Communications | Media Relations | Active Living

Time:  8 a.m. – 4 p.m.

• Feb. 1 - Northeast | Grand Rapids | Itasca County Family YMCA, 400 River Road, Grand Rapids
• Feb. 3 - Metro | Northern Service Center, (Rooms 110A and 110B), One Mendota Rd. W., West St. Paul
• Feb. 9 - Northwest | Bemidji | MDH District Office, 509 America Ave., Bemidji
• Feb. 16 - Southwest | Redwood Falls | Redwood Falls Public Library, 509 S Lincoln St., Redwood Falls
• March 2 - Southeast | Rochester |  Southeast Service Cooperative, 210 Wood Lake Drive SE Rochester

Audience

SHIP Coordinators and staff, community partner(s) to be pre-selected by SHIP staff (up to 2 per SHIP grantee)

Learning Objectives

During the communications portion of the day, participants will:

• gain knowledge of earned, social and paid media and how to combine the three for the most effective communications outreach and impact,
• obtain an understanding of the components that comprise successful communications campaigns. Those components include goal, subgoals, audience, message and soundbites,
• learn how to use effective story-telling to enhance message(s) and thereby more readily achieve goal(s),
• acquire a working understanding of effective and ineffective messengers and how the two can vary depending upon the message, the issue and the audience,
• obtain a basic understanding of how to craft effective news releases, news advisories, letters to the editor and op-eds and when and how to use these tools,
• attain tools to enhance the news value of issues they work on, 
• learn the basic rules for working and interacting with the news media, and
• acquire skills for coping with challenges to communications efforts, including tools on how not to stray from effective messages.

Active Living

• Participants will understand the role of public health in comprehensive planning process.
• Participants will learn about technical assistance resources available for Public Health professionals to integrate into the Comprehensive Planning process.
• Participants will understand how MN Walks could be used as a tool to increase local action for SHIP Active Living strategies.

Register here.

Time: 3 p.m.
Date: Jan. 23

The pre-training webinar will delve into the importance of:

a) matching spokespeople to target audiences,
b) understanding who are the most effective spokespeople for an issue or a cause, and
c) developing an appreciation for the importance of non-traditional public health spokespeople.

In addition, the trainers will go over an assignment to be completed prior to the in-person trainings that will equip participants to come to the trainings ready to focus on expanding media advocacy and public relations within their communities.

Webinar Information

Topic: Communications Pre-Training | Regional Meetings
Session number: 631 293 231
Session password: HedMpv*3

To join the training session

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1. Go to https://health-state-mn-ustraining.webex.com/health-state-mn-ustraining/k2/j.php?MTID=tdf0e7b28feb036546646252d8d6694dc
2. Enter your name and email address (or registration ID).
3. Enter the session password: HedMpv*3
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

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To join the teleconference only

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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

OSHII has announced two staffing changes.

Lisa Gemlo has taken a new position in MDH Comprehensive Cancer Control and her last day in OSHII will be Jan. 18.

During her time with OSHII, she has been the Farm to School and fruit and vegetable coordinator for the state, launched the Minnesota Food Charter, and supported the development and growth of the Minnesota Food Charter Network, to name a few.

In a note to grantees, Gemlo said: “It has been a pleasure working with you over the past six years.  Your commitment to the work and ingenuity has been an inspiration. I wish you all the best and hope we will cross paths again.” 

In addition, Tim Jenkins has a temporary assignment with the Community Initiatives Unit as a community specialist to support the upcoming parental leaves of staff. His knowledge of SHIP and the community setting will be valuable for the team and local SHIP staff. Stay tuned into the log for more information on a transition plan to support the healthy eating community strategies.

MN Bicycle Educators Network webinar (new format for 2017!)

Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Date: Jan. 18
Topic: Goal setting and stakeholder engagement

Web log in: uberconference.com/bikemn
Phone log in: #651-504-2532

Webinar also to include the newly released statewide bicycling handbook!

