[Health_Education_Promotion] 7/14 Presentation, A Child's Weight: How to Help without Harming ***New Room Location***

[Alissa G LEAVITT]

Hello OPHA Health Education & Promotion section members! I hope you can join us for our next meeting. We will have an excellent guest speaker joining us. Dana Sturtevant, dietitian and trainer in Motivational Interviewing, will discuss Ellyn Satter's approach to working with families around food/weight concerns: Provide, don't deprive, then trust your child to grow up to be the size and shape that is right for him or her. See Dana Sturtevant's bio and the learning objectives for her presentation below. 
 
What: A Child's Weight:  How to Help without Harming
When: Thursday, July 14th, 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Where: Portland State Office Building (PSOB)
800 NE Oregon St, Room #1E 
Portland, 97232
 
Or by phone: call 866-680-0993 and enter Pass code 793800
 
Participants will:
·         Review the two major causes of child overweight from Satter's perspective: 1) misinterpreting a child's normal size and shape and labeling it overweight and 2) imposing food restriction
·         Learn strategies to work with families, including the division of responsibility with regards to feeding and activity
·         Identify practical ways to create an atmosphere for honest and constructive discussions with families about health behavior change
 
About the presenter:
Dana Sturtevant, MS, RD is a registered dietitian, Kripalu yoga teacher and trainer in Motivational Interviewing with extensive experience using a non-diet, health at every size approach to help individuals let go of food/weight obsession to heal relationship with food and reach a natural, healthy weight. Dana works with patients using awareness practice and conscious eating guidelines as the foundation for a more enjoyable eating experience.  She shares her private practice, Be Nourished, with a licensed professional counselor.  For more information, visit www.benourished.org.
 
Please RSVP to alissa.g.leavitt at state.or.us and also let me know if you will be participating by phone.
 
Thank you! See you next month!

Alissa Leavitt
Section Chair, OPHA Health Education & Promotion
 

Alissa Leavitt, MPH, CHES
Public Health Educator 
Oral Health Program
Department of Human Services-Health Service
800 NE Oregon St., Suite 825
Portland, OR 97232
Office 971-673-1563
Fax 971-673-0240
alissa.g.leavitt at state.or.us
 
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