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Farmers
Market Coffee and Call | Feb. 8
Time: 8
a.m.
Date: Feb.
8
Farmers Market Coffee and Call provides
a once monthly opportunity for market organizers and stakeholders to share
information, advice, and best practices with each other. Topics of discussion come from you and the
other participants on the call, so bring your best ideas, most pressing
questions and enthusiasm for contributing to a strong network of farmers
markets in Minnesota.
Anyone is welcome to join!
Call-in number:
1-888-742-5095 | Conference Code: 9821141691
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, MN 55744
Feb. 3 - Metro
Northern Service Center (Rooms 110A and 110B),
One Mendota Rd. W., West St. Paul, MN 55118
**** NOTE **** Feb. 9 - Northwest | Bemidji
Bemidji State University, Upper Hobson
Memorial Union, East Ballroom, 1500 Birchmont Drive NE, Bemidji, MN 56601
Feb. 16 - Southwest | Redwood Falls
Redwood Falls Public Library, 509 S Lincoln St., Redwood Falls, MN 56283
Mar. 2 - Southeast | Rochester
Southeast Service
Cooperative, 210 Wood Lake Drive SE Rochester, MN 55904
AGENDA
8 – 8:15 a.m. | Welcome and Introductions
8:15 – 11:45 a.m.
Session
Description
During the media relations/media advocacy training, you will be
separated into groups and explore public health communications challenges. Our
trainer will walk you through several exercises that will help you build
effective communications strategies around those challenges. Groups will report
out throughout the training session, sharing components of their communications
campaigns. You and your community partner will leave with tools you can use for
your local communications efforts.
Media
Relations
- Gain knowledge effective
communications outreach and types of media.
- Learn some basic rules for
working and interacting with the news media.
- Develop skills for creating
successful communications campaigns.
- Learn how to use effective
storytelling to enhance messages.
- Acquire a working understanding
of effective and ineffective messengers.
- Review news releases, news
advisories, letters to the editor and op-eds.
11:45 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. | Lunch off-site
12:45 – 1:15 p.m. | CS and EL Updates
1:15 – 4 p.m.
Session
Description
The active living portion of the workshop will be highly
interactive and relevant to SHIP work at any stage of implementation, whether
you are a new or seasoned staff. This portion of the meeting will cover
implementation strategies for comprehensive planning and the technical
assistance resources available. We will also provide additional clarification
of public health’s role in the planning process of master plans. MnDOT staff
will provide updates on local work that may intersect active living efforts and
how you can leverage MnDOT efforts to advance your work. We will review the new
Minnesota Walks: Framework for Action tool and discuss implementation steps. In
addition, you will have a chance to give feedback on additional resources you
need to advance local comprehensive planning or Minnesota Walks implementation.
Comprehensive
Planning
- Understand the role of
public health in comprehensive planning process.
- Learn about technical
assistance resources available for public health professionals to
integrate into the comprehensive planning process.
MN
Walks
- Understand how Minnesota
Walks can be used as a tool to increase local action for SHIP active
living strategies.
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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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High school graduates might
leave rural areas for college and jobs in the big city, but more are coming
back with college degrees, careers, professional contacts and young families.
Still others with these credentials are moving to rural communities for the
first time. Extension's demographic research, publications and perspectives on
this brain gain can help community leaders consider what this means for their
rural area. A report on the 2010 census data shows that this trend is continuing.
Communities that provide access
to healthy, affordable food, active living and other opportunities for health
to all resident are more attractive to many people deciding which community
they'd like to live in.
More reports and
information: http://www.extension.umn.edu/community/brain-gain/
A
growing number of scientists have placed greater emphasis on public health
interventions that work across populations, settings, resource constraints and
other conditions commonly encountered in real-world practice. To improve
evidence-based practice, they suggest that more practice-based evidence is
needed.
A
recently published article in the American
Journal of Public Health (AJPH) assessed practice-based evidence
(PBE) and research-based evidence (RBE) in The Guide to Community Preventive
Services (The Community Guide) systematic reviews.
In
the article, “Practice-Based Evidence in Community Guide Systematic Review”,
researchers found that 54 percent of The Community Guide reviews are PBE and
46 percent are RBE. In addition, the study concluded:
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Community-based and policy systematic
reviews had more PBE.
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Health care system and programmatic reviews
had more RBE.
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The majority of both PBE and RBE studies
were of high quality.
According
to the article, the substantial inclusion of PBE and rigor of The Community
Guide systematic reviews help to produce more “real-world” practice-based
evidence to be used to implement effective public health interventions.
Read
the article for online at: http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.2016.303583. The print version should be
available in the next issue of AJPH.
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Care
about healthy food access and food safety? The University of Minnesota
Extension and the Minnesota Department of Health are pleased to share the
newest Minnesota Food Charter companion resource, the “Healthy Food, Safe Food
Action Guide.”
