2009 NWA
Conference Poster and Table Top Abstracts
1. Breastfeeding; Just (Go) Do It!
Diane Sublett, RD and Joye Gunsaulis, Administrative Assistant
Major County Health Department
501 East Broadway
Phone: 580-227-3362 Fax: 580-227-3836 DianeS.@health.ok.gov
This interactive poster teaches clients what to expect in the early days of breastfeeding. The stomach size of the full term newborn baby, as well as at 3 and 10 days is displayed. Signs to watch for to help reassure the adequacy of breastmilk (i.e. diaper quantity, etc. and weight gain) are displayed. Emphasis is placed on trusting one’s body and baby to work as a team.
2. Healthy Living Survey
Phyllis Crowley, MS, RD, IBCLC
Phone: 801-538-6823 Fax: 801-538-6729 pcrowley@utah.gov
This Utah WIC study seeks to
assess current access to health food choices and the availability of safe
physical activity among a
3. “Mom’s & Babies
Breastfeeding – It’s Two-Part Harmony That’s Music
to
Our Ears!”
Lorna Emond
and
Knox County Health Department
Phone: 865-215-5048 Fax: 865-215-5064 lorna.emond@knoxcounty.org
Phone: 865-215-5064 Fax: 865-215-5064 marcella.singleton@knoxcounty.org
Knox County Health Department WIC Program would like to share information about the success we have experienced by creating a group education opportunity for breastfeeding mothers and babies. This group is offered twice every week and is open to mothers that are exclusively breastfeeding as well as moms supplementing. The group has grown in popularity from inception in 2006, and feedback from moms attending indicates that we are accomplishing our goal – input from other breastfeeding mothers provides another level of support that makes the difference for some moms who have continued breastfeeding as a result of attending this group. Presentation will include audio/video clips filmed during recent groups as well as reports of information collected from clients, such as satisfaction ratings, program data such as participation numbers, impact on immunization rates and attendance rates.
4. Putting the Pieces
Together to Protect, Promote and Support Exclusively Breastfeeding in a
Mary Pittaway, MA, RD,CLC; Julie Serstad, BSN, MS; Trudy Mizner, BSN; Melissa Curran, MPH; Mary Strand, IBCLC
Missoula City-County Health Department Nutrition Services Division
301 W. Alder
Phone: 406-258-4837 Fax: 406-258-4906 pittawaym@ho.missoula.mt.us
Multiple community breastfeeding
promotion interventions occurred in
3-year period, yet we were not
seeing concurrent increases in exclusively breastfeeding rates by WIC
mothers. Instituting a simple “cue card
and tracking system” has resulted in bringing our EBF rates at 6 months, from
3% to 18% of WIC mothers who participated in WIC during the prenatal period and
at least 6 months postpartum. This
project was funded through our
5.
Ann Hopton
Tennessee Department of Health
Nutrition and Wellness Section
Phone: 615-532-8184 Fax: 615-532-7189 Ann.Hopton@state.tn.us
The goals of the Tennessee Farmers
Market Nutrition Program are to increase the consumption of fresh fruits and
vegetables and to expand the awareness and use of produce grown by
6. “No Safe time. No safe amount. No safe type.”
Sue Taylor/Foundations for Alcohol Cessation: Education and Support (FACES)
St. Joseph County Indiana WIC
Phone: 574-647-2173 Fax: 574-647-2230 staylor@memorialsb.org
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) are the leading cause of mental retardation in children. FASD is 100% preventable simply by avoiding all types and amounts of alcohol in the prenatal period. Foundations for Alcohol Cessation: Education and Support (FACES) is a SAMSHA funded contract, under the guidance of Northrop Grumman, and is designed to decrease the numbers of women using alcohol during pregnancy. 100% of pregnant women who have been screened, educated and provided with a brief intervention, including referral to alcohol treatment if needed, have attained alcohol abstinence in the prenatal period.
