Workshop and Event Facilitation

 

Connect Nutrition offers workshop and event planning services to educate and enhance others' skills in the areas of food and nutrition science, public policy, and program management.

 

Kelly has extensive workshop planning, facilitation, training, and public speaking experience. Her interactive speaking style is both educational and motivational.

 

Drawing on her dynamic  background in supervision and management, customer service, sales, government, non-profit, and education she creates programs tailored to meet her audience's unique needs. Her workshops are entertaining, practical, and immediately useful.

 

Farm Bill 2007 

Farm Bill Education

Kelly organized and facilitated Farm Bill Forums in the greater Seattle area in late 2006 and continues to do so through mid-2007 to raise awareness and educate hunger, nutrition, and farm advocates about the 2007 Farm Bill. 

These forums bring together various hunger advocates, small farmers, government officials, non-profit organizations, foundations, dietitians, students, and other individuals to discuss the Farm Bill and possibilities for change in legislation. Kelly has presented this information to a variety of audiences including Washington State Food and Nutrition Council, Solid Ground (formerly Fremont Public Association), 21 Acres, Community to Community, the Food Lifeline Agency Conference, Washington State University's annual conference on Women and Agriculture, several District Dietetic Associations, sustainable agriculturalists, family farmers, food bankers, nutrition students, and others.

You are welcome to download the one of the presentations and handouts used during these 2007 Farm Bill Forums.

Kelly also spoke about the Farm Bill on KUOW's The Conversation with Ross Reynolds. Follow the link and forward through to the last minutes of the segment titled, "Should Seattle Annex White Center?" to hear about the Farm Bill.

Farm Bill Advocacy

Connect Nutrition has participated in Farm Bill advocacy including drafting letters to Congress. We encourage you to write your own letter to your legislators in support of a stronger, healthier Farm Bill in 2007. You can read the letter Kelly presented in Washington, DC in February on behalf of the Washington State Food and Nutrition Council here. You can also download a sample letter here.

Tips for letter writing:

§      Address the letter to your congressman/woman. 

§      Add information about your how the Farm Bill affects your program, farm, participants, etc.

§      Clearly state your “ask” – tell them what you want.  

§      Carbon copy (cc) the letter to committee chairmen and other state representatives.

§      Send it both by email to the national office and by post to the Washington State Office - email will get there much faster due to anthrax procedures. However letters sent by post to a local office will be shipped overnight to the DC offices the next day. Postal mail has greater impact than email forms.