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Virginia
Contact Name: Judy Midkiff
Phone:
804-527-4252
E-mail: jmidkiff@vt.edu
Goal:
Establish and support partnerships and collaborative interventions
between the USDA nutrition assistance programs and other related groups in
prevention efforts targeted at overweight and obesity.
Objective 1:
Identify public and private
stakeholders.
Tactics:
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Formation
of workgroup with public and private
stakeholders whose focus areas
include healthy lifestyles, health
and wellness,
low-income/limited-income persons.
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Stakeholders
should be able to bring address
issues pertaining to: nutrition
information, expertise in
health/wellness, ability to bring
information to people, ability to
address barriers, and ability to
leverage funding.
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Identify
existing related coalitions to
identify potential stakeholders.
Lead Program
and Staff: Cooperative Extension - Judy Midkiff
Completion
Date: Ongoing
- The current workgroup, Alliance
for Healthier Virginians, formed in
Fall 2006, and merged three previous
workgroups, all of which had similar
missions/goals. The three groups
which merged include SNAP, Virginia
Nutrition Assistance Network (VNAN),
and the Leadership Council. The
group continues to seek potential
partners which could enhance and
strengthen work toward the group's
goals.
Objective 2:
Work collaboratively to develop and implement a plan which addresses
the focus areas of the group.
Tactics:
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Define
the workgroup's purpose, focus
areas.
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Develop
long and short-term goals and
objectives within each focus area.
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Develop
a collaborative action plan to meet
goals.
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Development
of a meeting schedule which supports
the work of the Alliance.
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Implement
the plan collaboratively including
process and impact evaluation
components.
Lead Program
and Staff: Cooperative Extension - Judy
Midkiff
Completion
Date: Ongoing
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The
purpose of the workgroup was defined
as, "The Alliance for Healthier
Virginians is a partnering of
organizations collaborating to
advance nutrition and wellness for
Virginians."
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Focus
areas of the workgroup include:
working with the Governor's office,
nutrition education across the
lifespan, and advocating for
funding.
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To
develop the collaborative plan,
group members have begun working in
small groups, each having their own
focus area of which to concentrate.
Each small group is working toward
developing long-term goals with
short term objectives for their
particular focus area.
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Last Updated: 12/04/2008
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