April 7-9, 2021 // 1:00 – 5:00 pm PST
Moving Forward Together: NLN 2021
Meet the 2021 Speakers – Watch the short introductory Videos here
AGENDA // LIVE SESSIONS:
Wednesday, April 7, 2021
Re-play the FULL Wednesday, April 7 Stream here: (or watch individual Sessions below)
1:00 – 1:15 PM Welcome and Introductions
1:15 – 5:00 PM “MCH Policy to Action: Putting the Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2020-2025 into Practice.”
Speakers:
- Jamie Stang, Associate Professor, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
- Carol Boushey, Associate Professor, University of Hawaii at Manoa, HI
- Rachel Novotny, Professor, University of Hawaii at Manoa, HI.
Facilitator: Monica Esquivel
(Meet Monica – watch her Introduction Video)
Reading Assignments: TBD
Objectives:
Attendees of this session will be able to:
- Compare and contrast the processes for selecting topics and questions to be answered by the 2015-2020 and 2020-2025 DGACs and the special considerations for infants and toddlers.
- Learn how MCH professionals can addressing the dietary pattern gap for the 0-24 month age groups.
- Identify and explain new findings and DGAC recommendations on what pregnant and lactating women should eat and what and when to feed infants and toddlers.
1:15 – 2:15 PM Jamie Stang: “Translating the 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans into Practice in your Program.”
2:15 – 2:20 PM Break
2:20 – 3:20 PM Carol Boushey: “How can MCH Professionals Address the Dietary Pattern Gap for the 0-24 Age Groups?”
3:20 – 3:25 PM Break
3:25 – 4:25 PM Rachel Novotny: “New Findings and DGAC Recommendations on What and When to Feed Infants and Toddlers and for Women Who are Pregnant or Lactating”
4:25 – 4:35 PM Wrap Up and Lessons Learned
4:35 – 4:55 PM Sandy Perkins: ASPHN Updates
(Meet Sandy – watch her Introduction Video)
Resources for Download (PDF):
- Base-Year_508_Incorporating-Nutrition-in-the-Title-V-Five-Year-Needs-Assessment-Compliant-FINAL-1
- Base-Year_508_Resources-for-Addressing-Nutrition-in-the-Title-V-Five-Year-Needs-Assessment-Compliant-Final
- Base-Year_A-Deeper-Dive-into-Culture-Development-of-a-Cultural-Toolkit-for-Iowa-WIC-Staff-final_508
- Task-4-1-OY1-Success-Story-508-v2
4:55 – 5:00 PM Overview of Day 2 and Adjourn
Break Out Rooms 1
Break Out Rooms 2
Break Out Rooms 3 Sandy Perkins
Thursday, April 8, 2021
Session Title: Food Security, Food Systems, and Food Sovereignty
Re-play the FULL Thursday, April 8 Stream here: (or watch individual Sessions below)
1:00 – 1:05 PM Welcome and Program Overview
1:05 – 3:00 PM “Engaging Nutrition Leaders in Food Systems”
Speaker:
Marie Spiker, Assistant Professor, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
Facilitator: Barbara Laraia
Reading Assignments:
DOWNLOAD PRESENTATION (PDF)
Objectives:
Attendees of this session will be able to:
- Describe how nutrition leaders and other inter-professional health colleagues are a key part of leveraging food systems to support population health
- Describe current food systems topics that are relevant to nutrition leaders including sustainability and food waste.
- Discuss strategies for leveraging inter-professional connections as part of systems change.
1:05 – 1:45 PM Speaker presentation
1:45 – 2:05 PM Breakout discussion groups
2:05 – 2:10 PM Break
2:10 – 2:40 PM Speaker Presentation
2:40 – 2:55 PM Breakout discussion groups
2:55 – 3:00 PM Wrap Up and Lessons Learned
3:00 – 3:05 PM Break
3:05 – 3:50 PM Food Systems and Food Sovereignty and CBPR with Native Populations
Speaker:
Valarie Blue Bird Jernigan, DrPH, MPH, Professor of Rural Health, Executive Director, Center for Indigenous Health Research and Policy
Facilitator: Cristen Harris
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3:50 – 3:55 PM Break
3:55 – 4:50 PM Food Sovereignty: Tribal Issues in Current Food Economy
Speakers:
- Valerie Segrest, Regional Director, Native Food & Knowledge System, Native American Agricuture Fund
- A-dae Romero Briones, Director of Programs, Native Agriculture and Food Systems, First Nations Development Institute
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4:50 – 5:00 PM Wrap-up and Day 3 Overview
Friday, April 9th, 2021
1:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Title: “Leading from Within: Title V MCH Nutrition Changing Systems of Inequity”
Speaker:
Jeannine Herrick, Adjunct Instructor, UNC, Gillings School of Global Public Health and Public Health Leadership Department
Facilitator: Dena Herman
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Objectives:
Attendees of this session will be able to:
- Co-create and garner support among staff and stakeholders for a strategic vision that aligns with systems change priorities
- Facilitate collective work to identify root causes of adaptive problems requiring systems change efforts
- Create a daily practice that promotes leading systems change work; gain an increased understanding of when to use various leadership styles to lead systems change efforts
- Identify team or organizational limiting beliefs that perpetuate current results and identify leverage points for impactful change
Section I: Setting a Vision for Systems Change
1:00 – 1:15 PM Welcome
1:15 – 1:40 PM A New Future State
1:40 – 2:30 PM Strategic Questions
Section II: Guiding Collective Work to Identify Root Causes of Adaptive Challenges
2:30 – 3:10 PM Problem and Objective Tree
3:10 – 3:20 PM Asset-Framed Aim Statements
3:20 – 3:30 PM BREAK
Section III: Inside Out: Self
3:30 – 3:45 PM Cultivating a Daily Practice
3:45 – 4:20 PM Flexibility in Leadership Styles
Section IV Inside Out: Others
4:20 – 4:50 PM Limiting Practices That Impede Progress
4:50 – 5:00 PM Q&A / Closing