Healthy Community Update #160
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Designing Healthy Livable Communities: New Policybilities!
Thanks to the Michigan Dept. of Community Health, speakers, Conference Organizing Team, and attendees for an excellent conference this year!The greatest lesson and achievement from this conference was not found in any one presentation. It is found in bringing together a diverse group of citizens, neighborhood organizers, policy makers, health professionals, businesspeople, nonprofits, educators, and planners -- and the new understandings and relationships that were and are being built as a result.
As one keynote speaker said, "healthy communities are built on relationships." This conference to a positive step in this direction by providing a space to meet new people, to listening to new perspectives, to dialogue, and to imagining new possibilities -- or should I say...
"policybilities?"
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Market Goodies
- Hollie Hamel
Note: This update's from last week, but you're sure to find something equally fresh, diverse, nutritious, and fun again this week! - Editor
Allen Street Farmers Market
Wednesdays
2:30 - 7:00pm - WOW!Come on over to the market and you will find 6 different kinds of basil from HerbGirl's Garden plus tomato seedlings, stevia,and lemon balm. Clark Sugarbush will offer us wild leeks, perennials (coral bells, coreopsis and goat's beard), and Green Eagle will have 25 different heirloom tomato plants to jump start your garden! You can prepare the best salad of the season with Wildflower's spring mix and Giving Tree's onions, spinach,and fresh marjoram. Please help us welcome Mooville Dairy and the East Lansing Food Coop this season! Mooville adds local milk, chocolate milk, cheese curds and ice cream to your selection, and ELFCO will bring Michigan-grown dried beans and a selection of dried grains. Check out their all natural charcoal for the grill. too. Alice's Kitchen returns with a variety of delicious offerings, and Gone Wired, Green River Cafe, and several other farmers will be showing up through the next few weeks.
Our featured topic in the Big Tent this week is Breast Health. Stop by to pick up information, sign up for the ANC Breast Health Club, and (for Club members) redeem your monthly self-exam reminder postcard for flax seed or walnuts (breast healthy foods). Answer the breast health question correctly and perhaps win a sample of a non-carcinogenic personal needs item. Also in the Big Tent-- ANC Program info, the Food Chatter Table, Kid's Table, and Cafe.Happy 2008 Season to the Yard Sign Corps!
Hello to All. We have sent letters out to most of you with 7:00 stickers to place on your signs until after Labor Day. Call or stop by if you did not receive them or need replacements. Who knows how these will weather the weather (heh heh) so please offer feedback as the summer progresses. Thank you again for all that you do.
See you at the Market!
Busy Bike Month
- Tim Potter
It was a very busy month for us during Bike Month; here’s some brief reports of the action starting with our next big bike event next week; hope you’ll consider coming out for it:4th Annual Lucinda Means Bicycle Advocacy Day
Thurs. June 5th - Bicyclists from around the state will join forces for a tour thru the farmlands south of campus from the MSU Bikes Service Center followed by a parade to a RALLY and lunch at the State Capitol building. The goal is to show state policy makers that bicyclists have a collective voice. And that voice is concerned about bicyclists’ safety on roadways. There is no charge for this event. Proceeds from the Lucinda Means Advocacy Fund are funding your participation. Registration is required however. Go here for details.
Dubai Delegation Visits MSU Bikes
Thurs. May, 22nd - A delegation of administrators from the Dubai International Academic City visited the MSU Campus for a week to see and learn about MSU facilities and services, and paid our Center a visit. They're already realizing that transportation around their new campus is going to be an issue and see the need to promote bicycling as much as possible (they have the opposite problem of temperatures; some days are just too hot to ride).
Ride of Silence 2008
Wed. May, 21st - Approx. 35 riders came out to join our "Ride of Silence" event including 6 area uniformed police officers (4 from Lansing PD and 2 from MSU PD; 1 more officer from the E. Lansing PD joined us in a patrol car who brought up our rear). Click here for photos and more info. about our event. Here's a video story titled "In silent procession" about the ride by a State News reporter published 5/30/08.
5th Annual MSU Farm Daze Tour
Sat. May 17th - Thank you to those who came out and rode this year. Here are some photos taken by Kirt Livernois which you can check out and even purchase if you care to (MSU Bikes has no financial relationship with Kirt; we're passing this along as a service to our participants).