7. Get the Lead Out:
Community Based Research aimed at reducing sub-threshold exposure
Sue Taylor and Jody Nicholson
Phone: 574-647-2173 Fax: 574-647-1351 staylor@memorialsb.org
Get the Lead Out is a Community Based Research (CBR) project aimed at reducing subthreshold exposure for children from low-income families. Families were assigned to four intervention groups aimed at teaching families to reduce the amount of lead dust in the home environment. Results indicate a reduction in children’s blood lead levels, increase in parental knowledge of lead risk and protective factors, and increase in cleaning quality and frequency regardless of group assignment. Findings will be discussed in terms of implications for dissemination and future directions for research.
8.
Kim Frinzell, RD
Phone: 916-928-8888 Fax: 916-263-3321 Kim.Frinzell@cdph.ca.gov
The California WIC Healthy Habits Campaign is a year-long, multiphase, educational program that incorporates the Sesame Workshop Get Healthy Now messages and is designed to: engage and motivate WIC staff and their families to improve their own eating habits; help WIC participants incorporate healthy habits into their daily lives using the new WIC foods; support the changes to the upcoming new WIC foods.
9. Let’s Go Shopping
Linnea Sallack
California Department of Public Health – WIC
Phone: 916-928-8547 Fax: 916-263-3317 susan.leblanc@cdph.ca.gov
916-928-8886 maria.galvan@cdph.ca.gov
Local agency staff learned about the participants’ shopping experience during an interactive, multimedia exhibit at the California WIC Association Annual Conference.
Staff gained valuable insight regarding the challenges and opportunities participants will face while shopping for the new WIC foods.
10. Factors Affecting
Breastfeeding
Phone: 931-646-7512 Fax: 931-372-2756 Geetha.Natarajan@state.tn.us
A study of factors that influence women to breastfeed and discontinue breastfeeding was conducted in the Upper Cumberland Region of Tennessee. Factors studied included family and spousal support, returning to work or school, WIC counseling and peer support.
11. Nutrition Education Menu
Program-Hungry for a Change!
Jenae Jongebloed
3331 Easy Street
Phone: 910-567-7026 Fax: 910-567-6072 jjongebloed@tcchc.com
We created low-risk nutrition education menus (1 for Women, 1 for Infants, 1 for Children) similar to a restaurant, which provide WIC participants the opportunity to choose their nutrition education. Participants receive education materials in English or Spanish from WIC support staff as well as a short lesson on the topic during voucher issuance. This method of providing nutrition education follows the VENA mandate, is adaptable to any local agency, revitalized our WIC nutrition education program, and won the 2008 NC WIC Innovative Practices Award.
12. Putting the New Food Packages in Action: Development of an Online
Toolkit for WIC Staff
Kathleen Pellechia, RD and Janice K. Schneider, MS, RD
USDA, WIC Works Resource System
USDA, National Agricultural Library
Phone: 301-504-6096 Fax: 301-504-6409 kathleen.pellechia@ars.usda.gov
The WIC food packages are changing
to better meet the nutritional needs of WIC participants. The new food packages align with the 2005
Dietary Guidelines for Americans and infant feeding practice guidelines of the
The development of online
calculators and tools, as well as the sharing of resources between
13. Improving WIC Services in Remote Areas of
Susan Greathouse, RD, MPH, IBCLC
Phone: 971-673-0042 Fax: 971-673-0071 susan.p.greathouse@state.or.us
The Oregon WIC Program is converting all 46 of its remote area satellite clinics from a restrictive and cumbersome stand-alone laptop data management system to a “direct connect” configuration via a combination of DSL and cellular company data devices or “air cards.” While the predicted benefits of this approach initially included improved data security, improved ease of use for WIC staff, and decreased burden on State WIC application support, during the piloting of the project additional benefits became evident, including broader and more accommodating services for WIC participants in these remote areas through improved access to WIC services and benefits and complementary public health services such as immunizations. As the program continues to roll-out the benefits to all parties continue to be revealed and the response has been overwhelmingly positive from everyone involved.
