MoCAN Meeting
April 28, 2011
I. CDC Updates and Sustainability Plan- Claire Heiser
a. Impressed with how much she sees us sustaining our work
b. Funding in Missouri from CDC ended in 2008
c. Stimulus money was administered to Missouri for 2 years, now that it’s coming to
an end it is important to start working on sustaining these programs.
d. What should states do right now regarding the upcoming economic climate, they
out to be looking at capturing results. How can we capture these results? Its
important to show how these programs impact. How have you shared you
knowledge and successes. We need something from you beyond the results we
need your shared successes. Be more systematic in your collaboration.
e. Updates from CDC: also been having fiscal issues. Given a budget that was much
reduced, told to reduce their budget by 750 million dollars. Where does this cut
come from? We don’t know at this time. We feel we are in a good place though
because we have one of the important battles to work on (obesity). The stimulus
money will continue through the end of the two years but after that we don’t
know what will happen.
f. What % of the CDCs budget is 750 million? – Unsure, we will hear in the next 34 months what this impact will be. The rumors are that it’s going to be just as
bleak in 2013.
g. Funding the states and what is moving forward. It is a new day and our leaders are
looking for new opportunities. There are two in the pipeline
i. Community Transformation Grants- going directly to the communities, the
large communities will be available to apply individually and small
communities will be able to apply under local health departments
ii. Consolidated Chronic Disease Funding FOA (doesn’t include tobacco
funding)
h. MO Foundation for Health has a program MoCAP agency that is trying to capture
federal funds for MO. Check out their website for these opportunities. MO
Foundation is working with groups to get these money’s here. (Amy StringerHessel)
II. MoCAN Business
a. Web page status-Cindy DeBlauw
i. All the links are populated
ii. Need help from the workgroups to populate their sites
iii. Resources page needs to be developed- the messaging work group will be
working on this
iv. Handouts:
1. Work group template. Would like the workgroups to work on this
and as soon as you get this information back to us we can post it.
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2. MoCAN submission form- please fill out this form for anything
you want listed on the webpage. Will also be sending this form out
electronically
3. Only organizations that have filled out a member profile will be
able to be listed on the website.
a. Members: Would like to get the member agreement list
sent out for folks to make sure their organization on the list.
b. Meetings with elected officials
i. Johanna: met with the governor’s representative (Barbara). We wanted to
get across what we have done with MoCAN so far. We provided them
with a folder that included our history, what our workgroups do and what
organizations were members. We have heard that no one knew who we
were. Told them about the healthcare toolkit. They were very impressed.
Obesity rates in MO is 29.6% for adults and doesn’t look much better for
children. Also provided her with a wish list. Governors Council for
Physical Activity and Health- we made a point to tell them we wanted one
of our members on that council.
ii. Samara: Talked about best practices, agencies with the state could work
together. Talked about passing strong policies. Informed her about the
current bill that passed in the House. Also informed her of the concepts of
complete streets and farm to table. Samara has sample letters to get the bill
on the calendar in the Senate. We have a short time frame to get these
letters to Dempsey so you might call his office. Important to get these
concepts of changing
iii. Donna: People that went to the governor’s office represented us well! Feel
it went really well. We made our “asks” in a way that it was not really
blunt and demanding.
iv. David: The governor’s office didn’t want to really talk about MSIP5.
Barbara understood the message, she just didn’t do a lot of talking. Brad
brought them the worksite toolkit and we plan to get them a copy of the
others. Think she understood our request. Also asked for support of
complete streets and farm to institution.
v. Small group met with Brown. Very receptive to our message. Interested in
working with a group from MoCAN to reintroduce obesity bill next year.
Executive order mentioned MoCAN.
vi. Brad: Thought it went really well. Good to finally get in the Governors
office. Have tried for 2 years to get in their office. Really good foot in the
door for us. Think we will get more engagement from them now.
c. MSIP5 – Cindy
i. Cliff notes version- last November the State Board of Education and
Department of Education began working on changes on accreditation
standards. No more minimum requirement for PE, music and art. Also
took out any requirements for these teachers to have certifications to teach
these courses. Education Round Table has really got DESE’s attention
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regarding their opposition to these changes. The State Board of Education
met in April and agreed to withdraw these standards. Although the
standards have been withdrawn you can still submit your comments online
until May 15. DESE is going to develop a new advisory group to work on
these standards. The new standards are anticipated to be released in
August. Please resubmit your comments in August too. Under comments
select other and state that you are commenting on the “process and
resource standards”. MO wants to be in the top 10 of state performance by
2020.
ii. Cindy will send out a factsheet that contains research information on the
connection between PA and performance.
iii. Questions: How does this proposal compare to other states? Colorado has
similar accreditation standards. Colorado schools are cutting PE to save
money. Although CO has the lowest obesity rates among adults, childhood
obesity rates are catching up with national averages.
