Pre-Conference Registration at the Sheraton Grand Sacramento

Come to the Convention Center a little early and take part in this Power-Up in 10 demonstration. Power Up in 10 is a Network physical activity resource which includes 10 basic movements which increase strength and flexibility. These movements are done without any equipment and are geared for the adult and family population. This resource is currently in development and will be available for download on the Network’s website. Copies will be available shortly for ordering online.

Conference Overview

• Susan B. Foerster, Network for a Healthy California, California Department of Public Health
• Dr. Mark B. Horton, Director, California Department of Public Health
• John Wagner, Director, California Department of Social Services
• Kimberly Belshé, Secretary, California Health and Human Services
• A.G. Kawamura, California Secretary of Food and Agriculture (Invited)
• Champions for Change Awards Presentation

Andy Goodman, Author, speaker and consultant in the field of public interest communications Learn about the importance of narrative as a form of communication, learn how to tell effective stories, and learn how to use stories in virtually all aspects of your day-to-day work. If your goal is to educate, persuade, or simply connect in meaningful way with a particular audience, storytelling is the single most powerful communications tool available to you.

Stretch Break/Move to Mini-Plenaries

Why Bad Presentation Happen to Good Causes Room 202
Moderator: Steve Bartlett, Network for a Healthy California, California Department of Public Health
Andy Goodman, The Goodman Center

Andy Goodman's Power Point presentation is not available, but you may download his book entitled, "Why Bad Presentations Happen to Good Causes" for free at the following link:
Why Bad Presentations Happen to Good Causes
Would you like to deliver more engaging, informative, and persuasive presentations? If you have wasted enough time with bad presentations – on either side of the podium – this session is for you. Based on research and incorporating the advice of 20 highly regarded public speaking experts, this session can help you avoid the most commonly made mistakes (”The Fatal Five”), structure your information in ways that help audiences absorb it, use PowerPoint more effectively, and deliver your talks with greater confidence.

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Network Strategic Direction Symposium Room 203
Moderator: Melody Steeples, California Association of Nutrition & Activity Programs
Kathleen H. Acree, Cancer Control Branch, California Department of Public Health
Mike Arakji, Network, CDPH
Susan B. Foerster, Network for a Healthy California, California Department of Public Health (CDPH) Attachment (PDF)

• SNAP-Ed Farm Bill Report Language
• SNAP-Ed Challenges and Opportunities
• SNAP-Ed Proposed Action for 2010
• SNAP-Ed Proposed Revisions to Guidance
• Nutrition Education Interventions Denied for SNAP-Ed
• SNAP-Ed Definition of Nutrition Education

Gil Sisneros, Network for a Healthy California, CDPH
Gilda Carpenter, Network for a Healthy California, CDPH
This session will provide a brief overview of the original concept and vision for the Network, a timeline of Network development, and present the vision and strategies for the next several years. Participants will have an opportunity to ask questions and begin formulating concepts of how their program can grow with the Network.

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The National Physical Activity Plan. . . coming to California Room 204
Moderator: Carmen Bogan, Santa Clara County Public Health Department
Antronette Yancey, UCLA School of Public Health
National Physical Activity Plan (PDF)
Joanie Verderber, Los Angeles County Office of Education
Attachment (PDF)
A new initiative will be introduced soon called the National Physical Activity Plan that aims at cultural upheaval. Its goal is to create a social environment that shifts the American lifestyle to one characterized by high levels of health-promoting physical activity. Many of the Network’s partners will also be working on the plan. How can we coordinate with these partners to better promote physical activity among the low-income population?

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Using CX3 Neighborhood Data to Shape Local Interventions and Action Room 317/318
Moderator: Bob Prentice, Bay Area Regional Health Inequities Initiative
Valerie Quinn, Network for a Healthy California, CDPH
Using CX3 Neighborhood Data (Power Point)
Alyssa Ghirardelli, Network for a Healthy California, CDPH
Silvia Lopez-Navarro, Ventura County Public Health Department
Documenting conditions in poor neighborhoods to accurately convey the food environment is an important strategy for program planning and stimulating community action. Since 2006, 80 low-income neighborhoods have been assessed by 23 Network funded local health departments using Communities of Excellence in Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity Prevention (CX3) tools and methods. How are they using the neighborhood level data for planning nutrition education interventions? What types of Network interventions? What types of actions are occurring with community partners? What are the most useful aspects of CX3? Results from a recent on-line survey of the local health departments will be provided, as well as a local perspective.

