Safe Routes to School Network Call | Oct. 27
Time: 10-11 a.m.
Date: Oct. 27
Due to MEA, the monthly call
has been moved.The focus of the call:
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Recapping Walk to School Day
- Sustaining SRTS efforts through the winter
Join WebEx meeting
Meeting number: 257 029 502
Host key: 723627
Meeting password: SRTS
Join by phone:
Conference dial-in number: 1-800-504-8071 (US)
Within the US and Canada: 1-303-248-0281 (US)
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Chairperson Passcode: 7320
Access Code: 662 219 2
2016 Healthy Foods Summit | Oct. 27-28
2016
Healthy Foods Summit: Food, Microbes & Human Health
Time: 8-5:30 p.m.
Date: Oct. 27-28
Let's take, "You are what you eat" a
step further . . ."Your world is what you eat." Microbes are everywhere in our food system,
inhabiting biomes from soil to human- for better or worse. In recent years,
research has shed much light on how these tiny organisms can be better
understood and controlled to ensure healthy, safe food for everyone.
This
year's two-day Healthy Foods Summit is co-hosted by the University of Minnesota's
Healthy Foods/Healthy Lives Institute, Consortium on Law and Values
in Health, Environment & the Life Sciences,
and the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum.
The agenda for the first, on-campus day will
include cutting-edge research and policy perspectives. The second day will
focus on practical applications and will be held at the Arboretum. Both days
are designed for community leaders, policymakers, citizens, and stakeholders to
connect with one another and today's foremost scholars, authors, and experts.
The Healthy Food Summit is an annual event, and
will be of interest to food science and production researchers, healthcare
professionals, public health professionals, environmental and natural
resource professionals, dietitians, food producers and processors, grocery
and farm co-op members, agribusiness professionals, community farm
participants, school administrators, students, concerned citizens.
Register here.
MBC Statewide Meeting and Workshop | Oct. 27 & 28
9th Annual Minnesota Breastfeeding Coalition Statewide
Meeting and Workshop
Workshop
Time: Noon-5 p.m.
Date: Oct. 27
Cost: $55
Annual Meeting
Time: 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m.
Date: Oct. 28
Cost: $95
Location: Keller Golf Course Clubhouse,
2166 Maplewood Dr., Maplewood
Register:
https://mnbreastfeedingcoalition.org
APHA Live | Annual Meeting | Oct. 30 - Nov. 1
Are you interested in attending APHA’s Annual Meeting?
APHA is now offering a great way to participate in
APHA’s Annual Meeting, even if you can’t be in Denver. APHA Live gives you:
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Access to live-streamed and on-demand broadcasting of the
premiere sessions at this year’s Annual Meeting, including the Opening
General Session featuring Cecile Richards, president of the Planned
Parenthood Federation of America, and the Monday General Session featuring
four past and current CDC directors.
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12 hours of live programming from Sunday, Oct. 30, through
Tuesday, Nov. 1, on such topics as health equity, Zika, the lead crisis in
Flint, Michigan, and more.
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On-demand access for one year, allowing you to watch sessions
at your leisure.
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The ability to earn nine continuing education credits.
This year’s Annual Meeting theme
“Creating the Healthiest Nation: Ensuring the Right to Health” will carry
through to APHA Live. View the schedule of events and session descriptions.
It’s the
perfect way to hear from leaders in the field, learn best practices and become
part of a national conversation on public health’s biggest issues.
Grants
Available for Local Community Projects that Enhance Transportation Goals |
Letter of Intent Due Oct. 31
$7.5 million in grants available for local
community projects that enhance transportation goals.
Communities, schools and their partners are
invited to apply for approximately $7.5 million in funding for local projects
that enhance transportation goals through the Transportation Alternatives
solicitation.
The funding is for Greater Minnesota
communities, schools and regional agencies to fund pedestrian and bicycle
facilities, historic preservation, Scenic Byways and Safe Routes to School
programs.
The Metropolitan Council conducts a biennial
solicitation for the seven-county Twin Cities Metro Area applications.
To apply, applicants must submit a letter of
intent describing the key components of their project by Oct. 31. A regional
representative will contact applicants to help review the project proposal,
determine eligibility and outline the steps necessary for delivering a
federally funded project. The full application is due Jan. 13, 2017. Grant
recipients will be announced April 17, 2017.