III. Food Systems Update (on-going education) – Mary Hendricks and Amy Stringer-Hessel
a. Sustainable Agriculture and Public Health- subset of an environmental movement.
What is sustainable agriculture? – agriculture and food system that promotes
profitability, stewardship of the land, air and water and quality of life for farmers,
ranchers and their communities (fresh, local, food security, equity)
b. Build on successes- Nutrition: Surgeon General’s report linking diet and health,
nutrition label laws, passage of soda/junk food ban in CA, major fast food chains
elimination…
c. Provide fresh food in health care institutions- Goal: Freeman Health System will
contribute to improving the health of Southwest MO residents by increasing and
promoting the availability of nutritious food and beverages served to patients,
employees and the public.
i. Getting the supply: List of local farmers to supply fresh produce, working
with US Food Purchasing, Farm to Institution Workshop-provided
connections
ii. Immediate Actions: healthcare without harm healthy food in healthcare
pledge, grass fed MO beef, increasing produce on salad bar, eliminated
fried food, fruit cups selling more than other desserts, patient food
satisfaction highest ever
iii. Gateway Greening: Ensuring Fresh Food in Every NeighborhoodProducing 6 new city managed food producing garden hubs, building 15
small intensive food gardens at childcare centers, increase knowledge of
advance urban food production, encouraging hubs to center for advocacy
and policy change around food and land use issues, vacant land used for
urban food, EBT at farmers market
d. Promote Agricultural subsidies for fresh food: Number of acres devoted to fruit &
vegetable production in US in about 2.5% of total cropland- (See PPT slides)
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IV. Farm to Institution Update- Amy Dunaway (see PPT slides)
a. Based out of the School of Journalism work on the Farm to School campaign.
b. We did a lot of back ground research, key informant interviews-food service
directors, vendors, farmers
c. Audience background & segmentation
d. Objectives for the campaign
e. Communication Strategies
V. Work group reports
a. Food Systems Workgroup
i. Wanted to get more agriculture agencies in our group and we feel we have
achieved that. Talked about Let’s Move toolkit. Plan to get a phone call
with Judy Baker by June, she is the MO contact person for this program.
ii. Brought copies of the hunger atlas for people to have
b. Schools & Childcare Workgroup
i. Discussed I Am Moving I Am Learning trainings
ii. May 9th meeting in KC
iii. School health index can be used for school assessments
c. Worksite Workgroup
i. Spent time to hear from Margie Meyer talk about Cape Girardeau project
and how they all can help her with this project.
d. Healthcare Workgroup
i. Excellence in connecting health to the Community: focusing on obesity.
On going award for medical students & healthcare practitioners who are
going out in the community and tackling obesity issues. Wanting to
recognize student in medical school and doctors working with patients.
Hope to have this award online. This can be an advertisement for
MoCAN, need to promote this with the help of the messaging workgroup.
e. Built Environment
i. Need tools to communicate our message to our key stakeholders. Plan to
each get 4 stakeholders. Trying to have conference call made by next
meeting. Talking to a lot of people in KC. The state is looking at complete
streets resolution and it is in the senate right now and Tom Dempsey is the
person to call. HCR23
f. Policy
i. We have had a whole lot of policy today
1. Complete streets –Who can lobby? Please call Dempsey
2. Farm to Table legislation- Per one version of the bill DHSS is not
included in the council. The policy work group will send out
information later about how members can seek to get DHSS on the
council.
3. Companion Bills
a. Oct walk and bike to school day
b. Mo Bike Month
4. Questions: great observation that we made today
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a. We can’t lobby as a group. We need people to help us do
this. Need to add members that can lobby for us.
b. Would like to request if meeting could be moved to Fridays
so that those who are lobbying can be here.
c. How and when does MoCAN want to approach farm bill
2012.
d. Mo Coalition for the Environment is hosting meetings
throughout the state. The meeting dates will be sent to the
membership
ii. Messaging
1. Finally getting an intern to work on stuff this summer
a. Compile a list of resources-CDC is also helping us with
doing this. They are coming out with a media resource
center for obesity
2. Social networking-need more facebook friends
a. Plan to send out something in the weekly updates on how
to get added as a friend.
3. More messages that we can send out via tweeting
4. MoCAN website: given the task to organized the resources section
a. Think about how we can organize several different ways so
that people can look the information up a variety of ways.
b. Want to add the history of MoCAN: how have we got
where we are.
5. Want to work with schools workgroup about adding something on
the website regarding PE and the positive impact on schools. What
are our schools actually doing?
6. Looked at different ways to get the messages for MO Livable
Streets and Farm to Institution.
