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Getting Back on Track
Spring 2020 Learning Community sessions that were cancelled due to COVID have been rescheduled for July-September 2020. These and future sessions will be available to everyone online. In order to cover all of the topics for 2020, sessions are scheduled for dates outside of our normal last Tuesday of each month schedule.
“Necessity is the mother of invention.” –Plato
COVID has inspired and required technology solutions.
- Sessions will be held via WebEx. To facilitate local discussions, select a location when you register.
Mental Well-being in the Age of COVID: Need Now More than Ever
As we move into a different phase of the COVID response, the ongoing need for mental well-being and the long term implications of COVID are increasingly clear. From social connections and access to nature, to addressing the impact of trauma, an array of solutions are essential. We hope the strategies highlighted in these sessions are of interest to you and that you join us. Each presenter will do their best to also address COVID specific needs and opportunities relevant to their initiative or program.
Amplifying the Mental Well-being Elements of SNAP Education in Minnesota
Tuesday July 28, 2020
10:00-12:00
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Chelsea Williams, MPH
University of Minnesota Extension, SNAP Ed Program
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Minnesota Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education (SNAP-Ed) programs inherently support mental wellness by creating opportunities for social connection and by co-creating with community members to support community needs. Our educators also support well-being by identifying strategies that increase access to healthy foods, enhance skills to prepare nutritious meals at home, and develop action steps to incorporate physical activity into daily routines.
In 2019, our SNAP-Ed team within Health and Nutrition, at the University of Minnesota Extension, began to explore strategies to intentionally enhance mental wellness initiatives through our nutrition and physical activity programming. As a part of the SNAP-Ed 2020 plan, we created a mental flourishing team that will develop action plans to support the mental well-being of both our participants and our Extension staff. This webinar will share the process, actions, and key learning to date.
Yellow Zones: A Place Where You Can Flourish
Tuesday August 11, 2020
10:00-12:00
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Brittany Pfannenstein, Stearns County Public Health Coordinator
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Dani Protivinsky DrPH, MPH , Stearns County Public Health Coordinator
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According to Dr. Corey Keyes, less than 20% of the US population is flourishing. The Yellow Zone is and a resiliency initiative created by Stearns County Public Health to help schools, businesses, and the community establish environments that support the health and well-being individuals based on positive psychology research. A Yellow Zone promotes mental well-being through five basic pillars - Helping, Socializing, Learning, Playing, and Spirituality. All five of these components nurture the psychological, emotional and social aspects of mental health. Yellow Zones are intended to cultivate an environment that supports a flourishing community! Stearns County Public Health developed and implemented a Yellow Zone pilot initiative in 2019 with community partners including schools, worksites, and local public health. In 2020 Steans is launching conversations with new community partners around ways to help youth and the aging adult population to thrive, including integrated partnerships with Health and Human Services. Implementing the Yellow Zone initiative across multiple sectors has helped Stearns County expand the focus on mental health to include factors that support flourishing.
Club Mom and Club Dad: Linking Parents to Concrete Supports, Relationships and Community
Tuesday August 25, 2020
10:00-12:00
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Ramsey County Public Health Leaders:
Tamiko Ralstad, Public Health Nurse Clinician
LaSherion McDonald, Health Educator, Doula and Certified Lactation Educator
Sharron Berkley, Public Health Nurse
Wiliiam Moore, Health Educator, Doula and Lactation Educator
Thomas ‘TC’ Chatman, Health Educator 2, Club Dad Group Facilitator
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A two generation approach to promoting mental well-being and resilience means supporting families and parents to meet their basic needs, to reduce the stress families are carrying so that they can effectively support their children. According to the Center for Social Policy Strengthening Families model https://cssp.org/our-work/project/strengthening-families/ concrete supports in times of need is a foundational strategy for promoting resilient children.
The Clubs were designed to address adverse birth outcomes in the African American community. Club Mom and Club Dad is available to families with children 0-5 years that live, play, work and pray in Ramsey County. Club Mom and Club Dad links participants to concrete supports, promotes social connectedness and creates a consistent safe space to build community networks and a village of protective factors that are culturally relevant and promotes physical and mental well-being. Club Mom and Dad participants are viewed as community ambassadors where information is shared and parents are recognized as the first teachers of their children. In addition to group connections, families with younger children have the option of receiving ongoing case management from Parent Educators through an Evidence-Based Home Visiting Model, Parents As Teachers® (PAT). PAT® home visits and groups connections include components of Parent-Child Interactions, Family Wellness Resources and Developmental Centered Parenting.
Handle With Care Pilot Project: A Police And School Systems Response To Trauma
Tuesday September 8, 2020
10:00-12:00
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Scott Kent, Alexandria Police Captain
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Michelle Bethke-Kaliher, PhD.
Director of Student Support Services
Alexandria School District
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Amy Reineke, Community Health Strategist, Horizon Public Health
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Expanding trauma informed care practices across systems are critical to help systems avoid re-traumatizing children and to mitigate the impact of trauma. Handle With Care is a program to help law enforcement and schools respond to children who are experiencing some family disruption. http://handlewithcarewv.org/ Handle with Care is a process where law enforcement officers notify schools when a child or their family has had any sort of encounter with law enforcement the previous night. School partners implements individual, class and whole school trauma-sensitive curricula so that traumatized children are “Handled With Care". This is an important strategy especially given that parent incarceration is the most frequently reported adverse childhood experience among MN youth. Alexandria and Little Falls are two Minnesota communities that have implemented Handle with Care. Alexandria Police Department and School District implemented Handle with Care in 2019 and will share their insights about model implementation based on their experiences and the child and system benefits identified to date. The Alexandria process for establishing this program including key steps for building the police-school relationship, staff orientation, staffing and other steps will be shared for participants to understand what it would take to implement this model in your community.
Take a Pause- Put a Policy in Place: Digital Wellbeing for Home, School, and Workplace
Tuesday September 29, 2020
10:00-12:00
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Rampant and unmitigated technology use threatens our mental, cognitive, social, emotional, and physical wellbeing. Schools and organizations have an opportunity to implement key policies and practices to support a more balanced relationship with technology and to promote well-being. LiveMore ScreenLess is listening with intention and leading the conversation about digital wellbeing in Minnesota. They have surveyed hundreds of educators, parents, and students from middle school, high school and college to better understand how screen overuse impacts wellbeing. Constantly Connected is a two-minute teaser from LiveMore's ListenIn video series featuring young people sharing their experiences with a 24/7 connected world. LiveMore's presentations across Minnesota, from the Iron Range to small town Minnesota to the Metro area, make the case for an urgent call to action to put policies and systems in place that promote screening well. We all have a role to play to protect the wellbeing of young people: students, school leaders, parents, state legislators, public health, and business leaders. Join us to learn more about how LiveMore promotes overall Digital Wellbeing in partnership with schools and businesses across Minnesota. livemorescreenless.org
Email Anna Lynn at anna.lynn@state.mn or call 651-201-3627![]( "Call: 651-201-3627") .
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