A University of California Berkeley, School of Public Health Project
Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program (URAP), UC Berkeley, School of Public Health
in collaboration with:
University of California Cooperative Extension, San Joaquin County
National Center for Minority Health Disparities Community Outreach Program,
Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute
California Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program
San Joaquin County Public Health Services
Charterhouse Center for Families
Lao Family Community of Stockton
Project Overview:
Project Summary - Project Team - Collaborators - Acknowledgments
Project Divisions:
Nutrition Education - Extender Training - Links & Resources
The San Joaquin County Southeast Asian Health Promotion Project is an ongoing collaborative project with the UC Berkeley Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program and the School of Public Health, the San Joaquin County University of California Cooperative Extension, the California Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) serving limited-income families, the San Joaquin County Public Health Services and the NCMHD Community Outreach and Information Dissemination Core. The goals of the community-based program are:
- to understand the barriers and obstacles to making health behavior changes,
- to develop effective, culturally appropriate nutrition and health messages, materials and programs, and
- to integrate the messages into a diabetes prevention curriculum for delivery by community workers or extenders.
The primary population targeted includes Southeast Asian groups, specifically Hmong and Cambodian. We have completed qualitative research by conducting focus groups and individual interviews with the Hmong and Cambodian populations. From the fall of 2005 through the spring of 2006, we will be proceeding with the development of nutrition messages and materials, culturally appropriate curriculum, extender training, and a formal guide for a diabetes prevention program for the Hmong. The materials will be incorporated and used with a series of 6 - 8 interactive classes. The demonstration project of the Hmong-extender delivered program will be conducted and evaluated by the end of spring of 2006.
- Meredith Minkler, Professor of Community Health Education and Health and Social Behavior, School of Public Health, Faculty Sponsor, University of California Berkeley
- Gladys Block, Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health Nutrition, School of Public Health, Past Faculty Sponsor, University of California Berkeley
- Patricia Wakimoto, Co-Director Community Outreach, Center for Minority Health Disparities CHORI. Project Supervisor and Primary Contact, University of California Berkeley
- Michele Camozzi, URAP Student Researcher
- Lisa Masai, URAP Student Researcher
- Alanna Trotter, URAP Student Researcher
- Earliana Vang, URAP Student Researcher
- Lisa Peterson, URAP Student Researcher
- Anna Martin, Nutrition, Family and Consumer Science Advisor, UCCE San Joaquin County, 420 S. Wilson Way, Stockton, CA 95205; telephone (209) 468-9497; website: http://cesanjoaquin.ucdavis.edu/Nutrition%2C%5FFamily%5Fand%5FConsumer%5FScience/
- Patricia Wakimoto, Co-Director Community Outreach, 5700 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Oakland, CA 94609; telephone (510) 428-3885x5463; website: http://chori.org/
- Barbara Sutherland, Director, EFNEP Statewide Program, UC Davis, 3150C Meyer Hall, Davis, CA 95616; telephone (530) 752-7899; website: http://efnep.ucdavis.edu
- Lucia L. Kaiser, Community Nutrition Specialist, UC Davis, Department of Nutrition, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616; telephone (530) 754-9063; website: http://nutrition.ucdavis.edu/
- Roberto Alaniz, Deputy Director Administration and Health Promotion, San Joaquin County Public Health Services, 1601 East Hazelton Avenue, P.O. Box 2009, Stockton, CA 95201-2009; telephone (209) 468-3411; website: http://www.sjgov.org/PHS
- Barbara Hill, Merced County Health Department, 260 East 15th Street, Merced, CA 95340; telephone (209) 381-1010; website: http://www.co.merced.ca.us/health/
- Jou Moua, San Joaquin Public Health Services, Hmong Christian and Missionary Alliance Church, 4040 East Clark Drive, Stockton, CA 95215
- Pheng Lo, Executive Director, Lao Family Community of Stockton, 807 North San Joaquin Street, Suite 211, Stockton, CA 95202; telephone (209) 466-0721
- Charterhouse Center for Families, 5665 N Pershing Avenue, Ste. C-1, Stockton, CA 95207; telephone (209) 476-1106; website: http://www.charterhousecenter.org/
The Southeast Asian Health Promotion Project would like to thank the Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program for their valuable support. Special thanks are also given to the Office of Undergraduate Research and the Center for Race and Gender for their generous awards.
