Statewide Health Improvement Partnership (SHIP)
About SHIP
The Statewide Health Improvement Partnership (SHIP) is a plan to make Minnesota healthier for everyone. It works in all 87 counties and 10 tribal nations. SHIP helps communities have better chances to get healthy foods, exercise more, and be tobacco-free.
In Olmsted County, this plan has been working for more than 10 years with people at work, school, healthcare places, and childcare centers.
2025 Community Partner Funding Awards
Thank you for your interest in seeking a SHIP community partner funding award. There will not be an award cycle for the 2025 SHIP grant year. Although we cannot offer funding for partner awards, there are still many ways in which our Olmsted County SHIP team is here to support you and your goals including, but not limited to:
- Consultations on planning policy, system, or environmental changes.
- Technical assistance with grant writing.
- School or workplace wellness assessments.
- Connections to other resources and organizations.
Please take a look at our team profiles or email OlmstedSHIP@olmstedcounty.gov for more information.
Team profiles
Anna has a background in community nutrition and dietetics. She works on community food access initiatives through the SHIP grant and is passionate about working with community partners to reduce food insecurity in our community. Anna currently helps coordinate the Olmsted County Food Security Coalition.
Expertise: Community nutrition, food access, community gardening, and policy, systems, and environmental change.
PH specializes in commercial tobacco prevention and cessation and worksite wellness strategies. She helps lead a youth coalition focused on reducing youth vaping in Olmsted County. PH has helped multiple worksites with wellness initiatives and continues to provide support as needed.
Expertise: Commercial tobacco prevention and cessation, worksite wellness, and policy, systems, and environmental change.
Muse has a background in medicine and leads nature-based health initiatives, including Park Rx/Exercise is Medicine, Healing Forest, and the cultural liaison program in the parks under the SHIP grant. He leads the Southeast Minnesota Park Rx Coalition, a key component of the Park Initiative, and also leads health equity and community engagement efforts through SHIP, including the MOVE (Mobilizing Olmsted Voices for Equity) initiative.
Expertise: Nature-based health promotion, healthcare integration, health equity & equity-focused programs, cross-cultural communication and engagement, program development and evaluation, organizational health literacy, and policy, systems, and environmental change.
Katie’s background includes nutrition and dietetics, food safety, and certification as a mental health first aid instructor. She assists with wellness initiatives in area school districts, Safe Routes to School, and active transportation in the community.
Expertise: School nutrition, physical and mental well-being, Safe Routes to School, community mental health, and policy, systems, and environmental change.