Roundtable

The round table will feature papers and projects highlighting food and nutrition, obesity, physical activity, skin cancer, asthma management, middle school violence and substance abuse prevention, curricula designed to encourage low-income high school students to seek training in the bio-medical professions, a community after school arts program, a 5th grade nurses club, and a web-based teachers’ program for enhancing students’ medical knowledge.

Session Objectives: LEARNING OBJECTIVES: At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to: (1) Describe the outcomes of the “Students Eating Smart and Moving More (SESAMM) Youth Summit; (2) Identify the vignettes on violence used in the “Voices Against Violence Middle-School Prevention Program;” (3) Discuss the results of the evaluation of the “Community-Based Arts After School Enrichment Pilot Program;” (4) Articulate the components of “Future Nurses of America Club;”(5) Describe the results of “The Deep Breath Asthma Management Program;” (6) Articulate the findings of the skin cancer prevention program developed in Southern California; (7) Discuss the findings of the “Student Assistance Program” (SAP) for secondary students; (8) Summarize the results of the “Summer Scorecard Program” for reversing childhood obesity; (9) Describe the Stanford Medical Youth Science Program (SMYSP) for low-income high school students; and (10) Discuss the web-based medical education program for school personnel in Louisville, KY.

CE Credits: CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing