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September 27, 2018
Webinar
Today: SHIP Farm to School
Did you know October is Farm to School Month?
Join us today, Thursday, Sept. 27, at 2 p.m. for a SHIP
Farm to School Webinar, highlighting farm and garden efforts SHIP has supported.
Hannah Colby, Carmen Geske, and William Moore will be sharing their experiences.
Note:
If you’re submitting an abstract on work that was MDH funded (including TFC,
SHIP, or any TA), the abstract needs to be approved by your MDH community
specialist before submission.
The
next National Conference on Tobacco or Health (NCTOH) will be held in Minneapolis and is the premiere gathering for
tobacco control professionals in the U.S., which makes it the ideal
forum to share emerging ideas, evidence-based research, and successful programs
that can help move tobacco control forward.
Practitioners, researchers, and other professionals working in tobacco control
are encouraged to submit an abstract for consideration. The deadline for
abstract submissions is Nov. 16, 2018. If you have work, resources, learnings, or
tools to share that fit under one of the conference's Program Areas, you are invited and encouraged you to submit
your work for consideration. Each abstract must be submitted for consideration
under one (and only one) Program Area.
Learn more
 America Walks is excited to announce another round of our
popular Community Change Grant program. This program will
award grantees $1,500 in community stipends for projects related to creating
healthy, active, and engaged places to live, work, and play. Funded projects
will increase walking and benefits of walkability in communities, work to grow
the walking movement by engaging people and organizations new to the efforts,
and take steps towards creating a culture of inclusive health. Projects should
be able to demonstrate how they will create healthy, active, and engaged
communities that support walking as transportation, health, and recreation.
Applications are due by 5 p.m. Eastern on Nov. 2.
Learn more
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MDH recently released a health advisory on nicotine and the escalating risk of
addiction for youth. This advisory dives deeper into the threat of nicotine
addiction.
Youth e-cigarette use has risen
dramatically in Minnesota in the last three years, with an almost 50 percent
increase in high school student e-cigarette use since 2014. This is a major
public health concern. Youth use of nicotine increases their risk of addiction,
and can make them more susceptible to addiction to tobacco products and other
substances in the future.
Nearly all e-cigarettes contain nicotine, and popular e-cigarettes, like JUUL,
are sleek and concealable and often used in schools by students. It is
important that school staff are familiar with these products and that they have
the resources to educate students on the risks of e-cigarette use. To help
address youth e-cigarette use in schools, MDH
also released an updated school toolkit outlining resources and opportunities for
action by school administrators, educators, teachers and health services
staff.
MDH recommends
immediate action requiring the participation of parents, educators, health care
providers and policy makers.
Access these
resources and more at www.health.mn.gov/ecigarettes.
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