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PORTLAND, Maine

UNE SNAP-Ed team conducts training for state-wide SNAP-Ed program staff

UNE’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education (SNAP-Ed) team conducted a two-day training at the Sugarloaf Hotel and Conference Center in Carrabassett Valley on September 16 and 17, 2014. 

The purpose the event was to provide Nutrition Educators with the tools and skills necessary to efficiently implement the Maine SNAP-Ed work plans for the 2015 fiscal year. Attendees included 41 Maine SNAP-Ed Nutrition Educators, 14 Healthy Maine Partnership directors, and a host of guest presenters including Altarum, RTI, Ethos Marketing, Share Our Strength’s Cooking Matters Program, and the Food Bank for New York City.  

Presentations by UNE faculty and staff included:

·         Michele Polacsek, Ph.D., M.H.S., associate professor of Public Health, presented “The Ecological Model and Policy, Systems, and Environmental (PSE) Change: Public Health Approaches for Improving Physical Activity and Nutrition through SNAP-Ed”.

·         Anne-Marie Davee, M.S., R.D., L.D., senior nutrition program coordinator, and Leslie Ouellette, M.S., R.D., L.D., nutrition program coordinator, presented “Classroom Management Techniques” and “FY 2015 Curriculum Updates”.

·         Joan Ingram, M.P.H., Leslie Ouellette, M.S., R.D., L.D., and Rob O’Neil Vadakin, M.B.A., presented “Reporting in FY 2015: Review of New Workplans and Reporting Procedures”

·         Kim Bowie presented “Financial Procedures and Protocols for FY 2015”

About the University of New England

The University of New England is Maine’s largest independent university, with two beautiful coastal campuses in Maine, a one-of-a-kind study abroad campus in Tangier, Morocco, and an array of flexible, accredited online degrees. In an uncommonly welcoming and supportive community, we offer hands-on learning, empowering students to make a positive impact in a world full of challenges. The state’s top provider of health professionals, we are home to Maine’s only medical college, Maine’s only dental college, a variety of other interprofessionally aligned health care degree programs, as well as nationally recognized programs for marine science degrees, natural and social sciences degrees, arts and humanities degrees, and business degrees.