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Minnesota
Parks & Trails
Legacy Plan
In 2008,
Minnesotans passed the Clean Water, Land, and Legacy Act. 14.25% of
the funds generated from the 3/8% increase in the sales tax will provide
funding for regional and state parks and trails.
A plan needs to
be developed to provide guidance for how these funds should be spent, as
well as other traditional sources of funding for state and regional parks
and trails. The Park and Trail Legacy Plan will include strategies
for addressing the issues, trends, and needs for the state and regional
park and trail system.
The Department of Natural
Resources has been charged to lead the planning effort in collaboration
with other park and trail providers, non governmental organizations, and
residents. The plan will include goals and measurable outcomes and a
vision for Minnesotans of what the regional and state parks and trails
will look like in 25 years. GET INVOLVED in the process - attend a
regional meeting. Meetings will be in St. Cloud, Baudette, St. Paul, Thief
River Falls, Forest Lake, Bemidji, Detroit Lakes, Savage, Grand Rapids,
Brainerd, Duluth, Eden Prairie, Marshall, Minneapolis, Rochester and
Mankato. | Parks and Trails Legacy Plan | Public Meeting
Details
The Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota's
Center for Prevention has produced two new videos. "Building a Walkable,
Bikeable Community" tells the story of how community leaders have made
strategic decisions to create an activity-friendly city in Hopkins, MN. The Safe Routes to School video
shows how Read Pine Elementary
School in Eagan, MN supports more kids walking or biking
to school. | Building a
Walkable, Bikeable Community Video | Safe Routes
to School Video
Blue Cross and
Blue Shield of Minnesota recently commissioned a policy brief from the
Public Health Law Center, “In Pursuit of an Active Education: Policy
Challenges and Opportunities for Improving Physical Education and Physical
Activity in K-12 Schools.”
The brief reviews federal, state and
local polices that address school-based physical education and physical
activity, summarizes legislative trends among states, and analyzes policy
considerations associated with six approaches that show particular
promise:
- Improving
physical education curricula, teacher qualifications and accountability;
- Integrating
physical activity into the school day and maximizing recess
opportunities;
- Expanding
outdoor environmental education opportunities;
- Conducting,
tracking and reporting BMI or similar health screenings;
- Partnering
with communities on Safe Routes to Schools (SRTS) programs; and
- Enhancing
physical activity opportunities in school-based after school programs.
In
Pursuit of an Active Education: Policy Challenges and Opportunities for
Improving Physical Education and Physical Activity in K-12 Schools
Report
On May 3, 2010,
the National Physical Activity Plan will kick off with a signature launch
event in Washington,
D.C. States, cities, towns,
companies, departments, schools, hospitals—organizations of all sorts—are
invited to join in by letting lawmakers, the media and the public know
about this important Plan. This is an opportunity to energize your
organization and your community, and to share the excitement of a national
initiative to get America healthy and active!
Local officials are the key to making the changes that can help ensure
opportunities for all Americans to be more active. After the Plan is
released on May 3, enhance your involvement by examining the tactics from
the Plan that can be easily implement in your community. Experts from many
fields have contributed to developing the Plan. The National Physical
Activity Plan is a comprehensive set of strategies, including policies,
practices and initiatives, aimed at increasing physical activity in the
population level. | National
Physical Activity Plan | Physical
Activity Plan Launch Resources and Tools
Fuel Up to
Play 60, the school wellness program provided by the National Dairy
Council®, your local Dairy Council and the National Football League, in
partnership with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, is helping to make
wellness part of the game plan in more than 60,000 schools across the
country!
The program encourages school teams to make real changes
in their eating and physical activity habits by choosing and implementing
Action Strategies that help them “fuel up” with healthy foods and “get up
and play” for 60 minutes a day. Fuel Up to Play 60 can be used to
complement an existing school wellness program, or to help a school get
started.
When you join Fuel Up to Play 60, your school will
receive:
- A FREE
School Wellness Kit complete with tools, resources and display materials
to help you kick off, promote and implement the program.
- New
opportunities for funding, recognition and rewards for students,
educators and schools.
- Full access
to Fuel Up to Play 60 online tools, Action Strategies, resources and
ideas.
- Monthly
e-newsletters with updates, ideas from other schools, and wellness news
for all staff and parents who join.
Join
Fuel Up to Play 60, request a free School Wellness Kit, or learn more
about the program
CDC’s Division of Adolescent and School Health
(DASH) is released a new report, entitled The Association Between School-Based Physical
Activity, Including Physical Education, and Academic
Performance, on April 14, 2010. The report indicates
school-based physical activity may help improve students’ grades and test
scores and positively affect other factors that influence academic
achievement. The report also concludes that adding time during the school
day for physical activity does not appear to take away from academic
performance. The report and executive summary are available on the DASH
Health and Academics Web site. | Health
and Academics Report
| National
Association for Sport and Physical Education brochure
Medica's second funding cycle will open on May 3
and run through May 28 during where the Foundation will accept online
letters of inquiry in Organizational Core Mission Support in Greater
Minnesota Communities: This new funding priority provides small grants to
organizations in the regional and rural areas of Medica’s service area.
