WELLNESS WITHIN REACH!

T H E T H I R D A N N U A L

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

AT THE MACON MARRIOTT CITY CENTER

The Central Georgia Regional Health Summit is a focused initiative of Community Health Works, a Regional Center for Health Innovation.

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Emergency Departments • Inpatient & Outpatient Surgery Centers • Pain ManagementCardiovascular & Pulmonary Labs • Inpatient & Outpatient Laboratories • Sleep Labs

The Women’s Center • Level II Neonatal Intensive Care UnitElectronic Intensive Care Units (eICU) • Radiology & Diagnostic Imaging Services

Behavioral Health & Psychiatry • Inpatient Transitional Care •Inpatient Hospice & Palliative Care

D E A R F R I E N D S A N D C O L L E A G U E S :

Thank you for being among the members of our Central Georgia community who believe in putting health at the top of our communities’ priorities.

Vibrant cities are healthy cities. From the successful introduction of healthy choices at an early age in the classroom to creating a built environment that encourages active, outdoor physical fitness, Central Georgia will prosper if wellness leads the way.

Now in our third year, the Central Georgia Regional Health Summit (CGRHS) has established an annual tradition to collaborate with a wide-ranged group of engaged citizens and establish solutions to tackle our most imminent health concerns. In addition to discussing the impact unhealthy behaviors are having on our communities, such as obesity and chronic disease, the CGRHS also serves as a challenge to create and implement a culture of change that gets active, eats right and individually and collectively makes behavioral changes in our daily lives and ultimately make us healthier in areas where we live, work, learn, shop, play and pray.

But the work of the Summit does not stop after today. Quarterly, year-round meetings will follow in each of the seven counties— Bibb, Houston, Peach, Crawford, Monroe, Twiggs and Jones— and continue the community- responsive dialogue to encourage and implement the changes through action plans created specifically for their needs and resources.

The vision of Community Health Works is better health for all people through communities working together. We are proud to host such a regionally collaborative event that focuses on our health and applies it from the regional economic, educational, cultural and social perspectives.

I invite you to continue the vision throughout the year by becoming involved with our organization. Community Health Works isn’t just our name. It’s a fact. And we greatly value your impact.

Best regards,

Greg DentPresident & CEO

Greg Dent

Greg DentPresident & CEO

FEEDNOURISH WORKTEACH BREATHEL IVE PLAY

Good Habits Start Young: Creating Healthier Classrooms

From farms to schools to how fitness inspires physical activity for life, leading experts in school nutrition and physical activity discuss the successes of developing healthy schools with effective programming that educates and inspires healthy habits from an early age.

At the Top of the Job: Healthy Focus for a Healthy Workforce

Business is healthy when its workforce is healthy. But when employees face health challenges related to poor diet and lack of physical activity, it ultimately affects the employer. Workplace wellness plans are working for Georgia employers. Increased productivity, lower health costs and improved company morale are just part of the positive impact.

Build It and They Will Exercise: Establishing the Built Environment

Quality of life increases when a community puts wellness at the top of its priorities. More sidewalks, safety for cyclists, street level vibrancy, designated recreational areas and bike and walking trails are just some of the projects that can create a culture change within communities. But to get there, communities must get through the governmental process to transform infrastructure.

2011 CENTRAL GEORGIA REGIONAL HEALTH SUMMIT FOCUS AREAS:

LAUGH

REACHOUTBREATHE GROWPLAY

From Lifestyle to Culture: The Community of Change

Wellness is within reach but it must first become second nature. Nutritional literacy, sharing resources, community engagement, best practices, innovative programming and effective policies are keys to creating a culture where good health doesn’t have to be hard.

A Higher Call to Action: Faith-Based Health Missions

The body is the temple and the Church is the messenger. Learn from successful wellness programs that have called congregations into action and testified for better health. Missions on Diabetes, breast cancer and obesity are moving communities in the right direction, all the way from the altar to outside the place of worship.

Where Do We Grow From Here: The Farm, the Garden and the Food Desert

Community gardens, local markets and the popularity of urban farming can ultimately sow food deserts. But community engage-ment, supply and demand and successful integration of healthy locally grown foods are the keys to keeping it fertile. Learn from agriculture experts on planting the seed of change.

WELLNESS WITHIN REACH!

