Webinar | MDH Tobacco Prevention and Control | TA and Training Changes | Dec. 12
Time: 11 a.m.-Noon
Date: Dec. 12
The MDH
Tobacco Prevention and Control Program is pleased to announce changes to our
Technical Assistance (TA) and Training team and newly organized roles. The TA
team serves grantees working on tobacco prevention initiatives in both the
Statewide Health Improvement Partnership (SHIP) and Tobacco-Free Communities
(TFC) grant programs. Please join us for a short webinar to hear about these
changes, briefly meet the TA team and learn how to access their services.
Please contact your community specialist for any questions you might have
about this webinar.
Registration:
Go to https://health-state-mn-ustraining.webex.com/health-state-mn-ustraining/k2/j.php?MTID=t6e6373d4a372ecbea4237e508b179f02 and register. Once the host
approves your registration, you will receive a confirmation email with
instructions for joining the session.
Webinar | SHIP & Smarter Lunchroom Resource Sharing | Dec. 13
SHIP & Smarter Lunchroom Resource
Sharing
Time: 2:30 p.m.
Date: Dec.
13
Host: Mary Egan
Session number: 630 208 601
Session password: Fall2016*
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To join the webinar:
1. Go to https://health-state-mn-ustraining.webex.com/health-state-mn-ustraining/k2/j.php?MTID=t06f260b1956f45b992da99521f1fbb40
2. Enter your name and email address.
3. Enter the session password: Fall2016*
4. Click "Join Now".
5. Follow the instructions that appear on your screen.
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To join the teleconference:
Call-in toll-free number: 1-888-742-5095
Conference Code: 885 604 3562
Webinar | Bikeable Community Workshop Application Q
& A | Dec. 14
Bikeable Community Workshop Application
Q&A
Time: 9:30-10:30 a.m.
Date:
Dec. 14
Is your community thinking about applying for a Bikeable Community Workshop? Do
you have questions about the application? This webinar will take you through
the application and provide answers to any questions you may have.
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To join the training session
1. Go to https://health-state-mn-ustraining.webex.com/health-state-mn-ustraining/k2/j.php?MTID=t4b6da28240df168fdb18609057b460b8
2. Enter your name and email address.
3. Enter the session password: mPdJA3J@
4. Click "Join Now".
5. Follow the instructions that appear on your screen.
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=t360b045d65ff3889304a6675fccca523
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To join the teleconference only
To receive a call back, provide your phone number when you join the training
session. Alternatively, you can call one of the following numbers and enter the
access code:
Call-in toll-free number:1-888-742-5095
(US)
Conference Code: 885 604 3562
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For assistance
You can contact Rhonda Bauer at:
rhonda.bauer@state.mn.us
1-651-201-3606
Can't join the training session?
https://help.webex.com/docs/DOC-5521
https://www.webex.com
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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The
Minnesota Department of Health has published a Community
Health Worker (CHW) Toolkit for prospective employers.
The purpose of the toolkit is to assist
employers and organizations in planning for the hiring of CHWs. The CHW role
provides culturally-specific education, system navigation, advocacy and
outreach services to diverse communities. CHWs can improve health outcomes for
communities and individuals, reduce overall health care costs by helping
patients avoid more acute care and improve patient experience. CHWs can also
enhance relationships between communities and health systems, public health
agencies, hospitals, clinics and community-based programs.
The toolkit is now available at http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/orhpc/toolkit.html.
Funding for
the creation of the toolkit was provided by the Center for Medicaid and
Medicare Improvement, via the State Innovation Model (SIM) grant.
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Active Schools Minnesota video launches
OSHII has launched a new video to promote the Active Schools Minnesota
initiative.
The video highlights why getting
students moving is important and what schools can do to increase time for students so they’re more active during the day.
SHIP grantees are encouraged to use the
video to get more schools involved in the Active Schools Minnesota initiative.
The video features interviews with
teachers and administrators from Sebeka and Kelliher schools.
Watch the video here.
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Input Needed | Healthy Food Retail Training
| March 7-8
Date: March 7-8, 2017
Planning has begun for the Healthy Food Retail
Training. Your thoughts and input on what this two-day training should
focus on is needed.
If you have a specific topic or input on what the agenda
should include send them to Emily.Kilbourn-Shear@state.mn.us.
Watch for registration details, and additional opportunities to give input in
January.
 This is a reminder that the Power of
Produce (PoP) Club application closes on Friday, Dec. 30. Get your
application in before the deadline!
