5158.0 Empowering Families with Tools to Eat Healthy

Wednesday, October 29, 2008: 12:30 PM
Oral
The purpose of this session is to explore different tools used to empower families to eat healthy. The program will also describe the importance of integrating nutrition education models into federal food assistance programs. Exploring food assistance programs that have implemented nutrition education is relevant to a wide range of practitioners, researchers and policy makers.
Session Objectives: 1. Describes tools used in different settings to empower families to eat healthy. 2. Describe the importance of integrating nutrition education models into federal food assistance programs. 3. Identify the benefits of participation in a nutrition education program.
Organizer:
Deirdra Chester, PhD, RD, LD/N
Moderator:
Deirdra Chester, PhD, RD, LD/N

12:30 PM
California WIC families adopt healthy eating behaviors after participating in learner-centered education
Dana E. Gerstein, MPH, RD, Nancy Crocker, MS, RD, Michele Y. Van Eyken, MPH, RD, Kim Frinzell, RD, Michael Elfant, MS, RD and Pat Crawford, DrPH, RD
     
12:50 PM
Using social network analysis to evaluate regional partnerships: A tutorial and program application conducted for the Network for a Healthy California, 2001-2006
Jennifer Gregson, MPH, MA, Marcy Sowa, MA and Heather Kohler Flynn, PhD
     
1:10 PM
Direct mail marketing--a new way to empower moms: The Champions for Change Grassroots Initiative
Sharon Sugerman, MS, RD, Larry Bye, Alyssa Ghirardelli, MPH, RD, David Ginsburg, MPH and Susan Pennel
     
1:30 PM
Empowering Children and Youth: Innovative and effective social marketing and youth engagement strategies for nutrition and physical activity education
Reba Meigs, MPA, Kamaljeet Singh-Khaira, Katharina Streng, Betty Sun, RD and Tanya Garbolino, MBA
  

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Food and Nutrition
Endorsed by: Public Health Education and Health Promotion, Public Health Nursing, Socialist Caucus, Women's Caucus

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

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