Health Education With Diverse Audiences

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Health Education With Diverse Audiences

• Hmong Cookbook Project
• Eau Claire County, UW-Extension

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Goals

• Increase sales of vegetables, including
  traditional Hmong vegetables, at the Eau Claire
  Farmers Market (not there yet)
• Increase awareness and maintenance of Hmong
  culture and heritage
• Increase intergenerational interaction between
  Hmong elders and the younger generation.
• Increase knowledge of Hmong dietary practices
• Link Hmong families with Extension Services

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Action or Participatory Research

• Project is designed, implemented and evaluated by
  the community
• Knowledge is generated by and for the community
• Doing with not doing for

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Partners

• Passionate people who shared similar goals
• Connections
• Work was from the heart
• Detail work
• Commitment beyond the job
• Proceeds benefit the community
• Affirming
• Interns

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Impact and Reaction

• I think it will be hard to miss the story of
  your cookbookthis is the first cookbook my
  editor of Asian Pages has featured on the cover
  in the 16 years I have been food editor. Our
  reach is 75,000 readers5 states.
• --Phyllis Louis Harris, Founder of the Asian
  Culinary Arts Institute Ltd. Dedicated to the
  preservation, understanding and enjoyment of the
  culinary arts of the Asian Pacific Rim.
• Local and Regional Media Coverage (newspapers,
  WPR, Hmong Press)

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Stories from the Community

• Literacy Volunteers Chippewa Valley
• UWEC, Continuing Education
• Thank you! Please tell my fellow Hmong people
  who contribute to make this cookbook. Im
  grateful for them.
• Thanks! Mai Lee
• Orders from California, Florida, Midwest
  libraries, and Canada

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Contact Information

• Nancy Coffey and Julie Keown-Bomar
• UW-Extension Eau Claire County
• 715-839-4712

http//www.uwex.edu/ces/cty/eauclaire/index.html