Making it Better: Minnesota's Health Improvement Log

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Making it Better: Minnesota's Health Improvement Log

Aug. 3, 2017

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Land of Healthy Kids Campaign

Resources available

MDH has launched a communications campaign called Land of Healthy Kids featuring Minnesota-specific data about asthma, oral health, immunizations, pesticide poisonings, secondhand smoke and the WIC program.

Our goal is to increase visibility to childhood diseases, hazards or exposures data compiled on the Minnesota Public Health Data Access portal.

League Cycling Instructor Seminar

Save the date

Please encourage community partners or active living advocates to register and be trained on providing bike education in your community. The seminar is scheduled for Oct. 4-6 in the Twin Cities.

Here's a link to LCI seminar information and registration.

Native Food Sovereignty Fellows

Get your application in

The Indigenous Food and Agriculture Initiative and the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community's Seeds of Native Health campaign will select up to 20 VISTA positions to 10 tribal governments and tribal communities nation-wide.

Visit here to learn more about the VISTA program and apply.

Statewide Meeting Wrap Up

Survey responses requested

The 2017 SHIP Statewide Meeting has concluded and before you move on to future endeavors and projects, we would appreciate taking a few minutes to complete a big-picture evaluation of the meeting.

Find the statewide meeting evaluation at this location.

In addition, you can find online most presentations from the meeting.

Thank you for attending - and for your feedback.

Calendar of Events

The Power of Peers Tobacco Webinar

National Behavioral Health Network webinar series

Date: Aug. 3
Time: 2 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

During this webinar, attendees will understand the role of peers as coaches in whole health and wellness; learn about evidence-based and best practices used to maximize the impact of peers for wellness initiatives; and Identify Medicaid reimbursement and other opportunities to finance peers.

The Power of Peers for Tobacco and Cancer Control Practices registration and information.

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This Week's Gem

Soon after first-time mom Kaitlyn Erickson of Merrifield gave birth to her son, Kohen,

at Essentia Health-St. Joseph’s Medical Center in Brainerd, she decided she wanted to nurse her son as long as possible. Thanks to the support of Crow Wing Energized utilizing SHIP funds for local businesses to help set up lactation rooms for breastfeeding employees and to help pay for employees to become certified lactation counselors.

Ericson’s employer Frandsen Bank provides such a room and she is able to able to pump three times a day at work, providing breast milk to Kohen while he is at daycare.

In honor of World Breastfeeding Week, Aug. 1-7, we salute Kaitlyn Erickson, her employer, Crow Wing Energized and all who support breastfeeding mothers and babies health.