2011 HFC Strategic Initiative Conference

UC ANR Healthy Families & Communities Strategic Initiative Conference
Broadening and Deepening our Policy Relevance

UC Davis ARC

May 17-19, 2011

Goals:
•   Explore ways our work can be more policy relevant
•   Equip attendees with specific tools, approaches, or strategies for policy relevance
•   Provide chance for program teams and workgroups to meet
•   Introduce new YFC Director and leadership team

Tuesday, May 17

11:00     Registration

12:00     Lunch

1:00      Welcome and Introductions
Dave Campbell, Leader, Healthy Families & Communities Strategic Initiative
Connie Schneider , Director, Youth, Families, and Communities Program
Jim McDonald, UC Davis CAES Dean's office
Bill Frost, ANR Executive Working Group

1:30      Policy Briefs: Making Your Work Relevant to the Community
Mike Miller, Brown Miller Communications

4:15      Break

4:30      Organizational Asset Workshop: Building Relationships with Policy Makers
Dave Campbell

5:45      Honoring Retirees - Bill Frost, Kim Rodrigues, Richard Enfield

6:15      Reception/Gallery Walk of Assets/Poster Session
Strolling dinner provided with no-host bar

Wednesday, May 18

7:00     Breakfast and Informal Networking

8:30    Conducting and Disseminating Strategic Research to Prevent Pediatric Obesity - Ballroom A
Pat Crawford and staff, UCB Center for Weight and Health

9:00     Designing and Communicating Policy Relevant Research
Lorrene Ritchie, UCB Center for Weight and Health

9:30     Policy Relevant Research
Wendi Gosliner, UCB Center for Weight and Health

10:00    Break

10:15    HFC Strategic Initiative Research Proposals/Roundtables - Part 1
Martin Smith, Lynn Schmitt-McQuitty, Richard Mahacek, Jonathan London,
Keith Nathaniel, Richard Enfield and Kali Trzesniewski

11:15    Break

11:30    Diana Dooley, Secretary, California Department of Health and Human Services

12:30    Lunch

1:30     Taking "Context" and Environmental Influences into Account-     
Jay Belsky, Human and Community Development, UC Davis
Jonathan London, Human and Community Development, UC Davis

2:45     Break

3:00     HFC Strategic Initiative Research Proposals/Roundtables - Part 2
Lucia Kaiser, Charles Go, Marcel Horwitz, Janet Hartin, Susan Algert,
Sheri Zidenberg-Cherr, Pat Crawford, Shannon Dogan and Marilyn Townsend

4:00     Break

4:15     UC Delivers Workshop
Dave Campbell, Pam Kan-Rice, Karl Krist, Don Klingborg

6:00     Program teams and workgroup meetings over dinner

Thursday, May 19

7:30     Breakfast and Informal Networking

8:30     New YFC Leadership Team and ANR Directions - Ballroom A
Dan Dooley
Connie Schneider
Barbara Allen-Diaz

10:00    Break

10:15    Multi-state partnerships
Richard Enfield
Karen Varcoe

10:45    Other ANR Strategic Initiatives
Rose Hayden-Smith - Sustainable Food Systems
TBD for Ian Gardner - Endemic & Invasive Pests and Diseases
Val Eviner for James Bartolome - Sustainable Natural Ecosystems

11:30    Summary and Next Steps

Lunch is on your own

HFC SI Agenda for printing