Partners
An important goal of “Eating Well, Living Well” is to participate in local and state partnerships in order to increase collaboration among agencies involved in nutrition education. Partnerships exist on several levels, including:
FUNDING PARTNERS
The “Eating Well, Living Well” project was awarded to the San Diego Community College District, Continuing Education Adult English As A Second Language Program by the Network for a Healthy California, formerly known as California Nutrition Network for Healthy Active Families, in 2002. The United States Department of Agriculture Food Stamp Program funded the project. The Mission of the Network for a Healthy California (Network) is to create innovative partnerships that empower low-income Californians to increase fruit and vegetable consumption, physical activity and food security with the goal of preventing obesity and other diet-related chronic diseases. Staff from the Network serve as program managers and advisors for “Eating Well, Living Well.”
For more information, about the funding partners, go to:
ORGANIZATIONAL PARTNERS
The lessons and materials of “Eating Well, Living Well” were all developed in a partnership between the San Diego Community College District, Continuing Education Adult English as a Second Language Program, which was responsible for all content, and the San Diego County Office of Education, which produced the graphic design and layout of the materials as well as the web site design and maintenance. The online student lessons were developed in partnership with the Sacramento County Office of Education.
The “Eating Well, Living Well” project is also supported by the Comprehensive Adult Student Assessment System (CASAS) with CASAS representation on the statewide Advisory Group. CASAS also assisted in the addition of the six nutrition education content standards as an addendum to the CASAS Competencies, as well as the inclusion of a new nutrition objective to the California Department of Education’s EL Civics project list of objectives.
Project Staff
Project staff of “Eating Well, Living Well” include:
Nancy Hampson, Project Coordinator
Colleen Fitzmaurice, Assistant Project Coordinator
Marilyn Prehm, Researcher K.
K. Lynn Savage, ESL Content Specialist
Gretchen Bitterlin, ESL Resource Instructor
Laurie Cozzolino, Lesson Writer, Technology Specialist
Linda Little, Lesson Writer
Mechelle Perrott, Lesson Writer
Ann Gianola, Lesson Writer
Shannon Islas, Lesson Writer
Jan Jarrell, Lesson Writer
Stephanie Thomas, Lesson Writer and Online Training Presenter
Leslie Shimazaki, Instructor on Training Video
Sharon Jovdan, Instructor on Training Video
Sam Kulani, Video Producer
Andy Anderson, Video Producer
Mark Neyndorff, Graphic Artist
Steve Gwynne, Photographer
Karen King, Administrative Assistant
Julia Unruh and Chao Xiong, Technical Assistants
Alberto Hernandez, Graphics Designer
Cyndi Hawkes, Graphics Coordinator
Bonnie Apostol, Web Design/Maintenance
David Galvan, Web Database Programming
In addition to the Project Staff, teachers and adult ESL students in the San Diego Community College District’s Continuing Education Division, Sacramento Adult and Woodland Adult Schools helped in lesson review, field testing, piloting lessons and materials. They provided valuable input to the project.
Special thanks to the on-going advice and assistance of our partners from the Network for a Healthy California, including Carole Pirruccello, Public Health Nutrition Consultant; Candice Zimmerman, Health Education Consultant; Melissa McGuire, Program Manager; and Linda Weidert, Program Manager.
Special thanks also go to Susan Yamate, ROP Coordinator, San Diego County Office of Education for her input and support and for facilitating our partnership with the San Diego County Office of Education.
Advisory Board
An important goal of “Eating Well, Living Well” is to participate in local and state partnerships across the state in an effort to increase collaboration among agencies involved in nutrition education. The “Eating Well, Living Well” Advisory Board was established with this goal in mind. The Advisory Board meets on a regular basis to advise staff, inform decisions and increase outreach and participation. Advisory Board members have included:
| NAME |
ORGANIZATION |
Allen, Leticia Salazar |
San Bernardino County Department of Public Health |
Adelson-Goldstein, Jayme |
ESL Consultant |
Bitterlin, Gretchen |
San Diego Community College District |
Breslauer, Ardis |
CASAS |
Burkman, Mary Ann |
Dairy Council of California |
Cozzolino, Laurie |
San Diego Community College District |
Dailey, Dennis |
Woodland Adult School |
Fitzmaurice, Colleen |
San Diego Community College District |
Guichard, Elisa |
San Bernardino County Department of Public Health |
Hampson, Nancy |
San Diego Community College District |
Harirsaz, Mahnoush |
California Department of Education |
Jacobson, Erik |
CALPRO |
Magnuson, Helen |
Network for a Healthy California |
McGuire, Melissa |
Network for a Healthy California |
Pirruccello, Carole |
Network for a Healthy California |
Pollett, Lenea |
San Bernardino County Department of Public Health |
Ramirez, Sylvia |
Miracosta College |
Sanchez-Aldana, Adriana |
Sweetwater Union High School District, Adult Division |
Savage, K. Lynn |
ESL Content Specialist |
Shimazaki, Leslie |
San Diego Community College District |
Silberstein, Jeanne |
San Bernadino County Department of Public Health |
Thacher, Marian |
OTAN |
Vega, Sonia |
San Bernardino County WIC |
Weidert, Linda |
Network for a Healthy California |
Wooten-Swanson, Patti Ph.D |
UC Cooperative Extension |
Yamate, Susan |
San Diego County Office of Education |
Wurtz, Judy |
Sweetwater Union High School District, Adult Division |
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