14. Protect the Children
Darlene V. Dymsza, RD, LDN
Greater
Phone: 508-997-1500 Fax: 508-984-8427 ddymsza@gnbchc.org
The objective of this presentation is to show how partnerships came together to achieve a common goal. The goal is to reduce smoking among WIC participants; and reduce exposure of women, infants and young children to secondhand smoke.
15.
Carol Jones, MA, RD
Mississippi State Department of Health WIC Program
Phone: 601-987-4661 Fax: 601-987-4670 carjones@msdh.state.ms.us
The purpose of this poster
presentation is to demonstrate how the direct WIC food distribution process
works in
16. WIC Research at ERS
Elizabeth Frazao
USDA/Economic Research Service
1800 M Street, NW, Room 2153
Phone: 202-694-5455 Fax: 202-694-5677 efrazao@ers.usda.gov
USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS) conducts and funds studies and evaluations of the Nation’s domestic food and nutrition assistance programs, including WIC. ERS research on these programs is designed to meet the critical information needs of Congress, program managers, policy officials, the research community, and the public at large. The poster will inform readers about recently-completed projects of relevance to WIC.
17. Taking WIC on the Road: high
risk populations
Bonnie Fritz, RD, CD, IBCLC
Public Health Seattle King
County-Downtown
Phone: 206-296-2755 Fax: 206-296-3140 bonnie.fritz@kingcounty.gov
The Mobile WIC – MOMs Plus program
in
18. The New Food Breastfeeding
Package: Staff and Participant Perceptions and Attitudes
Lisa Richardson
Nutrition Services Branch, NC Division of Public Health
1914
Phone: 919-707-5786 Fax: 919-870-4898 Lisa.Richardson@ncmail.net
This poster summarizes initial results from a comprehensive state-wide focus group process concerning the new breastfeeding food packages. Groups were conducted with Local Agency staff of all levels, and with pregnant, postpartum and breastfeeding women. These groups explored the perceived impact the new food package and specific policy components could have on breastfeeding initiation and duration.
19. The New Food Package: What do Participants and Vendors Have to Say?
Lisa Richardson
Nutrition Services Branch, NC Division of Public Health
1914
Phone: 919-707-5786 Fax: 919-870-4898 Lisa.Richardson@ncmail.net
This poster summarizes results from two state-wide surveys exploring new food package options, shopping experiences along with selected educational issues for participants and vendors. It will also demonstrate how this data was sued to support and enhance material and message development for participants and staff.
20. Breastfeeding Data How You Like It
Pat Dunavan, RD, LD and Julie Ornelas, RD, LD
Nutrition and WIC Services, Bureau of Family Health
Phone: 785-296-1322 Fax: 785-296-1326 pdunavan@kdheks.gov
The Kansas WIC ad hoc breastfeeding report program in the KWIC data system allows for designer breastfeeding reports. Reports can be designed to provide data on the effects of risk factors, referrals and program enrollment, age, education, race and ethnicity on breastfeeding initiation and duration.
21. “All you need is TLC”
Nicole Cunningham, MS, RD, CDN
150 Broadway, 6th Fl West
Phone: 518-402-7126 Fax: 518-402-7348 nac07@health.state.ny.us
As part of the transition to
participant-centered services, New York State WIC program developed and piloted
“Talk, Listen, Connect” (TLC), a
facilitated group nutrition education project.
The project employs a holistic approach based on the belief that involvement of all staff who interact with WIC participants,
supervise staff and manage programs are integral to the successful
implementation of facilitated group discussion.
This session will highlight critical focus areas that were identified
and incorporated into the structure of the TLC project and may be applied to
other projects.
22. Successful Steps on the Path to Good Health
150 Broadway, 6th FL West
Phone: 518-402-6817 Fax: 518-402-7348 hxm03@health.state.ny.us
Fit WIC was the NYS WIC Program’s first organized and consistent effort to involve all local staff in introducing a new health topic, physical activity, to participants. All WIC local agencies participated in the Fit WIC training, and were provided with basic guidelines and suggestions for appropriate activities. A qualitative study was developed to aid the NYS WIC Program in evaluating the success of FIT WIC, and to review different methods of implementation among WIC clinics to identify best practices. Analysis is underway to provide detailed information on the Fit WIC activities that will be most successful for participants, environment, staff and community.
