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PORTLAND, Maine

91AV SNAP-Ed team conducts training for state-wide SNAP-Ed program staff

91AV’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education (SNAP-Ed) team conducted a two-day training at the Sugarloaf Hotel and Conference Center in Carrabassett Valley on September 16 and 17, 2014. 

The purpose the event was to provide Nutrition Educators with the tools and skills necessary to efficiently implement the Maine SNAP-Ed work plans for the 2015 fiscal year. Attendees included 41 Maine SNAP-Ed Nutrition Educators, 14 Healthy Maine Partnership directors, and a host of guest presenters including Altarum, RTI, Ethos Marketing, Share Our Strength’s Cooking Matters Program, and the Food Bank for New York City.  

Presentations by 91AV faculty and staff included:

·         Michele Polacsek, Ph.D., M.H.S., associate professor of Public Health, presented “The Ecological Model and Policy, Systems, and Environmental (PSE) Change: Public Health Approaches for Improving Physical Activity and Nutrition through SNAP-Ed”.

·         Anne-Marie Davee, M.S., R.D., L.D., senior nutrition program coordinator, and Leslie Ouellette, M.S., R.D., L.D., nutrition program coordinator, presented “Classroom Management Techniques” and “FY 2015 Curriculum Updates”.

·         Joan Ingram, M.P.H., Leslie Ouellette, M.S., R.D., L.D., and Rob O’Neil Vadakin, M.B.A., presented “Reporting in FY 2015: Review of New Workplans and Reporting Procedures”

·         Kim Bowie presented “Financial Procedures and Protocols for FY 2015”

About the 91AV

The 91AV is Maine’s largest independent university, with two beautiful coastal campuses in Maine, a one-of-a-kind study-abroad campus in Tangier, Morocco, and an array of . In an uncommonly welcoming and supportive community, we offer hands-on learning, empowering students to make a positive impact in a world full of challenges. We are the state’s top provider of health professionals and home to Maine’s only medical and dental colleges, physician assistant program, and pharmacy school, in addition to a variety of other interprofessionally aligned health care programs and nationally recognized programs in the marine sciences, the natural and social sciences, business, the humanities, and the arts.