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Summer Gathering for the Tribal SHIP and Tribal Tobacco Grantees | June 13
Time: 8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Date:
June 13
Venue: Mystic
Lake Link Center, 2200 Trail of Dreams, Prior Lake, MN 55372
Tentative
Agenda
8:00 Opening
– Matt Pendleton, Lower Sioux Community
8:15 Introductions – Sarah Brokenleg & LaRaye
Anderson, MDH
8:30 Presentation of Food Infographic created by
American Indian Cancer Foundation - Melanie Plucinski and Chris
Johnson
9:00 Creating Healthy Native Communities through
Food Access and Physical Activity – Lori Watso (invited)
Alternative:
Valerie Seagrest & Daniel Anthony videos
10:00 Introduction to Basecamp – Kim Engwer-Moylan,
MDH
10:30 Quitline, QUITPLAN, and Cessation updates –
Brianna Longeway, MDH
11:00 Opening a health food store in a Tribal
community: challenges and successes – John Langham, Manager,
Mazopiya (Health Food Store)
11:30 Travel to Mazopiya for tour of store. Have
lunch there (On your own)
12:30 Travel to Cabin, meet Rebecca Yoshino and
staff
1:00-
4:00 Tour and learn about the Wozupi
gardens, TSAs, Composting program, Farmers Markets
and other projects currently happening there.
Come prepared with a full tummy and coffee in
hand, as we will not have any available.
Lunch will be at the Mazopiya
Health Food Store and Deli (we will ride there together on a shuttle – you
can make your own lunch arrangements once we get to the store).
Participants should wear comfortable clothes
and shoes for walking. Most of the second part of the day will be spent outside and we will tour
the gardens and Shakopee/Mdewakanton Sioux Community’s other healthy
communities’ projects.
If you would like to stay overnight, there are
rooms available at the Mystic
Lake Hotel and Casino. The rooms, which are available both June 12 and 13, are
reserved. If reserving a room, mention
the “MDH Tribal Grantee Gathering.”
Register here
If you have any
questions please feel free to contact your Community Specialist.
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Schools Monthly Webinar | Active Schools: There is Lots of
Help Out There | June 14
Time: 2:30 p.m.
Date: June 14
Host: Mary Egan
Session Number: 272 459 586
Session Password: ActiveSchools1*
Host Key: 977571
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To join the training session
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1. Go to webex
2. Enter your name and email address.
3. Enter the session password: ActiveSchools1*
4. Click "Join Now".
5. Follow the instructions that appear on your screen.
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Teleconference information
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Call-in toll-free number: 1-888-742-5095 (US)
Conference Code: 885 604 3562
Washington
County Housing and Redevelopment Authority | Achieves Smoke-Free Grounds
The American Lung Association in Minnesota, in partnership with
Washington County Public Health and Environment through its Living Healthy in
Washington County project, commended the Washington County Housing and
Redevelopment Authority (HRA) on successfully implementing a policy that makes
its grounds completely smoke-free.
Since May 2015, all new and current residents have been signing
smoke-free lease addendums. As of June 1, 2016, every tenant in the HRA units has
signed an amended lease, meaning that the 100 percent smoke-free grounds policy
is in effect.
Thanks to this change, residents in more than 1,075 HRA units in
Washington County can now breathe safe, smoke-free air in their homes. The new
policy means that smoking (including electronic cigarettes) is prohibited for all residents and their guests in the building where the resident’s live, including inside
their apartment. This includes all of the rental community’s common areas including
all adjoining grounds, parking areas, green spaces, and outdoor areas.
Tobacco is the single greatest cause of disease and early death in the United
States. Secondhand smoke contains more than 7,000 toxic chemicals, about 70 of
which are known to cause cancer. An estimated 43,000 deaths per year are caused
by exposure to secondhand smoke. Children and infants exposed to secondhand
smoke have an increased risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS),
respiratory illnesses (coughing, sneezing, shortness of breath, bronchitis and
pneumonia), ear infections, asthma attacks, decreased cognitive function, and other serious health problems.
Implementation of the new smoke-free policy will greatly reduce the
cost of cleaning units that have been occupied by heavy smokers (saving an
estimated $3,000 per unit annually). Smoke-free policies also will keep residents’
homes safer by reducing fire risks that are caused by smoking.
Living Healthy in Washington County, the American Lung Association,
Canvas Health and HRA staff provided resident meetings across Washington County
to educate residents on the new policy and provides tobacco cessation
information. Smoke-free signage, violation tear-off pads, and ongoing
communication with residents, managers, and maintenance staff helped make the
implementation successful.
