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Growing Food, Growing Community in the Time of Covid 19
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06/09/20 • 43 min
We bring you another special episode in our series on COVID-19 on growing food and community connections. There is a growing need for healthy foods in Minnesota, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Minnesota is home to sizeable food security disparities. The pandemic has not only exacerbated these gaps, but also shown how food insecurity can be correlated with stress, anxiety, and fear.
This episode focuses on some of our partners— farmers, gardeners and community leaders —who improve our local food system, build strong communities, and share their knowledge about growing food.
06/09/20 • 43 min
Mental and emotional well-being in the time of COVID-19
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04/22/20 • 22 min
We bring you a special episode on coping and mental health in the times of COVID-19. This pandemic is forcing us to change our lives in ways we never imagined. Supporting and caring for one another is more important than ever, and we’re doing it in new ways.
Everyone reacts to stressful situations differently. We had the opportunity to get some advice from community leaders, teachers, and behavioral health professionals about strategies for coping and taking care of each other during this time.
04/22/20 • 22 min
The Vaping Epidemic in Minnesota: Stories from the Front Lines
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03/12/20 • 17 min
As the vaping epidemic continues in Minnesota, we bring you a preview of our upcoming video documentary: stories from the people on the front lines of this fight against big tobacco.
The 2019 Minnesota Student Survey found more than a quarter of Minnesota 11th-graders and 11 percent of 8th-graders used an e-cigarette in the past month. From 2016-2019, the 8th-grade vaping rate nearly doubled.
The commercial tobacco industry uses flavors to attract these kids. Two thirds of current high-school tobacco users in Minnesota reported using a flavored product.
The deliberate marketing tactics used by the tobacco industry have made vaping popular among youth. The Minnesota Student Survey also found that Eighty-eight percent of Minnesota high-school students are exposed to e-cigarette ads. Investigations have revealed e-cigarette maker JUUL targeted kids as young as eight with marketing including a summer camp, school programs and social media influencers. The state of Minnesota has sued JUUL Labs for illegally advertising to youth and engaging in deceptive practices.
Flavored tobacco products are driving the youth nicotine epidemic, which has erased nearly two decades of progress to reduce youth tobacco use. The alarming rise of youth vaping goes hand-in-hand with the insidious impact of predatory marketing the commercial tobacco industry has targeted at marginalized communities – including African Americans, American Indians, and LGBTQ people.
In the podcast we’ll hear from Laura Smith, Senior Public Affairs Manager at ClearWay Minnesota.
Will Gitler and Claire Hering share their personal experiences with vaping. These experiences led them to join local action and advocacy work to reverse this epidemic and protect the health of all Minnesotans.
Watch for more on vaping epidemic in our upcoming documentary, where we continue with these conversations. We’ll also explore how vaping is impacting Native American youth from the Lower Sioux Indian Community and how tribal leaders are addressing the problem. We’ll learn more about the serious health impacts of vaping from Dr. Brook Moore, a pediatric pulmonologist at Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota.
03/12/20 • 17 min
Healthy Together Willmar: Stories from the Idea Fund
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12/12/19 • 37 min
This episode focuses on the great work of Healthy Together Willmar, and their mission to help create a future where all members of the Willmar, MN community have access to the resources and opportunities needed to achieve their best possible health.
In Willmar, achieving good health is met with considerable barriers, which are often experienced most by an increasingly diverse and aging population. To address some of these barriers, the Healthy Together Willmar initiative launched the Idea Fund, creating an opportunity for community members to submit ideas to affect change.
Now in its second round of funding, more than $264,000 was awarded to community groups in Willmar to offer support and solutions related to physical, mental and behavioral health, community connections, access to dental care, the availability of culturally based childcare and more.
The Idea Fund process kicked off in the fall of 2018, with residents attending a “progressive dinner,” community meals at homes throughout Willmar, where they engaged in conversations about how to address the community’s barriers to health. From there, ideas were submitted to the Willmar Community Table, which is comprised of diverse residents who have firsthand experience facing barriers to health.
Find more information about Healthy Together Willmar and the idea fund here.
12/12/19 • 37 min
Sacred Tobacco: Culture is Prevention I
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09/19/19 • 33 min
At the Center for Prevention we are funded from the proceeds of Blue Cross’ historical settlement with the commercial tobacco industry, and we use these resources to help fight health inequities in Minnesota. Addressing the harms caused by commercial tobacco is core to our work. While the overall smoking rate in Minnesota has dramatically decreased, commercial tobacco use remains one of the leading causes of death and disease. Marketing of these products continues to cause more destruction for communities of color, American Indians, immigrants and refugees.
Throughout its history, the commercial tobacco industry has been misrepresenting and appropriating American Indian traditions, values and beliefs to market and sell their products. It’s a direct assault on American Indian culture, traditions and practices.
We have had the privilege to work with tribal communities to help reduce harm caused by commercial tobacco, and we are grateful for what we’ve learned along the way. Understanding the difference between commercial tobacco and sacred tobacco is critically important for shifting the dominant narrative around Tribal communities and their health. In the next three episodes of the State We’re In, we’ll explore how honoring sacred tobacco and cultural traditions can lead to healing for Anishinaabe and Dakota people in Minnesota.
These episodes are inspired by dedicated leaders who are doing this work. Over the summer we’ve had opportunities to have several conversations about sacred tobacco, healing from addiction, and health in Minnesota’s American Indian Communities.
We begin our series with conversations with Chris Matter, Senior Program Manager at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, and CoCo Villaluz, Senior Community Development Manager for ClearWay Minnesota, to get some background on how mainstream organizations and Native American communities are working together to reduce commercial tobacco use.