The guide offers
resources and tools to help food safety professionals and healthy food
advocates with information, proven strategies and contacts to support partnerships
that seek to ensure access to safe, healthy food for all in settings such as
farmers markets to schools to food shelves.
The guide is available at the University of
Minnesota Extension website.
Want a toolkit to help
support you and your partners as you implement strategies from the Guide? Go to
the Minnesota Food Charter website to sign up for the
Healthy Food, Safe Food Action Guide toolkit. You’ll receive an email with a
set of tools to use with your partners to implement strategies to ensure
healthy, safe food in places where people work, live, learn and play.
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Looking for a way to gain the skills and knowledge you need to
make your community more walkable? America Walks invites you to apply for
a 2017 Walking College Fellowship - http://americawalks.org/walkingcollege/
- to help you take your local advocacy work to the next level.
The application process opened on Feb. 1, there's an "Orientation to the
Walking College" webinar on Feb. 14, and the deadline for submitting
applications is Feb. 28.
If you or your community partners want to host a bicycle or
pedestrian safety event, consider applying for a $500 mini-grant from AAA
to host in your community. Empower your local bike/walk champions by
encouraging them to apply themselves or coordinate the event to alleviate the
burden on SHIP time.
Funding ideas may include bike rodeos, Stop for Me crosswalk
campaigns or other innovative safety promotion events.
Apply here.
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Date: March 7-8
Location: American Lung Association
(ALA), 490 Concordia Ave, St. Paul
Cost: Free
Audience: The primary audience for this
training are Statewide Health Improvement Partnership and 1422 grantees who have done, or
plan to do work to improve healthy food availability, accessibility, and
affordability in corner stores, grocery stores and restaurants. Note: There are a limited number of spaces. If we do not have
space for all interested grantees, preference will be given to those who have
integrated this work into their 2017 work plans.
Purpose: Join your
colleagues to listen, learn, share and collaborate to improve the retail food
environment in your communities. Tools and tips will be shared to help you:
assess the food environment, engage customers and retailers, and increase the
availability and sales of healthy foods and beverages, in small stores, grocery
stores and restaurants.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion, participants will:
- Be
prepared to conduct assessments of the retail food environment and/or
train others to conduct simple assessments; and summarize and share
results to effectively drive improvements
- Develop
a better understanding of the business landscape to effectively engage,
support and collaborate with small store, grocery store and restaurant
owners to offer and promote more healthy food and beverage options
- Be
able to utilize knowledge and tools to help retailers source and merchandize
fresh produce
- Understand
how regulations, incentives and policies can be leveraged to increase
access to healthy foods in retail settings
Technology
Requirements:
It is important
that each grantee brings a
Wi-Fi-enabled laptop. It would be ideal if everyone could bring a
laptop, but only one per grantee is required. This will allow for hands-on
practice with the software tools.
Also, we have
requested your non-government email account in the registration process, as we
sometimes have difficulties when sending emails to these types of email
accounts. To ensure you are able to practice with the Store Audit Center
software tool during the training, please
plan to bring a mobile device or tablet that is linked with your non-government
email address.
Facilitators: Charla Hodges, Counter Tools,
Teresa Ambroz, Minnesota Department of Health, Emily Kilbourn-Shear, Minnesota
Department of Health
Pre-Work for Participants Planning to Conduct Nutrition Environment
Assessments in 2017:
When you register, you will be asked to indicate the types
of sites you plan to assess (corner stores, grocery stores, or restaurants), the
zip codes for the areas you plan to assess, and when you plan to conduct
assessments.
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Turning Knowledge into Action
Time: 7:45 a.m.- 3:30 p.m.
Date: Feb. 23
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, who will 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 sessions.
Register here.
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Sharing
the Love: Spreading School Success Stories Statewide
Time: 2:30-3:30 p.m.
Date: Feb. 14
This webinar will be a participatory call where input from all
is requested. The focus on regional sharing will an attempt to provide a
virtual networking meeting. Please consider chiming in on local school
partnership successes!
We are looking for volunteers to share one success story, 3-5
minutes in length, slides optional. For more information, please email Terri.Swartout@state.mn.us.
More details, including registration, will be posted on Basecamp soon
but mark your calendars now for Tuesday, Feb. 14.
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Thank you to those for
attending the 2017 Minnesota Tobacco Control conference! We hope you found the
content valuable, and that you are leaving with a renewed sense of confidence
and urgency to continue working to reduce the harm of commercial tobacco in
Minnesota. We sincerely appreciate your presence and your investment of
time, attention and energy.
Conference Presentations
Be sure to keep checking the conference website - http://mntobaccocontrolconference.com,
as we will be continuing to upload presentations from the conference breakout
sessions.
