- Weds ~ Sept 16 ~ 10am ~ Roseville ~ SHIP School Coordinators Kick-off
- Weds ~ Sept 16 ~ 2pm ~ Conference Call ~ POS/E-Cig Connect Call ~ 1-888-354-0094 Conference ID: 8132089
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 community specialists for:
Do you have a suggestion or general feedback (good or bad) you would like to share with MDH? If so, you can now submit an online Grantee Feedback Form to OSHII. To access the form, click here.
Get less email from Basecamp! Basecamp
has added a new email summary option to help tame the
notification beasts. Here’s how it works. Head over to
your Me page and click the Your Basecamp Settings link.
You’ll see a new section called “Email frequency.”
Turn on the option that says "Email me a summary
every few hours at most." Now Basecamp will roll up all of your
notifications and send you a single email every three hours or so. So instead
of getting 10 separate emails for 10 new comments as they happen, you’ll get
one email containing all 10 comments a little later. Click
here for more information.
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Registration is now open!
Early
bird and group discounts available – Register by September 30 and save $20!
Full
conference details and agenda can be found online at http://connecting15.com/
After
attending this activity, participants should be able to:
- Showcase
successful and diverse collaborations that improve population health for all.
- Explore
nontraditional innovative approaches to mobilize and transform communities.
- Discuss
strategies to create a sustainable culture of health: Shifting values; changing
policy, systems and the environment; creating new narratives; and demonstrating
impact.
- Strengthen
attendees’ professional skills and networks to enhance their success in facing
real-world challenges.
Join
us in connecting to transform communities by improving health and wellbeing! If
you have any questions, contact James at 651-214-2498 or email: james@stagetimeproductions.com.
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Yesterday
(Sept 9), U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy issued a national
call to action on walking.
“Step It Up! The Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Promote Walking and
Walkable Communities” articulates the health benefits of walking while
addressing the fact that many communities lack safe and convenient places for
individuals to walk or wheelchair roll.
To
read the Surgeon General’s Call to Action and learn how to promote walking and
walkable communities, please visit www.surgeongeneral.gov. A recording of the Surgeon General’s announcement will be posted there
as well.
America
Walks is sponsoring a webinar to help organizations use the call to action in
their own work. The webinar is scheduled for Tuesday, Sept. 15. Register
for the webinar here.
Presenters:
- Susan
Carlson, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Lead
Scientific Writer for Step It Up! The Surgeon
General's Call to Action to Promote Walking and Walkable Communities
- Wendy
Landman, Executive Director, Walk Boston
- David
Sabgir, Founder & CEO, Walk with a Doc
October is National Farm to School Month, a time to
celebrate the connections that are happening all over the country between
schools and local food!
Check out the
multiple Farm to School Month opportunities here and decide what works best for
you, your school partners and your community.
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Sign up here to participate in
the second annual Great Lakes Great Apple Crunch on Oct. 22 at
noon. Sign up to receive a copy of the 2015 Crunch Guide to help you plan,
carry out and share your celebratory crunch.
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Schools can join
Minneapolis, St. Paul and other School Food FOCUS districts with a special
Midwest Menu: serve a local chicken and apple, along with a veggie and whole
grain of your choice on Oct. 22. Visit Midwest Menu Event for more details. Schools should sign up here.
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The National Farm
to School Network has resources for your school and community. Visit Farm to School Month to download and
share posters, stickers, a communications toolkit and other content
highlighting Farm to School work across the nation.
To learn more, go to Minnesota’s Farm to School Month website.
Updated on MnDOT Bicycle and
Pedestrian Monitoring Program
MnDOT has updated the
Bicycle and Pedestrian Traffic Counts webpage: http://www.dot.state.mn.us/bike/research/research.html.
- Volunteer tally sheets and training information is available
- MNDOT
has completed the count study and working now to institutionalize the program.
Therefore they are no longer collecting manual count data.
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Suggested National annual
count dates set by the Documentation Project are found here: http://bikepeddocumentation.org/
Join America Walks for an exclusive webinar on the recently released Surgeon General's call to Action on Walking and Walkable Communities. We will receive a briefing from the Lead Scientific Writer on the Call to Action and hear how two leading organizations plan to take advantage of this exciting document. Learn how to use the Call to Action in your own organization! Register here.
