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Children’s Minnesota launches Collective for Community Health and appoints Lauren Gilchrist as its senior director
The Collective will give attention to partnerships to enhance group well being and advance fairness
MINNEAPOLIS-ST. PAUL, Minn., Could 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Youngsters’s Minnesota is happy to announce the formation of the Collective for Group Well being, which is able to give attention to enhancing the well being of sufferers by strengthening partnerships within the communities the place they stay. Recognizing that 80 p.c of well being is set by the circumstances the place individuals are born, stay, study, work and play, the Collective is important to Youngsters’s Minnesota’s imaginative and prescient is to be each household’s important accomplice in elevating more healthy youngsters — not solely throughout diseases or accidents, however all through childhood. It is going to intention to enhance social determinants of well being, handle structural racism in well being care, and remove well being disparities.
The Collective will broaden and deepen the group’s current group partnerships, working to co-create progressive options and leverage assets that enhance the well being of communities. The Collective will:
- Present a central entry level for companions within the public, non-public and non-profit sectors to collaborate with Youngsters’s Minnesota’s scientific care, analysis, schooling, coverage, group well being, and advocacy efforts.
- Broaden the group’s assist for social determinants of well being, together with connecting extra sufferers and households to assets that handle meals insecurity, housing, authorized, and different social wants.
- Have interaction companions by way of a brand new advisory council that may convey collectively group representatives throughout sectors with leaders from Youngsters’s Minnesota to information its long-term work.
James Burroughs, who was lately promoted to senior vp, authorities and group relations, chief fairness and inclusion officer, will lead the Collective. Youngsters’s Minnesota has additionally appointed Lauren Gilchrist because the Collective’s new senior director. Gilchrist most lately served as govt vp of exterior affairs for Deliberate Parenthood North Central States. She additionally held key management roles within the public sector, together with within the places of work of former Governor Mark Dayton, former U.S. Sen. Al Franken of Minnesota, and the late U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts.
“This can be a pivotal time for Youngsters’s Minnesota as we glance in direction of the longer term and envision how we will use our collective voice as the child consultants to make a much bigger affect within the well being and wellbeing of youngsters in Minnesota, the area and nationally,” mentioned Burroughs. “I am excited for this new period and for Lauren’s management on this work.”
“The mission of Youngsters’s Minnesota is near my coronary heart and I am thrilled to be becoming a member of the group on this new position. I look ahead to connecting throughout our communities as we proceed to develop Youngsters’s Minnesota’s dedication to fairness and social determinants of well being,” mentioned Gilchrist. “Working in partnership with native leaders, policymakers, and well being care consultants, we’ve the chance to make an actual distinction within the lives of youngsters and households.”
About Youngsters’s Minnesota
Youngsters’s Minnesota is among the largest pediatric well being methods in the US and the one well being system in Minnesota to supply care completely to youngsters, from earlier than start via younger maturity. An impartial and not-for-profit system since 1924, Youngsters’s Minnesota is one system serving children all through the Higher Midwest at two free-standing hospitals, 9 major care clinics, a number of specialty clinics and 7 rehabilitation websites. As The Youngsters ConsultantsTM in our area, Youngsters’s Minnesota is usually ranked by U.S. Information & World Report as a prime youngsters’s hospital.
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On Tuesday, the National Hockey League released its schedules for the upcoming season.
The Minnesota Wild will start the season at home on Oct. 10, taking on the Columbus Blue Jackets. They will then play another home game against Seattle on Oct. 12. After two back-to-back games at home, the Wild will be all over the place for the next three weeks, playing seven away matches before returning to the land of 10,000 lakes.
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(ABC 6 News) — A new law has passed in Minnesota allowing motorcyclists to split lanes, but it won’t go into effect until next July.
The law is similar to those in other states that allow motorcyclists to ride slowly between lanes in stopped or bumper-to-bumper traffic.
When the law does go into effect, Minnesota will be among at least half a dozen states allowing lane splitting.
Vaping trial: Ellison says Juul, Altria ‘hooked a generation of Minnesota kids on e-cigarettes’
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison laid out his case against vaping company Juul in his lawsuit over teen use of vapes.
ST. PAUL, Minn. (FOX 9) – Minnesota teenagers have increasingly found themselves dependent on nicotine, thanks in part to the rise in popularity of vaping, a new study has found.
According to data from the Minnesota Youth Tobacco Survey, 70% of students who vape say they want to quit, and nearly two-thirds have tried to quit in the past.
Meanwhile, 79.6% of surveyed students who use e-cigarettes, or vapes, reported suffering dependence on the devices, which can provide high levels of nicotine and lead to stronger withdrawal symptoms such as mood fluctuations, stress, anxiety and depression.
“It’s a dire situation that so many of our teens are struggling with the health harms of nicotine dependence,” Minnesota Commissioner of Health Dr. Brooke Cunningham said in a statement accompanying the data. “Many teens may smoke or vape because they think it helps them relieve stress or anxiety, but the nicotine can actually worsen those feelings. We want teens to know that we understand the mental health challenges they may be facing and how hard it is to quit, and that free help is out there to support them.”
The Minnesota Youth Tobacco Survey data show that among students who vaped in the past 30 days, 49.5% vaped at least 20 in the past 30 days – a 47% increase since 2020, and a 165% increase since 2017.
Until age 25, nicotine can negatively affect learning, attention and memory. It also increases risk for addiction to other substances, the study says.
A majority of teens surveyed – 76.3% – reported their first tobacco product was flavored. In 2023, 93.3% of students who vape used a flavored vape in the past 30 days.
However, data show that overall vaping usage numbers could be declining.
In 2023, 13.9% of high school students reported vaping in the past 30 days – a decline from 19.3% in 2020.
The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) offers the My Life, My Quit program to support teens in quitting commercial tobacco use, including vaping, by texting “Start My Quit” to 36072.
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