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Continuing Education: VFHY will offer continuing education units from the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR) and the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing (NCHEC). A total of 8 continuing education contact units are available.

Agenda At A Glance

Monday, May 17, 2010

1 p.m. – 3 p.m. Registration
3:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Pre-Conference Workshop
5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. Networking Reception & 2010 Healthy Living Art Exhibit

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

7 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. Registration & Continental Breakfast & Exhibits
8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. Welcome from Virginia First Lady Maureen McDonnell & Opening Remarks
9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Plenary Session
10:30 a.m. – 10:35 a.m. Physical Activity Break
10:35 a.m. – 11 a.m. Plenary Session
11:15 p.m. – 12:30 p.m. Concurrent Sessions
12:30 p.m. – 2 p.m. Luncheon
2:15 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Concurrent Sessions
3:45 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Closing Plenary Session
4:30 p.m. – 5 p.m. Closing Remarks

LODGING

The Westin Richmond
6631 W. Broad St., Richmond, VA 23230

Call (888) 627-7786 before May 8 to guarantee discount group rate of $93 per night (plus tax). Use group name "Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth."

MAILING LIST

Honorary Chair

Maureen McDonnell, Virginia’s First Lady, has been married to Governor Bob McDonnell for 33 years. The McDonnells have five children: Jeanine, Cailin, Rachael and twins Bobby and Sean. Daughter Jeanine recently completed a tour of duty in Iraq as a First Lieutenant in the United States Army.

With over 25 years experience in the area of nutritional healthcare, Mrs. McDonnell is an advocate for healthy living through nutrition and fitness. She is currently working with the Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth on the issue of childhood obesity.

The First Lady is also involved with numerous community and cultural organizations including serving as Chairman for Friends of Virginia History’s Commission on Women,” serving on the Council of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and is the Honorary Chair for MINDS WIDE OPEN: Virginia Celebrates Women in the Arts and working with Blue Star Mothers in support of Military Families.

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In the last three decades, childhood obesity has more than tripled in the United States. One out of three children is now obese or overweight. Here in Virginia, where more than 60 percent of the adult population is also obese or overweight, it’s much the same story.

Virginia First Lady Maureen McDonnell, the Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth and Prevention Connections invite you to attend this exciting statewide conference where you can learn more about the scope of childhood obesity in Virginia and what’s being done about it here and across the nation.

Inspired by the CDC’s Weight of the Nation conference, held in July, 2009, in Washington, D.C., Virginia’s inaugural Weight of the State conference will aid us in forging new state and regional partnerships and collaborations and set an agenda for what our next steps are in combating this public health epidemic in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

This conference will present the most current data and statistics on childhood obesity in the Commonwealth. Presenters will discuss approaches being used in other states and localities, and participants will learn the latest prevention strategies, including: school nutrition programs; innovative physical fitness initiatives; pediatric health care approaches; and delivering prevention messages to young people via social marketing techniques like those employed by successful advertising agencies and corporations.

If you are a public health professional, educator, community leader, policy maker or health care professional, you need to be a part of this unprecedented statewide summit. Together we will turn back the tide.