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7:30-8:30 Registration & Breakfast

O P E N I N G G E N E R A L S E S S I O N

8:30–8:40 Welcome: Greg Dent, President & CEO, Community Health Works, and Don Faulk, President & CEO, Central Georgia Health System

8:40–9:30 Keynote Address: Terry O’Toole, M.Div., Ph.D., FASHA

9:35–9:45 Community Health Works Video Presentation

9:45–9:55 Call to Action

10–10:30 Networking Break & Visit Vendor Booths

1 0 : 3 5 – N O O N C O N C U R R E N T B R E A K O U T S E S S I O N S

1– Good Habits Start Young: Creating Healthier Classrooms: ROOM 309

A– The Perfect School Garden and Farm to School

— Ashley Rouse

B– GET FIT: Statewide Fitness Testing in Georgia— Rules, Resources and Rewards

— Christi Kay

2– At the Top of the Job: Healthy Focus for a Healthy Workforce: ROOM 308

A– Worksite Wellness Initiatives in Georgia

— Claire Drogula, Kiley Morgan

B– Georgia Power Health and Wellness: Daily Choices… Lifetime Results

— Mendi McDowell

3– Build It and They Will Exercise: Establishing the Built Environment: ROOM 312

A– How Place and Race Impacts Health

— Mildred Thompson, Jenné Johns

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3– Build It and They Will Exercise: Establishing the Built Environment: ROOM 312

B– Building Healthy Cities with Vital Cores

— Anthony Cissel

4– From Lifestyle to Culture: The Community of Change: ROOM 306

A– Healthy Savannah: Connect.Inspire.Grow

— Paula Kreissler, Lizann Roberts

B– Five Steps to Building a Healthy Coop (AKA Home)

— Leslie Grant

5– A Higher Call to Action: Faith-Based Health Missions: ROOM 303

A– Feeding for a Promising Future– No Kid Hungry

— Karen Curry-Davis, Nina Bryant- Hunter

B– Hope Health and Wellness

— Dairlyn Brown

C– Live Healthy in Faith Training

— A’Keti Avila

6– Where Do We Grow From Here: The Farm, the Garden and the Food Desert: ROOM 313

A– Growing Growers and Feeding Neighbors: Community Gardens and Farmers’ Markets

— Kyla Zaro-Moore

B– Community Gardening Beyond The Seed

— Bobby Wilson

N O O N – 1 : 3 0 p m L U N C H

12:15 pm Special Guest Ellie Krieger

1–1:50 pm Book Signing & Networking Break

1 : 5 5 – 3 p m R O U N D TA B L E D I S C U S S I O N S

FOCUS AREAS: This will be a roundtable discussion where the morning presenters will give a brief update on what they discussed in the earlier session, answer more in-depth questions, and then with the help of a CHW Facilitator they will help each session come up with goals and project proposals for the next year. Report to same room as original breakout session.

• Creating Healthier Classrooms

• Healthy Focus for a Healthy Workforce

• Establishing the Built-Environment

• The Community of Change

• Faith-Based Health Missions

• The Farm, the Garden, and the Food Desert

3 – 3 : 3 0 p m C L O S I N G R E M A R K S & R A F F L E P R I Z E W I N N E R S

3 : 4 5 – 4 p m B O O K S I G N I N G O P P O R T U N I T Y & V E N D O R FA I R

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C O M M U N I T Y H E A L T H W O R K S B O A R D O F D I R E C T O R S :

Ivan Allen, President, Middle Georgia Technical College

Bill Bina, Dean, Mercer University School of Medicine

Marsha Buzzell, Director, Warner Robins Convention and Visitors Bureau

Thad Childs, Senior Community Banker, State Bank and Trust

Ethel Cullinan, President and CEO, Medcen Community Health Foundation

Greg Dent, President & CEO, Community Health Works

Don Faulk, FACHE, President & CEO, Central Georgia Health System GA

Kay Floyd, CEO, Monroe County Hospital

Fred Gaton, MD, Crawford County Family Practice

Bill Hamrick, Twiggs County Representative

Shannon Harvey, CEO, River Edge Behavioral Health Center

Sam Hart, Chairman of the Bibb County Board of Commissioners

Richard Katz, Attorney, Katz, Flatau, Popson & Boyer, LLP

Cary Martin, Chief Executive Officer, Houston Healthcare

Katherine McLeod, CEO, First Choice Primary Care

Tom McMichael, Houston County Commissioner, Treasurer of the Board

Mike Moye, President, Central Georgia Technical College

Nancy Peed, CEO, Peach Regional Medical Center

James Singleton, Executive Director, Phoenix Behavioral Health Center

Melvin Walker, Chairman of the Peach County Board of Commissioners

Terry O’Toole, M.Div, Ph.D, FASHA, serves as Senior Advisor on the Communities Putting Prevention to Work: State and Territory Initiative with the Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Communities Putting Prevention to Work program is focused on preventing chronic disease by producing sustainable, positive and improved health outcomes through the implementation of programmatic efforts through policy, systems and environmental level change.