The PoP Club is a farmers' market incentive program
for children. Each week, children receive a $2 token to spend on fresh fruits
and vegetables and food plants. The goal of the PoP Club is to empower
children to independently make healthy food choices. Its secondary goals
include bringing families together to the farmers' market, increasing the
amount of fruits and vegetables children are eating at home, and promoting the
sale of fresh, locally-grown produce.
This application is intended to
provide farmers' markets or partnering organizations with the resources, funds
and technical assistance to implement the PoP Club at their respective local
market.The link to this online application is below.
PoP Club Grant Application: https://umn.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_57widdAPvjVhiXb
Farmers' markets or local
partnering organizations, such as local public health, non-profits and
businesses, can complete the application for a local farmers market. Only one application
should be submitted per farmers' market. Farmers' markets that don't currently
offer the PoP Club are encouraged to apply.
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BikeMN, in
partnership with the Minnesota Departments of Health and Transportation, will
offer Bikeable Community Workshops in 2017 between mid-May to mid-July.
If you feel your community is a great candidate for the
workshop, please fill out the application online. This is a competitive process, and a limited
number of communities will be selected.
Communities are eligible if they have not had a Bikeable
Community Workshop in the past. Any questions can be directed to Kelly.Corbin@state.mn.us.
Applications are due Jan. 9, 2017.
Application pdf and planning guide are available here, as well as
submission application: http://www.bikemn.org/collaboration/bikeable-community-workshops
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Bike Alliance
of Minnesota is looking for five new schools to host the Walk! Bike! Fun!
Curriculum training in April or May of 2017.
If you would like to host a Walk! Bike! Fun! Curriculum training during
spring of the 2016-2017 school year, complete the application here. Deadline to apply is midnight on Feb. 3, 2017.
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Are you looking for materials in multiple languages about tobacco cessation
services in Minnesota? ClearWay Minnesota's brochure
educating tobacco users about free help through Medical Assistance and
their QUITPLAN Services brochure are now available in 10 languages.
Newly translated materials can be downloaded at no charge
at https://www.quitplan.com/request-materials.html.
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Inspiring Bold
Action: The Minnesota Tobacco Control Conference
Date: Jan. 24-26, 2017
Location: RiverCentre, 175 Kellogg
Blvd. W., St. Paul
Cost: $100
THEME
Preparing for Action: The Next Horizon for Minnesota Tobacco
Control
FOCUS AREAS
1. Eliminating Tobacco Inequities*
2. Working Together to Take Bold Steps for Policy Change in Tobacco Control
3. Sustainability of Tobacco Control in Minnesota
OBJECTIVES
Conference participants will leave with:
1. An understanding of key tobacco prevention and control issues
and a roadmap for collaborative change work that sustains our long-term
efforts.
2. An understanding of the important role they play in creating a state where
everyone is free from the harms of commercial tobacco.
3. An understanding of the disparities faced by commercial tobacco users and
why these inequities exist in Minnesota.
4. Confidence and a sense of urgency to use newly acquired knowledge and skills
to reduce tobacco inequities.
*Includes but is not limited to communities of color; indigenous
communities; LGBT; urban and rural populations; those with mental illness or
substance use disorders; the homeless; those of lower socioeconomic status, as
well as other groups with persistently high tobacco use rates.
“Tobacco use” refers to manufactured commercial tobacco in all
forms (cigarettes, cigars, smokeless, hookah, etc.), as well as all forms of
electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS), and not the traditional, sacred,
medicinal, spiritual, or ceremonial use of tobacco by American Indians and
other groups.
Registration and Conference Website
www.mntobaccocontrolconference.com
Register here.
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MDH and ALA are
partnering to offer a limited number of travel scholarships to SHIP grantees
working on tobacco prevention and control to attend the Statewide Tobacco
Conference Jan. 24-16, 2017. Scholarship applications, questions and
communication should go directly to Erin Simmons at erin.simmons@lung.org.
Conference Website
www.mntobaccocontrolconference.com
Scholarship Eligibility
Because funds are limited, there are a few eligibility
requirements to be aware of. The applicants applying must be:
- More than 60 miles from
their permanent work station to St. Paul River Centre.
- A SHIP Tier 1 grantee.
- Working on tobacco
prevention in either point of sale or smoke-free housing community
setting.
We will first award one scholarship to the eligible SHIP
grantees. Please refer to the schedule below. If funds remain, we will do a second
call for eligible applications to send additional SHIP staff or coalition
member. This second round is on a first come, first serve basis. ClearWay or
TFC funded CHBs are not eligible to apply.
What is included?
