Examine Refine Celebrate
This is the Center for Family Development Team that attended the 2014 Children, Youth, & Families at Risk (CYFAR) Professional Development Event in Washington, D.C. Our team above includes: Silvia Alvarez de Davila, Trish Olson, Zulema Nieves, Mary Marzcak, Gabriela Burk, Kathy Olson, and Maira Rosas-Lee. The conference challenged us to Examine, Refine, and Celebrate.
One interesting session I attended was by Jennifer DiNallo, The Pennsylvania State University, who shared information about the Effectiveness of Childhood Obesity Programs. Jennifer is with the Clearinghouse for Military Family Readiness . The handout below shows the 3 components of successful childhood obesity prevention and intervention programs. I appreciated the importance of #3 Parent Involvement. The Clearinghouse is a plethora of resources for all of our programs to see how programs/curricula are measured. I encourage you to read about the placement criteria to determine if programs designated "effective," "promising," "unclear," or "ineffective." While we may not be able to do randomized control studies for all of our work - we need to understand the process and make every effort to meet as high a standard as possible to understand if our educational programs work, as we intend, for the audiences we are serving.
LossesIt is with sadness I share that three of our colleagues have lost a parent this past week. Our sympathies to Jodi Dworkin at the loss of her father, Cathy Solheim, who also lost her father and our grant writing partner, Kay Anderson, lost her mother.Best, Trish Olson, Center for Family Development Program Leader |