09/19/19 • 33 min
Sacred Tobacco: Culture is Prevention II
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09/19/19 • 36 min
In part 2 of our series on Sacred Tobacco, we’ll talk about “Tradition versus Addiction” for American Indian tribes in Minnesota.
There are 11 federally recognized tribes in Minnesota, comprised of seven Ojibwe federally recognized reservations, and four Dakota communities, all with their own sovereign governments: Bois Forte, Fond du Lac, Grand Portage, Leech Lake, Lower Sioux, Mille Lacs, Prairie Island, Red Lake, Shakopee Mdewakanton, Upper Sioux, and White Earth.
Ojibwe and Dakota people in Minnesota have tobacco traditions that were passed down for generations, for centuries before the arrival of Europeans. Using Native tobacco in a sacred manner is not a health risk. Teaching youth about their power and spirituality allows them to see tobacco differently, as a protective factor against harmful behaviors.
We had the honor to sit down with Sharon Day and Suzanne Nash from the Indigenous People’s Task Force to talk about sacred tobacco traditions that were passed down to them as Ojibwe people, and how they are sharing these practices across generations in their community.
09/19/19 • 36 min
Sacred Tobacco: Culture is Prevention III
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09/19/19 • 24 min
In part 3 of our series on Sacred Tobacco, we’ll talk about “Healing Generations" in the Lower Sioux Indian Community.
Throughout these conversations we’ve learned that “culture is prevention.” Cultural practices and traditions, including the use of sacred tobacco play an essential role in healing and wellness.
We hear from Mat Pendleton, Lower Sioux Youth Recreation Director, reflecting on sacred tobacco traditions that he has learned and shares through his work.
We also hear from Darin M. Prescott, CEO of the Lower Sioux Health Care Center about how traditional practices inform and transform conventional medical practices.
Lastly, we hear from Kara Siegfried, Assistant Tribal Planner/Grant Writer for Lower Sioux, reflecting on the holistic approach to health at Lower Sioux.
09/19/19 • 24 min
Showing Up and Standing in Truth
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05/08/19 • 60 min
Minnesota is one of the healthiest states in the country, but it has some of the worst health disparities. A primary driver of health and chronic disease starts in people’s social and physical environments. This could be transportation, education, childcare settings, or their housing. All communities can experience poor health outcomes, but due to systemic inequities and the racial hierarchy on which the United States was built., they disproportionately occur in communities of color and the American Indian community.
In this episode we take a closer look at what we mean by “systemic inequities,” and talk with two people deeply engaged in this work in two large health institutions in Minnesota: Vayong Moua, Health Equity Director at Blue Cross, and Maria Sarabia, Racial and Health Equity Administrator at Ramsey County. They both serve on the Cultural and Ethnic Communities Leadership Council in the state of Minnesota’s Department of Human Services (DHS).
DHS is the state’s largest agency and provides or administers a variety of services to help people meet their basic needs and live as independently as possible. The agency makes up approximately 42 percent of state spending and approximately 80 percent of the agency’s $18.65 billion fiscal year 2019 budget is devoted to health care and related services. DHS is working to implement equity practice and capacity within its core functions, through implementing a health equity policy, and the formation of the Cultural and Ethnic Communities Leadership Council, that serves to track equity, accountability, and systems change throughout the agency.
05/08/19 • 60 min
Independence and Interdependence
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02/28/19 • 49 min
One of the key messages guiding the Center for Prevention’s mission to tackle the leading causes of preventable disease is around the importance of community. A thriving community is made up of people who care for and about each other; people who depend on one another.
The dominant health narrative says that health is about individual choices and behaviors. However, because of inequities built into our systems, policies and environments, not everyone has the opportunity or access to make healthy choices. We need to work together to change the systems and structures that hold us back from our full potential as healthy thriving communities.
In this episode, we invited LaTrisha Vetaw and Jill Chamberlain to have a conversation about the roles of individuals and of community, the importance that lived experiences and seeing yourself as a part of your community play in shifting the narrative around health – especially physical activity, access to healthy spaces such as parks and walking paths. LaTrisha has over a decade of experience serving her community, both as Health Policy and Advocacy Director at NorthPoint Health and Wellness Center and most recently as a Minneapolis Park Commissioner At-Large. Jill is passionate about supporting policy and systems change work around active living, serving as Senior Community Health and Health Equity Program Manager at the Center for Prevention.
02/28/19 • 49 min
Changing the Narrative
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01/28/19 • 52 min
Stories surround all of us, and the way they are told shapes how we make decisions in both conscious and unconscious ways. What influences the stories we see and hear? Whose voices are heard the most and who is being left out?
In this episode we examine these questions through the work of ThreeSixty Journalism, a nonprofit that uses principles of strong writing, reporting and media production to help diverse Minnesota youth tell the stories of their lives and communities.
For the second year in a row, during the summer of 2018, ThreeSixty and the Center for Prevention partnered together to conduct a one-week TV Broadcast Camp for high school students. The theme was health equity, with the goal of inspiring more active participation in creating more equitable, healthier communities. This work illustrates how changing the narrative, who is telling stories and how they are created, is an integral part of this goal.
01/28/19 • 52 min
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How many episodes does The State We're In have?
The State We're In currently has 20 episodes available.
What topics does The State We're In cover?
The podcast is about Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Equity, Community, Wellness, Podcasts, Disease, Health and Trends.
What is the most popular episode on The State We're In?
The episode title 'Growing Food, Growing Community in the Time of Covid 19' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on The State We're In?
The average episode length on The State We're In is 41 minutes.
How often are episodes of The State We're In released?
Episodes of The State We're In are typically released every 64 days, 5 hours.
When was the first episode of The State We're In?
The first episode of The State We're In was released on Mar 28, 2018.
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