The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Foundation’s Registered Dietitian (RD) Parent Empowerment Program is coming to a close in Chicago, San Francisco, Tennessee, and Washington, DC. The four monthly interactive parent workshops featured facilitated discussions about nutrition and physical activity between the RDs and parents. The workshops provided an opportunity for nutrition students and dietetic interns to gain valuable experience. All of the RD Parent

Empowerment sites utilized students and interns, and the program in Johnson City, Tennessee was led by two dietetic interns. Thank you to our many volunteers, students, and interns!

Chicago Volunteer Spanish Translator Nancy Rivera-Jimenez Dominican University Cintya Patino Sodexo Distance Dietetic Internship Becky Williamson, MS

RD Parent Empowerment Program A Kids Eat Right Project

RD Parent Empowerment Program: Opportunities for Future RDs

May 2013

San Francisco San Francisco State University Cheryl Gregory Ana Leandro Jian Li Brianna Liu Wai Tong Kong

Stephanie Vielman University of California-Davis Yunshi Dai Carmen Kong Yingwen Li WaiSze Tam Yuki Yang Choi-Wah Yu University of California-San Francisco Medical Center Jessica Beckmann Jazmin Rodriguez-Jordan Cara Simpson Marni Weinstock Volunteer Alexandra Enteen Washington, DC Institute for Integrative Nutrition Jessica Reinhart Howard University Allison L. Latimore Tennessee Eastern Tennessee State University Jessica Bevens Jordan Clark Nicole Litwin Logan Peters Jenny Schmidt Emily Stern Marion Stiles Samantha Taylor

Eastern Tennessee State University dietetic interns (left to right): Marion Stiles, Nicole Litwin, Logan Peters, Jordan Clark, Emily Stern, Jenny Schmidt, Samantha Taylor, and Jessica Bevens.

A few of the many students and dietetic interns assisting with the San Francisco RD Parent Empowerment Program (left to right): Choi-Wah Yu, Stephanie Vielman, (RD Workshop Facilitator, Ning Wan), WaiSze Tam, Yuki Yang, Yunshi Dai, Jian Li, and Cheryl Gregory.

Spotlight on: Chicago

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McCutcheon Parents (and Kids!) Dig In

Parents and children participated in the RD Parent

Empowerment program at McCutcheon Elementary.

Registered Dietitian, Carolyn Tampe, led workshops

helping parents learn to shop smart, cook healthy, and eat

right. Parents and children

especially enjoyed the hands-on

cooking and tasting activities.

Mary Crane Head Start

parents are empowered with

the new skills they learned

from Registered Dietitian,

Soraya Valencia. As parents

begin to make healthy

changes in their own lifestyle, they are able to improve the family’s

nutrition and physical activity lifestyle, and then can help empower

their peers to do the same.

Spotlight on: Tennessee Dietetic Interns Lead Workshops at Children First Head Start

Parents of children attending Children First Head Start in Johnson

City, Tennessee, learn from dietetic interns, Jordan Clark and Emily

Stern.

Eastern Tennessee State

University dietetic interns,

Jordan Clark and Emily Stern.

Thank you to our school and

community sites and RD/

Intern Facilitators!

Chicago, IL

McCutcheon Elementary

School

Carolyn Tampe, MS, RD, LDN

Mary Crane Head Start

Soraya Valencia, RD, LDN

San Francisco, CA

Martin Luther King Middle School

Ning Wan, MS, RD

Chinatown Child

Development Center

Esther Qing Situ, MBA, RD

Johnson City, TN

Children First Head Start

Jordan Clark, dietetic intern

Emily Stern, dietetic intern

Michelle Lee, PhD, RD, LDN

Washington, DC

Benning Elementary at DC

Prep Sarah Waybright, MS, RD

Mid County Community

Center

Livleen Gill, MBA, RD, LDN