Welcome. I'm Tom Collins. I'm president of the Barnes Foundation, and it's a great pleasure to have you here this afternoon. Thank you to everyone who stood by us during our fire drill. I appreciate that. You'll be pleased to know it was our second one of the week, so it took us approximately half the time to get through it today. Thanks for sticking around. I'm going to introduce the program in the interest of concision and in the interest of acknowledging the many institutions and people that helped us on this program. I'm going to read. I hope you'll indulge me for just two minutes, because the rest of this is going to be rather freewheeling. So the last time you'll see notes. Earlier this year, we here at the Barnes Foundation completed a new institutional strategic plan that is intended to guide us as we grow the Barnes Service, our artistic, educational, and social service, into our second century, which begins in 2022. At the heart of this new strategic plan is our commitment to pioneer and pursue strategies for making Dr. Barnes' twin passions on the one hand progressive education about and through the visual arts, and on the other, diversity, inclusion, and social justice to evolve those into the 21st century. You've joined us today for the first in what we imagine will be a series of two by four innovation forums in which we will discuss one set of challenges we face as we attempt to carry out this mission. We've explicitly committed ourselves in this new plan to the goal of mirroring the diversity of Philadelphia in our audiences, our staff, and our board. And so we lead today with a very broad question, how can we grow our audience to be more reflective of Philadelphia? To help us answer this question, we have brought together two distinguished colleagues to my right, your left, who are leaders in this field. Maria Arias, who is vice president of diversity and inclusion at Comcast Corporation, and probably many of you know Siobhan Reardon. Siobhan is the president and director of the Free Library of Philadelphia. Terrific colleagues, and I'm so glad they're here today. Thank you very much. And we are here together with four students from Drexel University's Exite Center, Nicole Feller Johnson, Marin Larson, Mai Noyan, and Kenneth Nimley. Welcome. Thank you for being here. And I want to acknowledge two of my colleagues here at the Barnes Foundation. First, Barbara Wong, who is our new director of community engaged in Barbers here in the front. Please join me in welcoming Barbara to the staff. And many of you probably know Shelly Bernstein. Shelly is our deputy director for digital initiatives, but all chief experience officer. And you're gonna be hearing a bit from Shelly today. This is really Shelly's brainchild, so Shelly, thank you very much. And together, we are all going to share first some data, and then we're gonna talk through its implications. Each of our partners from the Exite Center will then have a few minutes to present one or more specific ideas about audience diversification in this program. And then finally, we're gonna open things up to conversation. And we have a hard stop at right around 4.30, so we promise we will be as quick as we can. I want to acknowledge that the data that Shelly's gonna be presenting to kick off each of four discussion topics today was produced in cooperation with Be Heard Philly, which is Temple University's Institute for Survey Research. And this working group has used this data throughout the week in a series of private conversations that lead us up to this moment. So you'll be hearing a few select data points momentarily. And so before I turn things over to Shelly, I want to thank Exite Center's Young Lu Kim and Carol Lindstrom for helping us to both plan and populate this conversation with really extraordinary new colleagues. I'd also like to thank Drexel University's LaBeau College of Business for their critical sponsorship of this first two-by-four forum. And with that, Shelly Bernstein. Let's see how we're doing. And this is how we're doing today. These are the demographics of Philadelphia. And these are the Barnes demographics of our audiences. This does not include the school partnerships that we work with. So there are 11,000 school kids that are not represented by this data. But what you see here is a pretty stark difference. And I'm gonna throw this right back to Tom to start talking about it. So how I'm gonna proceed today is Shelly's gonna offer a data point and a little bit of analysis. This is the first. And then I'm gonna turn immediately to our experts. And I'm gonna ask them first for some general observations about this data. Studies, for example, some of the studies we've reviewed in preparation. Very much a Center City institution is present. So our users actually reflect the better part of the demographics of the city of Philadelphia just because of the nature of our work. And so naturally, there is a variation and we see it as well in our programming and usership. What happens here in Center City is not what happens in our neighborhood libraries. And so therefore your services and your reach and the way you have the conversation with community is necessarily different. And so you do look at education levels, literacy levels, you look at access issues. And for many Philadelphians, one of the things Philadelphians don't do easily is traverse neighborhoods. It's not, most people are not gonna come easily from North Philadelphia or West Philadelphia to come to Center Cities. And so therefore, as Maria said, there is a real opportunity for the Barnes to understand who's in association in these neighborhoods so that their reach is much more broad spectrum. Very serious challenge, we have some very nuanced data about who's coming to the Barnes and from what zip codes in the city. And we have neighborhoods we simply don't reach. And I'm wondering to consider as we imagine how we get over that.  You know, you watch where you spend your money and if it's Center City or buying food for your family, those are the decisions that are being made. And so how is it we understand the local economies in some of these neighborhoods and how every single citizen has the right to access to what's here in the Barnes. And so how is it we push that out, I think. So it's an issue in librarianship and one of the things that we talk about within our own libraries is we are a fairly passive profession and we wait for people to come through the door through up those big giant steps into this temple of knowledge and ask us a reference question. Well, that's not happening anymore. And so the paradigm shift is actually looking more deeply into community to understand what that relation needs to be so that people are actually using the free library. Of course, is that we're here, populations that you are going to be serving, many sub-populations. So you, in addition to the low income and representation. This is a relatively new enterprise for the Barnes and many cultural institutions, but you did something very novel which I think is suggestive. So free library of Philadelphia. And so we're very excited that we have half a million card holders. That's a giant number. There's 1.6 million people that live here in Philadelphia, but I'd like us to have 1.6 million card holders, right? So what we did was, there's exists and it's pretty dispersed around the city, but what it is was really home addresses that where there wasn't a card, this gives us an opportunity to understand at a very hyper-local level where it is we are marketing efforts need to go, the kind of outreach efforts we need to sort of pursue in our local neighborhood and live spots where there's not even, it is so interesting. So we have what any number of 20 libraries in West Philadelphia, so you can walk among many of them. The issues for us is that we have come to discover in some locations we've established a hotspot to try and reach communities at a very hyper-local level where we put a digital learning center in a local person we've began working with never crossed the transom of a public library, blew us away, said we have to change our issues around, so what are the barriers? So clearly not only the physical barriers exist, but there's also the intellectual barriers that we present in the way we present our materials or even present ourselves. We sit behind these big desks and we've got these big computers and it's a pretty intimidating process. And so as we look at our 21st century library initiative, it is all about breaking down those threshold for the first time, what we have to think about, what we have to do, so we'll circle back to that and we'll return things to Shelly for lightning round two. So lightning round two is about what I have visited, but much less of one for those who have not, versus almost true for the special exhibitions, of those who have visited, it's less of a driver, but of those who have not visited, it's more of a drive. Start to see that same kind of data trend happen in the public programs as a primary driver, where you see those who have not visited, that's a fairly substantial rise there for those who have visited. Interestingly, there's a 31.6% crossover rate, which means if you're gonna get- The collection, they're going, and so, but anyway, so there we are. And I was like, it wouldn't be interesting, it's about how it is you attract people by using less classical methods and to sort of, so, it's almost like, where's Waldo? And so, I do think that art can be intimate, think that there's that, there's that sort of, how do we make sure that people understand this is for everybody, because as we were saying yesterday, that many of the artists who produced this work were starving, hungry, homeless, pretty desperate people, and so relating those stories. I think the storytelling around I think is incredible and it has tremendous reach, no matter group of people that really are, just love to get at information, absorb information, dissect information, and figure out who is it that they can share