Last year, 21 local communities received
Transportation Alternatives grants totaling more than $7.6 million.
For grant details see the
Transportation Alternatives website at www.mndot.gov/ta.
Webinar
| Training | Minnesota Thursdays and Farm to School | Nov. 1
Minnesota Thursdays and Farm to
School
Time: 2 p.m.
Date: Nov. 1
Description: Serve fresh, local lunch for great, local students! Minnesota
Thursdays is a way to highlight your Farm to School program, support the
local food economy and offer students fresh, seasonal options. Learn how your
school can implement Minnesota Thursdays by sourcing an entirely
locally-sourced meal on the first Thursday of every month.
Key Area: Nutrition Learning
Code: 1130
Registration: Registration is required, and you can register right before
the webinar starts. The registration will ask for your school district’s
name, but you can enter the agency you work for instead of a school district.
Register here.
Deadline for Proposals | RFP for the 2017
Schoolyard Garden Conference | Nov. 1
The Schoolyard Garden
Conference Planning Committee would like your help in finding potential
speakers for the next conference, which will take place on March 3, 2017,
at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum.
Deadline for proposals is
Nov. 1.
The committee is also looking
for nominations for the first annual Innovative Problem Solving Showcase. The
committee is looking for nominations or recommendations for schools, teachers,
volunteers, Master Gardeners, administrators and students who have something to
share that would help other garden programs.
*New to the Conference*
Innovative Problem Solving Showcase:
Schoolyard gardens often
present unlimited learning and healthy opportunities, however, barriers and
problems are always a part of the gardening equation. As most long time
gardeners will admit, you often learn the most when something goes wrong in the
garden. You figure out a solution. Later, you see the same issue in another
garden and you know what to do. This year, we are introducing new exhibitor
showcase which highlights a collection of selected programs that have solved a
problem by creating an innovative solution.
With over 190 Minnesota
school gardens, there are certainly some garden experts out there who have
solved problems or overcome barriers in great ways. This year’s Innovative Garden
Problem Solving Showcase looks to celebrate those learning moments in the
garden.
Think back and remember
planning your garden site. What did you have to overcome to make it happen?
Missing a water source? Low community support? Lacked funding? Lacked space?
Think back and remember the early years of your garden, what went wrong? A
major pest problem? Plant spacing? Garden layout? How did you fix it?
We want to showcase your
expertise and make gardening less daunting for new gardeners. Participants will
share their findings and resources in the Showcase, and be eligible to win the
first annual "Minnesota Innovator Award." They are also allowed to
bring one student to present their exciting work. Let’s show them how we
learned to garden!
Potential Categories:
- Irrigation
- Summer garden management
- Rabbits issues
- Pests
- Funding obstacles
- Space obstacles
- Garden classroom management
- Community support
- Garden facilities (hand washing…)
- Extending the garden season
- Expanding use of the garden
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Portable gardens
For more information https://goo.gl/forms/K1GzSCSxLFJCBH2R2
Making it Better Regional Learning Meetings | Oct. 27 & Nov. 3
Time: 9 a.m.-3 p.m.
Dates | Locations:
Learning Objectives
At the end of this session,
participants will be able to:
- Use new tools, create a
customized communications and engagement plan.
- Identify ways to incorporate
cessation promotion in worksite wellness partner sites.
- Articulate local public health’s
role in the statewide implementation of HUD smoke-free rule.
- Describe new tobacco use and
exposure data and learn about new resources and tools.
Please make sure to register for
the Making it Better Regional Learning Meeting
Register here.
Crow Wing Food Shelves
put Focus on Healthier Options, Client Choice
It's no longer
business as usual at food shelves in Crow Wing County.
Instead of getting
a box of preselected food, clients can now choose food as if they were shopping
at a grocery store, and healthier foods are getting to people in need.
Crow Wing
Energized, a community partner of Crow Wing County Community Service and the
Statewide Health Improvement Program (SHIP) grantee in the county, promoted and
supported the new model because it encourages healthy food choices and
nutrition education.
Food shelves now
solicit healthier food donations and that means more nutritious foods are on
the shelves. They also provides healthy recipes, offers a shopping list
recommending healthy options and displays healthier items more prominently.
Food shelves
increased the overall shelf space for healthier foods; place these options at
the front; separates low-sodium and whole-grain food options and uses signage
to highlight them; and displays produce in a more appealing, accessible way.
Read more here.
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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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