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.

• New CACFP Meal Pattern Regulations
• The Changes are Coming: How to Communicate, Market and Frame Your Message
• Highlight on the Minnesota Breastfeeding Recognition Program
• Menu Planning Strategies
• 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
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
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
Location: Minnesota Department of Education, 1500 Highway 36 W, Roseville

Registration: Jan. 31 – Roseville

The Minnesota Department of Human Services, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Division in partnership with the Association for Nonsmokers- MN (ANSR) is offering an opportunity to conduct educational tobacco compliance checks. The goal is to educate retailers about the important role they play in keeping Minnesota youth tobacco free. 

This is for educational purposes only and no penalties to the clerk or business owner are permitted. This is designed to supplement your required annual enforcement check and not replace them.

Police Departments, Sheriff’s Departments and County Public Health Departments are all eligible to participate.  Participants will enter into a contract with DHS to conduct educational compliance checks at a rate of $40 per check.  These educational checks can be completed on any tobacco or tobacco related device (cigars, blunt wraps, e-cigarettes, e- juice) whose sales to minors is regulated by state law. 

DHS provides the needed resources for the clerk passing or failing the check.  Whether the clerk passes or fails the compliance check participants leave educational information for the owner/manager.   The goal is to increase compliance of youth access laws.

When all of the compliance checks are completed the participant will fill out a brief survey and vendor invoice. 

All compliance checks need to be completed by June 30, 2017.

If interested contact gabriel@ansrmn.org or 651-646-3005. Gabriel will work to get you enrolled in this opportunity.

These pre-conference meetings are separate from the conference registration. These events are just for grantees and there is no cost to attend.  Lunch and refreshments are provided.

Register here.

Inspiring Bold Action: The Minnesota Tobacco Control Conference

Date:  Jan. 24-26
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

If you have not yet registered for the Tobacco Control Conference, please do so by Monday, Jan. 16. The session descriptions have been posted online.

Travel scholarships are now available to EVERYONE! Contact Erin Simmons at American Lung Association, for details to sign up. Travel to the pre-conference activities are included in the travel scholarship. Her contact information is Erin.simmons@lung.org or 507-382-7421.

Register here.

The evaluation team is getting ready to launch of REDCap 2.0. Below is more information about important upcoming events.

Training for all REDCap 2.0 Users

Time:  10-11 a.m.
Date:  Jan. 18

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

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.

Working with Alumni Employers

Time: Noon-1 p.m.
Date: Jan. 26

Discuss how to continue developing relationships with employers who have completed a SHIP work place wellness collaborative.

Session number: 632 746 810
Session password: Winter2017*

To join the webinar:  

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1. Go to https://health-state-mn-ustraining.webex.com/health-state-mn-ustraining/k2/j.php?MTID=t4467e914e627ab471001e581d5812754
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.

To join the teleconference:

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Call-in toll-free number:        1-888-742-5095 (US)
Conference Code:                   885 604 3562

Family and small, independent child care providers were more likely to offer vegetables, increase kids’ physical activity and support infants’ breastfeeding after receiving trainings and coaching from Minnesota’s Statewide Health Improvement Partnership (SHIP).

SHIP grantees covering all 87 counties across the state provided training, coaching and follow-up with 768 child care providers between 2013 and 2015. An evaluation study of this initiative focused on its impact among family and small, independent child care providers, which more commonly serve lower income and rural families. Smaller child care providers also often lack access to such training. The study found that child care providers who received this locally based training and support through SHIP were significantly more likely to adopt policies and practices that help protect against childhood obesity.

“Minnesota was among only four states to see obesity rates fall between 2014 and 2015. The SHIP program was a big part of this success by increasing access to healthy foods and exercise,” said Lt. Governor Tina Smith. “I thank the Department of Health and Minnesota child care providers for their ongoing efforts to give our children a healthy start and combat childhood obesity.”

Read the full news release here.