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Conference Abstractsstates, jurisdictions and facilities intending to implementenvironmental change interventions in child care settingsmay want to include explicit training on the policies andtheir implementation in order to maximize compliance.Systems Change from the Perspective ofStudent Health Educators: Lessons LearnedFrom our Community CoalitionSandra Bejarano, BS, The University of Texas at El Paso, HispanicHealth Disparities Research Center; Sujehy Arredondo, BS,The University of Texas at El Paso, Hispanic Health DisparitiesResearch Center; Holly Mata, MS, PhD(c), CHES, The Universityof Texas at El Paso, Hispanic Health Disparities ResearchCenter; Sharon Davis, MPH, PhD, MCHES, The University ofTexas at El Paso, Department of Public Health SciencesIn previous work, we have highlighted the importance ofcommunity/academic collaboration to enhance healtheducation efforts in our region as a public health imperative.Along with our community partners, we have leveragedour ongoing partnerships to increase the reach and impactof community coalitions involved in HIV and STI outreach,prevention, and intervention programs. As student healtheducators interning with a NIH health disparities researchcenter, we believe that our practicum experience enhancesboth our individual competence in the NCHEC Areas ofResponsibility for Health Educators and our communitycapacity for addressing health disparities in the U.S. – Mexicoborder region. The real world experience acquired throughpartnerships and coalitions not only strengthens ourprofession and our perceived competence as health educators,it also helps to create sustainable collaborative initiativeswith community based organizations, other academicinstitutions, health care providers, and most importantlywith the community itself. The purpose of the coalition is toprovide basic information about HIV/AIDS to the community,change the stigma that currently exists towards people whoare living with HIV/AIDS, and promote testing for everyonerather than only among what have traditionally been thoughtof as high-risk specific groups. The purpose of our healtheducation efforts through the coalition are to highlight ethnicand gender disparities in HIV prevalence and to provideaccurate and culturally situated information that will reducerisk behaviors and promote testing in our community. Duringthe first coalition-sponsored free HIV testing and educationevent, we provided information about disparities in HIVprevalence and testing rates among Latinas, and bilingualand bicultural quality health education materials that wereresponsive to community-level data. We also developed anevaluation tool to help the coalition assess the educationalimpact of the event and shared results of the evaluationwith the coalition members, and will be sharing with thecommunity. We share our “lessons learned” regarding how ourskills have benefited the community, and how these types ofevents bring more confidence to us as health educators andadvocates. We also discuss how we model systems changein health education through our coalition which includesphysicians, community health workers, researchers, healtheducation specialists, patient advocates, and social workers.Concurrent Session B2Strengthening Connectionsand Collaborations (C2) forImproved Health OutcomesRoom: Studio BHealthy Campus 2020:Connect, Collaborate, and CreateCynthia Burwell, Ed.D., MCHES, RKT, Department ofHealth, Physical Education, and Exercise Science/NorfolkState University; Jim Grizzell, MBA, MA, MCHES, ACSM-HFS, California State Polytechnic University PomonaHealthy Campus 2020 is a comprehensive set of healthobjectives for health promotion and disease prevention forthe college and university community. The objectives arepatterned after the Healthy People 2020 initiative. The focus ofthe objectives are college students and for the first time facultyand staff. The American College Health Association’s NationalHealth Objectives Coalition (NHO) collaborated with otherhigher education organizations utilizing the interorganizationalrelations theory to finalize the objectives for this decade. Thissession will provide a history of the healthy campus process,steps taken to choose and eliminate objectives and thesteps to prioritize the population/concentration areas. Thesession will review the progress of the Healthy Campus 2010objectives using the ACHA-NCHA database. This session willoffer a discussion of the 3-4-50 principle to address chronicdisease issues for faculty and staff. The session will providea discussion about the online tools that can be used toidentify, plan, and implement the health promotion agenda.Network Development for Data Development:The Community Health Informatics ProjectElaine Hicks, MSLIS, MPH, MCHES, Rudolph MatasLibrary of the Health Sciences, Tulane UniversityLocal public health departments will soon participate in thenational Health Information Exchange. The Community HealthInformatics Project, a partnership between University ofIllinois Champaign-Urbana (UIUC) and the Champaign-UrbanaPublic Health District (CUPHD), is step toward communityaccess to data. The project transformed a collection of dataand statistics into an easily-accessible web portal and aninformal service became a sustainable partnership amongthe UIUC Illinois Informatics Initiative, faculty in two schools,and a health department. The vision is that each year, a newgroup of students will work on a new problem or project.Background: In 2005, faculty at UIUC and staff at the CUPHDcreated the Public Health Online Database which becameobsolete because the project design lacked sustainability.In 2009, a UIUC Public Engagement grant to the CommunityInformatics Initiative of the Graduate School for Library andInformation Science was awarded a grant from the UIUC ViceChancellor which formalized the relationship and created amethod to sustaining the database. Theoretical Framework:This project applies Stage Theory, a three-stage continuumof network development from informal to formal, explainedby Interorganizational Relations Theory which describes thesocial ecology of multiple organizations to achieve change.Methods: Three graduate students student interns fromMCHES SessionsSOPHE 62nd Annual Meeting23