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SHIP Active Communities Intervention Technical Assistance

ARDC has formed another partnership with public health professionals to provide technical planning assistance nine communities in the Arrowhead Region as part of a Region-wide State Health Improvement Program(SHIP) grant.





The Minnesota Department of Health has awarded the Carlton-Lake-Cook-St Louis Community Health Board (CHB) with a two year grant to implement five interventions in the seven county region with the aim towards MDH overall goal of helping Minnesotans live longer, better, healthier lives by reducing the burden of chronic disease.

ARDC is providing technical assistance for the Active Communities Intervention. Below are the five interventions the CHB will work on over the next two years .

1. Active Communities
2. School Health Policies
3. Tobacco Free Campuses and Cessation Services
4. Breastfeeding Policies in healthcare systems
5. Worksite Wellness Program

ACTIVE COMMUNITIES INTERVENTION
To implement policies and practices that create active communities by increasing opportunities for non-motorized transportation (walking and biking) and access to community recreation facilities.

View ARDC Technical Assistance Summary Sheet HERE

ARDC is working closely with local SHIP coordinators and coalitions in the communities listed below on the Active communities Intervention:
1. Aitkin
2. Duluth
3. Grand Rapids
4. Grand Marais
5. Hibbing
6. International Falls
7. Moose Lake
8. Silver Bay
9. Thomson Township (Esko)


ARDC Technical Assistance Presentation

Bovey/Coleraine Map Click HERE


Contact Information
Ellen Pillsbury
phone: 218-529-7554
epillsbury@ardc.org
or
Bonnie Hundrieser
phone: 218-529-7527
bhundrieser@ardc.org

Mailing address:
ARDC
221 West First Street
Duluth, MN 55802


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2010 Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy


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Two Harbors

Eveleth


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Virginia Safe Routes to School

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