What is a Community Leadership Team (CLT)?
Community Leadership Team is the core strategy team for SHIP in Meeker, McLeod and Sibley Counties. The CLT represents a unique diversity: four sectors, organizational, geographical, ethnicity, gender, age and expertise.
What is SHIP?
SHIP stands for Statewide Health Improvement Program. The goal of SHIP is to help Minnesotans live longer, healthier, better lives by preventing risk factors that lead to chronic disease.
What is different about SHIP?
Instead of taking a more traditional, individual and programmatic approach to improving health, we will engage in a comprehensive effort to simultaneously improve the health care system and improve the health of the environment. SHIP plays an important role by focusing on policy, systems and environmental changes to make truly sustainable, lasting changes in the state’s obesity and tobacco crisis.
How do I get involved at the local level?
Contact your local SHIP Coordinator or fill out our Contact Request form today!
What is the role of community partners?
The first phase of this grant will allow for some time to do additional community assessment to better plan out our strategies.
The types of physical activity-related systems, policies and environmental activities this grant will support are:
- Strategies for safe routes to schools
- Develop agreements to expand shared use of schools or other public facilities
- Connect roadways to complementary systems of trails and bike paths
The types of nutrition-related systems, policies and environmental activities this grant will support are:
- Improve the offerings at community food venues and support innovative means to improve access (Farmer’s Markets, Community Gardens, Community Supported Agriculture, etc.)
- Increase access to healthy foods for beneficiaries of food assistance programs
- Creation or improvement of infrastructure for production, distribution and processing of health foods, including links with grocery stores, after-school programs and day-care settings.
What type of partners does MMS HC look for?
In order to accomplish these goals, it is important to engage leaders and influential community members with experience in and a commitment to advancing active living and healthy eating among children.
The types of community partner necessary to make this program successful include:
- Community – farmer’s markets, master gardeners, chambers of commerce, citizen’s, non-profits, neighborhood groups, trails groups, faith community, child care providers, media, community education, community supported agriculture
- Local Government – elected officials, administrators, planners, transportation, park and recreation
- Schools – administration, before/after school program directors, faculty, food services, parents, students, coaches, athletes, parent-teacher organizations, wellness committee members, school nurses, preschool/ECFE coordinators
- Health Care – hospitals, clinics, public health, health plans, migrant health, student health, community outreach workers
- Worksites – business owners, managers/supervisors, wellness coordinators, Human Resources Managers, Benefits Managers, worksite wellness committee members, Chamber of Commerce leaders and members
