February 16, 2010
Oconee County Civic Center
Watkinsville, Georgia
Learn about local resources for health promotion and wellness, participate in interactive continuing education workshops, and identify new opportunities for life-long learning in health and wellness. This conference will provide both personal and professional development for health and wellness professionals.
CHES: This event has been approved for 5 CECHs (Category I).
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GOALS & OBJECTIVES
How Trace-Mineralized Vegetables, Canning, and Possums Made Me What I Am
Description:
Walter Reeves, host of Public Television’s Gardening in Georgia, will relay “how a common interest in organic gardening, chickens, and an Allis-Chalmers tractor led to love between Walter's parents, how he learned to hate gardening and then learned to love it again and how possums connect him to his neighbors.”
Objectives:
- Learn the importance of gardening for health and social wellbeing.
- Learn how growing your own fruits and vegetables can become both a hobby and a source of fresh nutrients.
- To facilitate an opportunity to allow participants to ask an expert about specific gardening issues.
A Business Plan: Using Local Ingredients to Provide Seasonal, Fresh Meals
Description:
Chef Peter Dale of The National Restaurant & Wine Bar uses local ingredients in his Mediterranean-inspired menu for a lot of reasons: foods are picked when ripe, travel a shorter distance to get to you, preserves heirloom varieties, often uses fewer pesticides, supports the local economy, but most importantly they just taste better. Learn to incorporate thinking about local foods the next time you go out to eat or plan your family's supper.
Objectives:
- To learn the importance of using locally grown ingredients for increased nutrient density and quality.
- To learn how the preparation of locally grown foods, such as fruits and vegetables, can enhance mealtimes.
- To understand the benefits of supporting locally grown food by businesses and consumers, and the impact that has on the local economy.
Local Strategies for Working Healthy
Description:
This session will explore the benefits of creating a healthier workforce, as well as the components and outcomes of a local employee wellness program.
Objectives:
- To learn how a large employer has implemented worksite wellness strategies to ensure the health of their workforce.
- To gain information to apply to the participants’ organizations and reshape the wellness-related policy of their workplace.
On the Fast Track to Slow Food
Description:
Slow Food is a non-profit organization that was founded to
counteract fast food and fast life, the disappearance of local food
traditions and people’s dwindling interest in the food they eat,
where it comes from, how it tastes and how our food choices affect
the rest of the world.
To do that, Slow Food brings together pleasure and responsibility,
and makes them inseparable.
Objectives:
- To learn how to protect traditional foods and agricultural biodiversity.
- To understand the importance of cooking and eating together as a family, and the value of family mealtimes for the healthy development of children and teens.
- To explore family mealtimes as a lost a function of eating locally and maintaining health.
The Local and Organic Movement: An Action Update
Description:
PLACE develops and promotes a strong local food culture through educational programs, networking opportunities, and increased availability of locally grown food in the Athens, Georgia area.
Objectives:
- To increase the awareness of the myriad of benefits of sustainable practices in local food communities.
- To learn how to encourage and facilitate educational opportunities about and around food.
- To learn about the national and local-level policy barriers which affect the local farm-to-table movement and implementation strategies.
- To facilitate networking skills which may create, maintain, and strengthen relationships between community members and organizations invested in building strong local food cultures.
Creating Cultures of Achievement through Effective Communication and Healthy Lifestyles
Description:
GPAN is a statewide coalition with the mission to improve the health of all Georgians by combating overweight, obesity, physical inactivity, and chronic disease. The session will focus on innovative ways that agencies can work together to deliver messages in the community about physical fitness, and get our citizens more active. Some success stories that GPAN has worked with throughout the state will be highlighted.
Objectives:
- To learn how to collaborate at the local and state level to influence policy and legislation related to physical activity.
- To learn how to collaborate locally to deliver key messages about increasing physical activity and reducing disease.
- To hear success stories of physical activity interventions in other communities and learn how to apply similar strategies locally.
Eat, Work, and Play: Models for Collaborations
Description:
A panel of local representatives from Public Health, Clarke County School Nutrition, ACC Leisure Services and UGA Cooperative Extension will discuss programs which collaboratively address nutrition and physical activity issues.
Objectives:
- Learn how local organizations have worked collaboratively to address nutrition and physical activity issues.
- To highlight how local citizens can work together to increase the overall health and wellbeing of their community.