Engaging Community Partners To Achieve Change: The Celebrate Your Plate Social Marketing Campaign

IMPACT. 1: Building community partnerships through the State Nutrition Action Committee to achieve change at the Policy, Systems, and Environment (PSE) level. -- 2. Increasing the awareness of the importance of fruit and vegetable consumption. -- 3. Achieving a positive behavior change in the fruit and vegetable consumption of low-income families with children.OSU PARTNERS: SNAP-Ed (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program- Education), in the division of Family and Consumer Sciences in OSU ExtensionCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: The State Nutrition Action Committee, including: SNAP-Ed (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program - Education); EFNEP (Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program); Ohio Jobs and Family Services; WIC (Women, Infants, Children); Ohio Department of Aging; Ohio Department of Education; Mid-Ohio Food BankPRIMARY CONTACT: Elizabeth Hustead ([email protected])The objective of the Celebrate Your Plate Social Marketing Campaign is to increase fruit and vegetable consumption among SNAP-eligible families (those who are at or below 185% poverty) with children across the state of Ohio. The campaign represents an investment in the citizens of Ohio who struggle with food security and nutrition issues. SNAP-Ed and SNAC are investing in the health of Ohio's families by promoting healthy, nutrition-conscious messaging encouraging individuals to increase their fruit and vegetable consumption and providing them with the tools to do so

Administrative Costs of State Defined Benefit and Defined Contribution Systems

This chapter compares the administrative costs of public sector defined benefit and defined contribution systems offered by the Federal government and many states. Administrative expenses are presented as percentages of both income and assets, and we discuss how administrative expenses might enter into the decision by a public sector employer as to whether to establish a defined contribution plan

Thinking About Funding Federal Retirement Plans

Most U.S. Federal retirement plans are now fully funded, but since plan assets must legally be invested in Federal securities, fund surpluses are used to reduce overall Federal budget deficits. As a result, current taxpayers are not charged with the cost of future Federal retirement obligations. Nevertheless, Federal rules do require the employing Federal agency to budget for current personnel’s accruing liability of retirement promises. Therefore policy decisions regarding the number of Federal civilian and military personnel and the design of their retirement benefits may be made with a better understanding of the costs

How service learning impacts identity formation and social responsibility in emerging adults

This qualitative study explores the impact of service learning experiences on identity formation and social responsibility in emerging adult college students. Utilizing purposeful convenience sampling, fourteen college students at a liberal arts college in the northeast were interviewed about their nonprofit volunteer experience. Study results indicated that service learning experience positively impacted the identity formation processes of participants by allowing for identity integration and continuity, exposure to idealized mentors in the field, space for reflection on professional identity, and a deeper understanding of social responsibility. This study has implications for clinical social workers because it offers in-depth insight into the experiences of emerging adults. By understanding and supporting the impact of service learning experiences on emerging adults, we can acknowledge an interdisciplinary dialogue about the fostering of shared values and a commitment to social justice that expands beyond the social work field

Viral video advertisements : uses and gratifications research

Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on September 12, 2012).The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file.Thesis advisor: Mike McKeanIncludes bibliographical references.M.A. University of Missouri--Columbia 2012."May 2012"This research seeks to ascertain the uses and gratifications achieved by their choice to disseminate video advertisements that they view on the internet, allowing the advertisement to spread in a viral nature. The goal is to determine what gratifications are popular among college-aged individuals and how those gratifications change depending on the type of video as well as the content. The research is completed through a series of three small group sessions and an online questionnaire made available through the questions feature on Facebook. Upon examination of the data, it becomes clear that both young men and women in the age demographic targeted by this research seek to spread these videos in order to interact socially online with their friends and potentially provide their friends with humor. Women also showed a higher sense of concern for how spreading a video would affect their reputations than did men