET Board of Directors quarterly board meeting earlier this month.
Grants are awarded to communities and schools that have implemented strategies to increase healthy opportunities for residents and students. TSET offers grants to communities and schools that met have criteria such as tobacco-free policies, health and wellness policies and increased opportunities for fruits and vegetables and physical activity.
The TSET Board of Directors in November elected new officers
for the upcoming year.
TSET Board Chair Jim Gebhart was re-elected for his second
term as chair by his fellow board members. Don Millican, of Tulsa, was elected
to his first term as vice chair of the TSET Board of Directors.
Gebhart, of Edmond, was appointed to the TSET Board of
Directors by Attorney General Scott Pruitt in February 2012. He is the
president of Mercy Hospital-Oklahoma City, a member of the Board of Directors
for the United Way of Central Oklahoma, Leadership Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Hospital Association and the Oklahoma March of Dimes.
Millican, of Broken Arrow, was appointed to the TSET Board
of Directors by Treasurer Ken Miller in July 2012. Millican is the Chief Financial
Officer for the Kaiser-Francis Oil Co. Millican is also on the board of Tulsa
Educare, Oklahoma Policy Institute and Tulsa Neighborhood Networks.
Appointed members to the TSET Board of Directors serve
staggered seven year terms. The board members represent each congressional
district, are politically diverse and oversee the expenditure of the earnings
from the Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust, as specified by the Constitution.
Pictured Above: TSET Board
Members Curtis Knoles, MD and Casey Killblane; OU President, David Boren; TSET
Board Vice Chair, Don Millican; TSET Board Chair,Jim Gebhart; TSET Board
Member, Bruce Benjamin, PhD; TSET Board Member, Ken Rowe; TSET Executive Director,
Tracey Strader
During a news conference in November, the Stephenson Cancer center announced that they are poised to apply for National Cancer Institute-designation in September 2017. NCI-Designated Cancer Centers are recognized for their scientific leadership, resources, and the depth and breadth of their research in basic, clinical, and/or population science.
The TSET Board of Directors in February approved a five-year, $20 million grant to support the expansion of the Oklahoma Tobacco Research Center, a program of the Stephenson Cancer Center. The grant began July 1.
Tobacco use in Oklahoma continues to be the greatest preventable cause of premature death and disability, and the economic cost to our state exceeds $2 billion.
Pictured
Above: Chickasaw Nation Secretary of Health, Judy Goforth
Parker; Chickasaw Nation Secretary of Operations, Heather Summers; Chickasaw Nation
Governor, Bill Anoatubby and CEO of the Oklahoma Hospital
Association, Craig Jones
Craig Jones presented an award to the Chickasaw Nation for its leadership efforts and success in promoting patient wellness through smoking cessation at a special gathering in November at the Chickasaw Nation Medical Center in Ada. OHA is a TSET grantee that seeks to improve the health of Oklahomans by working in hospitals and clinics and creating a culture of wellness through lasting changes that will reduce tobacco use, emphasize healthy food choices and increase physical activity.
In 11 months, hundreds of patients treated at the medical center and clinics have received assistance to quit smoking through the Oklahoma Tobacco Helpline.
Click here to learn more.
The Rescue Social Change Group (RSCG) is a TSET grantee that
promotes smokefree environments for young adults in places of entertainment. RSCG
is helping bar owners/managers survey their patrons to see whether they would
prefer a smokefree environment, and generally scores are above 70% on patrons
wanting smokefree.
In the last quarter, Free The Night, a program of RSCG, has partnered with six
bars and clubs that signed smokefree pledges. Of the six smokefree pledges,
four were bars that went smokefree with Free The Night: Baker Street Pub &
Grill, The Wreck Room, and Sipango Lounge in Oklahoma City, and Rooster’s
Cocktails in Tulsa. The remaining two smokefree pledges were signed by The Mule
and Henry Hudson’s Public House.
Learn more about Free the Night by clicking here.
-
Shape Your Future has partnered with three Oklahoma universities; OSU,
OU and TU to promote nutrition, physical activity and being tobacco-free.
-
Look for Shape Your Future in your local mall this holiday season.
Signs are in place to encourage parents, children and all Oklahomans to
increase fruit and vegetable intake and be more physically active. Keep an eye
out for Shape Your Future signs while getting your steps in at the following
malls during the month of December:
-Plaza Mayor
-Lawton Mall
-Shawnee Mall
-Enid Oakwood Mall
-Bartlesville Washington Park Mall
-Muskogee Arrowhead Mall
-
To learn more about how simple lifestyle
changes can improve your health not only during this holiday season, but all
year around visit ShapeYourFutureOK.com.
|
|
TSET Day at the Capitol 2016 will be held on Thursday, February 18th in the 4th Floor Rotunda. More details to come. |
|
