W2194: Children's Healthy Living Network (CHLN) in the U.S. Affiliated Pacific Region

(Multistate Research Project)

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Annual/Termination Reports:

[09/09/2022] [02/26/2024]

Date of Annual Report: 09/09/2022

Report Information

Annual Meeting Dates: 08/08/2022 - 08/12/2022
Period the Report Covers: 08/08/2021 - 08/07/2022

Participants

Melanie Hingle, University of Arizona
Melissa Olfert, West Virginia University
Patricia Coleman, Northern Marianas College
Rachel Novotny, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Jean Butel, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Marie Kainoa Fialkowski Revilla, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Monica Esquivel, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Tanisha Aflague, University of Guam
Leslie Shallcross, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Travis Flemming, American Samoa Community College
Helen Chipman, United States Department of Agriculture- NIFA
Mallory Koenings, United States Department of Agriculture- NIFA

Brief Summary of Minutes

Minutes Attachment:

2022 CHLN Annual Meeting Notes.docx

Accomplishments

Short-Term outcomes: Extension Sub-Group: CHL (chl-pacific.org) website updated with additional CHL-related extension tools (social marketing materials) that promote CHL health behaviors for adoption in community.  Monitoring Sub-Group: Enhanced knowledge on status of food security surveillance methods among EFNEP and other systems across the USAP. Description of status of food security prevalence and situation among EFNEP and other systems across the USAP.  Training Sub-Group: Dissemination of Open Education Resource (OER) nutrition textbook materials and increased knowledge on positive impact of OER materials on student learning outcomes. 5 Native Hawaiian dietetics students supported and provided leadership curriculum.  Outputs Extension Sub-Group: Updated CHL website, Social marketing intervention materials, CHL Image Respository Monitoring Sub-Group: EFNEP food security manuscript- submitted; Inventory of food security data resources across USAP region. Training Sub-Group: OER Textbooks, Curriculum, Publications   Activities Extension Sub-Group:  Update CHL website and add COVID-appropriate materials <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;">New social media marketing materials</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">New trainings</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Review for ADA compliance</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Monitor website traffic/metrics pre and post</li> </ul> Monitoring Sub-Group: Analyze EFNEP food security data <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;">TA write up instructions to get data exported at each jurisdiction</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">TA to sent data and code to Melissa</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Eileen (HI), Adriene (AK), Margaret (FSM, Pohnpei, Kosrae, Chuuk coordinators travel between islands), Travis/Molly (AS), Patty (NMI), </li> </ul> Draft manuscript Support incorporation into CHL FS model  Publish manuscript Identify new opportunities to get food security questions included on surveys (Head Start, BRFSS, NCD Hybrid Survey) Community Health Centers) Gather food security tools utilized across jurisdictions and programs Training Sub-Group: Maintain Human Nutrition OER textbook Develop Lifespan Nutrition OER textbook Revise introductory nutrition curriculum Support the training of Native Hawaiian undergraduate students in dietetics Offering online classes through the CHL SI Train instructors in online education Develop Maternal and Child Health OER Textbook Publish findings on impact of integrated learning activities in OER Support the training of graduate students in CHL Food Systems   Milestones Extension Sub-Group: <ol> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Request new resources from jurisdictions - COMPLETED</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Review existing <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AiKNL24_R7j4neFZgRviGgVIRPBjB1zb/edit#gid=1346937055">resources</a> on website - COMPLETED</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Remove antiquated resources - NOT STARTED*</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Review new resources for ADA compliance - NOT STARTED*</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Post new resources - NOT STARTED*</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">advertise/market availability of resources -NOT STARTED*</li> </ol> * Due to the CHL website template not being able to be updated, the CHL Wordpress template needs to be changed.  This will change the website pages.  It was decided to wait until the website template has moved to the new template.   Monitoring Sub-Group: 1- send instructions to jurisdictions to download EFNEP data 2- share data with Melissa at WVU 3- Melissa- data analysis 3a -Abstract writing 3b- Abstracts submitted to APHA (6) 4- Manuscript writing 5- Submit Manuscript 6- Identify list food security data sources in retion (who, what, where)   Training Sub-Group: Release OER textbooks (Human Nutrition and Lifespan Nutrition) Launch revised introductory nutrition curriculum Offer at least 3 different courses during the summer through the CHL SI Support the graduation of at least 2 CHLD scholars Matriculate 5 graduate students into the CHL Food Systems training program Complete data analysis on the impacts of OER integrated learning activities