No food or beverage (including coffee and water) will be provided at the
conference. In addition, no food or beverage (with the exception of a filled
personal water bottle) may be brought into the Sacramento Convention Center.
Please help us adhere to this provision of our Convention Center contract. Food,
coffee, and water may be purchased within the convention center at the
Starbucks and Wolfgang Pucks on the ground floor and carried up to the
conference meeting rooms.

Exhibit and Poster Session

• Allen Ng, Regional Administrator, Western Region Office of the Food and Nutrition Service, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
• Nonnie Korten Award Presentation

Move to Break-Out Sessions

How to Boost Self-efficacy Beliefs – the Sharing of Practical and Academic Wisdom on a Key Facet of Healthy Behavior Change. Room 315
Moderator: Susan Pennel, Network for a Healthy California, California Department of Public Health (CDPH)
Larry L. Bye, Field Research Corporation
Lex Matteini, Runyon Saltzman & Einhorn
Norma Rivera, Runyon Saltzman & Einhorn
The Sharing of Practical and Academic Wisdom on a Key Facet of Healthy Behavior Change
Hala Madanat, San Diego State University
Suzanne Bogert, Los Angeles County Department of Public Health
This session focuses on specific ways to raise self-efficacy, so as to build a low-income mother’s unwavering belief that she will succeed at making healthy changes. Self-efficacy sources such as mastery experience, vicarious experience, and social persuasion are explained in both conceptual and practical terms. A clear description of these sources, and their role in Champions for Change interventions, answers “how” and “why” self-efficacy is critical to reaching California’s healthy behavior objectives.

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Building Concepts and Promoting Skills in Schools: Introducing the new California Nutrition Competencies and Resource Guide
Room 306
Attachments

• Action Plan (DOC)
• Survey (DOC)
• Building Concepts and Promoting Skills in Schools Contact list (Doc)
• Recs for Making Nutrition Ed Effective for Children (DOC)
• Recs for Making Nutrition Ed Effective for Children Self Assesment (DOC)

Moderator: Helen Magnuson, Network for a Healthy California, California Department of Public Health (CDPH)
Michelle Rose, Elk Grove Unified School District
Heather Reed, California Department of Education
Marilyn Briggs, University of California, Davis
Susan Magrann, Network for a Healthy California, CDPH
Building Concepts and Promoting Skills - Introducing the New California Nutrition Competencies and Resource Guide (PDF)
Educators ask “What do our students need to know and be able to do at each grade level?” Hear first-hand a teacher’s experience using the California Nutrition Competencies and her suggestions on how to get teachers on board with using the competencies in their classrooms. Get a copy of the new California Nutrition Competencies, aligned with the California Health Education Content Standards, familiarize yourself with the companion resource guide that identifies resources that meet the competencies and discuss strategies to implement a comprehensive nutrition education program in your district.

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How do you know if your nutrition education materials that speak to your audience: Are you on target? Room 319
Moderator: Reba Meigs, Network for a Healthy California, California Department of Public Health
Michael Villaire, Institute for Healthcare Advancement
Powerpoint (PDF) | Attachment (PDF)
“Wait, I didn’t mean to say that! That’s not what I meant…” Learn the techniques to determine whether or not your materials speak to your audience. Come join us for a hands-on, practical workshop where you will dissect nutrition education materials to find out what’s working and what’s not, and ultimately walk away with the skills to confidently create materials that are easy to read and appropriate for your audience.

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Point. Click. Change. Room 317/318
Moderator: Kamaljeet Khaira, Network for a Healthy California, California Department of Public Health (CDPH)
Lawrence DeFreitas, Community Services Unlimited Attachment (PDF)
Sita Kuteira, Health Education Council
Lisa Mari, Network for a Healthy California, CDPH Attachment (PDF)
This session will provide the participants with an overview of PhotoVoice, which is a process that uses fundamental tenets of Freirian empowerment theory. This theory advocates that all individuals should be involved in the public health conversation. PhotoVoice is a method by which people can identify, represent and enhance their community through a specific photographic technique. Our speakers for this session have first-hand experience in working with young people on the PhotoVoice process to examine and highlight issues relative to nutrition and physical activity -- as well as access to fresh fruits and vegetables. The intended outcomes of PhotoVoice projects are threefold: empowering participants, assessing community needs and assets and taking action in one's own community.

