Your Minnesota OD2A Colleagues Invite You To:
Cultivate, Engage and Measure Public Health Partnerships
Join us for three, interactive, 1-hour Zoom sessions on May 17, July 19 and September 20 from 12-1 CST. When you register for the series, you will have access to the Minnesota OD2A Peer to Peer site where you can access all the series links, resources, tools and other items.
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This series offers:
- Three one-hour Zoom sessions
- Content from Minnesota state and local public health leaders and subject matter experts
- Opportunities to reflect with national OD2A peers during Zoom sessions
- Access to Minnesota's customized OD2A Peer to Peer site for access to links, resources, tools and series materials
- Virtual coffee chats in between sessions
Are You Getting the Statewide Benefits of Effective Local Public Health Partnerships?
Partnerships built with local public health benefit local communities as well as the state. The Minnesota Department of Health is offering a 3-session series to share success stories from the Office of Statewide Health Improvement Initiatives, Opioid Pilot Project. Participants will learn about Minnesota’s legislative mandate to address the opioid epidemic and how Minnesota built and sustained effective partnerships between its Department of Health and local public health agencies.
The three sessions (May 17, July 19, Sept 20) will provide an overview of the Minnesota Statewide Health Improvement Partnership (SHIP), followed presentations by Wright County and St. Louis County describing their unique experiences in building local community partnerships and opioid prevention and responses. Participants will have opportunities to reflect with fellow OD2A participants on replicable, real-world examples of how local health departments supported state and local drug overdose response activities. Participants will set action items for their own communities.
Session #1
Monday May 17
12:00 - 1:00 (CST)
- Understand Minnesota intra-agency environmental scan of state-agency partnerships
- Recognize how the environmental scan results leveraged existing state / local partnership models
- Share reflections on Minnesota models and partnerships efforts
- Utilize parts or all of the Minnesota environmental scan with their state communities
Session #2
Monday July 19
12:00 - 1:00 (CST)
- Understand local public health perspective on the state / local public health relationship
- Reflect and reconsider how to enhance relationships with local public health
- Partner with State and local public health to utilize lessons learned from Minnesota local public health
Session #3
Monday September 20
12:00 - 1:00 (CST)
- Identify key practices on how local public health partnerships might be cultivated, managed and measured in their jurisdiction
- Create a customized action plan to enhance collaboration at the state and local public health level to better integrate local responses and more effectively reduce drug overdose
Register Now to Participate in Series and the OD2A Peer to Peer Site
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About Us
Minnesota state and public health experts are here to support your local efforts. This effort was led by the Minnesota Department of Health, Wright County and St. Louis County.
This initiative is funded through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Minnesota federal award: NU17CE9249850100
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The word Minnesota is derived from the Dakota phrase Mni Sota Makoce which means ‘Land Where the Waters Reflect the Clouds’.
We acknowledge that we work on land that continues to hold great historical, spiritual, and personal significance for its original stewards, the Dakota and Ojibwe people. To hear voices and stories from Dakota and Ojibwe people, we recommend starting your journey here: Native Nations Stories / MN Humanities
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