Check
it out: Health Powered Kids has a fresh site to help
kids form better habits
Just in time for the new
school year, there is an updated and re-launched Health Powered Kids website! Complete with
more ways for kids to live healthy and active lives.
Here’s a little more about the upgrades:
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Free: As always,
everything on the site is free of charge.
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Pre-populated lesson plans: Features more
pre-built lesson
plans and in-class “Power Charger”
activities to help kids develop positive physical and mental habits in
a few minutes.
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Easier navigation:
It offers a friendly, new design as well as enhanced navigation tools and search
elements. And, the site is accessible on any device.
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No more log-in:
We’ve eliminated the log-in which means one less password for you to
remember.
When you have a few
minutes, head to the site and click
around. It’s a great resource for you and the kids you know.
New report from TransitCenter - the "how" of
transportation change in cities nationwide. The main lesson? "The biggest
catalyst for change is local people advocating for change."
Check out ideas for transforming streets and how it
affects our lives in the cities. http://bit.ly/1If5ARn. Share your project: http://bit.ly/1hFzI3H
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A Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
(MMWR) released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last week reports
that during 2001-2013, current smokeless tobacco use increased significantly
among high school athletes, but not among high school non-athletes.
Furthermore, athletes reported higher use of smokeless tobacco, but lower use
of combustible tobacco products, than non-athletes.
Scholarships to cover
partial or full registration fees are available to those working to eliminate
the use of smokeless and spit tobacco. Application deadline September 30, 2015.
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Learning objectives:
- Applying community engagement milestones to healthcare and workplace settings, using a health equity lens
- Understand new SHIP 4 activities for the workplace, health care and tobacco cessation strategies
- Applying new techniques to old strategies (how layering, dementia and fit into the SHIP framework)
October 6 | 9am-4pm | Detroit Lakes | Minnesota State – Detroit Lakes, Room C103, 900 Highway 34 East, Detroit Lakes, MN 56501
October 13 | 9am-4pm | Duluth | Lake Superior College, http://www.lsc.edu/about-lsc/maps/, Main Campus, Room S1981, 2101 Trinity Road, Duluth, MN 55811
October 15 | 9am-4pm | Marshall | Southwest Health & Human Services, Third Floor, Rooms 4 & 5, 607 West Main Street, Marshall, MN 56258
October 20 | 9am-4pm | Roseville | Minnesota Department of Education, Room CC-14, 1500 Highway 36 West, Roseville, MN 55113
October 27 | 9am-4pm | Rochester | Southeast Service Cooperative, Wood Lake Meeting Center, 210 Wood Lake Drive SE, Rochester, MN 55904
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Tribal Grantees - please plan to attend: An Orientation Gathering/Training September 15 & 16 at the Hampton Inn & Suites in Bemidji, MN
Please make your hotel reservations as soon as possible. A block of rooms is being held under the name: MN Dept. of Health for Sept 14 and 15 at the rate of $119.00 + tax per night. Call 218-751-3600 to reserve your rooms.
Click here to register.
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Even if you are
not working on SHIP, we want you to know that the SHIP October Regional
Learning Meetings are open to you and will apply to your CWG work as
well. MDH staff will cover how to apply community engagement milestones
to the health care and workplace settings, using a health equity lens and
explore new techniques to use with familiar strategies. There is a
training in your region--join us!
Northwest, Tuesday, October 6, 9 am – 4 pm,
M State – Detroit Lakes, Room C103, 900 Highway 34 East, Detroit Lakes, MN
56501
Northeast, Tuesday, October 13, 9 am – 4 pm,
Lake Superior College, http://www.lsc.edu/about-lsc/maps/, Main
Campus, Room S1981, 2101 Trinity Road, Duluth, MN 55811
Southwest, Thursday, October 15, 9 am – 4 pm,
Southwest Health & Human Services, Third Floor, Rooms 4 & 5, 607 West
Main Street, Marshall, MN 56258
Metro, Tuesday, October 20, 9 am – 4 pm,
Minnesota Department of Education, Room CC-14, 1500 Highway 36 West, Roseville,
MN 55113
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