The MDH Mental Well-Being and Resilience Learning Community, in partnership with the Ramsey County Mental Health Action Team, presents two opportunities to experience health practices in October 2021:

Friday October 15, 2021 |1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Mind-Body Connection Healing Practices

Register to participate on October 15^th

Healing from historical trauma and toxic stress starts when each person learns to gets in touch with their mind and body. It’s important to pay attention to how we feel, particularly when things start to spiral out of control. By learning to be mindful of how stress is affecting our bodies we can then develop the skills to maintain control and respond to our daily stressors and toxic stress more effectively.  Participants will learn about the mind-body connection and techniques to get you over the hump and put you in control again.  Breathing skills and mindfulness practices can help us to remain calm, and avoid those negative, harmful, and destructive thoughts and emotions that make it difficult for us to think clearly or rationally.  We all need each other; participants in this workshop will become empowered through learning strategies and practices to help ourselves and those around us find more peace, joy, and happiness. YOU GOT THIS!

How to be Resilient in our High Stress Society

Thursday, October 28, 2021 | 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Register to participate on October 28^th

Our bodies are built for handling stress in the moment and then relaxing and feeling safe when the danger has passed.  In our current society, our bodies often feel stressed and have a hard time recovering to a state of relaxation.  The negative health impact of this stressed state is huge.  Dr. Sara will teach people how to manage that stress, to reduce the negative impact on your mental, physical, and emotional health.  Learn why it is important for your health to manage stress well.  Discover techniques you can incorporate into your day to make your body more resilient to stress, such as lifestyle options to encourage a healthy stress response, several vagus nerve exercises and balancing techniques, specific breathing practices, and loving kindness meditation.

The annual Minnesota Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE) health education summit gathers health education specialists, and public health professionals from around the state to exchange information and create a healthier Minnesota through effective public health education practice.  

The MN SOPHE planning committee is excited about our novel theme and line up of engaging speakers for this year's health education summit; a wonderful opportunity to attend a virtual and affordable professional conference. Find out what is moving and shaking for health education in Minnesota!

Registration and agenda available HERE!

Experts from Mayo Clinic Health System answered questions and addressed misinformation stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic and vaccines.

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Request for Proposals: 
Engaging Arts and Culture to Build Vaccination Confidence 

This Request for Proposals (RFP) seeks applications from arts and culture organizations interested in improving vaccine confidence and acceptance through their chosen art form(s) in communities with low COVID vaccination rates. The CDC Foundation will provide grants up to $75,000 each to an estimated 30 organizations that have a proven track record of successfully creating impactful, educational work.

Response Due Date: Thursday, October 14, 2021 by 12:00 p.m. ET (Noon)

Proposal Submission Link 

Contact: ArtsRFP@cdcfoundation.org

View Engaging the Arts to Build Vaccine Confidence RFP

Pivoting to the Future: Opportunity, Complexity, and Working Together

Thursday, September 23, 2021 | 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

Virtual event

Register Here!

This event is intended for local and tribal public health staff and leadership, community-based organizations, local elected officials, appointed community health board members, Minnesota Department of Health staff and leadership, and staff from health plans and health care organizations.

Don’t forget to forward this invitation to your public health colleagues!

MIDWEST CENTER FOR OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY EDUCATION AND RESEARCH CENTER (MCOHS-ERC)

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA, SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH DIVISION OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES

PILOT PROJECTS RESEARCH TRAINING PROGRAM REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS

Funding Period: 7/1/2022 - 6/30/2023

APPLICATION DEADLINE: December 10, 2021

Grants ranging from $5,000 to a maximum of $20,000 are available to occupational health and safety (OHS) researchers in Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. Areas of OHS include industrial hygiene, occupational and environmental health nursing, occupational and environmental epidemiology, occupational and environmental medicine, occupational health services research and policy, injury epidemiology, safety, ergonomics, toxicology, health physics, and occupational health psychology.

The Request for Proposal (RFP) is applicable only to educational institutions and targets (1) newly-independent principal investigators (PIs); (2) experienced PIs pursuing OHS as a new direction for research; and (3) doctoral research trainees working under the supervision of a PI. Priority will be given to:

• Research proposals with a high potential for affecting the practice of OHS;

• Projects that focus on OHS disparities and vulnerable workers;

• Research ideas that have the potential for: (i) resulting in peer-reviewed publications; and (ii) being developed into proposals for more substantial funding, based on results from this research grant;

• PIs working in complementary or non-traditional disciplines who wish to become more actively involved in addressing occupational safety and health issues;

• PIs attempting to develop innovative research efforts in collaboration with faculty from the MCOHS-ERC;

• Junior PIs needing initial support for innovative research areas who lack support from other sources; and

• Doctoral students undertaking research required for their degree.

  For more information, click here!

The Minnesota Department of Human Services (department) is establishing a pool of qualified individuals (QIs) to complete qualified residential treatment program (QRTP) assessments when county or tribal agencies recommend placement of children in facilities certified as QRTP (corporate foster homes, group homes, and residential treatment). Implementing a state-sponsored program supports county and tribal social service agencies in meeting this new Family First Prevention Services Act (FFPSA) requirement.

Qualified individuals can be licensed clinicians, or community members specifically trained and certified to complete assessments of children. Department staff is contracting with qualified individuals who possess specialized knowledge of and lived experience within African American, Native American and communities of color. The department is pursuing contracts with individuals who may be employees or volunteers of community agencies, community elders, and other community members with child welfare experience, interested in training and certification as qualified individuals. For the initial phase, up to 30 contracts will be offered statewide.

Individuals interested in the department’s QI program are encouraged to attend information meetings scheduled for September 1 and 8, 2021. Individuals who may want to become a QI for a county or tribal social services agency are also encouraged to attend. Additional information sessions will be scheduled periodically until the end of the year. Dates and registration are on the department’s CounyLink website.

Join NMPHA and the New Mexico Vaccine Equity and Rebuild Network on Friday, Sept. 10, 2021, 8:30 am - 12:30 pm, for our virtual conference, Vaccine Equity in Action/Equidad de Vacunas en Acción.

Everyone who is working to increase COVID-19 vaccination rates in New Mexico through equitable support--including education, access, policy and systems--is invited to participate. 

Click here for more information or to register!

Are you a licensed pharmacist in Minnesota? Do you get frustrated about the large amount of medication waste? Do you want to help patients accord their medications? Consider volunteering with RoundtableRx! Volunteer pharmacists perform medication safety-checks and help log the medication repository’s inventory.

Interested in learning more? Complete the volunteer interest form here: https://tinyurl.com/RRxVolunteer. We look forward to having you on our team!