2017 Annual SHIP Meeting

Call for Presentations

July 26 and 27, 2017
Eagan Community Center, 1501 Central Parkway

Conference Objectives:
1. Showcase local community accomplishments
2. Expand understanding, skills and confidence to advance health equity work
3. Provide opportunities for networking
4. Build links between local, regional and statewide work
5. Generate ideas for working with partners to assure sustainability

Presentation Guidance:
Breakout sessions will be 75 minutes.
• There are 30 breakout sessions available; half are reserved for SHIP grantees and half for MDH staff and technical assistance providers.
• Presentations that partner grantees with each other, with MDH staff and/or technical assistance providers are encouraged.
• Consider ways to bring skill-building, experiential or active learning to your presentation.Some suggestions might be to incorporate small group activities, brainstorming, role-playing, panels, voting, fishbowl conversations or asking questions of the group.
• When sharing a project, explain the steps to take, so others might more easily replicate your approach.

Your session proposal should include at least one of the following:
• Community engagement: involving the population whose health you are striving to improve in the design, decision-making and implementation of your work
• Sustainability of SHIP work
• Strengthening the capacity of communities
• Barriers to implementing SHIP with communities experiencing health inequities
• Implementing multiple strategies in a single setting
• Skill-building content, such as how to use data to determine your work, using social media well or focus groups 101

Submitting your presentation proposal
All proposals must be received by 4:30 Friday, April 28.

Once all of the proposals are received, they will be organized by topic and by presenter affiliation (grantee, MDH or TA provider and other), then reviewed and ranked by a mix of SHIP grantee and MDH staff recruited by the SHIP Planning Unit. Proposals will be ranked based on inclusion of the criteria above.

You will learn if your proposal has been accepted by May 12.

Feel free to ask the SHIP Planning Unit staff for assistance in drafting your proposal, recruiting co-presenters for your session and/or designing your presentation. Contact health.makingitbetter@state.mn.us.

Your contact information:

First Name

Last Name

Organization Agency

Presenter (if different from above) contact information:

First Name

Last Name

Organization Agency

Other presenters in session:

Presenter 1 First Name

Presenter 1 Last Name

Presenter 1 Email

Presenter 1 Organization Agency

Presenter 2 First Name

Presenter 2 Last Name

Presenter 2 Email

Presenter 2 Organization Agency

Presenter 3 First Name

Presenter 3 Last Name

Presenter 3 Email

Presenter 3 Organization Agency

If others, please add names here:

Presentation Title

Affiliation

If grantee - your CHB or County

If MDH - your division

If TA Provider - your content area

If Partner - name of partner

Settings and content (choose all that apply)

Focus areas (choose all that apply)

Describe your presentation (250 words or less)