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Message from the Director
Greetings!
We are looking forward to seeing everyone in Sacramento next week for the Champions Onboarding and Mini College! With summer just around the corner, it's the perfect time to focus on the importance of healthy living and well-being. We hope that you are able to spend time enjoying the outdoors, eating fresh fruits and vegetables, and staying hydrated. Last month, we celebrated Rethink Your Drink Day and learned some great tips for how to stay hydrated with healthy beverage choices. In keeping with the theme of a healthy summer, we are excited to have Common Threads, a national nonprofit that supports food as medicine, give a healthy cooking demonstration at the upcoming Mini College. We have many other exciting sessions and speakers planned. Please check our events page to find updates.
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In Health and Solidarity,
Wagahta Semere, MD, MHS
Fellowship Director & Assistant Professor
UCSF School of Medicine
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Reminder! Find articles and resources related to your area(s) of interest by clicking on the icon(s) that correspond to our five focus areas, below:
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Hunger and Coverage Cliff Threatens Health Progress: Navigating the Hidden Pandemic
By: Moazzum Bajwa, MD, MPH
Champion Provider Fellows (Cohort 3, Riverside County)
I recently celebrated with one of my patients as she met a major health goal: she maintained well-controlled blood sugar and blood pressure levels for a full year. In the eight years since our first visit, she struggled with consistent management of her diabetes, in large part due to challenges affording medications and nutritious food. In addition to caring for her two young children, she spent years taking care of her mother who suffered from complications from a severe stroke. Witnessing her mother’s decline in health, only furthered her resolve to improve her own health and I was excited to see her making progress towards this goal. Read More
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Dr. Trinidad Solis (Cohort 4, Fresno County) (left)
Dr. Solis received the National Hispanic Medical Association Physician of the Year Award!
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Reminder! Brown·Miller Communications is here to help you!
Need help with message development, op-ed support, or preparing for an interview? Make sure to contact Mike Miller or Muriel Bañares of Brown·Miller Communications. They provide a multitude of media and communication services to Champion Provider Fellows and local health departments. Send them an email to find out how they can help you!
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*Champion Provider Listserv*
Collaborate & communicate with Champion Provider
Fellows across the state about your community change efforts.
NOTE: Please do not use the listserv to promote lobbying efforts or to discuss patient care.
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USDA program keeps extra COVID-era money for fruits, veggies
U.S. agriculture officials proposed changes Thursday to the federal program that helps pay the grocery bills for low-income pregnant women, babies and young children, including extending a bump in payments for fresh fruits and vegetables allowed during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read more here.
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Senate Bill (SB) 348: A new bill to set guidelines for sugar content in school meals
SB 348 builds on the Biden-Harris’ administration Feb. 3 announcement of new national school nutrition standards aimed at reducing sugars, fat and salt, and increasing whole grains in school meals. SB 348 would also require California to maximize newly available federally funded child nutrition benefits in order to prevent childhood hunger during the summer.
Read more here.
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Note: Materials included in this section are for reference and information purposes only and do not imply endorsement by the federal government, California Department of Public Health, or the University of California, San Francisco.
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School Nutrition and Standards Media Toolkit
United States Department of Agriculture (2023)
The following outreach content will be used as an informative tool to learn how to provide meals for children at school and all year long through the school meal, afterschool, childcare, and summer meal programs.
Read the report here.
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Gasol Foundation USA Supports California Healthy Meals for Kids Legislation
Gasol Foundation USA (2023)
As a partner in the Voices for Healthy Kids Coalition, Gasol Foundation USA is proud to join public health colleagues in supporting California State Senator Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley) SB 348, Healthy Meals for Kids, which would set guidelines for the amount of sugar and sodium added to school meals in all California K-12 schools that participate in the National School Lunch Program.
Read the article here.
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Webinar: Implementation with Intention
June 22, 12-1pm PST
In this webinar, members of the Marin Community Clinics (MCC) team will share their experience with implementing ACE screening and response in a Federally Qualified Health Center in the Bay Area. MCC, a pioneer in California since starting this work in 2017, is featured as a case study in the ACEs Aware Implementation How-to Guide and highlighted in previous “Implementation with Intention” webinars. Participants will have the opportunity to hear directly from MCC team members about their ACE screening implementation journey and to engage in a live question and answer session.
Register here.
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Clean Beaches Week
Save the Week: July 1-7, 2023
An initiative established by The Clean Beaches Coalition, Clean Beaches week is celebrated annually from July 1st – July 7th. With so much media attention focusing on the effects of our waste on marine life, the oceans and our coastal landscape this is an excellent opportunity to be proactive and attempt to address a small part of the overall problem while raising awareness of a much larger global challenge. In 2007 the United States Senate and House of Representatives passed the National Clean Beaches Week Resolution by unanimous consent. Known as the Earth Day for beaches, hundreds of events are organized locally on beaches around the USA and include beach clean ups, art fairs, seafood festivals and other educational events aiming to raise awareness about respecting the beach and surrounding environment.
Read more here and here.
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