Making it Better, Your Minnesota's Health Improvement Log

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July 28, 2016

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In This Week's Issue

• Special Thanks for Attending the 2016 Annual SHIP Meeting
• Tell Your Story | Minnesota Food Charter Network
• Accepting Applications to Host Walk! Bike! Fun! Trainings
• Tobacco Call | A Beautiful Day in the DW Jones Neighborhood | Aug. 3
• Webinar | Stop Sales to Minors Online Vendor Training | Sept. 21
• Photo Contest | Minnesota Tobacco Point-of-Sale
• New Funding Opportunity | The Center for Prevention’s Healthy Eating Success Stories
• SHIP Monthly School Webinars | Calls
• StoryWork Toolkit Implementation Training | Aug. 16 - 17
• Return to First Medicines Conference | Aug. 17 - 18

Special Thanks for Attending the 2016 Annual SHIP Meeting

I want to thank everyone who attended the 2016 Annual SHIP Meeting this week. This was a great opportunity for us to connect, network, exchange ideas and share our accomplishments and challenges. It was wonderful to see so many grantees. Special thanks to all the presenters, the meeting planners and volunteers who helped at the event itself. Your collective work is what makes us all stronger. We will be posting the presentations on the website, and you should watch for an evaluation from us. Thank you again! Julie Myhre

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:

• SHIP Meredith Ahlgren, Allison Heinzeller, Ari McHenry, Susan Michels or Dan Taylor
• Tobacco Pa Khang
• American Indian LaRaye Anderson or Sarah Brokenleg
• Community Wellness Rachel Mahon Bosman

No resources this week.

Tell Your Story | Minnesota Food Charter Network

The Minnesota Food Charter Network is gathering compelling stories from leaders just like you across Minnesota; stories that demonstrate powerful progress in creating healthier food environments, strengthening food skills and building a healthy food infrastructure. These stories reflect wonderful work across the food supply—from seed to table—oftentimes embodying one or more of the 99 Food Charter strategies. The goal with this project is to connect with people doing wonderful work to improve our food supply across Minnesota; learn about the connections between these efforts and potential policies that could play a supportive role; and share these stories with others to inspire further progress. Link: http://mnfoodcharter.com/tell-us-your-story/

Accepting Applications to Host Walk! Bike! Fun! Trainings

Apply to host a Walk! Bike! Fun! curriculum training in your area to implement the curriculum change for schools. Doing so will provide area teachers and community educators with the skill they need to teach children safe pedestrian and bicycle skills! Please complete and submit this application:  https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/fallwbf_2016  Deadline Aug. 5. Contact Michelle (Breidenbach) Kiefer with questions michelle@bikemn.org.

Tobacco Call | A Beautiful Day in the DW Jones Neighborhood | Aug. 3

Time:  10 – 10:30 a.m.
Date:  Aug. 3

Several years ago, leadership at DW Jones (one of the largest property management companies in northern Minnesota) let us know that they would be making their move to smoke-free housing on their own timeline. At that time, they asked that we assign one organization/office to work with them on Smoke Free Housing efforts when the time came. DW Jones identified the American Lung Association (ALA) as a partner. Several DW Jones managers, with support from ALA, are implementing a companywide smoke free policy they believe will be successful. 

Join this call to hear more and ask questions. 

Please also feel free to reach out to Liz Johnson at ALA with any questions regarding DW Jones properties in your area. Liz.Johnson@Lung.org 218-726-4758.

The phone number is as follows:

1-888-742-5095

Participant Code: 885 604 3562

Webinar | Stop Sales to Minors Online Vendor Training | Sept. 21

Overview of “Stop Sales to Minors” Online Vendor Training

Time:  2:00 – 3:00 pm
Date:  Sept. 21

Description: Association for Nonsmokers – MN (ANSR) will provide an overview of the newly released “Stop Sales to Minors” online tobacco vendor training. We will cover how the training works and how grantees can promote it. We will talk about our plans for dissemination and brainstorm dissemination strategies together.

