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Dec. 13, 2018

SHIP statewide meeting update

No 2019 SHIP statewide meeting

To capitalize on the many statewide resources and gatherings related to our work, there will be no Statewide SHIP Meeting in 2019. In lieu of hosting a statewide meeting, OSHII is encouraging grantees to attend one of the many statewide conferences and regional meetings that will be held in Minnesota throughout 2019. 

OSHII staff realize the value of the statewide gathering and know grantees rely on this meeting to be an excellent networking opportunity with peers and MDH staff. In an attempt to provide a similar networking opportunity, OSHII will be hosting a gathering for SHIP grantees at The National Conference on Tobacco or Health, the American Planning Association – Minnesota Chapter Conference and the Food Access Summit. See below for details on those conferences.

Please contact Susan Michels if you have any questions.

Minnesota Conferences

The National Conference on Tobacco or Health

• Aug. 27-29, 2019, Minneapolis

American Planning Association – Minnesota chapter conference

• Sept. 25-27, 2019, Breezy Point Resort, Breezy Point

Food Access Summit

• Nov. 4-6, 2019, Duluth Entertainment Convention Center, Duluth

PeopleForBikes Community Grant Program

Applications for spring 2019 available PeopleForBikes is a national movement to make riding better for everyone. The Community Grant Program provides funding for important and influential projects that leverage federal funding and build momentum for bicycling in communities across the U.S. These projects include bike paths and rail trails, as well as mountain bike trails, bike parks, BMX facilities and large-scale bicycle advocacy initiatives. Get information about: Grant guidelines and deadlines Application process

Voices for Healthy Kids grant opportunity

Grant application available Voices for Healthy Kids aims to engage, organize, and mobilize people to help all children grow up healthy and works to advance coordinated state, local and tribal public policy issue advocacy campaigns focused on healthy eating and active living. The goal of the grant opportunities within this initiative is to make effective strategic investments in ongoing state, local and tribal public policy issue campaigns in order to increase public policy impact on healthy weight and living among children. This round of funding for Voices for Healthy Kids will be an open call for proposals. Application deadline is Jan. 11, 2019.  Webinars are available for assistance in preparing a competitive application on the Voices for Healthy Kids website. Start the online application.

Rescheduled Community Leadership Team call

December CLT call has been rescheduled

Date: Tuesday, Dec. 18
Time: 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.

The agenda will include:

•Activities for CLTs and where to find resources on Basecamp

•Shared Leadership Lab - Update

•Rebooting a CLT

•Some helpful practices for virtual meetings

•Resource sharing – please be prepared to share any resources or successes with your CLT

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Events

Winter Regional Meetings

Jan. 24: Southwest, MinnWest Technology Campus, Commons: 1707 Technology Drive NE, Willmar

Jan. 29: Northeast, Blandin Foundation, 100 North Pokegama Ave., Grand Rapids

Jan. 30: Northwest, Detroit Lakes Community & Cultural Center, 826 Summit Ave., Detroit Lakes

Feb. 5: Metro, MDH Golden Rule Building, 85 E 7th Place, Suite 220, Saint Paul

Feb. 7: Southeast, Well Living Lab, 221 1st Ave. SW, Rochester

Register and view the agenda.

Webinar: America Walks Active Transportation for Healthy Communities

Date: Monday, Dec. 17
Time: 2:30 - 3:30 p.m.

Here's another chance to listen to America Walks' webinar from November, Active Transportation for Healthy Communities. This webinar shared great information about the CDC’s new connecting routes and destinations materials and highlighted three communities that are working to create more activity-friendly connections for all.   

Join the webinar at the MDH WebEx page.

This week's Gem

This year, Nokomis East Neighborhood Association (NENA) teamed up with the Minneapolis Health Department (MHD) to meet a community goal for improved access to fresh, affordable produce and healthy foods in the Bossen Field neighborhood of South Minneapolis. This is a low-income neighborhood with limited access to large supermarkets. NENA and MHD, with support from the Statewide Health Improvement Partnership (SHIP) grant, worked together to bring the Twin Cities Mobile Market (TCMM), a program of the Amherst H. Wilder Foundation, to serve the community by bringing fresh food to communities with their grocery store on wheels. The mobile market is a retired Metro Transit bus that travels to food deserts around the metro; shoppers board the bus and shop for their produce just like a grocery store and can pay with cash, credit or SNAP/EBT. “Through many conversations with local families and surveying, our neighbors said they want to eat healthy and be active,” said Becky Timm, NENA Executive Director. “However, getting to the grocery store and the cost of fresh foods is a budgetary burden for many families. This new program [TCMM] helped by bringing the fresh food to where people live.” To kick off the partnership, NENA and community partners such as the public library and parks and recreation hosted free market day activities to promote awareness of local resources and build social cohesion. The mobile market will continue making stops in the Bossen Field neighborhood, with more community engagement activities planned.

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