Staff| Action For Healthy Kids

Meet the Team

Chair— Shelly Roth Beiting
SBeiting@ChildrensHungerAlliance.org

Children's Hunger Alliance

Shelly has led the Ohio Action for Healthy Kids team since 2005. She is Senior Vice-President of Strategic Partnerships at Children's Hunger Alliance.

Zone 1 — Northwest Ohio—
Lucas, Fulton, Williams, Defiance, Paulding, Henry, Wood, Seneca, Sandusky, and Ottawa

Zone 1 Leader - Jan Meyer

jmeyer@OhioAFHK@gmail.com Ohio Action for Healthy Kids

Jan has been a part of the team since 2002. She was involved with the 2002 AFHK Summit in Washington, DC., where the team identified the goals and objectives they wanted Ohio to address, and developed a plan to implement them. To this day, Ohio still uses those goals as a focus of its work. Jan finds her work with Ohio AFHK as very rewarding and enjoyable.

Zone 2 — Northwest Ohio —

Allen, Hancock, Putnam, Van Wert, Mercer, Auglaize, Logan and Hardin.

Zone 2 leader— Janet Bassitt

jbassitt@auglaizehealth.org

Auglaize County Health Department

I joined the Ohio Action For Healthy Kids team in 2004 as the Zone 2 Leader. I have worked as the Health Education Director at the Auglaize County Health Department since 1985. I became aware of the Ohio Action For Healthy Kids in 2003 through my work with a regional Cardiovascular Health Program. I have had much experience implementing projects addressing student health risk behaviors in our local schools. Getting involved with the Ohio Action For Healthy Kids seemed to be a good match for me.

Zone 3 — Northcentral Ohio —

Lorain, Cuyahoga, Medina and Summit.

Zone 3 leader— Donna Cook

COOKD1@ccf.org

Cleveland Clinic

Zone 4 — Northeast Ohio —

Ashtabula, Lake, Geagua, Portage, Columbiana, Trumbull, and Mahoning.

Zone 4 leader— Betsy Barringer

ebarringer@ccesc.k12.oh.us

Columbiana County Education Service Center

Zone 5 — Southeast Ohio —

Perry, Morgan, Monroe, Fairfield, Ross Hocking, Athens, Meigs, Washington, Pike, Vinton, Jackson, Scioto, Galia and Lawrence.

Zone 5 leader— Court Witschey

cvh@washco-ohhealth.org

Washington County Health Department

Zone 6 — Southwest Ohio —

Hamilton, Butler, Warren, Clinton, Fayette, Highland, Adams, Brown and Clermont.

Zone 6 leader— Krys Hess

cohessk@ovsd.us

Ohio Valley School District

Krys became involved in 2006 after hearing about the organization through other programs in which she was actively involved (Adam-Brown Diabetes Task Force and Adams-Brown Heart Health Coalition). She is concerned about the health and nutrition of today’s children and is always looking for ways that she can help. Krys became zone leader at the beginning of the 2009 and have had a tremendous amount of help with all activities from the devoted members of her zone.

Zone 7 — East Central Ohio —

Stark, Tuscarawas, Carroll, Jefferson, Harrison, Coshocton, Guernsey, Belmont, Muskingum and Noble.

Zone 7 leader— Deanna Putman

DPutman@ChildrensHungerAlliance.org

Children's Hunger Alliance

Deanna's first contact with OAFHK occurred at the state-wide summit held in Oct. 2003 which she attended with other Children’s Hunger Alliance staff. After the summit, she started working closely with Zones 5 and 7 and became the Zone 7 Leader in 2004. In 2007, Deanna was given the opportunity to work more closely with Zones 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 as the liaison between the local efforts and the state steering committee.

Deanna also represents the Ohio Afterschool Network on both the state steering committee and the executive committee.

Zone 8 — Central Ohio —

Union, Delaware, Licking, Pickaway, Madison and Franklin.

Zone 8 leader— Jan Ritter

jan.ritter@nationwidechildrens.org

Nationwide Children's Hospital

Zone 9 — Western Ohio —
Shelby, Champaign, Clark, Green, Montgomery, Preble, Darke and Miami counties.

Zone 9 leader— Sara Pappa

spappa@gcchd.org

Greene County Combined Health District

Zone 10 — Northcentral Ohio —
Erie, Huron, Wyandot, Crawford, Richland, Ashland, Wayne, Holmes, Knox, Morrow and Marion.

Zone 10 interim leader— Jan Meyer