23. New Food Packages Are Coming!
Maureen Shanahan, MS, RN
New York State Department of Health
150 Broadway
Phone: 518-402-7093 Fax: 518-402-7348 mfs01@health.state.ny.us
The New York State (NYS) WIC
Program will showcase nutrition education materials developed in preparation
for implementation of the food package changes.
24. Connecting the “Docs”
Maureen Shanahan, MS, RN
New York State Department of Health
150 Broadway
Phone: 518-402-7093 Fax: 518-402-7348 mfs01@health.state.ny.us
The New York State (NYS) WIC Program will detail how to prepare health care providers for the implementation of the food package changes. NYS implemented the new food package in January 2009 and undertook a multi-faceted approach to preparing health care providers for the largest change in the WIC program in 35 years. The approaches, designed to appeal to a variety of learning modalities, including a pilot public health detailing project, a physician education DVD, a community education PowerPoint presentation, and a series of “Dear Doctor” letters.
25. Breastfeeding Peer Counselors at Work in the City of Milwaukee Health Department WIC Program
Nancy Castro
City of Milwaukee Health Department - WIC Program
Phone: 414-286-8804 Fax: 414-286-5479 ncastr@milwaukee.gov
The session will highlight the City of Milwaukee Health Department (MHD) WIC Programs’ comprehensive efforts to successfully increase the breastfeeding rates of its WIC participants, including the implementation of: a Breastfeeding Peer Counselor program, a “Warm Line” to provide breastfeeding support to WIC moms outside of normal clinic hours, and efforts toward completion of the 10 Steps to a Breastfeeding Friendly Health Department. Since the inception of the program, the breastfeeding initiation rates for mothers seen at MHD WIC sites have continued to increase. At one site where a majority of clients are African American women, the rates have increased 10.3%, from 38.2% (in 2007) to 48.5% (in 2008).
26. Achieving Competency in Breastfeeding
Brenda Matthews, MS, RD, CLC and
Illinois Department of Human Services
1112
Phone: 312-793-1643 Fax: 312-793-2760 brenda.snyder@illinois.gov
27.
Donna Ross, BA, CLC
The
Phone: 901-545-7265 Fax: 901-545-6375 Donna.Ross@shelbycountytn.gov
Through these efforts, a targeted result will be the increased awareness of the benefits of human milk for human babies, especially for struggling premature infants.
28.
Amanda Hovis
Texas Department of State Health Services
1100
Phone: 512-341-4514 amanda.hovis@dshs.state.tx.us
This poster presentation will
display the nutrition education materials
29. Participant-Centered
Nutrition Education (PCE) Project in the Western Region
Loren Bell, Jan Kallio, Jen Decker, Sherri Farias
Altarum Institute
Western Region WIC Programs
Phone: 202-828-5100 Fax: 202-679-9713 sherri.farias@altarum.org
The fourteen States in the Western Region combined resources to assess, model and implement participant-centered nutrition education (PCE) as a complement to VENA. The region contracted with Altarum Institute to conduct literature reviews, readiness assessments in each state, develop a model for PCE, and develop supporting resources.
30. The Art of Breastfeeding Throughout the
Ages: Always a Timeless Classic
Anna Howe-Limbaugh, MS, RD, LD, IBCLC
McCutain County Health Department
2406 CR 15520
Phone: 580-286-6628 Fax: 580-286-2012 annah@health.ok.gov
Display of art work from the past and present portraying women breastfeeding.
Picasso to modern day artist, we can see the artist fascination of women feeding their babies naturally.
31. Building Community Partnerships
Monroe County/Bloomington Hospital
Phone: 812-353-3236 Fax: 812-353-3243 gforrest@bloomingtonhospital.org
This poster display will show what has worked for our community to build community partnerships, increase knowledge of the WIC program, and increase our caseload.
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