this with, which is why places like this and beer gardens and restaurants and just the Johnny Brenda's, which is my favorite place, to just to really sort of dive deep into a topic and really explore. It's so simple but so profound, which is that to attract people to an institution like this, people have to be able to see themselves in what is happening here in some way. And I'm wondering if you're using technology to the local neighborhoods and into whether you use the library as your venue or say for instance, you wanna use, you can stream images to what do you see? How do you see it? What does it mean to you? Because I do think it really does help with that translation. You're not thinking very different cultural assets to them and you know, we speak one way here in Center City because we're kind of an intellectual hub. I'm just gonna say that there isn't intellectual hubs throughout the city. I think what we have to do is push out as everything and access becomes the... So we talked pretty extensively yesterday about two particular challenges the Barnes faces. One is the fact of course that it is a collection that we're best known for a collection of European modernism. And if we're talking about offering diverse audiences an opportunity to see themselves and what we do here, we have to figure out how to create a reception horizon that extends from that work, which is principally white and privileged and male, produced at least in that way to an audience that does not look like that. Suggestions about what we do. Artists in other communities, different diverse. There's almost kind of this is, but it's broader than this because art is really a story to tell. Conversation has to change to what you see as a person in the 21st century, what that object means to you and what's happening in that image. It's probably different and that conversation is necessarily because I know some of the students were challenged by what they were seeing. And so, and that's fair because in the way that we have NASA society, there's much more progress and conversations are necessary. Sort of the, I think what also doesn't get discussed about the Barnes, which is probably some of the, to me some of the most interesting parts of the collection is all of the African artisans and it is an amazing collection, but I think that there's just so much more to explore when you think about everything else that's here and then what that means culturally because I think you really can get into some of the cultural aspects of from. Alluding to another part of the conversation we have yesterday and this is germane to what I refer to as our other unique challenge here at the Barnes, which is that historically this institution has not invested in unpacking the ideas and the histories that are represented by the pictures and objects in our collection beyond the method that was pioneered by Dr. Barnes, which is, we loosely relate now to visual literacy education and that is something we're actively doing and by unpacking those ideas, by telling those stories, we create many more points of entry, many more points of connection and I think we'll probably hear some ideas that are related to that idea momentarily but lightning round two is now over. We move on to lightning free. The social visit with friends or family is in fact a primary driver. In fact, it's almost 63, 67% among both groups. Visits as a primary driver is something that is incredibly important. To have visited it's only 20%, but of those who have not, their look, it's a 42%. So those who have not visited, people state for not visiting museums at all, like museums were very, very hot. What was the age, what was the average, you know, since here for them because other sets of data that we have, the consideration of cost is roughly equal among the two groups. For those who have visited, it's in those who have not visited 27%. So we start to see that tide shift.  It is certainly conflicted in our onsite data versus the data that we've captured here. Especially if it's really enticing free programming that's gonna get out some social issue or some amazing conversation that folks have been wanting to have. It hasn't arisen and all of a sudden there it is. But you have to remember, so Daniel, so that doesn't surprise me either because this is a group of people that loves to be informed. They are at information, information gathering. And if it's for free, they're going. And if there's a free beer there, there's a civic engagement on a lot of this. And I think that that's social justice as a main thing, it's consistent in the quality. It was surprising. We did diversify our audiences pretty wildly during some of these free programs. But there was a large, unpredictably large percentage of people that came to those free events that were in our typical demographic. This is the tip of the iceberg. But you get some sense of the landscape that we've covered in some of these private conversations and some sense of the questions that we're asking of ourselves and we're being asked by members of our community. I would like now to turn things to our guests from Drexel's Excite Center. And I believe, Mark's gonna give us an introduction. Student in Drexel's new design research program as well as fashion design. I'm going to talk with you a little bit today about our rebranding strategies. Early focusing on building relationships with millennials and underserved populations provided to us by Be Heard Philly. When you're looking at the left-hand side word cloud, that represents old perceptions, ideas that people have about the Barnes Foundation. The perceptions that we hear repeated are in larger type. So you can see where people's priorities are, what they're thinking about the situation, how the history of the Barnes has contributed to their perception of what's here now. On the left, we have an idealized word cloud, which is our vision of what we'd like to communicate about Barnes, what we're hearing being here as part of a team, what we're hearing from staff members, what we're hearing about the Barnesian philosophy. To this end, our education and community, which we believe are at the core of your values here. And social use with friends. We want people to see the Barnes Museum as a place of creation and exploration, not a staid collection. And so we've created the hashtag I belong Barnes because we want people to know that it is a place of welcoming and they have a place here. It is not just for one demographic. It's also like to reintroduce the Barnes totem as a new Philadelphia icon. I am a native Philadelphia and I know how strongly we feel about our art and architecture as symbols of who we are as a city. We're very connected to our landmarks and the Barnes Foundation is fortunate enough to have an Ellsworth Kelly beautiful totem that we believe people could use as a touchstone, place of meeting, and very importantly to a younger generation, a selfie spot. Photography is not allowed in the galleries because of danger to the art and artifacts and young people and even children need a place to take that picture. Sometimes we're looking for an improved social media rollout. Currently the Barnes does not have a Snapchat presence and for anyone in our age group we all know that's an absolute necessity for getting information to us. And you can see in this beautiful puppy picture of Marin that we took that the Philly geotag is the only one available to you when you're at the Barnes. There is no Barnes Foundation geotag and in addition to creating a Barnes Foundation geotag we think it would be a good idea to have geotags of various locations within the Barnes. The Barnes is not just a museum, it's gardens, it's classrooms. There are all different settings here that encourage people to explore the grounds. In these lines we notice that Facebook also only has a single check-in point, an official check-in point for the Barnes, but we feel that by putting more check-in points throughout the museum grounds we would encourage people to experience more of the space and give them more of a reason to return. We would like to introduce a digital guest book because we want people to see themselves in the collection as Shyvana Maria said over and over again it's very important to people to have their identity represented in something, to find an access point. So upon entering the museum we would, you could have digital photograph taken that would be uploaded to the site and you could put filters on it that would be Cubist or Impressionist as the regular collection determines or if you want a folk art filter or something else that more fully represents you that would be available as well and you could go onto our website to find your image which would be hung in the virtual gallery and this would also give the Barnes Museum an opportunity to collect data on the people who are coming and seeing these pictures. It would be a great time for us to ask them about their experience and give us a fuller picture of are we getting to our customer? Is our participant happy? Are they finding themselves in? We feel disconnected. They feel that the museum experience is not for them and we really seek to change that especially considering Dr. Barnes's philosophy of education and you can see here special events to create, even though there are educational programs here in existence, we feel that partnerships like the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia or different local schools and showcasing student art would be a great way to get these families out here and to create a more family friendly into identity community. I think it's really important to cater to a diverse set of interests. People who feel like they need to identify with as a Jamaican born. This installation was inspired by 19th century flinters a really recurring theme in the Barnes Foundation as well as African American. This is a connection to people who normally would not education. We believe that by recognizing different organizations and individuals within Philadelphia