Schedule

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2010 WIC Conference Schedule

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TUESDAY, APRIL 6
7:00 AM 5:00 PM Registration
7:00 AM 8:00 AM Continental Breakfast

8:00 AM

11:30 AM




 Pre-Conference Workshops

WCS Preceptor Training
Tonia Swartz
and
UT Staff

Pre-Conference on Breastfeeding Using Loving Support to Grow and Glow, For Breastfeeding Coordinators
Cathy Carothers

Client Centered Nutrition
Education (CCNE) –
Resource Toolkit Training
Erica Harris, Carlos Galvan 
and Lauren Christian, Jessica Coll
11:30 AM 1:00 PM Lunch on Own
1:00 PM 2:00 PM Welcoming Remarks
2:00 PM 2:45 PM A Decade of Accomplishments
State Agency
2:45 PM 3:15 PM Break
3:15 PM 4:15 PM Where We Are Now
State Agency
4:15 PM 5:00 PM The Results are in – WIC Wellness Works!
Robin Atwood and Gina Akin
5:00 PM 7:00 PM Networking with Exhibitors

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7
7:30 AM 8:30 AM Continental Breakfast with Exhibitors
8:30 AM 10:00 AM Nutrition Education Clinic Services Breastfeeding Electives


Let’s Move
For Success
Jaya Zyman-Ponebshek

What You Need to Know about Food Allergies and Intolerance’s, and the New WIC Food Packages
Elizabeth Bruns,
Cathy Plyler, Roxanne Robison, Tiffany Brown and Maricela Montoya


Extraordinary Possibilities 
for Peer Counseling:
Top Ten for 2010
Jewell Stremler


The Prenatal Promise,
The Challenges and Hope of Alcohol Free Pregnancy
Janet Sharkis
10:00 AM 10:30 PM Break with Exhibitors
10:30 AM 12:00 PM

Look Who’s Talking – What Texas WIC Staff Say They are Doing!
Robin Atwood
and Gina Akin


Quick WIN and
Clinic Efficiencies
Ellen Larkin and
Jim Kenton


Role of the Father in Breastfeeding
Jarold Tom Johnston

Partnering with the Health Care Community (Panel)
Brandey Ackerman, Debra Parnell, Elizabeth Sanchez and Rosana Arruda
12:00 PM 1:30 PM Lunch on Own
1:30 PM 3:00 PM

Value Enhanced Nutrition Assessment (VENA)
Erica Harris, Anita Ramos and Jessica Coll


What Are Participants Eating? Texas Food and Nutrition Survey
Dr. Peter Murano

 Protecting Breastfeeding in the Birthplace: Improving Maternity Care through the Texas Ten Step Program & Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative
Kristina Arrieta
and Julie Stagg


Simple Messaging on Health Literacy
Dr. Jackie McDonald
3:00 PM 3:30 PM Break with Exhibitors
3:30 PM 5:00 PM

Client Centered Nutrition Education (CCNE) – Building Skills for the Future
Erica Harris,
Carlos Galvan 
and Lauren Christian, and Jessica Coll


Is There a WCS in
Your Future?
Tonia Swartz
and UT Staff

Infant Feeding
Practice Survey
Tracy Erickson
and Gita G. Mirchandani,
PhD, MPH


Partner Up: Collaborating with Food Banks, Extension and SNAP-ed

THURSDAY, APRIL 8
7:30 AM 8:30 AM Continental Breakfast with Exhibitors

8:30 AM


 10:00 AM

High Risk Counseling Sharing Session 
for the RD
Lauren Christian 
and Lisa Rankine


You’re Sweet Enough…
Don’t Get Sweeter!
Dr. Evangelina T. Villagomez


Colic Solved
Bryan Vartabedian

The Better by Breastfeeding: Preventing Obesity from the Start Campaign – Holding Hospitals Accountable
Tracie Wood and Julie Stagg
10:00 AM 10:30 AM Last Break with Exhibitors
10:30 AM 11:00 AM A Decade of Possibilities
State Agency
11:00 AM 12:00 PM Stand Back, I’m About to Change
Amy Hendel