Linda Feltes joins OSHII as the new TA/Training Coordinator.
Linda comes with extensive experience in planning and delivering TA & Training across the state and in building partnerships and collaborations.
Some of you may know Linda from her previous role at MDH
as the Worksite Wellness Program Coordinator, and from her role as the
Project Manager for Worksite Wellness at Minnesota Management & Budget. She
has led and provided technical assistance and training for our state agency
worksite wellness programs and has been successful in weaving PSE throughout
the programs.
Benton County Works with City of Foley to Pass Resolution Supporting Safe Routes to School
Benton County recently had the
City of Foley adopt a resolution to support work for Safe Routes to School in
their community. This is a great launch for a newly formed SHIP-led Safe
Routes to School committee and will hold city officials accountable for future
built environment decisions that may support walking or biking to school.
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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The Minnesota
HIA Coalition released the Minnesota HIA Action Guide to advance HIA
capacity and understanding in Minnesota. This guide covers the basics of HIAs
in Minnesota, including talking points, information on HIAs completed in
Minnesota, and resources.
Check it out. HIA’s can be a tool to use when new
policies or built environment projects are proposed.
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Planning for Population Health
Coffee Talks
Working Effectively across Multiple Jurisdictions
Time: 8:30-9:30 a.m.
Date: Jan. 4
On the first coffee talk of
2017 we will dig into a topic brought up during last month’s call on
ways to be effective in working across multiple jurisdictions e.g. city,
county, regions. Adam Altenburg, Community and Transportation Planner from
Fargo-Moorhead Metropolitan Council of Governments, will join us to offer his
perceptive to our discussion. The talk is organized by the MDH Healthy Eating and
Active Living Team.
Call-in Details:
Toll-free: 1-888-742-5095
Conference
Code: 9821141691
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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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Attend a symposium offered by
the Minnesota Department of Education – Nutrition, Health, and Youth
Development Division.
Learn about the upcoming CACFP meal pattern regulations and
how to help child care programs implement them.
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New CACFP
Meal Pattern Regulations
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The Changes
are Coming: How to Communicate, Market, and Frame Your Message
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Highlight on
the Minnesota Breastfeeding Recognition Program
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Menu
Planning Strategies
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Improving
Mealtime Environment with "Smarter Mealtimes"
- New print and electronic resources
- Free
(lunch on your own), half or full day registration
Training dates and
locations:
Time: 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Date: Jan. 18, 2017
Location: National Joint Powers Alliance, 202 12th Street NE, Staples
Registration: Jan. 18 –
Staples
Time: 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Date: Jan. 24, 2017
Location: Regional Extension Office – Mankato, 1961 Premier Drive, Suite 110, Mankato
Registration: Jan. 24 –
Mankato
Time: 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Date: Jan. 31, 2017
Location: Minnesota Department of Education, 1500 Highway 36 W, Roseville
Registration: Jan. 31 –
Roseville
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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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Turning Knowledge into Action
Time: 7:45 a.m.- 3:30 p.m.
Date: Feb. 23, 2017
Venue: Earle Brown Heritage Center, 6155 Earle Brown Dr., Brooklyn Center
Cost: $95
Please join MN Action for Healthy Kids (AFHK)
for the 2017 Healthy School Conference, featuring evidence-based policies and
practices that allow students and staff to learn and work in a healthy school
environment with a focus on health equity. Presentations will cover a variety
of healthy school topics including a panel discussion with schools on
successful student health initiatives and breakout sessions on core issues for
healthy schools. We are excited to welcome Dr. Sharroky Hollie, Director of the
Center for Culturally Responsive Teaching and Learning to present the keynote
address.
To establish the theme for the day, Dr.
Hollie will talk about how cultural responsiveness benefits all students, in
particular those students who have been traditionally underserved in schools.
Given its importance to empowering and inspiring educators to be responsive and
for students to be academically successful, how do you know if you are
culturally and linguistically responsive in your mind-set and skill set? Find
out through a motivating, inspiring, and thought-provoking keynote address, and
additional breakout session.
Register here.
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Find out what makes
cigarettes attractive, addictive, and deadly. See “How a Cigarette Is Engineered,”
available as a downloadable file.
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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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Tobacco & Trade: An Update on Global Tobacco Trade Litigation
Time: 11 a.m.
Date: Jan. 18, 2017
The
tobacco industry has a history of using international trade and investment
agreements to challenge tobacco control measures, such as plain packaging
requirements. This Tobacco Control Legal Consortium webinar will provide
an overview of the latest tobacco trade and investment litigation, including
this summer’s landmark decision by the World Bank dispute settlement body to
dismiss a case brought by Philip Morris International against the government of
Uruguay seeking compensation for economic damages caused by the nation’s
tobacco control measures. Our speaker will be Robert Eckford, Associate Legal
Director of the International Legal Consortium at the Campaign for Tobacco-Free
Kids.
