1. A Tale of Access to Minnesota’s Fruits and Vegetables
Lisa Gemlo MPH, RD, LD Fruit and Vegetable Coordinator Food Systems Planner

2. Purpose What are we hired to do?
Here to talk about how we try to avoid the tail waging the dog. How do we make fruit and vegetable consumption just a regular part of the work we do, not a special project.
What are we hired to do?

3. Minnesota Department of Health Mission Statement
Protecting, maintaining and improving the health of all Minnesotans

4. Minnesota Department of Health Vision
Keeping All Minnesotans Healthy

5. Minnesota Department of Health Values
Integrity
Collaboration
Respect
Science
Accountability

6. How are we going to get the job done?
Approach
How are we going to get the job done?

8. Start with a Logic Model

9. Pick a Method to Engage Partners
Common Agenda
Mutually Reinforcing Activities
Backbone Organization
Continuous Communication
Shared Measurement System
Collective Impact is the commitment of a group of actors from different sectors to a common agenda for solving a specific social problem, using a structured form of collaboration. The concept of collective impact was first articulated in the 2011 Stanford Social Innovation Review article Collective Impact,[1] written by John Kania, Managing Director at FSG, and Mark Kramer, Kennedy School at Harvard and Co-founder FSG. Collective impact was chosen as the #2 philanthropy buzzword for 2011,[2] and has been recognized by the White House Council for Community Solutions as an important framework for progress on social issues.[3]
The concept of collective impact hinges on the idea that in order for organizations to create lasting solutions to social problems on a large-scale, they need to coordinate their efforts and work together around a clearly defined goal.[4] The approach of collective impact is placed in contrast to “isolated impact,” where organizations primarily work alone to solve social problems.[5] Collective impact moves away from this, arguing that organizations should form cross-sector coalitions in order to make meaningful and sustainable progress on social issues.[6]

10. Create a Communication Platform
Everyone Has a Voice

11. Healthy Eating Active Living Regions

12. OSHII’s Responsibilities
Set Goals
Create Systems/Infrastructures
Provide Funding
Offer Technical Assistance/Training
Conduct Evaluation

13. Sets Statewide Goals
An Infrastructure for Future Strategies
Can Leverage Funding
Spotlights TA Needs
Will Require Innovative Evaluation Approaches

14. You can see how we have had a process in place
You can see how we have had a process in place. Tim and Stephanie are going to tell you more about what has been building with the people power across the state, including local public health, to move towards implementation of strategies as we move forward.

15. The Minnesota Food Charter
Will increase access to healthy foods for all, by:
Providing helpful guidelines and tools to decision-makers
Identifying systems, policies, and environmental strategies for change
The Minnesota Food Charter was established to provide state agencies and other organizations and communities with helpful guidelines and tools for how to increase access to healthy foods through changes to systems and policies at all scales and in all areas of the food system.

16. Components of the Food Charter
Public Engagement
Diverse Leadership
Food Charter
Setting Specific Leader Guides
People Power
There are two dimensions of the Food Charter: The process and the product.
The process involved intentionally reaching out to thousands of people to collectively define a healthy food future as well as garnising the guidance of leadership from diverse sectors, organizations, communities, regions and ages, genders, and cultural traditions
AND
The product is a set of 6 documents – the Food Charter, which I’ll explain in further detail and 5 accompanying setting specific guidebooks that provide concrete solutions for policy and systems change in the institutions where people live, work, learn, and play.
Roadmaps

17. For More Information Lisa Gemlo Lisa.gemlo@state.mn.us