Publications

Book Chapters   Suzanne Held, Alma Knows His Gun McCormick, Vanessa Simonds, Kathryn L. Braun, Linda Burhansstipanov, Emily Haozous, Valerie Rangel, Jane J. Chung-Do, Ilima Ho-Lastimosa, Rachel Novotny, and Marie Kainoa Fialkowski Revilla. Using Community-based Participatory Research to Address Indigenous Health. In: Improving Indigenous Public Health through Community-Engaged Interventions: Stories of Success. University Press of Kentucky. 2022.   Books   Collaborative Open Education Resource Textbook by faculty and students from the Department of Human Nutrition, Food and Animal Sciences. Human Nutrition (Version 2e). Available at: <a href="https://pressbooks.oer.hawaii.edu/humannutrition2e22/" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://pressbooks.oer.hawaii.edu/humannutrition2e22/&source=gmail&ust=1663102765613000&usg=AOvVaw3HHvwEbC4LYh4OP1hrN_Z-">https://pressbooks.oer.hawaii.edu/humannutrition2e22/</a>   Publications Novotny R, Yamanaka A,  Butel J, Boushey CJ, Dela Cruz R, Aflague T, Coleman, P, Shallcross L, Fleming T, Wilkens LR. Maintenance Outcomes of the Children’s Healthy Living Program on Overweight, Obesity, and Acanthosis Nigricans Among Young Children in the US-Affiliated Pacific Region: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Netw Open. 2022;5(6):e2214802. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.14802 Dela Cruz R, Wolfe E, Yonemori KM, Fialkowski MK, Wilkens LR, Coleman P, Lameko-Mua S, Johnson E, Gilmatam D, Sigrah C, Shomour M, Remengesau S, Alfred J, Acosta M, Ettienne R, Deenik J, Aflague T, Salazar KA, Novotny R, Boushey CJ. Exploring Foods of the Pacific: Cultural Food Identity in the US Affiliated Pacific Region. Hawaii J Health Soc Welf. 2022. 81(9): 247-252 . Mulville K, Kai J, Kearney JM, Ng-Osorio J, Boushey CJ, Fialkowski MK. A Qualitative Analysis of a Caregivers' Experience of Complementary Feeding in a Population of Native Hawaiian, Other Pacific Islander and Filipino Infants: The Timing of the Introduction of Complementary Foods, and the Role of Transgenerational Experience. Nutrients. 2022;14(16):3268. 2022 Aug 10. doi:10.3390/nu14163268 Fialkowski MK, Sandlin MR, Kai J, Ng-Osorio J, Custodio RC, Odom SK, Boyd JK, Medina C, Takahashi D, Esquivel MK. An Exploratory Mixed Method Cross-sectional Study to Identify Opportunities to Increase Enrollment and Retention of Native Hawaiian Students in an Undergraduate Dietetic Program. J Acad Nutr Diet. 2022 Aug 21:S2212-2672(22)00933-9. doi: 10.1016/j.jand.2022.08.127. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36002112. Dela Cruz R, Wolfe E, Yonemori KM, Fialkowski MK, Wilkens LR, Coleman P, Lameko-Mua S, Johnson E, Gilmatam D, Sigrah C, Shomour M, Remengesau S, Alfred J, Acosta M, Ettienne R, Deenik J, Aflague TF, Nelson R, Salazar KA, Novotny R, Boushey CJ. Consumption of Traditional Fruits and Vegetables among Children in the US-Affiliated Pacific Region. Curr Dev Nutr. 2022 Jun 16;6(7):nzac101. doi: 10.1093/cdn/nzac101. PMID: 35854938; PMCID: PMC9283104. Joo