Prior to his current assignment, Dr. O’Toole served as a Health Scientist in CDC’s Division of Adolescent and School Health providing technical and scientific planning, implementation, dissemination, and analysis of healthy eating directed at school-age populations.

Dr. O’Toole earned his Doctor of Philosophy in Health Behavior from Indiana University, Master of Education in Health and Physical Education from the University of Louisville, Master of Divinity from Southern Seminary and Bachelor of Science in Mathematics Education. Previous to CDC, he served on the faculty at Lynchburg College, University of West Georgia, Indiana University and Southern Seminary in Louisville, KY.

K E Y N O T E S P E A K E RTerry O’Toole, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

K E Y N O T E S P E A K E R

Ellie Krieger is the host of the Food Network’s and Cook Channel’s popular “Healthy Appetite” and NY Times bestselling author. Her latest book Comfort Food Fix presents a healthier take on classic American comfort food—without sacrificing the comfort part. Other books include the award-winning THE FOOD YOU CRAVE: Luscious Recipes for a Healthy Life, SO EASY: Luscious Health Recipes for Every Meal of the Week, and Small Changes, Big Results.

A registered dietician, Ellie has a master’s degree in nutrition from Columbia University and completed her undergraduate degree at Cornell University. Ellie was an adjunct professor at New York University in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies and Public Health. In her years in private practice, she counseled a variety of clients, from homemakers and CEOs to notable celebrities.

Today, Ellie’s extensive work in the media has earned her a loyal following and national recognition. She speaks regularly at high profile events around the country, has appeared as a guest expert on dozens of national television programs, is a contributing editor and columnist with Fine Cooking magazine and the Food Network magazine, and regular contributor to Women’s Health and Fitness magazine.

Ellie has been at the forefront of First Lady Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move” campaign from the beginning when Michelle personally invited her to head up the “Healthy Kids Fair” at the White House in 2010. Since then Ellie has teamed up with the School Nutrition Association and taken action on a grass-roots level with her daughter’s New York City public school. On behalf of the Food Network, she recently testified before the House Committee on Agriculture about nutrition, health eating and the growing epidemic of childhood obesity.

S P E C I A L G U E S TEllie Krieger

S P E C I A L G U E S T

Anthony Cissell is a senior associate at Sottile & Sottile Urban Design, a Savannah-based urban design firm working extensively in Nationally Registered

Anthony CisselBuilding Healthy Cities

with Vital Cores

S P E A K E R B I O S

A’Keti Avila has come a long way since growing up on a mile-long dirt road in East Central Georgia’s “poor belt.” Today, this award-winning speaker, trainer, social advocate and wellness coach has been named a Stroke Ambassador for the American Heart Association, and has earned the prestigious American Heart Association’s Louis B. Russell, Jr. Memorial Award in recognition of her outstanding and effective service to minority and under-served communities.

Although A’Keti is a graduate from Georgia College and State University with a degree in communications and speech, a Stanford University-Certified Master Trainer in Chronic Disease Self-Management and an authority on individual and community health, her passion for health and wellness education actually comes from a very personal place. Fueled by her own life-threatening experiences with diabetes, she uses her first hand experiences to provide knowledge for others to live healthy, empowered lives.

Currently, A’Keti serves as the Assistant Director for Self Wealth And Health (SWAH) Empowerment, Inc., a local non-profit committed to the improvement of the Health and Wellbeing of individuals residing in Georgia.

A’Keti is also the author of the upcoming book Diabetes from A’Keti to Z, and is currently developing a health and wellness-based cooking program for television, based on her most popular (and delicious) recipes.

A’Keti AvilaLive Healthy in Faith Training

Dairlyn Brown is the Health and Wellness Director for Kingdom Impact at New Hope International Church in Warner Robins, Ga. She has been a registered nurse and diabetes educator for over 14 years and has served in the military on active duty and in the reserves.