Register here.
Webinar
Wednesdays
Monthly webinars will be held until Kick Butts Day! The webinars
will cover tips and tricks, mini-grants, additional resources that are offered
to support the Kick Butts Day events, and more.
Here's the schedule:
Jan. 11, 2017 — Training Up to Kick Butts
Feb. 8, 2017 — Kicking Butts Through the Media
March 8, 2017 — Kicking Butts Online
Click here to RSVP for webinars.
A new Surgeon
General’s report raises concerns about e-cigarette use among youth and young
adults. The report comes amid alarming rates of youth and young adult use of
e-cigarettes; in 2015, about 1 in 6 high school students used an e-cigarette in
the past month. The report finds that, while nicotine is a highly addictive
drug at any age, youth and young adults are uniquely vulnerable to the
long-term consequences of exposing the brain to nicotine, and concludes that
youth use of nicotine in any form is unsafe. The report also finds that
secondhand aerosol that is exhaled into the air by e-cigarette users can expose
others to potentially harmful chemicals.
Learn
More
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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
five 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 eight 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.
Applications due: Jan. 20, 2017, at 10:59
p.m.
Learn more and apply here.
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Results of SHIP child care evaluation discussed at
webinar
SHIP grantees and other interested partners are invited to a
webinar at 11:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017, to learn about the results
from an evaluation study of SHIP child care training and technical assistance.
Creating
child care environments that support healthy habits is a critical strategy for
preventing obesity among young children. The purpose of this
evaluation was to assess the impact of SHIP’s child care training and technical
assistance strategy on the adoption and implementation of nationally
recommended practices and written policies that promote healthy eating,
physical activity and breastfeeding in child care settings.
During the webinar, participants will learn more about the
study, its findings and communications tools (including a press release that
can be used locally) that will be available. MDH plans to issue a press release
about the study the day after the webinar.
Making a
Difference: SHIP Child Care Training and TA
Time: 11:30 a.m.
Date: Jan. 4, 2017
Session number: 635 936 786
Session password: Winter2017*
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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=t290e2e93251010c4b50ec9842f58012c
2. Enter your name and email address.
3. Enter the session password: Winter2017*
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
(US)
Conference Code: 885 604 3562
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The evaluation team is getting ready to launch of REDCap
2.0. Below is more information about three important upcoming
events.
Your Input Needed: How Partner Sites Defined
Time: 10-11 a.m.
Date: Jan. 9, 2017
We would
like your input on changes to how partner sites will be defined. If you are
interested in joining a discussion please contact your evaluation liaison or Health.SHIP.eval@state.mn.us
and we will send you more information to review and instructions for how to
join the call.
Training for all REDCap 2.0 Users
Time: 10-11 a.m.
Date: Jan. 18, 2017
Join us for a training on the updated strategies and activities form (which
includes questions about partner site types). This training is strongly encouraged for all people
submitting SHIP data into REDCap in year 2.
New Partner Site Data Due
Date: Feb. 9, 2017
To
prepare the SHIP 4 Year 2 Semi Annual Partner Site report, you are required to
submit all new partner sites that you have worked with since Aug.19, 2016.
These data are to be submitted in REDCap no later than Feb. 9, 2017. Submit
the information via the same REDCap survey you have been using at this link https://apps.health.state.mn.us/redcap/surveys/?s=XL79WHY9NM.
No exceptions will be granted on this deadline. Partner sites submitted after
Feb. 9, will be included in the next deadline for partner sites later
in 2017.
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Communications | Media Relations | Active Living
Time:
8 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Feb. 1, 2017
Northeast | Grand Rapids | Itasca County Family YMCA, 400 River Road,
Grand Rapids
Feb. 3, 2017
Metro | Northern Service Center, (Rooms 110A and
110B), One Mendota Rd. W., West St. Paul
Feb. 9. 2017
Northwest | Bemidji | MDH District Office, 509 America Ave.,
Bemidji
Feb. 16, 2017
Southwest | Redwood Falls | Redwood Falls Public Library, 509 S Lincoln
St., Redwood Falls
Mar. 2, 2017
Southeast | Rochester | Southeast Service Cooperative, 210 Wood Lake
Drive SE Rochester
More information coming soon.
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The standard IRS mileage rate will decrease from 54 cents to
53.5 cents per mile starting Jan. 1, 2017. Please start using this new rate
for personal automobile mileage reimbursement starting in the new year.
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