U of M Transportation Group Visits MSU Bikes
May, 9th - A delegation of administrators from the U of M Parking & Transportation Svcs. visited the MSU Bikes Service Center for a tour and to discuss how MSU's bike program. It's nice to be able to assist others in the area with their planning process and we wish them all the best!
Ride on,
Tim
Evaluation/Design Tools to Support Active/Healthy Living Projects
Last week, MDCH sponsored a training to help communities evaluate and improve trails, parks, and farmers markets. Kieran Fogarty is helping MDCH come up with some standardized tools/forms we can use and would like our feedback this week. Julian Reed described SOPARC or "System for Observing Play and Recreation in Communities" and an opportunity to practice some data collection in the field.Please contact Janine or LeRoy if you'd like to receive sample materials and handouts from this training.
Sample forms (SOPARC)
Preventive Services for Employees: A Workshop
- Christi Downing
You are invited to the workshop, "Designing Effective Preventive Services for Employees." This workshop is being offered at no charge on Tuesday, June 17 in Lansing and will provide practical guidance for the selection of clinical preventive services proven to be clinically effective and of value to employers. The workshop content will have a focus on cardiovascular health, which is the number one cause of death and health concern for your employees in Michigan. The presenter, Andy Lanza from CDC, will also take participants through a practice application of the Guide and its recommendations.The workshop is open to any organization or individual responsible for making or providing guidance regarding decisions for employer health coverage. Main workshop topics include:
1) Participants will receive a copy of "A Purchaser's Guide to Clinical Preventive Services: Moving Science Into Coverage." This tool as well as other useful resource material will be given to participants, but can access it immediately at: http://www.businessgrouphealth.org/benefitstopics/topics/purchasers/index.cfm.
2) Participants are asked to complete the attached assessment and return it to Christi Downing at MDCH by Monday, June 9. This data will be presented in a non-identifiable way by Mr. Lanza as he applies the Guide's recommendations to real-life scenarios. When completing the assessment you can reflect your own personal health coverage or an employer group you work with, if it is relevant.
3) Participants will hear a speaker that has first-hand experience applying the Guide's recommendations.
4) There are a limited number of scholarships to help defray the cost of attending the workshop for Building Healthy Community grant recipients. If you are interested in one of these scholarships, please contact Christi Downing (517/335-8771 or downingch@michigan.gov) by Monday, June 9.
This FREE workshop is being sponsored by the Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention Unit of the Michigan Department of Community Health as part of a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention grant. The workshop will be held:
June 17, 2008 from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Lansing Community College - West Campus, 5708 Cornerstone Drive, Lansing, MI 48917
A draft agenda is attached. The workshop will be open to the first 75 registrants, so RSVP early! RSVP deadline is Monday, June 9. Please complete the RSVP form and return it to Christi Downing at downingch@michigan.gov or fax to 517/335-9056.
Please forward this to others you feel would benefit from this workshop. We look forward to receiving your RSVP and completed assessment (attached) by June 9.
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The Art of Hosting
- Tom Atlee
I have just seen a video that describes and embodies the heart of my explorations of co-intelligence over the last twenty years -- and the heart of the community of practitioners in which so many of my friends live and work. It melts leadership, organization, conversation, relationship, change, and power into something profoundly whole in which we all come alive.<http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1155394240>
This manifestation of that magical collective space and Way comes with the name "art of hosting" <http://www.artofhosting.org>. The phenomenon, itself, goes far beyond any name -- a fact that is clear from the people who speak on this video. They are tapping into a deep place in themselves, searching for words to describe this reality that is bigger than them, that is emerging, that is powerful in a very natural, very human way, that they are part of, and that carries whispers of who we need to become as a civilization that can live and thrive and serve life into a long future.
I can't recommend this video highly enough. It is a beautiful expression of something I have experienced over and over in recent years, and yet struggle to articulate. It is worth its 35 minutes, both as an investment and as a deep joy. I urge you make space for it in your very busy life.
Coheartedly,
Tom
Quote of the Week
- Christi Downing
"Cure people's ills and make them healthy for a day. Teach them to stay well and keep them healthy for a lifetime."~Chinese Proverb
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