Share Your Experience
We sincerely value your thoughts and opinions on how the conference experience
was for you. Please be sure to share your thoughts with us here:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/InspiringBoldAction
Download the 2017 Health Care Costs and Smoking
in Minnesota Report
On Wednesday night of the conference, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota
released an updated report on health care costs and smoking in Minnesota. The
report shows that each year, smoking is responsible for more than 6,000 deaths
and costs the state $3.19 billion in excess medical costs. These costs place a
substantial burden on taxpayers, employers and the government, equating to
nearly $593 annually for every adult and child in our state.
Addressing the inequities we see with regard to commercial tobacco use will be
essential to reducing these costs, and most importantly saving lives. The 2017
Health Care Costs and Smoking in Minnesota report is available for download
here: http://www.centerforpreventionmn.com/-/media/sites/cfp/files/reports/cost-of-smoking-report-2017
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MDH
and the technical assistance providers are excited to share a new resource to
support your work with property managers and residents of public housing during
their transition to smoke free. The web portal below includes new and updated
smoke-free policy implementation resources specifically for use with public
housing managers and residents. We encourage you to visit the site often as new
materials will be added in upcoming weeks. As always, if you have questions or need
additional support, feel free to reach out to your tobacco TA providers!
http://sfpublichousingmn.org/
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Big Tobacco and Convenience Stores Partner to Market
Tobacco Products and Fight Life-Saving Policies
Deadly Alliance: How Big Tobacco and Convenience
Stores Partner to Market Tobacco
Products and Fight Life-Saving
Policies,
Mollie Mayfield, CounterTobacco
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:
Feb. 8 — Kicking Butts Through the Media
March 8 — Kicking Butts Online
Click here to RSVP for webinars.
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Moving Health Equity Forward: Critical Conversations and Bold
Action
Date: April 19-20
Host: The Minnesota Public Health Association
Location: The Commons Hotel, 615 University Ave SE, Minneapolis
Join the Minnesota Public Health Association (MPHA) for an
opportunity to:
- Further advance efforts to
achieve health equity
- Lay the foundation for a
culture of health in communities
- Meet new colleagues and
network with fellow professionals
- Celebrate the 110th
anniversary of MPHA
Watch for more information on the MPHA website.
Time: 7:30 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Date: March 9
Host: The American Heart Association
Location: Eagan Community Center, 1501 Central Parkway, Eagan
The topic being discussed at the symposium is Be Heart Smart:
Building your Emotional Resilience.
Spread the word to your work place partners.
Go to heart.org/tcworkplacewellness to register.
Regional Workshops: St. Paul & Duluth
Don't miss these workshops to support your clinic's capacity to assess
and address tobacco use and dependence. We'll provide real-world examples
of effective methods and practices and offer practical assistance to help you
identify and implement your next steps in advancing tobacco systems change
efforts in your organization.
Seats are limited, and preference will be given to those from clinics
and care delivery systems. Contact hours available.
St. Paul: Feb. 21
Learn More & Register
Duluth: March 15
Learn More & Register
More Learning Opportunities
Cloud Chasing and Blueberry Delight: The Changing World of Youth
Tobacco Use
Time: Noon-1 p.m.
Date: Feb. 16
Free webinar from
the Twin Cities Medical Society
Learn More & Register
Connecting With Patients for Tobacco Free Living
From Mayo Clinic's School of Continuous
Professional Development. Videos, lectures, cases, and a variety of
interactive activities allow participants to apply learning to actual cases.
Learn More & Register
Resource Corner
These resources are curated from what others like you have
found to be useful. Below are a few samples; more are available online.
A Good Read
Best preventive care? Get vaccines, and don't smoke.
Doctors giving regular checkups will get the most bang for
their buck if they advise adults to quit smoking, convince teens to never
start, and keep children up to date with immunizations, according to an
influential report released Monday by the Bloomington-based HealthPartners
Institute. The research findings, sponsored in part by the U.S. Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention, could influence how doctors across the
country conduct thousands of regular patient visits each year. Minneapolis Star
Tribune, January 9, 2017.
Read the editorial that accompanied the published
research, co-authored by George Isham, MD, MS, HealthPartners Institute. Annals of Family
Medicine, January/February, 2017
For Health Care Professionals
Twin Cities Medical
Society: Physician Advocacy Network. Tobacco tools and more.
Surgeon General's report
on e-cigarettes. Read the Report.
More Resources
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The “kick
off” for the HEDA process for the 31 SHIP grantees that did not participate in
the pilot is being pushed back from February to the April and May regional
SHIP meetings.
All grantees
will proceed through the three initial “steps” described in the Guide
(Population, Connection, Differences) together and then break into three
cohorts based on readiness for the final steps (Conditions, Causes, and
beyond). MDH will provide support over webinars, through individualized
technical assistance, and at SHIP’s July statewide meeting. The final
cohort will finish the HEDA Process by the end of April, 2018 (pushed back from
Oct. 31, 2017).
SHIP
grantees who want to begin the process earlier will have MDH’s full support.
This
information will be discussed at the February regional meetings, which began
this week. Further details will be available at the April kick off. This information
is also being shared with your Directors.
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