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Minnesota Department of Health

Making it Better: Minnesota's Health Improvement Log

June 8, 2017

SHIP Meeting Update

SHIP meeting

Wall of Success - In the News

Send us your SHIP-related news stories by July 17 to be featured on the Wall of Success at this year’s SHIP Statewide Meeting.

Please send news articles, editorials or a link to a video story that portrays how you and your community partners are creating better health together.  The printed articles and editorials will be placed on the Wall of Success and the video will be looped and ran continuously during the meeting. All submissions should be from the past 12 months, clearly labeled with name, title and date of publication.

Let us help showcase your good work!

Details available online or contact your CS.

Food Access Summit Proposal Exension

Breakout Session and Story Proposal submission deadline moved

This Sunday, June 11, is the extended deadline to submit your proposal for the Food Access Summit, which is scheduled for October 25-27 in Duluth.

The Knowledge-Skill Building Session form, found online, is for the 75-minute sessions.

The Storytelling-Spark Talk form is for either the 20-minute or six minute sessions. Submit a proposal to present a session or share a story!

All of the information to submit a proposal can be found here.

Call for Survey Response

Reminder to complete the CLT Participant Survey

Help us achieve our goal of at least an 80 percent response rate by reminding your CLT members to take the survey, which is currently underway.

Research shows that it can take up to five reminders to get some participants to respond.

Consider setting aside time at your next CLT meeting for members to complete the 10-minute survey. All responses must be received by July 17.

Tobacco Update

Nicotine

New tobacco resources available 

MDH released in May a new factsheet, Tobacco 21: Health Impacts of Raising the Minimum Tobacco Sale Age.

As communities explore options for reducing youth nicotine exposure and tobacco use, this resource provides a summary of the positive health impacts increasing the minimum sale age in Minnesota.

More information and resources:

NPS Receiving Grant Applications

Apply to partner with the Rivers, Trails and Conservation Assistance Program

Time is running out to apply for the National Park Service's program, which, if accepted, provides free-of-charge staff time for one year or more to assist with planning new parks, trails or conservation areas; or to help with other outdoor conservation or outdoor recreation related projects. Bicycle and pedestrian or active living planning or development projects are eligible. 

Applications must be e-mailed or postmarked by June 30.

The application form, guidelines and a description of current projects are on the website.

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

Measuring Healthy Eating Activities Webinar

Training to measure site-based healthy eating activities

Date: Monday, June 12
 Time: 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Grantees will receive tips about how to measure reach  for farmers markets, community gardens, and food shelves and what to enter into REDCap.

Presenters: Liana Schreiber and Nora Shields-Cutler

Register here.

Session password: tDEYpV*4

Tobacco Control Webinar

Tobacco

Tobacco and other substance co-use among young adults

Date: Thursday, June 15
 Time: 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.

It’s a fact: young adults have the highest rate of alcohol, tobacco and other drug use relative to any other age group. Join Dr. Amy Cohn, research investigator at the Schroeder Institute for Tobacco Research and Policy Studies at Truth Initiative, for a free webinar to discuss this issue.

Dr. Cohn will examine the co-occurrence of substance abuse with tobacco among this population, and the correlation between young adult’s mental health and tobacco use behavior.

Webinar registration found here.

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This Week's Gem

The Stillwater Area Public Schools have partnered with Living Healthy in Washington County to make their schools healthier through different strategies. Their work began in 2009 as a SHIP partner.  This year, students embarked on a unique approach to implement its newly updated and robust wellness policy. 

The Stillwater Health Advisory Council (SHAC) appointed wellness champions in each school building within the district. These champions worked throughout the 2016-2017 school year to promote wellness in their building. The goals for this year’s policy implementation included:

Food given to students during the school day: Change practices and traditions around food given to students during the school day (school celebrations, student group events, food-based rewards) to comply with the wellness policy.

School day fundraising: Change school practices during the school day (particularly at secondary levels) so that all school-day fundraising activities and informal food/beverage sales are eliminated or brought into compliance with the wellness policy.

Concessions and vending: Continue work with out-of-school-day concessions and vending so that foods and beverages sold are in compliance with the wellness policy.

School day physical activity: Increase physical activity during the school day through active recess and active classrooms activities.

 The champions worked diligently toward these goals through multiple efforts. They worked as a liaison between their individual sites and the SHAC team by determining key areas in each building where the wellness policy is or is not currently being implemented. The champions will continue their work by creating and implementing a plan with other school staff members to change practices in at least one priority area of policy implementation for the following school year.