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California Convergence and the Network for a Healthy California: Partnering to Sustain the Movement Room 316
Moderator: Julie Williamson, Partnership for the Public’s Health
Attachment (PDF)
Lisa Hershey, Partnership for the Public’s Health
Partnering to Sustain the Movement (PDF)
Valerie Quinn, Network for a Healthy California, California Department of Public Health
CX3 Local Health Departments – accelerating change
Jennifer Lopez, Central California Obesity Prevention Program
Shene Bowie, San Joaquin County Public Health Services
The groundbreaking work of local and state leaders in California to improve nutrition and physical activity have paved the way for communities across the nation to be successful in curbing the growing obesity epidemic. Creating and sustaining change at the local and state level requires strong partners and active networks that will last beyond short term funding cycle. This session will show how the California Convergence and Network for a Healthy California have partnered to support lasting change at both the state and local levels.

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Promising Practices: Network Champions as Community Change Agents Room 202
Moderator: Monet Parham-Lee, Network for a Healthy California, California Department of Public Health
Elizabeth Gong, Alameda County Cooperative Extension
Rosalva Diaz, Café owner
Monica Haag, San Bernardino County Department of Public Health Powerpoint (PDF) | Families and Communities Education Together (PDF)
Niyati Desai, Nextcourse Powerpoint (PDF) The Soul Food Project (PDF)
Imagine a movement of Community Champions working to change norms and help their neighbors make more healthful food and activity choices. This session will tell the stories of local Network efforts that involve Community Champions and non-traditional partners in teaching nutrition education and cooking skills to priority population members. Participants will leave the session with the resources and tools needed to undertake similar efforts within their own programs.

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Perpetuating Produce Partnerships: Plans for Promoting Peaches and Parsnips Room 304-305
Moderator: Melody Steeples, California Association of Nutrition & Activity Programs
Ryan Gamba, Food Bank of Yolo County
Frances Johnson, Food Bank of Yolo County
Dana Harvey, Mandela MarketPlace
Gloria Espinosa-Hall, Shasta County Public Health
Nutrition education can be much more effective when it’s combined with produce distribution. This session will tell the stories of three Network-funded projects that have developed successful partnerships to deliver both produce and nutrition education to our priority population. Yolo County Food Bank established its “Moveable Market” to ensure that food bank clients have fresh produce and nutrition education materials, sampling, and cooking demonstrations; Mandela Marketplace is supporting corner stores in stocking healthy food and marketing these options through a peer training program; and Shasta County Public health worked with partners to establish a new farmers’ market so residents can buy local produce, learn how to cook it, and meet the farmers’ who grow it.

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Sharing Your Story with Decision Makers & Community Leaders Room 203
Moderator: Jackie Richardson, Network for a Healthy California, California Department of Public Health
Rachel Michelin, California Women Lead
Linda Budge – Rancho Cordova City Councilwoman
Laura Chick, California Inspector General, former Los Angeles City Controller and Los Angeles City Councilwoman
Sharon Runner, Member, California Unemployment Appeals Board and former State Assemblywoman
Do you think that you don’t have a story to tell? Think your story won’t make a difference? Think again. Join Rachel Michelin from California Women Lead, and a panel of experts, to discover how your experiences and expertise can be shared with community leaders and decision makers to educate them on matters of importance to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education (SNAP-Ed) eligible audience.

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Cultural Competency: Latino Focus Room 302/303 Moderator: Ignacio Romero, Network, CDPH José Cintrón, California State University, Sacramento

Break

Champions for Change Awards Presentation
Gilda Carpenter, Network, CDPH

Plenary Presentation -- Letting our Actions Speak Loudest
Robert McKinnon, YELLOWBRICKROAD

Every generation has made and kept an implicit promise to leave the next generation a better world than it inherited. If this generation is to keep this promise, we need to look holistically at the issues that confront us and act accordingly. Importantly, we must eschew the "issues of the week" mentality we often find ourselves in and instead show how interconnected these issues are. Through examples meant to inspire and inform, we will demonstrate the power of networking and collaboration to design social change.

Local Food and Nutrition Education Action Committee Room 304/305

Come learn and share strategies for conducting nutrition education in the context of anti-poverty and food justice work! This meeting is held three times per year to bring together Network-funded Local Food and Nutrition Education (LFNE) projects, advocacy organizations, evaluation consultants, state staff, and other interested parties. The meetings are a forum for sharing best practices and resources; special training and/or guest speakers; field trips to local LFNE sites; and networking and collaboration opportunities.  The committee strives for inclusiveness and involvement in its issues and non-committee members are welcome to attend.

For more information, please contact Rosanne Stephenson (916) 449-5403.

Early Childhood Meeting Room 310

“Starting Early, Starting Healthy: Focusing on our Youngest Children”
Who should attend: Network-funded projects and partners serving young children, their parents/caregivers, and/or their teachers/aides/daycare providers.
This pre-conference meeting provides an opportunity to share successful and emerging strategies, as well as resources. Attend this important meeting to learn about resources that can help with your 0-5 nutrition and physical activity efforts.