Dairlyn has been a member of New Hope International for five years, where she have been able to blend her experience as a health care provider with her faith to help promote health and wellness not only in the church, but in the community as well. She is married with three children and four grand-children.

Dairlyn BrownHope Health and Wellness

Nina Bryant-Hunter is the Nutrition Training Coordinator for

the Department of Early Care and Learning (DECAL) also known

as Bright from the Start. She has more than 18 years’ experience

in early childhood education and nutrition services. She has a

Master’s Degree in Adult Education and Community Leadership

and a B.S. in Early Childhood Education.

Nina Bryant-HunterFeeding for a Promising

Future–No Kid Hungry

WORKBREATHE

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Claire Drogula is the worksite wellness coordinator for the Georgia Department of Community Health’s State Health Benefit Plan. She creates, coordinates, implements and evaluates wellness opportunities for the almost 700,000 members covered under the Plan.

Previously, Claire was the Statewide Health and Wellness Coordinator for the Georgia Department of Corrections.

Claire DrogulaWorksite Wellness Initiatives

in Georgia

Historic Districts. His work includes civic design and master planning, emphasizing historic research, urban analysis, and community-wide engagement.

Anthony graduated with Honors from the Savannah College of Art & Design, where he earned a Masters of Architecture, and was awarded the Bronze Medal from the National Fraternity for Architecture and the Allied Arts.

After practicing in Chicago, Anthony returned to Savannah to focus on the development of sustainable urbanism and civic growth, inspired by Savannah’s internationally recognized model of urban design. Currently, along with his professional research and practice, Anthony holds a faculty position as Professor of Architecture at the Savannah College of Art & Design.

As a member of Sottile & Sottile, Anthony has played a key role on numerous projects that have been recognized by over twenty-five awards, including an international Charter Award from the Congress for the New Urbanism, awards from the American Planning Association, the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation, and a National Honor Award for Urban Design from the American Institute of Architects.

Dairlyn Brown

Karen Curry Davis is the Campaign Director for the Georgia Food Bank Association’s Feeding for a Promising Future — No Kid Hungry Campaign. Karen has more than 14 years of program development experience and is working with the seven Georgia Food Bank networks and community partners to launch the No Kid Hungry Campaign in Georgia. Karen’s previous roles have included Collaborative Director for a community collaborative in North Carolina, Vice President of Programs for The Center for Working Families, and Director of Economic Development with United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta. Karen received a Master’s Degree in Public Administration and a Bachelors Degree in Political Science from Valdosta State University.

Karen Curry-DavisFeeding for a Promising

Future–No Kid Hungry

Anthony Cissel continued

Leslie Smith Grant established Chickin Feed, LLC in 2007, as a way to help her own children understand the basics of healthy eating.

Along with her creative husband Don, Leslie developed the Chickin Feed Nutrition Tracking Board which broke down the food pyramid into a fun, attractive, and easier to understand visual tool. It sparks interaction and accountability by tracking daily food intake.

As President & Mother Hen of Chickin Feed, Leslie oversees the daily operations and development of new products from her home-based office in Atlanta. She’s joined in her labor of love by several friends and professionals in the “Chickin Coop.”

Before starting Chickin Feed, Leslie devoted many of the last eight years to being a full-time mom and community/neighborhood volunteer.

Prior to fulfilling her “best job ever” as a mom, Leslie spent over a decade working the business and production end of architecture, photography, film and commercial production in both New York City and her native Atlanta.

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Leslie GrantFive Steps to Building a

Healthy Coop (AKA Home)

Senior Program Associate Jenné Johns brings a unique combination of non-profit, philanthropy, academia, and research to PolicyLink in New York City. In this role Jenné works to support the Convergence Partnership activities. Prior to joining PolicyLink, Jenné worked as Deputy Director for Programs at the Summit Health Institute for Research and Education, Inc in Washington, D.C. where she provided leadership and management to the organizations Childhood Obesity Prevention portfolio. Prior to joining SHIRE, Jenné worked at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), as program associate working on health care quality and disparities issues. Jenné worked in several capacities in the Philadelphia community including, Associate Director for the Students Run Philly Style program at the National Nursing Centers Consortium, Adjunct Professor at Arcadia University, and Preparedness Consultant with Temple Universities Department of Public Health.

