Webinar – Partnering with Local Health Departments through SNAP-Ed

1. Webinar – Partnering with Local Health Departments through SNAP-Ed February 19, 2013 2-3:30 pm

2. Partnering with Local Health Department (LHD) Webinar Goals • Participants understand the new opportunities to partner with their LHDs • Participants understand the benefits of partnering both for them and for LHDs • Participants are inspired to connect with their LHDs to achieve common goals

3. Agenda Welcome and Instructions—Bruno Marchesi, CA After School Network Introduction—Kathy Lewis, CA AS Network’s Nutrition and Physical Activity Committee What are the new opportunities to partner with Local Health Departments? (LHDs) —Kathy Lewis Making it Happen—Mary Hoshiko Haughey, YMCA of Silicon Valley Questions and Answers

4. Survey Do you know what SNAP-Ed is? • Yes, very familiar • Yes, I have heard of it • No, this is new to me

5. What is SNAP-Ed? • Federal funding for nutrition education for low-income people • Under Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP--formerly food stamps) • In CA, funding is shifting in 2013 to local health departments to achieve SNAP-Ed goals (counties and 3 city health depts) • LHD $--$58m in 2014 to $53m in 2016

6. SNAP-Ed Goals • Increase access to healthy foods • Increase consumption of healthy foods and water • Decrease consumption of less healthy foods/beverages • Increase physical activity throughout the day

7. Why should After School Care? • Healthy kids do better in school and in life • Overweight and obese children are at risk of type 2 diabetes and other chronic diseases • For children of color, half could develop type 2 diabetes in their lifetime • Afterschool programs are a great venue for helping kids get fit and healthy

8. What’s in it for you? Whether or not you are already doing something positive in Nu Ed, PA and/or food security: • LHD can provide support (free resources, and/or training) • LHD can partner with you to increase resources available to you • LHD can help you improve Nu Ed and PA you offer

9. What’s in it for you? cont. • LHD can help you achieve your obesity prevention and health goals • LHD can help increase your school district’s commitment to your goals • LHD can partner with you and your school district to add CACFP meal

10. What’s in it for you? cont. If you are interested in increasing your ability to address childhood obesity, but not yet actively doing something: • LHD can help you develop and achieve your obesity prevention and health goals in partnership with your district • LHD can provide local data to help you understand statistics and risk data for your community

11. What’s in it for you? cont. If you are already doing something positive in Nu Ed, PA and/or food security: • LHD can partner with you to use your expertise and expand your reach/impact • LHD can contract with you to use your expertise and expand your reach/impact

12. Funding • LHDs funded by CA Dept of Public Health • LHD allocations for 4 years • LHDs with >$400,000 required to work with schools/afterschool (Obj. 12) • LHDs with >$500,000 required to do contracts with others to help achieve their goals

13. Funding cont. • Even if not required to work with schools/afterschool, LHDs might want to do so because it makes sense! • To find out your county health department’s funding level, go to the SNAP-Ed primer on CAN website: http://www.afterschoolnetwork.org/announcement/after-school-program-primer-snap-ed

14. How does afterschool fit in? Alternative 1: Receive LHD services and resources Alternative 2: Partner with your LHD to make your program a healthier environment Alternative 3: Compete for funds to help LHD achieve its SNAP-Ed goals

15. Alternative 1: Receive Services? Assess yourself: • Are you interested in working towards the SNAP-Ed goals in your program but need assistance? • Are you interested in creating a healthy environment for your staff and students? • Would you be interested in accessing new nutrition and/or physical activity (PA) resources to strengthen your program?

16. Alternative 1, Recipient of Services! If you answered yes to all of the above questions, you might want to receive support from your LHD (resources, advice on connecting with school day wellness policy work, training, assessment)—Alternative 1

17. Alternative 2, Partner with your LHD? Assess yourself: • Do you have strong nutrition education, physical activity and/or food security programming or a strong interest in improving in these areas? • Do you want to expand what you’re doing to all your sites BUT need extra support? • Are you collaborative and work well with your school and community?

18. Alternative 2, Partner with your LHD! If you answered yes to the above questions, then partnering with your LHD may be the right opportunity for you.

