CalFresh Healthy Living 2025 Forum Poster Abstract Submission

In-person poster presentations at the CalFresh Healthy Living Forum offer the opportunity to share innovative work, best practices, and strategies that reinforce our conference theme and promote healthy eating and physical activity.

In addition to in-person posters sessions, attendees will be able to view poster abstracts in the mobile app before and after the Forum. Leah’s Pantry will also publish the posters in the Journal of Trauma-Informed Community Health, Nutrition, and Physical Activity: An Open Access Publication.

Please note: CDSS will be responsible for printing posters for the forum. The final poster templates will need to be completed by the deadline to allow enough time for printing.

Important Dates:

Poster Abstract Submission closes: November 22, 2024

Poster decision notification: December 27, 2024

Authors will receive confirmation of acceptance and follow-up Instructions: December 27, 2024

Final poster templates due: January 27, 2025

CalFresh Healthy Living 2025 Forum: March 10 – March 12, 2025

If you are visiting this site anytime after 10/3 please click Asset-Based Storytelling recorded webinar to view a recording of the training.

Poster Submission Instructions

This year, we ask local implementers to align their poster abstract with the ASNNA Race, Health, Social Equity Committee’s Guiding Principles to Embed Equity in SNAP-Ed. The CalFresh Healthy Living Forum Task Force recommends local implementers attend Asset-Based Framing & Ethical Storytelling on October 3, 2024 9:30 – 11:00 a.m. This workshop emphasizes shifting the narrative from deficits to highlighting achievements and positive outcomes and will help participants to develop posters that highlight the strengths and achievements of their CalFresh Healthy Living work.

Posters should address one of the guiding principles detailed below:

Posters should address one of the guiding principles detailed below. Poster submissions that share community success in any of the IWP sections are encouraged. The Poster Committee is also interested in posters with more than one LIA contributor.

• Starting with Strengths. Your poster submission may highlight a successful project built on the engaged community's inherent assets and infrastructure. Your poster should provide insight into one or more of the following questions:
  1. How have we prioritized the voices of those most impacted?
  2. To what extent have we shifted decision-making to the community?
  3. To what extent have we provided culturally relevant, trauma-informed care?
• Authentic Community Engagement. Your poster submission may highlight a successful project that leveraged authentic and consistent community engagement to establish a foundation of friendship, trust, capacity building, and power sharing. Share how you developed an inclusive process for connecting, informing, designing, implementing, evaluating, or sustaining nutrition security, physical activity, and systems change programs by, with, and for local communities. Your poster should provide insight into one or more of the following questions:
  1. To what extent have we built community capacity to enable them to lead and advance?
  2. To what extent have we shifted decision-making power to the community?
  3. To what extent is my community involved as co-creators in planning, implementation, defining success, and sustainability?
• Impact over Intent. Your poster submission may demonstrate how your program engaged in community dialogue to assess the impact or how participants experienced, felt, perceived, or understood your program. Your poster should provide insight into one or more of the following questions:
  1. In what ways have we acknowledged historical/current institutional racism and       oppression?
  2. How often do we ask for, receive, and prioritize feedback from community members?
  3. Have we asked for and resolved existing tensions or conflicts? How have we promoted community healing?
  4. How is community benefit at the center of our program's intentions, and how have we assessed community perceptions of these efforts?
• Cross-Sector Partnerships. Your poster submission may highlight the complex endeavor of addressing food security and overall community wellness. Your poster may describe the coordination and collaboration of various stakeholders, especially those indirect to the food system, using collective expertise and resources to enhance community strengths and opportunities and address the issues and barriers identified and prioritized by communities. Your poster should provide insight into one or more of the following questions:
  1. Who needs to be at the table making decisions?
  2. What non-traditional partnerships have we developed or maintained?
  3. What do we do regularly to cultivate and strengthen these diverse partnerships?
  4. How have we built the capacity to facilitate partnerships and play a supportive role?
  5. How have we created an environment where community partners want to work with us?

We recommend composing your proposal in a Word or Google Doc first. When your proposal is in final form, copy the text into the poster submission site. If you are experiencing upload issues, please refresh your browser or switch the browser to Chrome or Firefox.

Questions? Contact the CalFresh Healthy Living Planning Team

cfhlstatewidetraining@leahspantry.org 

or 

CFHLForum@dss.ca.gov