- $50 Registration Fee
(registration code will come from ALA if approved for scholarship)
- Round trip mileage
(Federal rate is 54 cents/mile)
- Dinner Tuesday,
Wednesday, and Thursday evenings (maximum of $16 per meal and can’t
include alcohol)
- Up to two nights at the
Intercontinental Hotel, which is adjacent from the conference site.
(arranged directly by ALA with the hotel on applicant’s behalf)
Reimbursement basis only, except for hotel cost which ALA will
pre-arrange and paid directly.
Timeline
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1st call for
applications open Wednesday, Nov. 23; due no later than Monday, Dec. 12.
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2nd call for
applications open Tuesday, Dec. 13; due no later than Friday, Dec. 30.
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If approved, the final
reimbursement form and receipts are due to ALA by Monday, Feb. 6.
Application Form
Please complete this brief application and email it directly to
Erin Simmons at erin.simmons@lung.org.
Date of Request:
Applicant Name:
Grant Name:
Email:
Phone:
Please use the guidance on page one for the maximum allowable
amounts per line item.
Reimbursement Basis:
Conference Registration Fee $ ________
Approximant Mileage Costs $ ________
Meals $ _______
Total Approx. Requested Amount: $ ________
Pre-Arranged by ALA:
Intercontinental Hotel, St. Paul: Check one or both nights you need
a hotel.
____ Tuesday, January 24
____ Wednesday, January 25
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Minnesota is ready with
resources for residents and housing staff
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
released a rule requiring all public housing agencies to have a smoke-free
policy within 18 months to protect residents, staff, and visitors from
secondhand smoke, reduce fire risk and maintenance costs and provide cleaner
and safer air.
These policies will create smoke-free spaces in living units, indoor common
areas and public housing agency offices.
Minnesota is well positioned to offer smoke-free living to all public housing
residents. Most of Minnesota’s public housing agencies already have some
smoking restrictions for their buildings or grounds. Through the Statewide
Health Improvement Partnership (SHIP), local public health agencies are working
across Minnesota to help public housing authorities set smoke-free policies and
connect residents who want to quit smoking with cessation programs.
Property managers and directors can learn more about HUD’s new
rule and get resources at Tobacco Prevention and Control.
Minnesota residents who want to quit smoking have free access to
quit-smoking tools and resources through QUITPLAN® Services.
Young children and older adults are most susceptible to the harms
of secondhand smoke, including increased risk of breathing problems and more
frequent and severe asthma attacks.
Secondhand smoke causes early death and disease in both children and adults who
do not smoke. There is no safe level of exposure. Tobacco smoke contains more than
7,000 chemicals, about 70 of which are known to cause cancer. People in low-
and fixed-income groups have a greater risk of secondhand smoke exposure in
their homes than those in higher income groups.
While Minnesota banned smoking in nearly all indoor public spaces in 2007 with
the Freedom to Breathe changes to the Minnesota Clean Indoor Air Act, these
provisions did not include smoking in individual or multi-unit housing.
Minnesota’s tobacco prevention community has been actively working to bring cleaner,
safer air to all Minnesotans living in multi-unit housing.
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The Osteoarthritis
Action Alliance (OAAA) is pleased to release a Request for Applications for the
Walk with Ease Expansion Grants.
Funding support for this effort is provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Arthritis
Project.
OAAA is conducting
this mini-grant initiative to support expanded dissemination and delivery of
the evidence-based, cost effective, and arthritis-appropriate Walk With Ease (WWE) programs. Over the next 5 years, we will
extend WWE by reaching a minimum of 25 states that will embed the
delivery of the programs and develop models for sustainability and ongoing
funding.
This year, OAAA
anticipates awarding up to 8 grants for up to $7,000 each, with a project
period of up to one year. Funds may be used for instructor training fees,
purchase of workbooks, printing of marketing materials (e.g., brochures,
posters) and for administrative costs (staff support) in managing the
mini-grant project.
Email of Intent due:
Dec. 16 at 10:59 p.m.
Applications due: Jan. 20, 2017
at 10:59 p.m.
Learn
more and apply here.
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OSHII is
seeking SHIP grantees to volunteer on a team that will help evaluate and
improve the template used for SHIP grantee work plans.
This initiative is in response to grantee feedback to make this
resource simpler and user-friendly. Between four to six volunteers are needed.
Time commitment is about two to three hours per month, which includes
meeting time. The kickoff meeting will be in January 2017. The goal is to have
a new work plan template ready by July 2017.
Meetings will take place by conference call.
Interested? Please email Susan Michels at susan.michels@state.mn.us
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