Living Healthy in Washington County is part of the Statewide Health
Improvement Program (SHIP), Minnesota Department of Health.
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:
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Minnesota Compass is a social
indicators project that measures progress in the State of Minnesota, its seven
regions, 87 counties and larger
cities. Compass tracks trends in topic areas such as education, the economy, the
workforce, health, housing, public safety, and a host of other issues.
Compass gives everyone in the
state – policymakers, business and community leaders, and concerned individuals
who live and work here – a common foundation to identify, understand, and act
on issues that affect our communities.
It does this by:
- Providing
unbiased, credible information.
- Tracking
trends and measuring progress on issues that impact our quality of life.
- Identifying
disparities by including trend data by race, age, gender and income whenever
possible.
- Providing
additional resources for addressing issues.
Check out Minnesota trends.
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The new MN Bicycle Educators Network meets from 11:30 a.m.
to 12:30 p.m. the third Wednesday of each month. This monthly network call is
hosted by BikeMN and each meeting will include a conversation with educators from
across the state.
The goal is to connect local bike education
stakeholders to share ideas and strategies, as well as foster conversation. Local League Cycling Instructors, members of a Local and Regional Education
Network (“LREN”) group statewide or Walk! Bike! Fun! trainees are all
welcome to join this network and participate in conference calls.
To join the network
group submit a request to Natalie Gille at natalie@bikemn.org.
Future
communications will only be sent to those who join the network group.
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Bike MN is creating a bicycle-friendly booklet that will cover what
it means to be bicycle friendly and it will provide people with a workbook to
get them thinking about how they can make their community more bike friendly. Bike
MN is looking for local photos! The photos we use will be credited in the
workbook to you and/or your advocacy group and we'll send a Saint Paul Classic
discount code to those whose pics are selected!
Bike MN is looking to collect pictures of:
- Bike facilities in your town (with people on/with bikes in
them)
- Photos from programming or events (such as a Mayor's ride,
education course, etc.)
- People of all ages on all types of bikes
Please email them to jo@bikemn.org
along with a brief description.
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Do you have
a photo that illustrates tobacco industry point-of-sale tactics? Are you planning to take
photos while conducting your tobacco audits this summer? If so, please send us
copies of the photos you take of the retail environment!
What kind of photos? Send
us photos that showcase tobacco industry marketing tactics and promotional
strategies that are being used at the point of sale.
Who do I send them to? Jennifer@countertools.org
What is the deadline? To
be considered for the first and second place prizes, please submit your photos
by September 30.
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We are pleased to share our report
Community Voices: Reducing Tobacco-related Health Inequities. In 2015, we
initiated the Community Voices input process to address the disproportionately
higher rates of commercial tobacco use and secondhand smoke exposure in many
of our communities.
This report includes input from community
stakeholders on the harms of commercial tobacco, approaches to decrease
commercial tobacco use and exposure, and strategies to address tobacco-related
health inequities. It also includes findings and opportunities for action based
on the input gathered.
We hope these findings and actions will become
an asset as you work to improve your community’s health. Please share these
resources with community members and partners as you see fit. We hope this
report serves as a resource and blueprint for action as you work to reduce tobacco-related
disparities in Minnesota.
Read the report at http://www.health.mn.gov/communityvoices.
Thanks
to all those who participated!
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Inter-connecting Children’s Oral Health and Learning
Date: August 4
Venue: Normandale Community College, 9700
France Ave. S, Bloomington 55431
At this all-day conference you will meet and learn from local and national
experts about:
- Supporting
children’s oral health and relating oral health to overall health and
academic success
- Policies
and practices for incorporating or expanding oral health and dental
sealant programs
This Summit is designed
for people who are committed to children’s health from schools, government,
health clinics, dental clinics, sealant programs, public health, health plans,
community organizations, and all other interested stakeholders.
Registration opens in June.
For details and registration information, click here: Smiles@School
Oral Health Summit
Partners:
Minnesota Department of Health; Delta Dental of Minnesota Foundation;
Normandale Community College; Minnesota Oral Health Coalition
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Reminder that REDCap data quality check updates are due tomorrow
June 10.
Helpful tips for updating REDCap data were sent to all
evaluation points of contact on June 6, so look in your mailbox for that
resource.
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Statewide SHIP
meeting registration to open June 20
OSHII staff have been busy preparing for the SHIP Statewide
Meeting July 26-27, which will be held at Eagan Community Center, 1501 Central
Parkway.
Registration is expected to open on June 20. In the meantime, we
are finalizing the schedule of sessions planned for the two days. That
information should be posted on the MDH website on Friday, June 17.
SHIP grantees should expect an email from their Community
Specialist when details have been posted.
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