Janice McMahon

• Reviewed and strengthened program operations with continuous assessment of operational plans and strategies.
• Managed effective program outreach plans with strategic use of speakers and tours to enhance community engagement and increase participant numbers.
• Worked alongside local team to secure useful coverage of program goals and daily operations.

• Worked with students with moderate to severe autism to increase life skills.
• Organized instruction material, constructed bulletin boards and set up work areas.
• Assisted with monthly newsletter to parents on feeding children with special needs and family meals
• Implemented behavioral plans for students with behavior disorders or other special conditions to present and reinforce learning concepts.
• Instructed student activities to implement goals for remediation of deficiencies and drive student success.
• Observed students' performance and recorded relevant data to assess progress.
• Understood and acclimated to teacher's routine to provide classroom coverage.
• Carried out day-to-day duties with accurately and efficiently.

• Evaluated and revised lesson plans and course content to achieve student-centered learning.
• Used learning assessments to regularly monitor student understanding of class concepts and materials.
• Applied various teaching aids to minimize learning gaps and instruct and motivate students.
• Developed and clearly presented classroom rules, guidelines and objectives.
• Managed one or two classes on Culinary Nutrition each sememster

Evidence of ability to deliver effective educational programs targeting food safety, family and community needs. Course work and/or professional experience must provide a broad and significant understanding of food safety and human health.

• Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) makes positive impacts with low income families however families need help in many area of their lives. I investigated what other programs were used in other communities to help families and learned about Circles USA and that it was started in a neighboring county.
• Increasing professionals understanding of poverty through the eyes of families in poverty led to Cost of Poverty Experience for our community.

Demonstrated skill working with people as individuals, groups, and staff, and the ability to develop and lead partnerships and collaborations.

Groups, partnerships and collaborations:

· Wichita Wellness Coalition for School Health has worked on changing the vending machine to more healthful options for the Wichita school district.

· Sedgwick County Extension Office healthy meeting guidelines and mentor for fellow agents

· Northeast Wichita Coalition helping families with children zero to five eat healthy and get physically active. (This area has the highest rate of infant mortality in Kansas)

· Early and Head Start Health Committee

· Wichita Breastfeeding Coalition for professionals and for moms.

· Sedgwick County Oral Health—assisted with healthy food posters and planning details

· American Diabetes Association assisted with day camp planning, nutrition and food safety classes. Planned and present workshops for adults with diabetes.

· EC Tyree Health Clinic back to school health fair, workshop presentations for breast cancer, and grant for Small Steps for Health and Wealth.

· Nutrition educators teach at agencies and schools we coordinate this with 50 different groups.

Staff and Individuals:

· Follow hiring procedures for nutrition educators set by human relations and affirmative action. Then employees receive on the job training and following up with regular reviews and documentation for annual evaluations.

· I have also supervised many students/dietitians during their internships.

· When employees personally learning and having their “ah ha” moments.

· Encouraging an employee who needs a better paying job to care for her family and watch how the employee has blossomed and is promoted at the new job.

· The employee’s excitement when a former client tells nutrition assistant how they helped them improve their lives. Keeping experienced employees excited and motivated about their job.

· Motivating employee from teaching one on one, to small groups, to a group of 10 to 20 clients.

· Recognizing each employee’s learning style and giving them room to learn the best way for them (From throw me to the wolves to planning each and every detail).

· Placing an employee on probation when they are not getting their job priorities correct and firing employees because of lack of performance.

· Confirming suspensions that an employee has falsified reports and/or mileage and working with the state HR office to end employment.

· I am an alley for a Circle Leader for Wichita Circles Network.

Evidence of drive and initiative:

· I applied for the Katey Walker Extension Excellence Fund and received a $700 grant award to fund the Wichita Circles Network – Cost of Poverty Experience Kit for training for members. This kit has been used to train Wichita school staff, university staff and students in social work and nursing; and health departments.

· After my daughter was diagnosed with type I diabetes the popular method of counting calories (in Wichita) was the calorie point method. My staff then came to me with questions from their clients. I then figured calories and calorie points for the recipes we used in our teaching. Then I taught healthy cooking classes for families with diabetes. I had dietitians who worked in the diabetes field proof my materials.

Demonstrated use of technology in managing and/or delivery of educational programs:

· I have used the Food Processor program to evaluate of the nutritive value of recipes for handouts

· I have used WebNEERS for entering program data for evaluation.

· I have used PowerPoints in teaching classes. In the past I have created PowerPoints

· Facebook, Pinterest, Google and Outlook Calendars and Word Office Suite.

Understanding of different ethnic and socioeconomic audiences and a commitment to include diverse voices in program prioritization and planning:

· I have helped in expanding our local program development committee to include unusual voices to expand our planning.

· Through my work in the EFNEP I have hired 10 White, 7 Black, 4 Hispanic, and 1 Am. Indian.

· I have been a member of various diversity committees in the past.

Ability to communicate through teaching, public speaking/presentation and writing as demonstrated through application materials and experience:

· Provided training for the EFNEP staff on every other week basis on nutrition, food resource management, food safety, family meal time, basic budgeting, and physical activity.