19. Alternative 3, Compete for funds? Assess yourself: • Do you already have strong nutrition education, physical activity and food security programming? • If yes, do you feel equipped to expand what you are doing across all your sites or to other programs? • Do you have strong partnerships with the schools and communities you work with?

20. Alternative 3, Compete for funds? If you answered yes to all of the above questions, you are passionate about this work, and are willing to handle the paperwork, then you might want to compete for funds.

21. Where do you start? Find out what’s going on: • Join your County Nutrition Action Plan (CNAP) Committee or existing Regional Collaborative • Contact your LHD to learn what their plans are for working with schools/afterschool (LHD contact list at end of SNAP-Ed primer posted on CAN web site)

22. Where do you start? cont. • Let the LHD know that you want to keep informed about their plans, RFA, subcontracting

23. Where do you start? cont. • Whether you’re interested in receiving services, partnering with your LHD or responding to an RFA, reach out to your District (start with district afterschool director if you’re a CBO) beginning with the person responsible for health (in Superintendent’s office or child nutrition services director)

24. Start with your district, cont. • Regardless of role you want to play, you are stronger with your district • LHDs want to make a major impact—and school day combined with out-of-school time maximizes reach and impact • LHDs are VERY unlikely to partner or contract with just an afterschool program

25. Planning with your district, cont. • Based on what you want to do, explore opportunities with your district (for a joint application, to partner, to receive services) • If you want to apply for funds, review the LHD scope of work under Objective 12 and other areas like youth engagement and rethink your drink • Organize with your district to be prepared to respond

26. Planning with your District, cont. • Make sure your LHD has your contact information and knows you are interested in applying Note: RFA rules will bar them from talking to potential bidders • RFAs have to be released before April 1 and are for 3 years (likely beginning October 2013)

27. Why should LHDs want to work with you? • You serve SNAP-Ed target population • You provide access to target population over time increasing success • You increase impact of any school day interventions • You have infrastructure/funding to build on • You have flexibility

28. Why should LHDs want to work with you? cont. • Some of your staff may be low-income and can be not only a role model of change, but beneficiaries of changes for their own eating and physical activity • ASPs offer an ideal platform using the social-ecological model (for more information, go to page 7 of Primer on CAN web site)

29. For more detailed information • Read the Afterschool Program Primer on SNAP-Ed at CAN web site—lots of links, lots of detailed information • Contact Kathy Lewis at kathyblewis@ccscenter.org or 916-567-9911

30. To learn more about HBI Go to www.afterschoolsolutions.org and click on Changing Lives, Saving Lives

31. YMCA of Silicon Valley ExperienceHow We Got Started • Asked Questions • Showed Up at the ‘Table’ • Developed Relationships • Became ‘Bilingual’ • Identified Working Leverage Points

32. YMCA of Silicon Valley ExperienceProjects We Have Worked on Together • STEPS to a Healthier US • Healthy Silicon Valley • REACH Gilroy • Fit for Learning Comida Sana, Vida Activa • Bay Area Nutrition & Physical Activity Collaborative • Santa Clara County Healthy Apple Award

33. YMCA of Silicon Valley ExperienceBenefits to our Y’s After School Program • Evidence-Based Curriculum • Parent Education Materials • School Wellness Policy/Healthy Snacks • Health Fairs • Collaborative Partners  Funding

34. YMCA of Silicon Valley ExperienceBenefits to our Public Health Department • Access to their target audience • Broadening the sector audience • County-wide coordinated approach to public health • Collaborative Partners  Funding • School Wellness Policy Integrated Approach

35. Contact Information Mary Hoshiko Haughey, M.Ed., M.A. Vice President Operations – Youth Development and Social Responsibility YMCA of SILICON VALLEY Direct: (408) 351-6422 Email: mhaughey@ymcasv.org

36. Thank you To our panelists and To the CA AfterSchool Network’s Nutrition and Physical Activity Committee and friends for their leadership on this webinar, including:

37. Thank you cont. • Center for Collaborative Solutions • YMCA of Silicon Valley • Partnership for Children and Youth • CA Department of Public Health