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June 21, 2018
 Registration is open
Registration is open for the SHIP Statewide meeting. Plan ahead and reserve your spot!
Photo submission
A picture is worth a thousand words! Send in your SHIP-related photos to be featured on the Wall of Success at this year’s SHIP Statewide Meeting.
Please send in photographs that portray how you and your community partners are creating better health together. The photographs will be placed on the Wall of Success, and we will be creating a video of these photos to be ran continuously during the meeting. All submissions should be from the past 12 months, clearly labeled with name, title and description of the photograph. As a reminder, please have a photo release on file for any photo with an identifiable person in it.
Let us help showcase your good work!
Please send in your photographs by July 13 to kim.engwer-moylan@state.mn.us for this year’s Wall of Success!
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Statewide meeting session teaser
Here is the first in a series of
introductions to the sessions you can look forward to at the Statewide Meeting:
You’ll want to be sure to sit at
the bow for the breakout session “Coalitions You Can Use So Your SHIP Will Cruise."
Several SHIP coordinators representing different sized communities and regions
will share their experience with building effective collaboratives for you to
pirate.
New infobrief on meeting the needs of students with disabilities
Equity is a core principal of Safe Routes to School. How do we
best ensure all types of walkers, riders, and rollers are provided access
through Safe Routes to School? A new infobrief, Engaging Students with Disabilities
in Safe Routes to School, provides information for Safe Routes to
School staff, volunteers, or program leaders on how to plan and develop a
program that considers and meets the needs of students with disabilities.
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Funding for water bottle filling stations
MDH is accepting applications for funding to provide water cooler/water bottle filling stations to qualifying applicants. Local public health organizations, schools and community entities are encouraged to apply for this limited-funding opportunity.
Water bottle filling stations are beneficial for community members by providing free access to clean water containing fluoride to protect teeth from decay.
Submission Deadline: June 30
For more information visit the health department webpage for public water supply.
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Two tobacco-free campus grants
Two grants are available for August and September to promote tobacco-free campuses across the nation and for minority serving institutions just in time for the start of the school year.
The
American Cancer Society, under the direction of its Center for Tobacco Control,
launched the Tobacco-Free Generation Campus Initiative, which provides grants
to accelerate and expand the adoption and implementation of 100 percent smoke-
and tobacco-free policies on college and university campuses across the nation.
Deadline: Aug. 15
Truth
Initiative is accepting applications for its Tobacco-Free College Program,
which now offers grants of up to $20,000 to women’s colleges, minority-serving
academic institutions and community colleges to adopt a 100 percent
tobacco-free college policy.
Deadline: Sept. 13
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