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Aug. 10, 2017

Walk! Bike! Fun! Training

Walk! Bike! Fun! registration due Friday The deadline to apply for Walk! Bike! Fun! curriculum training is midnight, Aug. 11.  If your school or community is ready to host a training during the Fall of 2017, please learn more about what it entails and complete the Bike MN application by end of week.

Food Access Summit Update

At the crossroads:  Broadening our reach, deepening our impact The conference, scheduled for Oct. 25-27, will delve into ways to improve health  of MN communities by continuing to make progress insuring the availability, affordability and consumption of healthy foods, especially for those with the least access. Information and updates on hotels, location and registration can be found on the Food Access Summit website.

SuperShelf Applications Coming Soon

Help in creating a client-centered environment Watch your email this month for the Request for Applications for any food shelf interested in joining a SuperShelf study. Selected food shelves will receive help transforming their food shelf by changing layout, flow and food categories to emphasize fruits and vegetables, whole grains, protein and cooking foods; enhancing the physical space with paint, shelving, signage and small scale facility improvements.

CHW Leadership Development Program

Fall 2017 program begins soon If you are a Community Health Worker (CHW) interested in developing your leadership skills, you are encouraged to apply for the CHW Alliance's Fall 2017 CHW Leadership Development Program. Participants meet on a Friday afternoon and Saturday morning in St. Paul, once per month for three months for this strengths-based leadership program. Please contact Alliance Executive Director Joan Cleary at joanlcleary@gmail.com or 612-250-0902 for more information or to request an application.

Calendar of Events

School Wellness Webinar

Date: August 23
Time: 3:00 p.m.

Join us to learn ways to connect and engage others and build a culture of wellness in your school and community. This webinar will address: the benefits of engaging students, parents and community members in school wellness efforts; methods and strategies for informing and building support for school wellness efforts and policy; and opportunities for student, parent and community input and decision making within the school environment to build and sustain a culture of wellness.

Information and registration details on the school wellness webinar - which is limited to the first 200 registrants - is found here.

This Week's Gem

The Office of Statewide Health Improvement Initiatives (OSHII) has been selected to participate in a partnership with Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health to identify cost-effective childhood obesity prevention interventions in Minnesota.

The project is affiliated with the Childhood Obesity Intervention Cost-Effectiveness Study (CHOICES) at the Harvard Prevention Research Center on Nutrition and Physical Activity. To date, the CHOICES research team has successfully modeled more than 40 different interventions related to healthy eating and physical activity.

The project will include modeling two interventions that not only are proven to be effective in preventing childhood obesity, but also deliver the best results for the dollars invested in them.

The project runs to June 2018. Results of the modeling will be shared at the end of the project year. The Minnesota project team includes OSHII staff along with representatives from the Minneapolis Health Department, the American Heart Association Midwest Affiliate, the Public Health Law Center and the University of Minnesota Division of Health Policy and Management.

In addition to OSHII, CHOICES partnership locations this year include Hawaii, Denver and San Antonio, Texas.

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