For more information, please contact Monet Parham-Lee at Monet.Parham-Lee@cdph.ca.gov or (916) 552-9906.

Statewide School Networking Meeting Room 313/314

This meeting provides an opportunity to meet with others working with schools and to share successful strategies and resources. Prior to the meeting, Local Incentive Awardee (LIA) participants submit highlights of selected program activities, as well as contact information. Copies of this compilation will be distributed. Strategies for successful program implementation will be shared through informal networking, group discussions and presentations – including a presentation by the 2009 Nonnie Korten Award winner. 

Attachment 1 | Attachment 2 | Attachment 3 | Attachment 4

For more information, please contact at Susan Magrann (714) 327-1066. 

Impact Evaluation and Successful Nutrition Education Strategies Room 319

This session will examine the strategies that led to successfully implementing nutrition education interventions. Participants will interpret the results of the 2008-09 impact evaluations and dialogue about the implications while working in both small and large groups. Participants will describe the implications of continuing current nutrition education strategies while consulting with others to identify how novel strategies could be combined with existing nutrition education to enhance programs. The session will include a dialogue about how to use evaluation results to demonstrate program impact to an existing or potential funder.

For more information, please contact Andy Fourney (916) 449-5386.

Youth Empowerment Training Training Level: Beginning Room 312

In this training, youth empowerment principles will be reviewed, and participants will be given the tools to engage, involve, and empower young people in an effort to create a healthier California. Youth-led models have yielded great success in other public health arenas, including tobacco control and violence prevention at work. You will learn how to apply these “lessons learned” to your work in nutrition and physical activity. Involving youth in the design, implementation, and evaluation of nutrition and physical activity programs creates a greater willingness by youth to embrace the services and messages of the program, and leads credibility to the organization sponsoring the project.
For more information, please contact Kamaljeet Singh-Khaira at (916) 449-5437

California Department of Public Health Training Room A & B
1500 Capitol Mall

Participate in an interactive, eye opening, and fun workshop on building Network collaborations. Participants will learn….

• Their own collaborative strengths and challenges
• Assess organizational capacity
• Learn collaborative skills and techniques
• Apply learning in simulations and activities

Dave Nakashima, trainer, has over 20 years experience in training facilitating, technical assistance and curriculum development in areas of individual and organization cultural competence. He has guided collaborative efforts with community-based providers, county and state health departments, national non-profit organizations and federal agencies.
For more information, please contact Carma Okerberg at or (916) 449-5425.

CX3 Local Health Departments Meeting Room 316
CX3 guides planning and policy development in food banks
This forum will allow all the local health departments that have done CX3 over the last five years to gather together to cross-share on effective local strategies; hear firsthand various ways CX3 local data was used to inspire healthy neighborhood changes; learn about the latest mapping techniques; and more!  The day will be filled with interactive sessions and lively discussion.  If your health department has done CX3, this meeting is for you! 

For more information, please contact Valerie Quinn (916) 552-9908. 

University of California-Food Stamp Nutrition Education (UC-FSNEP) Administrative Meeting Room 315

The UC-FSNEP Administration meeting is being held in conjunction with the Network’s Annual Conference to allow a greater opportunity for UC-FSNEP staff to interact with Network programs.  This post-conference meeting will provide opportunities to learn more about the USDA program requirements, provide time for questions and answers and a review of the new reporting procedures.  UC-FSNEP staff will be able learn from other counties how they are delivering their programs and share ideas and innovations for program improvements. 

For more information, please contact Gladis Lopez (530) 754-7796.

The Regional Network staff will meet for training and cross-regional sharing.  Specific breakout session will be held for:

• Children’s Power Play! Campaign Coordinators and Assistant Coordinators Room 303
• Latino Campaign and African American Campaign Coordinators and Assistant Coordinators, including Faith Project staff Room 311
• Retail Program Specialists Room 318
• Worksite Program Coordinators and Specialists California Department of Public Health Training Room C 1500 Capitol Mall
• Physical Activity Specialists Room 302

For more information, please contact Sheila Chinn (916) 449-5371. 

Communications Workshop for Regional Project Directors and Collaborative Coordinators Room 317

Regional Project Directors and Collaborative Coordinators will participate in an intensive session to facilitate the completion of communications plans to support the nutrition education activities of the Regional Collaboratives.

For more information, please contact Marolyn Johnson (916) 449-5432.