HKC Assistant Director BioClaudia L. Hohnbaum, MA, RD, LD Claudia Hohnbaum is the assistant director of Healthy Kids Challenge, a school/community based approach for children’s’ health, originated in 1998 by Cooking Light magazine. The HKC focus is to increase opportunities for healthy eating and physical activity for children in an effort to make healthy living a habit. Healthy Kids Challenge was the 2003-04 American Dietetics Association Anita Owen Award Recipient for Most Innovative Educational Program. Claudia’s work with the nationally acclaimed Healthy Kids Challenge includes the development of numerous partnerships with many national organizations and corporations across the country. HKC Partners in Health include CIGNA, Cooking Light, Mission Foods, Field Trip Factory, MidWest Dairy Council, Aquafina, AstraZeneca, Kraft Foods, Johnson & Wales University, Kansas State University, The Association of Junior Leagues, and foundations such as the Kansas Health Foundation, Sunflower Foundation-Healthcare for Kansans, the Williamsburg (VA) Community Health Foundation, and the Cluthe and William B. Oliver Foundation (TX). Healthy Kids Challenge was an invited speaker and contributor at the 2005 Midwest Regional Meeting on Preventing Childhood Obesity hosted by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and Kansas Health Foundation. Healthy Kids Challenge regularly collaborates with area and state agencies such as the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, Kansas State Department of Education, and Platte County (MO) Health Department. She is the creator of a distance assistance program for schools and youth programs across the country. As we return to school this fall, 2008, Healthy Kids Challenge will be providing technical assistance, materials, and training to over 65 schools nationwide, representing approximately 35,000 children. Claudia has been recognized at home with the distinction of being named Distinguished Dietitian for Kansas. Nationally, her work with HKC has led to many accomplishments including: Serving on the development team of Salsa, Sabor y Salud, Healthy Lifestyles for Latinos (a neighborhood program piloted in L.A. and other major cities), contributor to award winning OrganWise Guys (health messages and tools for children) and Discovery Education Lessons. Her most recent accomplishments, completed in partnership with HKC Director, Vickie L. James, RD, LD, are the development of a course for seniors in dietetics at Kansas State University, Emerging Competencies in Dietetics Practice, and a 3 year Sunflower Foundation, Healthcare for Kansans funded program, Kansas Kids C.A.N.. Kansas Kids C.A.N., coordinated by HKC dietitian, Tammy Simons, impacted over 10,000 children and their families in 16 rural counties across western Kansas. Education/Training: Selected peer-reviewed publications (in chronological order). Abstracts Hohnbaum, CL. Original Contribution: Model, Learn, and Practice - Healthy Attitudes and Choices in Schools, Vol 99 No. 9; A-72, Sept. 1999 Hohnbaum, CL and James VL. Healthy messages go to camp with kids, J Am Diet Assoc, Supp 2; Volume 102 No. 9, A-42, Sept 2002. James, VL, Hohnbaum, C L, Schwartz, R, Advancing Dietetic Students’ Core Competencies Skills, J Am Diet Assoc (Sept 08) Other Publications –Over 15 teacher/youth leader guides for integrating physical activity and/or healthy eating skill building activities into core curriculum and daily practices. All activities are developed using evidence-based information. Among the publications is an action guide for changing environments called Take Healthy Action. Research Support American Dietetic Association Foundation and General Mills Champion Grant, Platte, Missouri, 2002-ongoing, Co-Investigator (Increase healthy breakfast and snack consumption among elementary age children, along with increasing minutes of physical activity per day) Healthy Lifestyles for Young Latinos Grant Project, 2002, Consultant/Developer, Kraft Foods, 4 U.S. pilot communities (Develop and implement a community center-based nutrition and physical activity program for Latino families) S.H.I.P. School Health Initiative Project, Williamsburg, Virginia, and in collaboration with The Medical Foundation, Boston, MA
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