that embody this modern Barnes philosophy you will be able to have a wider audience and also spread our biases. This is just a geographic representation of the data that you have heard of the Barnes Foundation and the percent who have visited the Barnes Foundation and you can see that the two areas that have the largest discrepancy, people who have art church in West Philadelphia, West Philadelphia local, in order to find artists who system to be put in here at the Barnes which means that this ticketing about the horizon between the two communities and this would be at that literal horizon. So people from the community can walk by and access to the Barnes library, the Barnes such a transparent space and city facing, the artist traditional 2D art sculpture music or the communities that we're pulling from around the city facilitating again that who have spent so much time at the Barnes and have become so immersed in the Barnes philosophy become ambassadors for the Barnes once they go back to their community and they can talk about what the Barnes actually is and what their experience was really like instead of just the foundation. Education piece of it. So as we mentioned earlier, there's a disconnect so much of an awareness with the community and what's taking place in the Barnes. Barnes mission, as you can see, the promotion of the advancement of education and the appreciation of fine art. So what we're looking to do is increase art enthusiasm across the communities. So with the engagement from these communities that have low awareness, we're promoting or positioning our education outreach program, Barnes pushes out digitally. So if you can imagine a platform, a virtual platform where it's pushed out to the communities digitally and what it's looking at is promoting something to those communities that are below the digital divide. So for those communities don't have access to technology, they can go to the local library. They could take access to the public computing spaces. So with this technology, we're looking at bringing Barnes art and curriculum to the masses. So with this curriculum, we have, I'll say users, but for this space, I'm gonna say the student. So let's look at it as a student. So we're gonna take a student at a school or in the after school program. They have the opportunity to visually get curriculum based on a Barnes model to create art from the Barnes philosophy, which they could add their own features in representing of their community themselves. But on top of that, they can create a digital art type pen pal where they can connect with other people, other students, users in their community and across other communities. So I don't need to be in a specific zip code to touch base and create art with someone else. And with this pen pal type of situation, we're creating a social network. So with these social networks, I can reach out to someone we can create art and hopefully upload it up to the Barnes web cloud space. And if the Barnes has some type of digital display, I could say to my pen pal, hey, let's meet over at the Barnes and view the artwork that we get together. So we have a meetup space at the Barnes, view our digital art or even grab inspiration during our tours, find a quiet space and create art together at that time. What we're looking to consider this as is blending art and technology. So blended learning in a sense. So if we have this blended learning platform, we can reach these lower resource communities and these underrepresented communities. And underrepresented communities, most people think of these poor communities, but there's also a community where you have to look at the disabled, which we talked about earlier. So we could use art for autism. We can use art for mental health. So we can promote art from the Barnes in the Barnes mission as a therapeutic type of form or nature. So we can bring these people to the Barnes, increase traffic, access, engagement and just awareness all together. So with this impact of reflection. So when we say reflection, we're looking at the reflection of the community that's being brought into the Barnes space and we're looking to empower our communities to participate in their arts through the Barnes Foundation. So everything is connected with and through Barnes. So Barnes is that outreach, is that helping hand that's being extended not just to one community but to all communities. So I'm helping this community connect to that community and it's all based through Barnes. So increasing access into and across the Barnes pipeline. So the pipeline is just the starting point where we're reaching out to these communities to gain access. So what we wanna do is once they gain access is keep them in this pipeline to help them throughout the whole pipeline. How can we, so we need to ask questions, how, what do we need from you? How can we keep you coming back to the Barnes? So all this within this digital platform could be implemented. So we can have, as you mentioned earlier, we can have questionnaires, question forms, data gathering that we can use to pretty much promote more of what we're looking to do and spread it across the public. That's great, I'm actually a little weepy. So what we're gonna do now is I'm gonna turn things over to Shelly and I're gonna switch places and Shelly's gonna facilitate a little public conversation and while she and I are switching places, maybe we can get some...  I'm very excited about this. This is, you've really come at it with a fresh set of eyes. The messiness of that becomes art later. That's a great problem to have because those constraints making more creative and especially the generation. I go to churches in Europe where you can take pictures of everything while mass is going on. So the idea that you could go into a collection and see this amazing span of artwork but not be able to have a record of it to take with you was just flabbergasting to me. And we talked about kind of some crazy ideas about putting platforms up where people could do what I was doing. But really what it's about is access.  So if you have to stand on the couch, you're gonna stand on the couch. You're gonna find a way to get in. If you're motivated to do so, if you feel like you have a reason and a place to go, it's upsides and it's downsides. But that's definitely one of them. You can't take pictures but you can always come back. Do you have similar issues at the library with constraints? The shushing thing, you know, it's been serious for years, bases and inside is banquets and tables and chairs. And on the outside is the culture and civic engagement. Let's say we did implement an artist and residence program. It's not necessarily being chosen by staff at the Barnes. What if those artists were applying and the application process was all public, this was chosen by the public. You know, you start to wonder how you can get outside of yourself a little bit in making sure that we're doing, and sort of think about ways to every single thing that they do well. They're gonna do some things really well. Those partnerships can strengthen those that resolve. So I mean, there's the opportunity to mix. It's a start for understanding what's happening, but it's only a start and it requires, I think a certain commitment on the ground to go through and we should have said at the beginning. I wanna be cautious of time because we're... Don't see that map. The more feedback we have, the more data we're able to get. The more people are willing to complain. Tell us your problems. Tell us how you're feeling. Tell us how you don't feel represented and be specific in your complaints because... We mentioned getting out into the community and finding out what we can do for you.  But I feel that this needs to happen more often. Too many times we are waiting for the complaint before we start to move and we need to jump ahead of that and bring that to the communities. That's how I feel. So we need to progress as a sort of underpinning of it all.


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I'm delighted to have two very eminent and interesting speakers to offer to you today. We're going to have half an hour each, which will include their presentation plus a chance for questions from those of you in the room and also from those online. And welcome everyone online too. We're going to start off with Jo Axe, who's Associate Dean at Royal Roads. She's going to be talking about the subject that so many of us are interested in now, which is OERs. She tells me she's from the UK originally and went to Canada in the 80s. And she's been a business woman as well as an academic. So I think all learning technologies will particularly benefit from your both pragmatic and conceptual approach. So I'm sure you'd rather hear from her rather than me. So over to you Jo, and off we go. Thank you. Thank you very much. So as was mentioned, I'm the Associate Dean in the Faculty of Management at Royal Roads University. Royal Roads is in Victoria in British Columbia. I don't know how many of you have been to British Columbia, but it's not too different the climate where I live myself from what it is here. What I'm going to do today is I'm talking about, there are two main elements. One is the bridging programme that we are doing at Royal Roads, which bridges students coming into our BCOM programme. The other component is the open educational resource. So we took the bridging programme and we put it open, which was done through a grant from BC Campus, which allowed us to have some resources to do that process. So what I'm going to talk about firstly is to put it into context is the post-secondary education in British Columbia. Now, where I came from, it's now 20 to 4 in the morning. So I had asked a couple of my colleagues to join me online so we could have a live interaction. Unfortunately, they were asleep, so they preferred giving a video presentation. So I have two very short video clips just to put things into context. One is from our Dean Pedro Marquez, who is an international himself from