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To register for this training session
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Go to https://health-state-mn-ustraining.webex.com/health-state-mn-ustraining/k2/j.php?MTID=t05408239585209b9305ce811da680e02 and register.

Once you are approved by the host, you will receive a confirmation email with instructions for joining the session.

To view in other time zones or languages, please click the link
https://health-state-mn-ustraining.webex.com/health-state-mn-ustraining/k2/j.php?MTID=t047c5f05550970e2774ab16c6030f72b

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For assistance
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You can contact Lorraine Swenson at:
lorraine.swenson@state.mn.us
1-651-201-5438

Photo Contest | Minnesota Tobacco Point-of-Sale

MDH and Counter Tools are having a Minnesota tobacco point-of-sale photo contest! Do you have a photo of tobacco industry tactics at the point of sale? Are you planning to take photos while conducting audits this summer? Send in the photos you capture of the retail environment! What kind of photos? Send us photos showcasing tobacco industry marketing tactics and promotional strategies at the point of sale. Who do I send them to? Jennifer@countertools.org What is the deadline? Please send by Sept. 30 to be considered for the 1st and 2nd place prizes.

New Funding Opportunity | The Center for Prevention’s Healthy Eating Success Stories

The Center for Prevention at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota delivers on Blue Cross' long-term commitment to improve the health of all Minnesotans by tackling the leading root causes of preventable disease: tobacco use, lack of physical activity and unhealthy eating. Funded through proceeds from Blue Cross' historic lawsuit against the tobacco industry, they collaborate with organizations statewide to increase health equity, transform communities and create a healthier state.

The Center is pleased to announce a new funding opportunity for their Healthy Eating Success Stories funding initiative. They are seeking to fund six to eight organizations at $10,000 each to showcase innovative, successful healthy eating work. 

Many successful and innovative projects and initiatives have been implemented that address barriers to eating healthy throughout Minnesota. However, due to various constraints such as organizational size or staff capacity, there are often fewer resources available to promote such successes. 

This funding aims to highlight the outcomes and lessons of current or completed healthy eating programs, and to promote them within communities that may be inspired to duplicate the successes. 

They seek to fund organizations that tell success stories about their healthy eating project in unique and innovative ways that also align with the foundational work laid out in the Minnesota Food Charter.The Success Stories project will use persuasive, tailored communications and powerful personal narratives to execute campaign(s) that will deliver positive community-based healthy eating messages. 

The application deadline is 1 p.m. Monday, Aug. 8 (Central Time).

To apply for this funding opportunity and review the required materials, visit the Available Funding page.

SHIP Monthly School Webinars | Calls

Schedule for 2016-2017- SHIP Monthly School webinars/calls *For SHIP staff that work with school settings the following dates/times have been reserved for monthly topics to be addressed virtually, either by webinar or conference call.  Please hold calendars if topics apply to you and join in!  2016 Time:  2:30-3:30 p.m. Date:  Sept. 13 Time:  2:30-3:30 p.m. Date:  Oct. 11 Time:  2:30-3:30 p.m. Date:  Nov. 8  Time:  2:30-3:30 p.m. Date:  Dec. 13  2017 Time:  2:30-3:30 p.m. Date:  Jan. 10 Time:  2:30-3:30 p.m. Date:  Feb. 14  Time:  2:30-3:30 p.m. Date:  Mar. 14 Time:  2:30-3:30 p.m. Date:  April 11 Time:  2:30-3:30 p.m. Date:  May 9

StoryWork Toolkit Implementation Training | Aug. 16 - 17

The StoryWork Toolkit Implementation Training will be held Aug. 16-17 at the American Indian Resource Center in Bemidji. 

This if the final StoryWork Training.  All Tribal grantees should have received the details on this training in an email.

Return to First Medicines Conference | Aug. 17 - 18

The Return to First Medicines conference will take place Aug. 17 - 18 at Fortune Bay.  Details and registration info can be found on here: www.indigenouspeoplestf.org

No announcements this week.