• Basic Information
• Additional Info

Basic Information

• Project No. and Title: W1194 : Children's Healthy Living Network (CHLN) in the U.S. Affiliated Pacific Region
• Period Covered: 06/01/2017 to 05/31/2018
• Date of Report: 07/05/2018
• Annual Meeting Dates: 05/30/2018 to 05/31/2018

Participants

University of Alaska Fairbanks: Leslie Shallcross American Samoa Community College: Travis Fleming, Pauline McFall University of Arizona: Melanie Hingle University of Guam: Rachael Leon Guerrero, Robert L. Barber, Mark Acosta, Tanisha Aflague University of Hawaii at Manoa: Rachel Novotny, Marie Revilla, Jeannie Butel, Monica Esquivel, Ashley Yamanaka, Claire Ing, Lynne Wilkens, Erik Hill, Jinzeng Yang, Jim Davis

Accomplishments

Impacts

1. The CHLN Multi-state is building and sustaining activities developed in the CHL Program and continuing through the newly funded CHL Center. Publications and presentations from the CHL Program can be found on the CHL web site at www.chl-pacific.org
2. Continued standardization in the US Affiliated Program through the CHLIMPAC project lead by Northern Marianas College and partnerships with PIHOA and Health Departments
3. 126 students and professionals from the US Affiliated Pacific completed online courses related to child obesity prevention through the CHL Summer Institute
4. CHL Center USDA NIFA 2018-69001-27551 funded to serve as a center for child obesity prevention in the Pacific through training, research, and extension/outreach.
5. CHL Dietetics Scholars Program USDA NIFA 2018-38413-28140 funded to build regional capacity in childhood obesity prevention by increasing the number of Native Hawaiian students to complete a baccalaureate degree in dietetics that is enhanced with an evidenced-based child obesity prevention online curriculum, mentoring, a learning environment that incorporates Hawaiian values and service learning in the community.

Publications