Mexico, has a very interesting perspective and is going to just discuss post-secondary education in British Columbia to put it into the context. The second person is Mary Burgess, who is our director for CETET, which is our Centre for Educational Technologies, Learning Technologies. So we'll have a couple of clips. I'm going to talk briefly about BC Campus that they gave as part of the grant that allowed us to complete this process. I'll put it into the context going smaller, as in Royal Roads University, and what our students look like. I am completely not familiar with teaching in lecture halls. We have maximum class sizes of around 55 students. So we usually teach in group, and we use dialogue, walk around the class, discuss things. It's a little bit different from the lecturing that I've done, actually, once in another venue. So a little bit different for me. So first of all, we'll be talking about the opening of the bridge and how the process we took to get to having it available for use. What I wanted to do first was, is everybody familiar with Canada? It's a big country. So I just wanted to put it into context because not everybody realises that my mother included. I was born in Doncaster, and she still thinks I live in Vancouver, which is actually not the same as Vancouver Island. So I just wanted to put it into a slightly context here so that you can actually see where I'm talking about. Vancouver Island is about the size of Wales. So the population of the island is, I think, around 400,000 people. It's not very big. Most of them live in the Victoria area. So the place that I work is Colwood. We have one of the only universities that has a castle on campus. So the university here is, whoops, lost it. It's right here. So it's on Aboriginal land. It's on Coast Salish land, which is many of the communities in Canada are established on the territories of the First Nations peoples. Ours is on Coast Salish. So I just wanted to acknowledge that before I continue with the slide presentation. So first I'd like you to hear from Dean Pedro Marquez who's going to just chat a little bit about the context of post-secondary education. Hello, how do you do? My name is Pedro Marquez and I'm delighted to join you today. I've been invited by Dr Joe Axe, Associate Dean at the Faculty of Management at Royal Roads University to say a few words and share a few ideas with you about British Columbia's post-secondary education system. It is my pleasure. I quickly would like to share with you that I actually attended the university in Mexico, came to Canada for my master's and my PhD and then went back to teach for our very large prestigious Mexican university and now I've been with Royal Roads University for the last four years. So I've had an opportunity to experience both the Canadian and Mexican systems as a student and as an administrator and professor, which I think it gives me a little bit of a general perspective and opportunity to make a few comments from Dominique Comparison. So it is my pleasure to share some of the ideas with you. The British Columbia system is part of the larger Canadian system. The one in the province of British Columbia on the west coast of Canada is integrated and composed by 25 different institutions. They run between 1900 and 2000 different programs in many, many different levels. Out of these 25 institutions, 11 are universities or public funded, 11 are colleges or public funded and there are three institutes with very specific mandates and objectives. There is parallel to this publicly funded system, a private colleges and universities offering programs as well to different needs of society, but really the strength, the 40 of British Columbia's higher education system lies in the public education system. Colleges, they offer programs, short term programs in the trades and diplomas ranging from very technical skills into more professional disciplines. I believe that they are doing a very good job and they complement what private colleges are actually doing mostly in the sense of attracting international students and supporting their advances through the Canadian economy in sense of advancing the language skills and social adjustment processes. The 11 universities are very strong, this is my honest absolute opinion, ranging from very specialized institutions like Royal Roads University who has been created with a special purpose of serving the working professional to the University of British Columbia which I'm convinced that is one of the top best universities around the world. These universities offer from a diploma undergraduate degrees to master's and doctoral programs in many different disciplines so you would find a very wide spectrum and portfolio of different programs for you to take within the BC system. I believe that there are some tremendous features that make this system very positive, very strong. There are some other challenges that they will have to deal in the years to come. Among the features that I believe are important, highlighting are the fact that the system is pretty well balanced in terms of disciplines, approaches, lenses. It is pretty well balanced in the sense of their geographical scope and reach. Although most of the universities are located within the greater Victoria and greater Vancouver areas, the college system does spread out throughout the whole system. I think that they do have a very great strength in graduating with individuals not only with great professional skills but also capacity to add value and become valuable members of society, responsibility, civility, citizenship. The system has also done a very good job in reacting to the multicultural needs or the multicultural Canadian population. Although these universities have not yet accomplished a significant amount of cooperation in order to do a better job in attracting and retaining top talent from across the world through their university programs. As well, I believe that the programs are very interdisciplinary, which is nothing but good news for the overall composition of the BC system. In terms of challenges for the future, I think that there are a couple, but probably the most important is the end of the baby boom. Society in Canada, as in the rest of the world, is changing, and now that constant flow of students that demand traditional programs is coming to an end, and so universities will have to respond to the demand need to evolve from a training into a knowledge management institution. So the portfolio and pedagogical approaches will probably have to adjust. The system will face some financial stresses as well. The common denominator has been a particular financial model, which is the one that has been used by most institutions in North America. That will be under pressure in the years to come simply because of the general financial situation that North American institutions and governments are facing around the world, not only in North America. I also believe that there is a need for more collaboration and support in an integrated strategy for how to attract and retain international students so that they actually go back to their countries of origin and add value and expand the prestige and reputation of the Canadian films, or maybe to stay in Canada, particularly British Columbia, and enrich the changing needs of the Canadian society. Overall, I believe that the balance is very rich. This is a great place to come and the institutions of this place are ready for receiving you. I hope that this quick, very quick review and description of the BC higher education system is useful towards your discussions. Thank you so much. It's a pleasure meeting you. Good luck. Just so you know, I told Petro that he had two minutes. I should have known better because Petro does not talk in two-minute slots.  It's not a lot different from the challenges that you're facing here, so that the financial constraints are also challenging. Our own university is slightly different because our mandate is a little bit different from other universities, and we are not as highly funded by the government. We still get some funding, but not as many. The grant that we received was from BC Campus, which contributed a small amount to the project that we were doing. What they tried to do is connect all the institutions in BC. They are talking about and they have several things that we take part in that will allow us to share our resources and students have access to different types of degree completion plans. So Royal Roads University itself, the way we usually teach is teams and cohorts. The cohorts move through the program together. They are set on teams, usually five, six people on a team. Up to 30% in the faculty management is based on teamwork of their assessed grade, final grade. So it's really important that they work together. When we have students from different backgrounds, different ethnic groups, we have challenges in the classroom. So one of the reasons for developing the bridge was because of the challenges that we were faced with. The blended learning is the model that we use. There are many different versions of blended learning, I understand that. The model that we particularly use is for our online students they come in for residency at the beginning. They take a block of courses online and then they have another residency at the end. So they have an opportunity to work on the teams in the face-to-face environment before they leave to go online. The learning community is a big piece. We spend time at the beginning of all the programs in the faculty management, helping students understand what it means to be part of a learning community, how they can contribute, what they can expect. And we primarily focus on graduate students and students in their third and fourth years. So we don't get a lot of students straight out of high school. And mainly the students in the faculty management itself are people who have at least three years work experience for the undergrad programs and seven years work experience for the graduate programs. So