Jenné’s dedication to childhood obesity prevention, equity, and community engagement, expands beyond her professional profile. While in Philadelphia, Jenné served the community as a Nutrition and Health Consultant. In this role, Jenné offered basic nutrition education, motivation, and empowerment to faith-based, academic, non-profit, and youth-serving organizations. Jenné also created a Health and Wellness Ministry focusing on Nutrition Education and Physical Activity at her religious institution.

Jenné holds a Master’s Degree in Public Health, Community Health Education from Temple University, and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Human Ecology,

Jenné JohnsHow Place and Race

Impacts Health

S P E A K E R B I O S

Christi Kay has been a leader in health education and health promotion in Georgia for more than 25 years, serving as a teacher at the elementary, high school and college levels and as Curriculum and Instruction Specialist for Health, Physical Education and Wellness for the Gwinnett County School District. Currently she is the Executive Director of HealthMPowers, a Georgia non-profit organization committed to improving the health of students, staff and families by empowering schools.

Christi has presented at the local, state, district, national and even international level on improving health and physical education in schools and is a national trainer with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s School Health Index, a self assessment tool used by schools to improve their health programming, policies and environments.

Christi is a member of the Georgia Department of Education’s Health Education Advisory Committee, Physical Education Advisory Committee, and Fitness Advisory Committee. She is also part of the American School Health Association and the American Alliance for Health Physical Education Recreation and Dance.

Christi received a Bachelor of Science degree in Health and Physical Education from Florida State University and graduated from Georgia State University with a Master’s degree in Education.

Christi KayGET FIT: Statewide Fitness Testing in Georgia— Rules, Resources and Rewards

Leslie sampled her post-secondary education at Chick-fil-A’s Winshape Program at Berry College; Laval University in Quebec City, Quebec; Georgia State University and Georgia Institute of Technology and finally giving up the ghost at the Cooper Union in NYC.

Nutrition with a minor in Chemistry from the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. Jenné researched nutrition attitudes, knowledge, and behaviors, as well as obesity rates throughout her academic studies. Jenné has presented her research and program findings at national, state and local conferences and serves on various nutrition and physical activity advisory committees including the USDA Core Nutrition Messages Committee.

Leslie Grant continued Jenné Johns continued

Paula Kreissler is President and CEO of Wound Care Clinic–ESU, Inc. in Savannah, Ga. Founded in 2005, the clinic specializes in healing chronic and acute non-healing wounds using innovative and standard therapies such as electrical stimulation and ultrasound.

Paula is currently Co-Chair of the Savannah Chatham Food Policy Council, Chair of the Nutrition Committee for Healthy Savannah, Board Member of Healthy Savannah, and is in the graduate program at Marylhurst University working on her MBA in Sustainability. Paula is the immediate past Chair of the Healthy Savannah Steering Committee and is the immediate past President of Buy Local Savannah. From 2006-2009 she chaired the Community Leadership Board of the Savannah Chapter of the American Diabetes Association.

In 2008 Paula received the Top Ten Working Women’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award by A Working Women In Need (AWWIN), an organization dedicated to supporting single working women.

Paula graduated from Concordia University and is a licensed CPA. She credits her success in business to her compassionate and dedicated staff at Wound Care Clinic.

Paula KriesslerHealthy Savannah:

Connect.Inspire.Grow

with how corporations were controlling their health-care costs and enabling their employees to live healthier lifestyles. She entered Corporate Wellness at Supervalu, Inc. as Wellness Manager. There, she spent five years creating and implementing a wellness program for the grocery chain’s Eastern region. In late 2007, she joined Georgia Power’s Health Services team as their Wellness Program Coordinator. She resides in Senoia, Georgia with husband Ralph, seven-year-old son Kellen and four-year -old daughter Maya.

Mendi McDowell continued

Mendi McDowell studied Psychology and Sports Medicine at UNC Asheville and is currently pursuing business management at Mary Baldwin College. Her career began in public health clubs serving in management roles along with being a personal trainer, group exercise instructor, and swim instructor. She became intrigued

Mendi McDowellGeorgia Power Health and

Wellness: Daily Choices…

Lifetime Results

Kiley Morgan is the worksite wellness coordinator for the Department of Public Health. She has multiple years of experience in the worksite setting. Her professional experience includes designing, implementing, and evaluating comprehensive health and safety programs in the worksite.

She also has extensive knowledge and experience in behavioral science, community health education, and public health program administration.