KA, Fialkowski MK, Esquivel M, Haumea SL. Hawai'i Registered Dietitian Nutritionist 2019-2020 Workforce Assessment. Hawaii J Health Soc Welf. 2022 Apr;81(4 Suppl 2):31-38. PMID: 35495070; PMCID: PMC9036456. Kai J, Chen JJ, Braun KL, Kaholokula JK, Novotny R, Boushey CJ, Fialkowski MK. Associations between Cultural Identity, Household Membership and Diet Quality among Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, and Filipino Infants in Hawai'i. Children (Basel). 2022 Jan 2;9(1):48. doi: 10.3390/children9010048. PMID: 35053673; PMCID: PMC8774442. Yamanaka AB, Davis JD, Wilkens LR, Hurwitz EL, Fialkowski MK, Deenik J, Guerrero RT, Novotny R. Peer Reviewed: Determination of Child Waist Circumference Cut Points for Metabolic Risk Based on Acanthosis Nigricans, the Children’s Healthy Living Program. Preventing Chronic Disease. 2021;18.2021;18:210021. DOI:<a href="https://doi.org/10.5888/pcd18.210021">https://doi.org/10.5888/pcd18.210021</a>   Abstracts <div><a href="https://apha2022sessions.hubb.me/AbstractDetail.aspx?id=928268" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://apha2022sessions.hubb.me/AbstractDetail.aspx?id%3D928268&source=gmail&ust=1663145339590000&usg=AOvVaw2sba8xTat_CmRQiFPkPvN5">Food Insecurity Risk Increases during COVID-19 Pandemic among EFNEP Participants in Micronesia</a>, American Public Health Association Annual Meeting 2022 <div>Presenter: Melissa D. Olfert, Tanisha Aflague</div> <div>Melissa D. Olfert, DrPH, RDN1, Tanisha F. Aflague, PhD, RDN2, Margaret Weital3, Ayron E Walker, MS1, Rachel A. Wattick, MS, RDN1 1West Virginia University, 2University of Guam, 3Cooperative Research and Extension, College of Micronesia</div> </div> <div> </div> <div><a href="https://apha2022sessions.hubb.me/AbstractDetail.aspx?id=928469" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://apha2022sessions.hubb.me/AbstractDetail.aspx?id%3D928469&source=gmail&ust=1663145339591000&usg=AOvVaw1VMCOVtuT3kTR3i42IUcy6">Food Insecurity Worsens Among EFNEP Participants in North Mariana Islands During COVID-19 Pandemic</a>, American Public Health Association Annual Meeting 2022 <div>Presenter: Melissa D. Olfert, Aflague</div> <div>Patricia Coleman, MS1, Melissa D. Olfert, DrPH, RDN2, Tanisha F. Aflague, PhD, RDN3, Ayron E. Walker, MS2, Rachel A. Wattick, MS, RDN2 1Northern Marianas College, CNMI, 2West Virginia University, 3College of Natural and Applied Sciences, University of Guam</div> <div> </div> <div>Esquivel M, Yamanaka A, Aflague T, Butel J, Coleman P, Deenik J, Fleming T, Shallcross L, Novotny R. Food insecurity and the food environment in the US Affiliated Pacific. National Institutes of Health: Food insecurity, neighborhood food environment, and nutrition health disparities: state of the science virtual workshop. National Virtual Meeting. September 23, 2021</div> </div>

Impact Statements

Strengthened capacity to address food and nutrition status of individuals and communities across the U.S. Affiliated Pacific Region through research, monitoring, and training.