you can tell that the type of environment they're in they have a lot of skills, background knowledge to bring into the classroom so that all affects what they're doing. Now the bridge itself we call it the bridge to become. It's an opportunity for students to get together online to learn a little bit about each other to start building that learning community and the idea behind it was to break down some of the problems such as the one that this student quoted at the beginning. So when we started the project which was in 2005 we interviewed a few students one of the ones said they could not wait to get back to their place their safe haven after the classroom because they didn't feel safe in the classroom. So we didn't want them to have that feeling that they were marginalised in the classroom we wanted to give them an opportunity to discuss things before students came on campus so that they were a bit more of an even playing field. And a staff member again had a similar comment from the BECOM student she said that what they tell her is I came for BECOM I didn't come for an international experience that's not why I'm here. So what we wanted to do is try and emphasise to those students the value of having that international experience in the classroom and even though there were domestic Canadian students that coming into a classroom that had students from India, China career all over the world was beneficial and that they could learn a lot and share a lot with those students. So what we did was we invented we created something that I know has been used in other places and I know this one I think called Stepping Stones in the UK that was used and we incorporated some of the ideas and built on that. So what we had was a number of activities that the students take part in. They have a general orientation to the school, the university and their programme so that's just information downloaded to them. Then they have a get acquainted site so they go on and they post a couple of things we ask some questions and then they start a discussion and what we wanted them to do was to try to get in an environment where it's not just about them it's about finding out about what's going on in other people's lives. There's a proactive host of discussion so we had several places where the students could go in and learn about things that they were going to be doing with somebody who'd already been there. So university life would come on and tell them about disability programmes so in case they needed to know things about that. We would have alumni who'd come back in who'd taken part in competitions our case competition and they would tell them how to do that. Enterprise was another group that came in and did something for that so there are lots of things that they could ask about. There was a welcoming Q&A again just a discussion area and then we did something called dinner and a movie. So what we did was we gave them a movie, you have to read this movie watch this movie at some point during the week here's a recipe and watch the movie, eat the food and then we'll talk about it. So it was actually quite an interesting exercise. Presentation skills we had a brief discussion on that and it was preparation which they didn't have to do but it was there if they wanted to so they could do the readings ahead. Then this key piece on learning community individual reflection on learning community they had some reading to do and then a discussion and they had to have a short biography about sorry a short exercise that they had to write about what they thought learning community meant to them. We took that into the foundations which is number 11 and provided them with the opportunity to discuss it further and to develop a learning community themselves. So this all started online they didn't know each other and there was a great opportunity for dropping into other people's posts and chatting that way. So what they said about it they wanted to create connections so they came in there wanting to do something gave them that familiarity so when they walked in the classroom they knew people on the first day and started them thinking about learning community so what did it mean to be part of an ROU classroom what did it mean to come to the university learning community it was a small step, lots of additional things that they could do it gave them confidence and without it they would have been scared those were the good things there were also some things they didn't like so one student said nobody was posting on it no interaction too much pressure so we were saying you have to do this it's mandatory they didn't like it pushed back they went into panic mode because it was one of those things where for an introvert didn't really want to do that yet they weren't mentally ready for it so it created stress didn't have enough time because I was working and when they got a similar background so this individual noticed that students who had similar things going on they actually focused on students who were like themselves rather than what we wanted or hoped they would do is try and find things out about students that they didn't know about I'm going to skip over that because I see the time is and I will go over some of the points that Mary pointed out that actually is one of the most recent pictures of Mary that I could find so what we did was we took this course and it's one of many of the resources that we've got at Roll Roads that are actually posted for everybody to share we wanted to share it but not just sort of drop it out there and let everybody figure it out for themselves so what we tried to do was make sure we had all the information so it was a collaborative effort across the units we offered technical advice, comments and rationale so we looked at what people were doing and why they were doing it and we actually had got into exchange between faculty and the Centre for Teaching and Educational Technologies it was the highly customizable items so there were some of those things that had to be noted so that we could make sure that people understood why they were there and then we embedded some pedagogy in it so there are notes throughout this OER so with the OER we first had to obtain permission because not everybody wanted to take part in this some faculty members that don't want my stuff up there please leave me out of it we obtained a copy of the course so it's a template and then you prepare the course so with quality control there are several check boxes that we all have as I'm sure everybody else would have with their quality control there were privacy and copyright issues as you probably can understand there are a lot of things that you can't post online if it's got student information in so we had to remove those things out we had to look at what we had put it was accessible and then there are creative commons and attributing share alike licenses which I think you also have the same types of issues challenges and then the last piece when we've done all those things was to add that pedagogy piece so that we could let people understand why we were doing what we were doing so as a conclusion the reflections that we have on this whole process of putting a course into an OER it's best to start small it's really familiar with we had several courses that we were doing some are more complex than others the one that was started the first one out was actually the one that the Centre for Teaching and Educational Technologies did themselves it's instructional skills workshop so it allowed people to go in and understand what it was like to teach online and that's apparently one of the most popular downloads so they find that a lot of people like that one and will take it and customize it for their own use have clear guidelines that was actually in answer to a question I asked to Mary what happens if you find somebody wants to put their course on but you're not sure if it's a course that should be on so Mary said what we do is we have really clear guidelines so people understand what it is we're looking for in a course and what we would like to put forward because not every course is appropriate and it does take time so the sharing across units we have to have it's not a small piece she said once they've got all the check-offs and everybody's okay with doing it it takes them about two days to go through the process of getting the course ready for opening and make sure you've got sufficient resources which is something we all struggle with our own thing is continuous improvement so we're continually trying to figure out what it is we need to do and how we need to change it so each time there's another reiteration we find out more things and better and understanding that some people will opt out so even though somebody has this fantastic course with lots of tools embedded in it and you know that students love it that individual might choose to say I don't want it so we have to be okay with that and one of the other critical pieces Mary mentioned in her video clip was that it's important to get buy in from senior management to do this our university is very small we have less than 2,000 FT and our student numbers are small our university is one where you can walk across campus in about 5 minutes we have a castle on it so it's very small so it's easy for us to get buy in we talk to people on a daily basis it might be different in other institutions and that is it, I believe that's a 20 minutes so oh 5, a couple of minutes yeah well, thank you oh yes the two clocks are saying different times I've been going by this one so thank you very much thank you Joe for sharing an insight into what sounds like a most interesting place and to explain some of the things that you're really addressing which I know are the heart of what everyone is tackling so colleagues if you can put your hand up if you have a question we'll get the mic to you but I think we'll go over to any online questions yet well just a minute if we can just ask you to wait for the mic because we're recording there's one here