H4: Addressing Food Insecurity: Interventions, Retailer Impact, and Assessing Community Food Environments
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The H4 Session at the 2025 Annual Conference will include three presentations:
Nourish and Flourish Conversation Guides: Health Equity Resources for Mental Health Community Support Programs presented by Kelly Kunkel, MS, MCHES
Participants should leave this presentation able to: describe the process for developing health and wellbeing educational materials for individuals with chronic and persistent mental illness, demonstrate the conversation guide strategy using motivational interviewing techniques, and analyze the process for receiving and utilizing evaluation feedback from stakeholders.
Healthy Retailers to Promote Economic Vitality in Communities: The Great Grocer Project presented by Rachael Dombrowski, PhD, MPH
Participants should leave this presentation able to: describe the components of the Great Grocer Project and how this can be applied to other community settings, discuss the collaboration with local small business owners and community residents, and conduct grocer assessments with local partners to improve community food environments.
Assessing Dollar Store Food Environments and Alignment with WIC: A Multi-state Pilot Study presented by Rachael Dombrowski, PhD, MPH
Participants should leave this presentation able to: discuss the process used for developing the NEMS-DS tool and the scoring mechanisms to determine dollar store readiness for WIC, describe piloting results in stores in five of the communities assessed, and describe preliminary results from the formal assessment in all 10 sites.
This session will be moderated by LaVerne Partlow
Sponsored by SOPHE, a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. This program is designated for Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES®) and/or Master Certified Health Education Specialists (MCHES®) to receive up to 1.00 total Category I contact education contact hours. Maximum advanced-level continuing education contact hours available are 0.
La Verne Partlow (Moderator)
Health Education Coordinator
Gaston County DHHS - Public Health Division
La Verne Partlow has over 23 years of public health experience at the local and state levels. She is currently a Health Education Coordinator at the Gaston County Department of Health and Human Services ? Public Health Division. Since Spring 2011, she has been an Adjunct Professor at Johnson C. Smith University, North Carolina A&T State University and Clinton College.
Dr. Rachael Dombrowski, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Rachael Dombrowski, PhD, MPH, designs, implements and evaluates multilevel interventions to advance social justice and collectively improve community health and local food environments. Dr. Dombrowski is a faculty member of the California State University San Marcos Departments of Public Health and Kinesiology. She conducts community-based participatory research, including program development and evaluation within the Midwest, West and nation-wide. Dr. Dombrowski recently implemented the Great Grocer Project in collaboration with the Detroit Grocery Coalition, which includes an assessment of over 200 grocery stores. She is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Chicago (PhD) and the University of Michigan (MPH). She has worked in the public health field for over 20 years.
Kelly Kunkel
MS, MCHES
Kelly Kunkel is an Extension Educator in Health and Nutrition with the University of Minnesota Extension, Department of Family, Health and Wellbeing, and a master certified health education specialist (MCHES). Much of her work has been dedicated to positively changing the food environment to improve food access and choices for low-income adult and youth audiences, through programming for food shelves, childcare providers and parents, and healthy school environments. Kelly Kunkel has worked for the University of Minnesota Extension since 1994.
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