Registration is now open through Friday, March 20 for the University of Tennessee Public Health Nutrition Program's first "Promoting Healthy Weight Colloquium" The colloquium and webconference will be Friday, March 27, 2009 from 8:00 am-12:30 pm Eastern Daylight Savings Time at the Howard Baker Center on the Knoxville campus. The conference will be webcast live also! To register and learn more about the colloquium, visit our website at: http://nutrition.utk.edu/seminars/index.html.

Read more...

The Obesity Challenge in Public Health:
Integrating Best Practices into Culturally Competent, Family-Centered Solutions
An Interdisciplinary Distance Learning Workshop
11 contact hours of continuing education for your professions!
(RD, RN, OT, PT, CHES, social work, case managers, educators, psychologists, and others)
Registration is free; however there is a $20.00 lunch fee.

Host site: Boling CDD, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis TN

Interactive Webconference sites include:
Los Angeles CA, L.A. County Dept. of Public Health/CHDP
Sacramento CA, Department of Health Care Services
San Bernardino CA, Department of Health
San Leandro CA, Alameda Co. Public Health /CHDP
Jackson MS, Mississippi State Department of Health
Portland OR, Oregon Health and Science University
Chapel Hill NC, University of North Carolina
Columbia SC, University of South Carolina
Knoxville TN, University of Tennessee
Nashville TN, Tennessee State University
Nashville TN, Department of Health /MCH
Richmond VA, Virginia Commonwealth University
Tumwater WA, Washington State Dept. of Health

A flyer and registration form, and more information about speakers, sites, and topics can be found at the Boling Center website: www.utmem.edu/bcdd.

The Maternal and Child Health Library released a new knowledge path, Nutrition: Children and Adolescents. The knowledge path offers a guide to recent resources that analyze data, describe public-awareness campaigns and other health-promotion programs, and report on research aimed at identifying promising strategies for improving nutrition and eating behaviors within families, schools, and communities. Separate sections identify resources for professionals, resources for families, and resources on specific aspects of child and adolescent nutrition. Topics include child care and early childhood education, food marketing to children, food safety, food-security and nutrition-assistance programs, and school-based nutrition education and food services. View the path online at http://www.mchlibrary.info/KnowledgePaths/kp_childnutr.html. Knowledge paths on other maternal and child health topics are available at http://mchlibrary.info/KnowledgePaths/index.html.

Register Now for March 13-14, 2008 Workshop!
The Obesity Challenge in Public Health:
Integrating Best Practices into Culturally Competent, Family-Centered Solutions
An Interdisciplinary Distance Learning Workshop
10 or more continuing education credits for your professions!
(RD, RN, OT, PT, SLP, social work, case managers,
educators, psychologists, physicians, and others)
Registration is free; however there is a $20.00 lunch fee .

February 24-28, 2008

This program provides leadership training in pediatric/adolescent nutrition by developing high levels of clinical competence, providing instruction in nutritional needs and services for children and providing training in systems of delivery of nutritional care.  Program is designed for pediatric practitioners, including dietitians, nurses, nutritionists, pediatric nurse practitioners, physicians and other professionals who are involved in the care of children.

See our Website:  http://adolescent.chsys.org or Contact Charlene Rhoades at (205) 939-9254

If you've been looking for great ideas for afterschool programs, visit www.ccscenter.org to download a copy of the new publication, below.  It was developed in response to California's Proposition 49 which, once a budget threshhold was passed, would put over $500M into afterschool programs that provide educational enrichment. The "trigger" was pulled last year, so now school districts and county offices of education are delivering services themselves or contracting w/ other entities.  This document is intended to help them!  We'd love your feedback!