it's only a very short question Joe, it's Vicky McGarvey from Nottingham Trent University what's the name of the OER resource that you've created and how will we find it okay, so if you go if you type in Royal University OER it'll pop up, it's just embedded in it and this one's called the bridge to be calm I think they just call it the bridge but it's the bridge to be calm and is it going to be deposited in any repositories and how do you you just access it straight from there and if anyone has any questions whatsoever Mary Burgess and I have some business cards if you're interested I mean it might be useful if you put it in some repositories because then you'll get a few more they may have done that already, I'm the faculty side of it and she's the technical side of it so Mary probably has done all kinds of things with it but I'll definitely mention that to her okay, all right, thank you very much if you click on it you should come up here shall we have a look at it? sure we'll see if we can get it, any more questions just up there so we're just pulling it out hello there, Clive Young from UCL I'm just wondering what was the motivations for the academic staff who were involved in producing that and did that change over time so for the particular course or for the both for the particular course and really I kind of guess we can have long term plans for OER as well it's just an idea of changing perceptions for sure so from the actually it was mine so I was the academic that was primarily wanting to get involved in this project because of the challenges we were finding in the classroom when I was teaching with the BCOM programme there were a lot of team conflicts students not wanting to work together and students feeling marginalised so if you're in a classroom and you've got those challenges it's layered on top of all the instructional material you're trying to give to them especially when you teach with a high element of team in your assessment so up to 30% as I said so in order to try to minimise the after effects of it we were trying to put something in at the beginning so the motivation came from me wanting to try and instill something at the beginning not to have to go through the amount of time invested when I was actually trying to teach content so it's from that perspective from it kind of grew from there though that was well as I said it was 2005, 2006 and every year somebody else has got on board and done different things so it's now mainly run by the administration in the BCOM office they make sure that it's up and running and everybody's got incentives to keep going so okay that's very interesting I'm sure all of us are interested in sustainability Dominic has asked a question coming in from online and would like to know some of the reasons why people are I assume he means faculty and academic staff gave for opting out of the OER process I think the biggest opt out was just from that fact that people are looking at what you've got and that critical element of not wanting to put yourself out there so I don't know that we've had that many opt outs it's primarily as far as I know I only know of I believe one that was not confident about wanting to put themselves out so it doesn't mean that it reflected on their particular piece of the cost or anything it's just that their preference was to keep it to them tight till they were ready I guess to do it so hopefully we can work on that and get them more confident with it it was a secondary from Dominic online but he was actually saying is there a case for requiring cc licensing sorry cc licensing what is that creative commons there's so many acronyms that's a question for me I'm not sure if I'm qualified to ask that I don't know I'll have a go at it my own personal feeling is that people need to be ready to put their things out and if they're not I'm not sure that we should be mandating it but that's my personal piece I think that people may have a reason for may choose later to put it out and that's what I think is happening in this particular case so I'm not sure that I mandate creative commons okay well before we get into a debate on that I'll bring this to a close so thank you very much Joe it was really interesting insights and can we thank Joe by waving our creative commons life thank you very much


Aloha, and welcome to Aloha United We Stand at Think Tech Hawaii, raising public awareness for issues here in Hawaii. And I'm joined here, I'm Chris Aguinaldo, joined here by Lisa Kingura of Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition of Hawaii. And just a reminder, you can join the conversation at Think Tech, Think Tech H.I., we'll take your questions, and we'll have a conversation about Hawaii's mothers' health, issues related to their health, and things that they're doing to help make sure that we have healthy keiki here in Hawaii. Hello, Lisa, how are you today? Hi, great, how are you? You are with the Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition of Hawaii, is it the local affiliate of a national organization? We are, yes. So the National Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies was actually formed in 1981 out of the Surgeon General's call to health to reduce infant mortality. So local coalitions such as Hawaii were formed later to address local issues on a statewide level. When did that start here in Hawaii? Next year will be 25 years for us. 25 years? Yes, it's been a long time, and we've really evolved through the years to address the issues that are arising and the needs that present themselves at the time. And what are the types of issues that you folks have been dealing with for nearly 25 years? What are the most important, what are the most things, what are the things that seem to be the most important that folks don't really think about that you're working on right now? Yes, some things always remain the same, and then some things sort of have priority focus as times change. So above all, we always want to make sure that we are reducing both maternal and infant mortality. And there's a lot of ways to address that. So starting with making sure that women are entering pregnancy healthy, wanting to get pregnant and ready to get pregnant, and then making sure that throughout the way they have adequate prenatal care, that they are not smoking, using alcohol or other substances during pregnancy, and then also choosing to make healthy choices such as breastfeeding, understanding what infant care and infant health and safety is all about, and getting access to services and support to help them make good decisions. Now here in Hawaii, Lisa, are there any particular challenges or anything in particular with our stage, our home, that you keep your eyes on? Yeah, a big thing that's really unique to Hawaii is the disparity geographically for us. So not only do different islands have very disparate access to services, but just getting, for example, to Oahu for specialized services can be extremely costly or an extreme hardship on the family. For example, if a woman is high risk and she's flown to Oahu to deliver her baby, and the baby needs to stay here for longer in the NICU, a lot of times moms either have, you know, other kids they have to get back home to or jobs they need to return to, so they need to travel back, and it creates a lot of, a lot of hardship for people. And do you have programs that help address those needs, things that you specifically talked to, like the neighbor island communities with? Yeah, we are part of the Hawaii Maternal and Infant Health Collaborative, which is a statewide public-private partnership. So we work with Department of Health, we work with the birthing hospitals, we work with other non-profits like March of Dimes, and we all work together to address these issues. So first of all, at a systemic level, we look at what's going on, where these issues are taking place, little interventions that can be made to help improve outcomes, and then when it comes to moms actually giving birth, we have our Healthy Mother's Healthy Babies offers a Mother's Care telephone line, which is a confidential hotline. People can call and ask questions and get referrals to services. So for example, if they are here and they need extra support during a really difficult time, or need any help getting established breastfeeding or things like that, they can call us and get the support or we can refer them out. Elisa, you had mentioned it's a confidential line. Why is it important that it's specifically up for confidential? You know, a lot of people struggle, everybody struggles when they give birth, and it's a very hard time all the way around. And some people don't realize that it is something that's very, it's not unique to them, that it's a very common issue. And so knowing that we support them, that we're not judging them, and we're not releasing their information makes them feel safe and secure in talking to us about it. That seems very important because the connection with mothers and their children, it's a very intimate, it's a very basic connection. And if someone is going through it the very first time, if it's something that they've not experienced, you want to feel that safety, is that something that you folks are offering? That safety, that compassion, that hearing ear? Definitely. And we do work so closely with so many other organizations that are offering sort of wraparound services that we can get them in touch. So for example, if they're struggling with postpartum depression, which is a significant issue. And a lot of people, I mean, it's a great example of people feel very, very alone, they feel very ashamed to talk about it. But it affects up to 20% of moms. 20%? Yeah. And even higher when it comes to people who are already low socioeconomic levels, significant hardship or strife in their life when it comes to economic or domestic violence or things like that, the rates of postpartum depression are even much, much higher. So we want to make sure that moms know that it is common and that it's not something to be