VI. MSIP5- Margie VanDeven, Assistant Commissioner, DESE, Office of Quality Schools
a. DESE has been presenting a lot of the information to the state board. DESE has
heard that we don’t like the standards. At the last meeting the State Board of
Education did accept to withdrawal those rules. DESE is trying to determine what
to do with the process standards and what should this look like. Margie presented
what DESE was trying to do and where this decision came from because a lot of
misinformation has come out. Then we can have a good discussion.
b. The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
i. Vision: MO public schools: the best choice… the best results!
ii. Mission: To guarantee the superiors preparation and performance
c. Department Goals (4 total)
i. Want our students to be competitive at a national and global level
d. Implementation of MSIP – 1st and 2nd cycles
i. No real timeline
e. Questions:
i. What triggers these standards being changed
1. When they are no longer sufficient.
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ii. Have we been in the top 10 in the past?
1. Mo has very high standards. But if you look at the MAP test
assessment it aligns to the national assessment. But the issue is
they are scoring at 50 on the MAP test. We are in the 20s
somewhere out of the 50 states.
iii. 10 by 2020- based on what?
1. What we are moving to is a common core and then we will have a
national assessments were we will be able to compare from state to
state. There is also the ACT and the SAT
2. We have the MO scores on ACT and SAT and National test results
on our website.
3. The goal is the make sure that these students will be college ready
when they graduate.
iv. 3 sets of standards and indicators: process, resources, and performance
v. Why you use the ACT when not everyone takes the ACT?
1. Trying to promote the use of additional indicators
a. One of those has been the ACT
b. We have expanded that to ACT SAT and the COMPASS
and ASVAB for folks entering the military. TSA
assessment also added to measure specific skills.
vi. There is a strong body of information that says that children that are not
physically active don’t achieve well. What impact do these resource
standards have?
1. Tough times choosing what to keep and what to cut
2. The local board greatly supports the arts and sports
3. Have added a physical activity assessment as well as fine arts
assessment
4. Graduation requirements don’t change
vii. When will the health and MAP requirement be implemented?
1. Schools that eliminate PE would have no punishment at the state
level.
2. MSIP5 could cause losing the state standard at which we want all
the schools to reach.
3. Funding is not available for the Health/PE MAP so if could be
years before it is implemented.
viii. Need to show the school boards and local school districts the research on
PA and its connection to performance
ix. What is gets measured gets done!
x. What kind of support actually has come from the classrooms?
1. How are classroom teachers responding?
a. You tell us the standard and we will meet it. Teachers are
now asking for protection.
xi. Need the authority from the superintendents to go to the boards to make
sure these subjects are supported and funded.
xii. Next Steps: Could MoCAN have a stakeholder in this meeting? – YES
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VII. How School Work and How to Work with Schools- Joel Denny, Executive Director,
Missouri School Boards Association
a. No quick fixes
b. How schools work….
i. Boards of Educations govern local school districts. They implement
policy
1. Policy is a guideline that is typically adopted by a school board. It
says what they want and also why and how much.
2. They are broad enough to let the school administration to take care
of the day-to-day problems
ii. Two ways to think about school policies
1. Compliance vs. Aspirational
a. “good enough for our kids” or “let’s be the best”
iii. What do we want?
1. For all children
iv. What is the source for polices?
1. Federal laws and regulations
2. Judicial decisions
3. State law regulations
4. Local school board policies
c. How to work with schools…
i. Joel’s thoughts, beliefs, experiences …
1. Do we have a policy on this?
2. When schools are not following their own policies trouble ensues
ii. Leverage policies…
1. Federal laws and regulations
2. Judicial decisions
3. State law and regulations
4. Local school board policies
iii. Drivers of local policies…
1. Current policies of a school district – is the district following
them, what’s the review schedule of the policies?
2. MSIP-Missouri’s Process for the Accreditation of Public School
District
3. The Annual District Budget
4. The Professional Development Plan
d. “Follow the Money” ….
i. What services are provided at what cost to which students resulting in
what outcomes?
1. Want to get their attention, show school districts how they can save
money
e. How to work with schools…
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i. Correlates of achievement for young children…
1. Hunger and nutrition
2. Being read to
3. Parent involvement/availability
4. Television watching
5. Student mobility
6. Birth weight
ii. A comparison of school boards in High achieving districts vs. school
boards in Low achieving
iii. Lessons learned…
1. Effective school boards act differently than ineffective school
boards
2. Caring about children is singularly insufficient to promote
student learning
iv. The politics of public education..
1. “It’s about relationships”
2. Diversity (by size, rural/urban, quality, per pupil expenditure)
3. Increasing accountability
a. Work on the top 50 districts you will get the rest to followbecause the top 50 school districts have the over 50% of the
students in MO in their districts.
4. Schools reflect their communities-good schools = good economy
5. Globalization
f. Questions:
i. MSIP 5
1. Changes to the resource section, how do you feel about this?
a. What gets measured get accomplished
b. Not aspirational they are compliant
c. Better be some input between now and May because the
squeaky wheel get the attention.
d. Wrote a letter suggesting the proposed regulations being
pulled back
2. As an organization what can we do?
a. Education-local level because its easier to identify who has
influence with them
b. Its all about numbers with these school districts, you want
to leverage those top 50 school districts
i. Contact those school nurses in those districts
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