Funding will support health-related programming that is core to the
organization’s nonprofit mission. Range of Funding: Individual grants may be
awarded up to $5,000. | Medica
Foundation Grant Opportunity
The MDH Asthma Program is pleased to announce the
availability of the new interactive Asthma Action Plan (iAAP). If you have
a child with asthma (an estimated 85,000 Minnesota children have asthma),
the NIH guidelines recommend that you have a written plan (AAP) for your
child and share a copy of the plan with the child's school health office,
daycare provider, coach, or others who may care for your child. So,
please feel free to refer your child's health care provider to the
resource. Improved self management of asthma reduces asthma
hospitalizations and emergency room visits, thus both reducing health care
costs and improving the quality of life for people with asthma and their
families.
The iAAP is a clinical decision support tool for
prescribing clinicians. It reflects the many assessment diagrams and
treatment plan step options defined in the NIH, EPR-3 Asthma Guidelines
(2007). MDH has incorporated these algorithms into a user friendly
computerized program that takes the prescribing clinician through an
interactive, step-by step assessment, treatment, and prescribing process.
The outcome is a patient-specific printed AAP that lists daily and rescue
medications with specific steps to take when asthma symptoms are
occurring. | Asthma
Action Plan
Stairstep Foundation 7th Annual Church Olympics Event
The Stairstep Foundation presents "Moving by
Faith" - Church Olympics and Family Day from May 2 through June
26.Participants can participate in a six week walking challenge, family
bike ride & walk, roller skating, golf tournament, basketball
tournament, and track and field event. To participate or volunteer call
Helen Jackson Lockett-El at 612.521.3110. | Stairstep
Foundation
Grant Program for Youth Sports Leagues from
Liberty
Mutual
Responsible Sports, a philanthropic program of
insurance company Liberty Mutual, is accepting applications from youth
sports organizations in the United States to participate in
its Responsible Sports Community Grant program. Teams and
organizations compete in one of three categories for a Responsible Sports
grant: large division (two hundred or more players), small division (under
two hundred players), and educational groups (school athletic programs).
For the Spring 2010 grant period, youth sports organizations will compete
for one of fourteen grants of $2,500 each, divided between the two
divisions based on the size of the organization. Schools (districts,
athletic departments, teams, booster clubs, etc.) will compete for one of
six grants of $5,000 each, due by May
31, 2010. To be eligible, organizations must be a
registered nonprofit youth sport organization recognized by the governing
bodies of their sport(s). Organizations must serve the community at large
and must be open to the general public. | Youth
Sports Leagues Grant
- April 23,
2010 | 10:00-11:30 AM | Bridging
the Evidence Gap in Obesity Prevention: A Framework in Inform Decision
Making Webinar
| Institute of Medicine of the National Academies
- April 23-24,
2010 | Active
Living Bike Expo | Minnesota State Fair Grounds
- April 27,
2010 | 12:00-1:00 PM | Environmental
Measures for Safe Routes to School: Understanding the Basics of Air
Pollution Webinar | America Walks and the National
Center for Safe
Routes to School
- April 27,
2010 | 1:00-2:00 PM | Healthy
People, Healthy Places: How to Implement Environmental and Policy Change
Strategies Webinar | The Convergence Partnership
- April 29,
2010 |
2010 Minnesota Bicycle Tourism Summit | Breezy Point Resort
- May 5-8,
2010 | International Congress on Physical
Activity and Public Health | Toronto, Canada
- May 14, 2010
| Silencing the
Naysayers Webinar | Center for Transportation Excellence & NAPTA
- May 19, 2010
| 2:00-3:00 PM | The Overlooked E:
Involving Law Enforcement in Bicycle and Pedestrian Safety Programs
Webinar | Association for Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals
- May 25, 2010
| 1:00-2:00 PM | Successful
Partnerships: Strategies for Multi-field and Cross-Sector
Collaborations | The Convergence Partnership
- June 16,
2010 | 2:00-3:00 PM | Policy Promotion: Get
Policy Makers on Board with Pedestrian and Bicycle Improvements
Webinar | Association for Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals
- June 29,
2010 | 1:00-2:00 PM | A
Path from Hope to Change: Implementing Equity-focused Principles and
Strategies Webinar | The Convergence Partnership
- July 21,
2010 | 2:00-3:00 PM | Bicycle Boulevards
Planning and Design Webinar | Association for Pedestrian and Bicycle
Professionals
- July 27,
2010 | 1:00-2:00 PM | Talking
about Healthy Peole in Healthy Places: Linking Values to Policy and
Environmental Change Webinar | The Convergence Partnership
- August 18,
2010 | 2:00-3:00 PM | Road Diets Webinar |
Association for Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals
- September
13-16, 2010 | Pro Walk/Pro Bike Conference |
Chattanooga,
TN
- September
21, 2010 | 1:00-2:00 PM | The
Art and Science of Evaluation: Sound Methods for Assessing Policy and
Environmental Change Webinar | The Convergence Partnership
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