At the May meeting, the TSET Board of Directors approved funding for the Youth Action for Health Leadership (YAHL) program, the second phase of the TSET Healthy Youth Initiative.
Teens are facing increasing threats to good health as rates of vaping and obesity continue to climb in Oklahoma and nationally. Many of Oklahoma’s poor health rankings can be attributed to three preventable health behaviors – smoking, poor nutrition, and sedentary lifestyle. YAHL offers youth the opportunity to positively impact Oklahoma's numbers by promoting healthy behaviors. Teens will work on public health activities that make it easier to live healthy, active, tobacco-free lives.
YAHL is now accepting partner applications online from schools and organizations that would like to be a part of the program. The YAHL Partner Program is open to high school student clubs and organizations in Oklahoma. Being youth led, YAHL enables teens to learn leadership skills and encourages them to take significant ownership of activities and initiatives. YAHL provides in-depth training to youth, ongoing support for partners and all the materials needed for activities.
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FROM THE JOURNAL RECORD:
Jade Owen joined TSET in April as our newest Program Officer working with grantees in the TSET Healthy Living Program.
Owen received her Master of Public Health in Health Promotion Sciences from the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center (OUHSC), and is a Certified Health Education Specialist. She was most recently the Community Outreach Coordinator for the Oklahoma Nutrition Information and Education (ONIE) Project at the OUHSC.
As the coordinator, Owen had the opportunity to plan, implement, and evaluate numerous nutrition and physical activity interventions with a focus on low-income audiences with partners from many sectors including state, tribal, and local governments, schools, health care providers, private businesses and individuals. Among her projects, Owen worked to increase farmers markets involved with SNAP and double bucks from 10 to now 48 across the state.
“TSET is investing in high-level work in nutrition, physical activity and tobacco control across the state,” said Owen. “Through TSET, my passion, talents and knowledge can help people take charge of their health, and help our grantees make lasting changes in the communities they serve.”
As a volunteer, Owen served as the Co-Chair of the Oklahoma City County Health Department’s Wellness Now Physical Activity and Nutrition Workgroup, the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma’s Leadership Council, and the Oklahoma City Young Nonprofit Professionals Network. Additionally, she is an Alumni of Leadership Oklahoma City’s LOYAL program and was named a NextGen Under 30 Awardee in 2019.
“I am passionate about helping people gain access to the tools and resources they need to live a healthy life.”
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On May 11, TSET Executive Director Julie Bisbee participated in a virtual panel on childhood food insecuirty with Ryan Walters, CEO of Every Kid Counts Oklahoma; Stacy Dykstra, CEO of Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma; and Chris Bernard, Executive Director of Hunger Free Oklahoma.
Good nutrition is vital to good health - especially for children. While Oklahoma children have struggled with food insecurity in the past, the COVID-19 pandemic has made a detrimental impact on families who are already struggling. Across Oklahoma, food assistance programs saw a 30% increase in need for Oklahoma families facing food insecurity - many facing food insecurity for the first time.
Watch the full panel.
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Take a deeper look at food insecurity and how TSET channeled resources into addressing the problem during the coronavirus pandemic. The current episode of the TSET Better Health podcast highlights a few inspiring stories from recipients of the 2020 TSET Food Systems Impact Grants.
Available on TSET's TSET website and everywhere podcasts are listened to: Spotify, TuneIn, Stitcher, PodBean, Google Podcasts and Apple Podcasts.
The OCASCR Steering Committee met recently and awarded seven research grants and three equipment grants. Those grants will fund research to combat chronic disease and improve the health of Oklahomas.
Grants awarded included:
- Joshua Thomas Butcher, Ph.D. (OSU; Department of Physiological Sciences) Establishing a NanoCellect Wolf Cell Sorter at OSU
- Michael Detamore, Ph.D. (OU-Norman; School of Biomedical Engineering) Chondroinductive Peptide for Cartilage Regeneration
- Xi-Din Ding, Ph.D. (OUHSC; Department of Cell Biology) Programing Human iPSC Differentiation into a Photoreceptor-rich Cell Population for Retinal Degeneration Therapy
- Gary Gorbsky, Ph.D. (OMRF; Cell Cycle and Cancer Biology Program) Abrupt Aneuploidy Surge in Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells
- Kenneth Humphries, Ph.D. (OMRF; Aging and Metabolism Research Program) Seahorse XFe96 Analyzer for High-throughput Screening of Cellular Metabolism in Rare and Specialized Cells
- Judith A. James, M.D., Ph.D. (OMRF; Arthritis & Clinical Immunology Research Program) Role of Dysregulated Myelopoiesis in SLE Pathogenesis
- Sathish Srinivasan, Ph.D. (OMRF; Cardiovascular Biology Research Program) Mechanisms of Heart Valve Dysfunction
- Leonidas Tsiokas, Ph.D. (OUHSC; Department of Cell Biology) Acquisition of a Super-resolution System for the Study of Organelle Structures in Adult Stem Cells
- Matthew Walters, Ph.D. (OUHSC; Department of Medicine) HEYL Function in Airway Epithelial Differentiation, Regeneration and Disease
- Kurt Zimmerman, Ph.D. (OUHSC; Department of Internal Medicine) Research to Study How Fetal and Adult Mouse Stem Cells Become Tissue Macrophages
Learn more about TSET's investment in research.
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