· Small Steps to Health and Wealth for the black community.

· Other groups which I taught are TOPS, women from domestic violence, programs for county employees wellness program, drug rehab, maternity homes, teen parent groups, churches, prisons (federal and women's ), work release programs and men’s groups

Personal or professional commitment to diversity as demonstrated by persistent effort, active planning, allocation of resources and/or accountability for diversity outcomes

· I have worked with youth, adults, parent groups, and seniors on occasion.

· I have worked with translators and deaf interpreters to communicate the nutrition message.

· Sedgwick County program data from 13-14

Sedgwick County Population

72%

10%

13%

1%

4%

Race

White

Black

Hispanic

American Indian

Asian

EFNEP Adult Audience

36%

17%

33%

3%

11%

Ability to work effectively in a multi-county, multi-program environment as evidenced by previous work experience or educational background

• When I was in Leavenworth County I was part of a 5 county team which shared teaching of Family Community Educator lessons and youth judging kits in family consumer s
• In Sedgwick County I worked with 4-H department with youth day camps and school enrichment projects.
• With other nutrition staff worked together on health fairs: germs house for hand washing, giant artery with plaque for heart health, inflatable pyramid and games. Staff members worked together on a grant from Susan G Komen which provided lunch and health topics to public. .Part of the program was healthy eating which I presented
• Walk Kansas crosses all FCS programs areas and our staff of 4-5 agents worked together to promote this program to all citizens of the county.

Experience or coursework in audience needs identification, program development, experiential learning and evaluating the results of programs.

• Attended trainings at FCS updates, Annual Conference, Spring Action Conference, EFNEP state trainings.
• I have used WebNEERS (EFNEP) and Kansas Program Impact Collection System (KPICS)
• I prefer using experiential learning with Dr. Joye Norris style of dialogue teaching.
• The entire EFNEP staff have taken Design for Learning class

Knowledge of or experience with facilitation skills in a public setting, experience working in community development or community capacity building.

• Completed LEADS training Leadership Excellence and Dynamic Solutions
• Completed Circles USA training
• Member of Guiding Coalition for Wichita Circles Network

Experience with the media and web-based information delivery methods

• Agents in our county rotated times on KSN noon new segments (NBC new affiliate) and I substituted for a coworker who has a weekly standing spot on KWCH noon news (a CBS news affiliate) I also have done radio spots.
• In Leavenworth I had a weekly column “Jammin’ with Jan.
• I also have written numerous handouts, newsletters, and newspaper columns for Extension.

Skill in the recruitment, training and management of volunteers

• I have assisted our Program Development Committee recruit a more diverse group.
• I assisted with Master Food Volunteer training and program management.
• We have many interns and practicum students that we supervise so they can learn about more diverse groups.
• Majority of our volunteers are at agencies that assist and coordinate with our adult and youth programming. In addition, we have adult and youth volunteers from United Way, schools, and Master Food volunteers who assist us in the office getting items ready for classes.
• Many skills in supervising nutrition educators can be used with volunteers like conflict resolution, training, paperwork, and the ups and downs of life.
• It is important also to be the volunteer. I am a volunteer for Wichita Circles Network, my church, humane society, and American Diabetes Association.

Demonstrated ability and/or training in resource generation (grants, contracts, fundraising, etc.).

• While doing EFNEP I also worked on Snap Ed grant for 4 years. The program grew from no program assistants to two. When Snap Ed agent was on sabbatical and I supervising agent for the program assistants.
• I have received grants from health department which we were able to give electric skillets to the outstanding student in the nutrition classes at the welfare to work agency.
• The Family Meal Time Literacy program Boeing Aircraft sponsored. Clients received at graduation fun children books on food and/or nutrition to read after the family meal.
• K State Extension Development grants for various school enrichment programs on beverages and healthy eating.
• The Katey Walker grant was for public policy and I received the grant to purchase the Cost of Poverty Experience for the Wichita Circles Network to help train volunteers. I also have used it for teacher and agency in service trainings and have reached approximately 400 individuals this year.
• Wichita Foundation funded incentives and books for the Small Steps for Health and Wealth classes
• We received the Shopping Matters grant through No Kid Hungry

Knowledge of and experience with conflict resolution

• Sedgwick County originally had two offices. There was a huge lack of appreciation, trust, and respect between offices. I inherited a tradition of a monthly newsletter on a topic and recipes. These trainings were held at the other office since they had a full kitchen. We invited a different agent each month to taste current months recipes that would be used with the clients, eventually other agents were asked to do trainings. In time the other agents understood what the EFNEP was and the nutrition educators were respected as a way to reach non-traditional audiences. The nutrition educator understood regular Extension better and started referring clients to traditional Extension classes. Then our agencies started requesting agents to programs for them.
• When I began in Sedgwick County the EFNEP staff was not a team. However, through various group projects and activities they began working together and utilizing each other strengths.
• Attended workshops on conflict resolution.

Ability to speak Spanish:

· Working with individuals who do not speak English well is not a barrier for me. I have use used a translator, handouts in their language, gestures, and demonstrations to educate.