Moving Forward in Healthy Food Retail | March 7-8
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 Community Wellness Grant 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
Webinar Wednesday | Kick Butts Day | March 8
Monthly webinar 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:
March 8 —
Kicking Butts Online
Click here to RSVP for webinar.
Webinar | Evaluation | REDCap PSE and Reach Input Session | March 9
Time: 9 -10 a.m.
Date: March 9
The Evaluation Team would
like your input on potential changes to PSE and Reach forms in REDCap. If
you are interested in joining this discussion, please contact your evaluation
liaison or Health.SHIP.eval@state.mn.us and we will send
you information to review and instructions for how to join the webinar.
Webinar |
Curbing Unhealthy Food & Beverage Marketing to Students | March 9
Time: 1 p.m.
Date: March 9
From sugary drink ads
on vending machines to fast food logos on stadium scoreboards, promotions for
unhealthy foods are common in U.S. schools. They encourage students and staff
to make unhealthy choices and compromise the educational mission of schools.
In July 2016, the US
Department of Agriculture (USDA) released its final rule strengthening
requirements for local school wellness policies. For the first time, the USDA
now limits unhealthy food and beverage marketing in schools, allowing in-school
promotions only for foods and beverages that meet the USDA’s Smart Snacks in
School nutrition standards.
Join the webinar to learn how the USDA's final rule
affects food and beverage marketing in schools. Presenters will provide
practical tips for school districts on how to remove unhealthy marketing and
handle challenges that arise as they work to comply with the new
requirements.
Media Relations | Active Living
Time: 8 a.m. – 4 p.m.
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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It is with mixed emotions that we announce the retirement of
Joyce O’Meara, our OSHII Early Childhood Specialist. Joyce’s last day is March
3. Joyce has been a remarkable member of the OSHII staff team. She has
been the backbone for the Early Care and Education Setting since the inception
of SHIP and for other CDC funded programs. She joined OSHII in 2009 and has
been the first and only Early Childhood Specialist providing subject matter
content and expertise to SHIP.
We do plan to hire in the next few months and will keep you
updated. In the interim, Amy Michael who works on the health care team has
agreed to assist with some of the duties. Amy has a Masters Degree in Education
from NYU and has worked in early childhood care settings in the past. Amy will
be assisting with as many grantee calls that focus on the child care setting
that she can and will be ensuring the process for the Breastfeeding-Friendly
Child care recognition program continues.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact
Amy Michael at Amy.Michael@state.mn.us
or Cherylee Sherry, Healthy Systems Supervisor at Cherylee.Sherry@state.mn.us
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Tri
Wellness at Work
Tri Wellness at Work is a joint initiative between
Sherburne, Benton and Stearns Counties intended to engage
companies in planning, assessment and implementation of workplace wellness
programs. Tri Wellness at Work helps interested employers strengthen their
workplace culture and offer more opportunities for employees to make healthy
choices.
Through the SHIP grant, county staff have provided technical
assistance and funding to businesses in the Tri-County area. Sherburne County has been an active
participant in this collaborative, and with the help of SHIP dollars, they’ve
installed a healthy snack station. The new station provides healthier and more
affordable choices and has received an overwhelmingly positive response from
employees. After just two short days, the snacks were entirely sold out and
needed immediate restocking! Below are some of the comments received within 24
hours of implementation.
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“Oh my gosh….I love this idea! Thank you
to the Wellness Committee!”
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“I love this idea and have made my first
purchase! The pricing is perfect thank you”
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“AWESOME! A big thanks to the Health & Wellness
Committee, it is very exciting to have this option available to us! J”
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“Oh my gosh , this makes me very happy! No more
salty vending machine snacks !! THANK YOU!”
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