Date of Annual Report: 02/26/2024

Report Information

Annual Meeting Dates: 07/31/2023 - 08/04/2023
Period the Report Covers: 08/08/2022 - 07/30/2023

Participants

Aflague Tanisha CHL FS taflague@triton.uog.edu
Belyeu-Camacho Tayna CHL FS tayna.belyeu-camacho@marianas.edu
Butel Jean CHL Center jbutel@hawaii.edu
Damian Gabrielle (Gabby) CHL FS ookag@triton.uog.edu
De leon Guerrero Jesse CHL FS jesse.dlguerrero@marianas.edu
Dela Cruz Rica CHL Center ricadc@hawaii.edu
Esquivel Monica CHL Center monicake@hawaii.edu
Fleming Travis CHL FS t.fleming@amsamoa.edu
Franck Karen CHL FS kfranck@utk.edu
Galbreath Jennifer CHL Trainee jrkg@hawaii.edu
Hammond Kristi CHL Trainee kristimh@hawaii.edu
Hill Erik CHL Center erikhill@hawaii.edu
Hingle Melanie CHLN hinglem@arizona.edu
Hovmand Peter CHL FS psh39@case.edu
Ing (Townsend Ing) Claire CHL FS clairemt@hawaii.edu
Juarez Ruben CHL FS rubenj@hawaii.edu
Kai Jessie CHL Center jessiek@hawaii.edu
Loke Matthew CHLFS loke@hawaii.edu
Lozano (Panizza) Chloe CHL Center cpanizza@hawaii.edu
McFall Pauline CHL Trainee pmcfall@hawaii.edu
Novotny Rachel CHL Center novotny@hawaii.edu
Olfert Melissa CHLN Melissa.Olfert@mail.wvu.edu
Oshiro Jordan CHL Center jordanmo@hawaii.edu
Revilla (Fialkowski) Marie CHL Center mariekf@hawaii.edu
Shai Hannah CHL Trainee hshai@hawaii.edu
Shallcross Leslie CHL FS lashallcross@alaska.edu
Shvetsov Yurii CHL Center yshvetso@cc.hawaii.edu; yurii@hawaii.edu
Sikayun Ashley CHL FS ashley.sikayun@marianas.edu
Sikes Amelia CHL FS absikes@alaska.edu
Strasburger Sabine CHL Center sabines@hawaii.edu
Toncan Fiorenzo CHL Center ftoncan@hawaii.edu
Vanden Brink Heidi CHLN heidi.vandenbrink@ag.tamu.edu
Wilkens Lynne CHL Center Lynne@cc.hawaii.edu; wilkens@hawaii.edu
Yamanaka Ashley CHL Center aby@hawaii.edu
Yan Feixue CHL Center fyan@hawaii.edu
Bowen Walter CHL/CHLN Walter Bowen
Coleman Patricia (Patty) CHL FS patricia.coleman@marianas.edu
Young Christina CHL Trainee chyoung3@hawaii.edu
Chipman Helen CHLN helen.chipman@usda.gov
Clemens Brett CHL FS bclemens@hawaii.edu
Deenik Jonathan CHL jdeenik@hawaii.edu
Koenings Mallory CHLN mallory.koenings@usda.gov
Lagai Molly CHL FS m.lagai@amsamoa.edu
Ibanez Iesha CHL FS ibanezi@triton.uog.edu
Rios Dareon CHL FS riosd@triton.uog.edu
Rivadeneyra Camino Ivan CHL FS irivaden@hawaii.edu
Tufa Aifili John CHL FS a.tufa@amsamoa.edu

Brief Summary of Minutes

Accomplishments

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Publications

IMPACT: <a href="https://www.chl-pacific.org/impact/">https://www.chl-pacific.org/impact/</a>   Publications from Children's Healthy Living (CHL) Center: <a href="https://www.chl-pacific.org/impact/publications-from-program/">https://www.chl-pacific.org/impact/publications-from-program/</a>