Kiley MorganWorksite Wellness Initiatives

in Georgia

Lizann Roberts is a consultant and certified executive coach. Prior to her work as a consultant, she was a college professor & administrator, provided health manage-ment services with multi-site corporations, worked for two large health care organizations employing over 18,000 employees, owned a small restaurant and served as a human resources professional.

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Lizann RobertsHealthy Savannah:

Connect.Inspire.Grow

S P E A K E R B I O S

Ashley Rouse works for Georgia Organics on implementing farm to school. Georgia Organics is a member supported, non-profit organization integrating healthy, sustainable and locally grown food into the lives of all Georgians. We believe food should be community-based, not commodity-based. Ashley’s work in the farm to school movement began 6 years ago when she started a garden for her oldest daughter’s school. Her passion lives through her work in schools around the state of Georgia to the heart and soul of her community at the farmer’s market where she serves on the board. She and her husband manage a farm inside the city limits of Atlanta growing food for 40 CSA members and selling to local farmer’s markets. She is the mother to three children who are five, seven and eight-years-old..

Ashley RouseThe Perfect School Garden and Farm to School

As Senior Director and Director of the PolicyLink Center for Health and Place, Mildred Thompson leads the work of the organization’s health team, participates in research focused on understanding community factors that impact health disparities and identifying practice and policy changes needed to improve individual, family and community health. She is also Deputy Director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Center to Prevent Childhood Obesity.

Mildred has authored several reports and journal articles focused on reducing health disparities, increasing awareness about social determinants of health and effective ways to impact policy change. Prior to joining PolicyLink, she was Director of Community Health Services for Alameda County Public Health Department, Director of Healthy Start, a federal infant mortality reduction program, and Director of San Antonio Neighborhood Health Center. Mildred has degrees in Nursing, Psychology and a graduate degree from NYU in Social Work. She has also taught at Mills College and San Francisco State University, and has worked as an Organizational Development Consultant.

Additionally, Thompson serves on several boards and commissions including: The Zellerbach Family Foundation; Co-Chair, The Institute of Medicine’s Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities Roundtable; CA Health Policy Institute; and Consortium to Lower Obesity in Chicago Children.

Mildred ThompsonHow Place and Race

Impacts Health

Serving as a coach, consultant and facilitator, she works with a diverse range of organizations to improve health, addressing the behavioral, social and environmental challenges that have an impact on health outcomes.

Lizann received both B.A. and M.A. degrees in Health Education and earned a leadership development and coaching certificate from Georgetown University. She is a certified Somatic Coach with the Strozzi Institute and has completed F.A.C.E training with the Paul Ekman Group. She has been a preceptor/adjunct faculty member of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and Armstrong Atlantic State University.

Lizann and her husband Joe live on Isle of Hope. She is blessed to be the mother of one stepson, three step-stepsons, one adopted stepdaughter and a great black lab with three legs who is a cancer survivor. She is a passionate board member of Healthy Savannah and enjoys kayaking, bicycling, gardening and cooking.

Lizann Roberts continued

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Bobby L. Wilson, Program Director for The University of Georgia Cooperative Extension/Atlanta Urban Gardening Program (AUGP), offers gardening instruction and support to some 300 gardens located at public housing complexes, shelters, schools, churches and elder care facilities in metro Atlanta. He is also serving as President of the American Community Gardening Association with is a bi-national organization.

Bobby has experienced 20 years of professional development and service promoting, developing and sustaining the work of gardening and greening.

Bobby’s leadership in issues of research, food security, and volunteerism all have practical expression in such activities as developing demonstration gardens, increasing production in community gardens to provide for donations to shelters and large community feeding programs, facilitating formal training of gardeners at the University of Georgia Food Science Department and the development of nutrition education sequels with school gardeners and the members of the AUGP Leadership De-velopment Association.

Bobby WilsonCommunity Gardening

Beyond The Seed

Kyla Zaro-MooreGrowing Growers

and Feeding Neighbors:

Community Gardens

and Farmers’ Markets

Kyla Zaro-Moore’s dedication to growing food in the city has its roots in a childhood in the heart of Atlanta punctuated by summers at farm camp. For the past ten years, Kyla has been exploring ways to bring agriculture alive in the city. From running garden-based youth programs to managing school and community gardens to raising backyard goats and chickens, Kyla is always creating opportunities for people to actively connect to their food system.

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