June 15, 2017

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Free Training Offered to SHIP Grantees

Tobacco Point of Sale and Lobbying v. Advocacy Trainings

MDH, Counter Tools and the Public Health Law Center will provide SHIP grantees with two, free training opportunities on July 25 at the Eagan Community Center.   

This first portion introduces resources for point-of-sale policy, systems and environmental interventions. It’s intended for SHIP grantees working on tobacco retail environment (also called the point of sale) initiatives, especially those grantees working toward city or county tobacco ordinances.

The second portion of the meeting can be attended by any SHIP grantee curious about advocating for policy, systems and environmental changes without it being considered lobbying.

To register, please email publichealthlaw@mitchellhamline.edu with the following information:

Your full name; the name of your organization; which session(s) you plan to attend; a phone number where we can reach you with any follow-up questions.

Registration emails must be received by noon on Friday, July 7.

SHIP Meeting Update - Showcase Your Work

Your stories on the Wall of Success More than two dozen of you have sent us your SHIP-related news stories for the 2017 Wall of Success. If you are not among them, please gather your news articles, editorials or a link to a video story that portrays success in how you and your community partners are creating better health together.  Printed articles and editorials will be placed on the Wall of Success. The video will loop during the 2017 annual SHIP meeting.   All submissions should be from the past 12 months, clearly labeled with name, title and date of publication. Details available online or contact your CS.

Workplace Health Promotion Guide

A tool to promote health in the work environment   The recently launched Art and Science of Health Promotion Institute created the guide. Click on the free PDF version and fill out the short questionnaire to receive the information. This is a rather large file, but it has a lot of great information from leaders in workplace health promotion. Click here for the free PDF.

Smoke-free Movies No Longer in Decline

Hollywood slow to advance tobacco-free policy The summer movie season is heating up, yet efforts to create smoke-free films is cooling off. The latest annual report, issued by the UCSF Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, June 2017 finds that the U.S. film industry failed to keep up the progress it made toward smoke-free films from 2005 to 2010. This is despite every major studio publishing a policy addressing onscreen smoking, yet tobacco incidents have not declined since 2011. Read the full Smoking in top-grossing US movies: 2016 report.

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

Food Retail Resource Call

Healthy Food Retail Collaborative Learning Call

Date: Wednesday, June  21

Time: 8 a.m. - 9 a.m.

Choosing where to start in the healthy food retail process can be difficult. The June Healthy Food Retail Collaborative Learning Call will provide resources to help choose communities of focus when embarking on food retail work and share examples of how community members can be engaged in the work.  

A portion of the call will also be dedicated to sharing exciting updates regarding healthy food retail work at MDH.

Register here.

Tobacco Control Webinar

Tobacco POS Grantee Connect Call

Date: Wednesday, June 21

Time: 2 p.m. – 3 p.m.

This month’s Point of Sale Grantee Connect Call will be a webinar to focus on the issue of Tobacco 21, a campaign to raise the minimum legal sale age to purchase tobacco products from 18 to 21.

MDH will present the potential public health impact of a policy on Minnesota youth smoking followed by updates from around the state on local activity.

Register here.

HEDA Webinar 3

Conditions and Causes

Date: June 28

Time: 1 p.m. - 3 p.m.

Join the OSHII Evaluation & Surveillance Unit for this important and informative webinar. It will  introduce participant to collecting qualitative data, and will explore differences in living and working conditions between populations and the causes of those differences.

Details:

1. Log on to this link.
2. Enter your name and email address.
3. Enter the session password: XyYcrr*7
4. Click "Join Now"
5. Follow the instructions that appear on your screen.

Call-in toll-free number: 1-888-742-5095 (US)
Conference Code: 982 114 1691

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This Week's Gem

Health Coaching Curriculum Rewrite Approved A valuable relationship between Hennepin County and the University of California San Francisco’s (UCSF) Center for Excellence in Primary Care has produced curriculum designed to help health care clinicians – and SHIP played a significant role in the process. The health coaching curriculum includes techniques to instruct clinic staff on how to help patients self-manage their conditions.  It also includes patient education tools for the clinicians to use while coaching their patients.  However, the training and its examples focused mostly on patients with diabetes. To better align with SHIP goals, the Hennepin County clinical staff trained in this curriculum got approval from UCSF to rewrite the scenarios and case studies to include examples of patients wanting to manage their weight.  The new curriculum was reviewed and approved to use in training additional outpatient clinic staff in Hennepin County. It took roughly a year for Hennepin County to rewrite the curriculum and get approval from UCSF, and SHIP not only covered staff time to rewrite the curriculum, it also conducting the trainings using the curriculum, and listened to clinic staff who stated they would like to learn more about how to coach their patients specifically on weight management and smoking cessation.

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