Q-Calls
Join us for an Interactive Webinar
Upcoming Q-Call
Using Focus Groups to Develop a Multi-Ethnic Adolescent Obesity Prevention Program
Thursday, November 12 at 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. EST
Online registration for this event.
This presentation offers valuable new knowledge to pediatricians and other health care providers interested in addressing the problem of overweight/obesity among adolescents. The focus groups provide insights into how adolescent girls, the majority of whom are Latino and African American, perceive body image and weight-related issues, their attitudes toward eating and exercise as well as the barriers they experience in accessing physical activity and healthy nutrition. This information could be useful to others concerned with reducing racial/ethnic disparities through development of innovative, culturally sensitive health promotion/obesity prevention programs for adolescents. They are also useful to programs focusing on increasing access to medical homes, especially for older adolescents from low-income families who lose insurance coverage at age 19.
Learning Objectives
After this Call, you will be able to:
- Identify and recognize typical barriers to physical activity and healthy eating experienced by low-income, multi-ethnic adolescents in an urban high
- Identify specific strategies/interventions appropriate for promoting healthy eating/physical activity/leadership development among teens
- Determine whether applying a "portfolio" of services would be feasible in your community
Agenda
2:00 PM: Welcoming and housekeeping--Mary Hathaway-Evans, Director of Training and Curriculum Development, NICHQ
2:05-2:45 PM: Presentation--Dr. Robert W. Dudley, Pediatrician, Community Health Center of New Britain, and Assistant Clinical Professor UCONN School of Medicine and Ms. Paula Kellogg Leibovitz, Project Coordinator: Living Smart, Living Fit: Perinatal and post-partum depression and obesity grant
2:45-3:00 PM: Question and Answers--Dr. Robert W. Dudley and Ms. Paula Kellogg Leibovitz
Fee
$59.00
About the Speakers
Robert W. Dudley, MD, MEd, FAAP
Robert W. Dudley MD, MEd, FAAP is the Pediatrician liaison for the AAP Healthy Tommorrows/Food Fit and Smart/Community Health Center. He is a pediatrician at the Community Health Center of New Britain and the On-Site Medical Director of Hartford County Sites Community Health Center. Dr. Dudley is also an Assistant Clinical Professor at University of Connecticut School of Medicine and the Pediatric Representative of the Health Advisory Committee of Head Start New Britain.
Paula Kellogg Leibovitz, MS, RD, CDE, CD-N
Paula Kellogg Leibovitz MS, RD, CDE, CD-N is the Project Consultant for Healthy Tomorrows at the New Britain Healthy Teens Healthy Community Center in Connecticut. She is the Project Coordinator for Living Smart, Living Fit, a grant from the maternal and Child Health Bureau for perinatal, post-partum depression and obesity projects. She also Coordinates the FoodSmart and Fit-In Obesity Intervention Grant.
Important Information
Participants will need a phone line and a computer with Internet access to participate in a WebEx.
