Join experts from
No Kid Hungry Center for Best Practices,
Medical University of South Carolina, and
Presbyterian Healthcare Services in a webinar on How To: Start a Summer Meal Program at Your Hospital. Two of those experts are Leigh Caswell and Trish Moore from Albuquerque, both affiliated with the Center for Community Health at Presbyterian Healthcare Services.
Time: 1pm- 2pm EST (11am-Noon MST)
Date: April 11th, 2018
Speaker Bios
Derrick Lambert leads the summer meals strategy within the No Kid Hunger Center for Best Practices. Prior to joining Share Our Strength in 2016, Derrick worked as a Program Manager with Hunger Free Vermont, where he worked with state agency staff, school districts and statewide partners to initiate and expand implementation of a range of federal child nutrition programs, with a special focus on summer meals. Derrick has a Master’s Degree in International Political Economy from the University of Kent (England) and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Union University. Derrick is also a former educator, having spent four years teaching at public secondary and post-secondary institutions.
Debbie Petitpain, is a registered dietitian with Sodexo at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. As the Wellness Dietitian in the Office of Health Promotion, she develops programs to advance health on MUSC campus and in the community. In 2016, she received a Hero of Everyday Life award for her work establishing the first hospital-based USDA Summer Meal Program in the Southeast with the Kids Eat Free at MUSC program, which has provided over 13,000 free summer meals to kids in the first 3 years.
Leigh Caswell is Director of The Center for Community Health at Presbyterian Healthcare Services.In this role, she directs initiatives, strategy and operations that support the community health priorities of the largest not-for-profit health system in New Mexico. This includes convening partnerships and leveraging funds to tackle barriers to health across the state. The Healthy Here Wellness Referral Center, Mobile Farmers’ Market and FreshRX, which provides prescriptions to patients for produce, are among the initiatives Leigh has developed at Presbyterian to promote prevention, increase health equity and enhance the effectiveness of clinical interventions. Under her leadership, Presbyterian was named one of 32 national participants in the Accountable Health Communities model, which is testing how communities can address the health-related social needs of people enrolled in Medicare and Medicaid. A Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Culture of Health Leader, she has a Masters of Public Health from the University of New Mexico
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Trish Moore serves as Project Coordinator at The Center for Community Health at Presbyterian Healthcare Services. She has a passion to alleviate child hunger in her community and state. Since September of 2015 she has lead the At-Risk Child, Youth, and Family Services Division Feeding Program and Summer Feeding Program sponsored by USDA across the largest health system in New Mexico. She has brought on 5 Presbyterian hospitals, serving approximately 20,000 children ages 1-18 and counting. Trish supports the Bridge Organization on the new Accountable Health Communities model to address the health-related social needs of people enrolled in Medicare and Medicaid, such as unstable housing, food insecurity, utility needs, violence and transportation. Presbyterian will serve as a hub linking clinical and community services in Bernalillo County. She is certified as a facilitator for the My Chronic Disease Pain and Diabetes Self-Management classes that help participants take control and better manage their chronic conditions. From 2010-2014 Trish served as Research Assistant in the Presbyterian Cancer Center providing support for patients and their families, reporting clinical trial results, and data submission.
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