ashamed of and that there is help available. Does it make a difference when there's accessibility? I think over the years, because of the advent of the social channels, these web pages, people can talk about it more. But having you folks around that, you're able to pull up the phone or send a message and have that confidential. What kind of reductions have you seen? Or how are these women who are dealing with postpartum depression? How are they dealing with it now that there's resources with you and you're partnering with organizations? I would say for one thing, just knowing that there's support is very helpful to people because they do feel very alone. And knowing that there's someone that's going to listen and not going to judge them and get them in touch is important. Sometimes it's really as simple as the fact that they may have had, sometimes there's a lot of issues and it's not fully understood as to why some people are triggered more than others. But sometimes it's a matter of hormones being out of balance. So getting your physical symptoms addressed in terms of it could be thyroid issues, it could be a lot of things, or it could be just honestly needing some extra sleep and resting carefully yourself. All of those things can really help diminish the symptoms. And depending on the severity of it, we advise women to right away, go get a color OB, get an appointment, get their blood work done, find out if there's any underlying things going on. If so, we can address those physical things before we even take the next step in terms of counseling or therapy or even for some women. Sometimes pharmaceutical drugs are helpful for them too. What other programs would you like to talk about that are similar or things that our audience might not be aware of? We have a program called Cribs for Kids and it's a statewide program. We're on every single island now. And it's a program that's designed to reduce the rate of infant deaths. And what most people are very surprised to learn is that the most common cause of accidental death of an infant is sleep related. And so a lot of times people worry about their car seat or they worry about lots of other things. But the reality is having your baby in an unsafe position, having your baby in bed with pillows and blankets or other siblings or pets or sleeping on couches with lots of cushy crevices. All of those things are very, very hazardous to baby and we have about a death every other week in Hawaii. The death every other week, how has that been over the last few years? Are we improving? Is it going in the direction we want to go in? Sad to say, well, about 20 years ago the recommendation was made to place babies to sleep on their backs. And so we still maintain that recommendation that babies even for naps should always be put to sleep on their back. Once that recommendation was made, the number of deaths decreased by about half, which is significant. However, that number has stayed pretty static since then. So we'll have some dips and some ebbs and flows, but ultimately we haven't reduced it further. And we know that these deaths are preventable and we know that it's preventable through education and through having the proper setup safely for baby. And so that's what our program aims to do. We work with our health center partners to refer their patients and their clients. They come to us and if they are eligible, income eligible, they take the class, which is about an hour long. They learn kind of everything you need to know to help keep babies safe. And then they get to take home a pack and play crib so that they have a safe designated place for the baby. You could put it right next to the bed so mom can breastfeed, put them back to sleep, and everybody knows what to do safely for baby. Now you had mentioned income eligible. Is this specifically targeted at any socioeconomic group, any particular group here in Hawaii? Because we do have a multicultural environment and various ethnicities here. I'm asking if this particular risk is specific to any culture. Is it widespread? Does it affect one more than the other? So interestingly, it does affect everybody across the board. However, we do see a greater proportion of the deaths that are born to moms that are low income or low education or certain ethnic groups. So we specifically do target those just because we know that the incidence is higher. There's a lot of other factors for why that might be, but we also know that babies that are in homes that are not breastfed and are also exposed to smoking are at a much, much higher risk. Not only of sleep related death, but SIDS, which is sudden infant death syndrome. It's slightly more mysterious disease. There's no clear cause of death exactly. However, after an autopsy is done, if no other cause of death is determined, it's attributed to SIDS. And so we know that babies that are exposed to the smoking and babies that are not getting breast milk have a much higher risk. So we've talked a lot about the mothers. Since we're talking about babies now, you have mentioned that what breastfeeding, better nutrition, and having a smoke free environment. Let's talk about the first one last month, which was August. Was it National Breastfeeding Month? Yep, and then the first week is World Breastfeeding Week. And so it's really a special focus on making sure that women are getting information, hospitals are providing a good start for babies. They're getting moms educated on a successful start to breastfeeding. And that basically from pregnancy beyond that women are getting the support that they need to be successful. We like to say that we are in an enlightened, progressive society. Is there still any things that are culturally related? Or just to have a month to have an awareness month? Or what are the things that we have to address about just talking like you and I are normally about breastfeeding? Yeah, I think it's important for women to know that it is the natural normal choice, that it's something that it's not like the gold star extra. It is normal. And so anything that is not breast milk is not the norm. And that's kind of a shift in thinking for people because we do know how exceptionally important it is to build baby's immune system and build baby's brain power. And even for mom, it reduces her risk of ovarian cancer and breast cancer, helps her uterus contract and recover from childbirth faster. So we're not just talking about making the child's health better. The mom is actually benefiting at the same time.  So it's really significant. Does it make any difference? Is there, have we seen like evidence that shows that? Yeah, there's plenty of evidence. In fact, this chart right here kind of shows that formula and it is life saving for babies that don't have the option to breastfeed. However, there are so many things that cannot ever possibly be replicated in a laboratory. So it's here, antibodies, hormones, anti-virus, anti-allergy. So mother nature has already programmed us with those things and we don't have to go out and buy them. Right, and what's amazing about breast milk is it's constantly changing. So the composition of your individual milk is specific to your individual baby. And it will continue to change as your baby grows. So when your baby is first born, it is packed full of everything that they need to grow really quickly the first month and basically gives them all the antibody protection that they need to come fresh into this world with a brand new immune system. So are part of your programs to educate more about that? Absolutely. What are the resources available that you provide or your partners provide? So for one thing, our mother's care line, we are staffed to be able to provide lactation assistance to them over the phone. And if they do need anything, a lot of times we can answer the majority of questions or concerns that they have. Women sometimes want to know that they're going back to work and baby won't take a bottle and what do they do and things like that or how to get more support at home. Cuz the truth is if you were not breastfed yourself, your parents don't understand necessarily and they may support it but don't know how to support it. So just getting that, knowing how you can support a mom is an important part of the whole equation. And so we help families to understand how they can support. It's as simple as dads want to be involved but obviously they can't breastfeed. They want to support mom cuz she's tired at night but there's other things you can do like bring her a snack or some water or put some pillows under her arms so she can be comfortable. Can we talk about dads? Yeah. Okay, let's talk about dads and other family members. You're not raising a baby by yourself. We're gonna take a little break right now and you can learn more about what we do here at Think Tech in Hawaii. And remember, you can join the conversation, hit us up on Twitter, at Think Tech HI. And you can also tweet me at Chris Aguinaldo right over here. Thank you. Aloha, my name is Josh Green. I serve as Senator from the Big Island on the Kona side and I'm also an emergency room physician. My program here on Think Tech is called Healthcare in Hawaii. I'll have guests that should be interesting to you twice a month. We'll talk about issues that range from mental health care to drug addiction to our health care system and any challenges that we face here in Hawaii. We hope you'll join us. Again, thanks for supporting Think Tech. For a very healthy summer, watch Viva Hawaii. We're giving you the best tips and with our best health coach here. So Viva health coach. Viva la comida saludable. Aloha, I'm Chantel Seville, host of the Savvy Chick Show on Think Tech Hawaii. This show is for you. It's all about inspiring and empowering girls of the future to do what they love, get out there and be healthy, fit and confident. If you're up for that, 11 AM every Wednesday, I'll see you there. Welcome back. I'm talking to Lisa Kumar, Executive Director of Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition of Hawaii. I'm Chris Aguinaldo. And just before the break, we just started talking about dads, but let's also talk about family members too. And what we're talking about is how a healthy baby, you need a healthy mom, but a healthy mom also needs a healthy family, a healthy Ohana, a healthy group around them to help raise this kid and the other kids. And you were mentioning dads can be involved in the process, breastfeeding, I can imagine quitting smoking is a good thing. Dad's like throwing out their cigarettes, other kids, the other members of the Ohana coming together. But what's the role that dads can play? Or in other families, two moms can play, grandma or a life partner can play. So again, you had mentioned earlier, they are not alone. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, everybody plays a part. And when it comes to mom and dad, they've both worked to bring this baby into the world, and so they do both have parts to play, even though they might be a little more unique in their roles. So things that they can do for mom, make sure she's eating nice, healthy, regular meals so that she's especially iron-rich foods. Because after a childbirth, very important to replenish your iron stores. And it also helps mom with energy levels. And making sure a whole baby, some mom can take a nap or get a shower, things like that that just do enormous things for your physical sense of comfort. So dads don't be afraid, or partners don't be afraid to hold the baby. Yeah, exactly. Takeover diaper changes. There are lots of other things that you can do. You know, just doing the laundry so that mom can focus 100% on just recovering her body from childbirth, but also helping this little baby grow, because that is her number one job. Oh yeah, and they don't call it labor for nothing. Exactly, it's very laborious. And how about friends? Other moms, a grandmother and aunt, what role can they play, your friends? Yeah, absolutely. I mean, I always say that finding a support network, when it comes to breastfeeding moms, it's so important for them to have friends that have breastfed and can offer the support and reassurance, and not to turn her off or dissuade her when it's getting hard, because sometimes it is hard, and a lot of people do struggle, but getting through that, it's so worth it afterwards. How about socially too? We had mentioned a little bit earlier, they might feel some sense of either isolation or they just need someone to talk to. How about having a network of friends to hang out with and just be a person? How important is it to be still a woman, the role beyond just being a mom and a woman? Right, and I hear from moms that suffer from post-partum depression, that they feel like they've lost themselves and they'll never be themselves again. And so maintaining that sense of self is really important, and it's not something that's really talked about very much. And giving a mom time to herself, whether it's reading a book or whether it's taking a bath or whether it's going to a movie with friends, having people to talk to and having your life that's still central to you is very, very important. And moms will find too that their circle of friends change after they give birth. If they don't have friends that have babies, you're kind of walking a different life now. And so finding- You need people to feel like you belong with. Absolutely, absolutely.  Now, I understand next month you're gonna have an event where you could get a handful of your girlfriends together and have fun. Can you let us know about it, please? So there's a place called Painting with a Twist on Ward Avenue, and we're gonna be having a mom's night out paint night that night. And it's a fundraiser, they're gonna donate half of the proceeds to us, which is very generous of them. And so we're just inviting moms and their friends to come, enjoy a night where it's, you know, there's a professional who's teaching you how to paint on the canvas. If you have an artist, you don't have to be a super fantastic, you can come and learn and just have fun. Yep, you don't need any of your own artistic skills, per se, but it's just a lot of fun. We'll have snacks and wine available. So it'll be fun and $45, which is the normal price, but again, half of the proceeds are donated. And who's doing this with you again? Painting with a Twist. Painting with a Twist, and this is October 6th. What time is it? Seven o'clock. And you can go to hb-hawaii.org for more information, right? Yeah. I'll also put some information on my Twitter. You can check a little later, but I'll put a link to your page on my account at chrisaginaldo. Again, we're talking about just having friends there, whether or not it's at mom's night out, where you paint on October 6th, or just being able to hang out. And I think what we talked about earlier, if the dad or the partner can hold a baby for maybe 30 minutes more, let the new mom get out and just be a human being again, is that, that's critical, right? It is critical, and it's also important for dads because they need the time to bond too. And the more comfortable they are with baby, the more comfortable a baby is with them. And the more natural it's going to be for them to become, to assume their role as caregiver. It's, dads are just as capable as moms are when it comes to that sort of thing, but a lot of times they may not have had the experience before, and it's a whole new world. New mom, new dad. When you hold your community events, do dads pop in and ask questions? Well, what are their typical questions? It depends a lot. And I love when dads do come because a lot of times they're not shy about asking questions. They don't really have the reservations that sometimes moms do. And I guess, sometimes it's because they've let their guard down and they just say, hey, I have no idea, so just tell me everything. And I'm happy to, I love talking to parents and I love, I have three kids of my own and it's really my passion in life. Well, how old are they? Nine, four and two. Okay, so you've got the whole bunch of elementary all the way down to... Free school, yeah. Is that something that attracted you to being part of this effort? What's your history with the coalition? Yeah, so I, after I had my second child, I mean, I really knew that my focus needed to change because I felt very strongly that the experience that I had been through was not unique in any way and was something that needed, we need more support for moms and we need to make sure that moms are getting all the education that they need and deserve during pregnancy and childbirth, that they have advocates on their side to make sure that the support is there for them. And I wanted to put my heart into that. And so I really kind of switched the career path that I was on to enter into this role and it's been the best decision I ever made. It's great to hear and it's good to hear that not only dads but mothers feel comfortable speaking to your organization, your representatives. What's your staffing like and what kind of worker are they doing right now? So we've actually grown quite a bit. So we have a staff of seven, which includes a couple of part-time people and they're working on a variety of things. So our Text for Baby program is one program that we have. What's that? It is actually a really great program, not only for moms and dads, but also grandparents and anybody who's taking care of baby. It's a free text message program that sends three messages a week every week of pregnancy all the way up until baby turns one. And it tells you what to expect, what the development looks like in the baby, what to ask the doctor about, warning signs. And you get the text messages, you can also download the app, which is a free app and it'll show you, for example, this week of pregnancy, baby's the size of an eggplant or whatever. And it's just a really great way to know what's going on and have very qualified information telling you every step of the way. And this app is available on iOS, Android, the major platforms? Yep, yep, free download. How's the response been for that? Really good. So nationally, Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies rolled it out about six years ago. And nationally, we've hit a million moms that are enrolled, which is fantastic. And in Hawaii, we've had a few thousand and we're really trying to grow that number a lot more. We really do specifically focus on moms that are low income or low education or have less access to services. Just so, again, we have qualified information coming to her and her family at very regular intervals. In addition to Moms Night Out, what else is your staff attending? I know there are some workshops throughout the year. Anything else coming up besides Moms Night Out again October 6th? Yeah, yeah. Anything else? Yeah, we do have workshops throughout the year. What kind? We'll do stuff like we had a series that was all about preparation for parenthood and it was kind of a holistic, not only what you need to know about infant safety kind of stuff, but also the emotional changes that take place. Because I do believe very strongly that to be the best, in the best place you can be, in the best parent you can be, it is not only your physical needs being met, but also emotional, spiritual kind of needs as well that are being addressed. And so that series that we had was all about addressing those types of things and getting comfortable in yourself to be comfortable with baby. We also have workshops on breastfeeding and then we do our safe sleep classes. The classes themselves, the people want the education, it's open to anybody. However, for the free cribs, those come from referrals from our partners. All right. And you had mentioned there's a presence on all the islands, is that correct? How often are you doing outreach on the neighbor islands? Yeah, we have classes every month throughout the islands and so obviously there's fewer people on some of the neighbor islands so we have fewer people participating. But when we go, we do talk about the safe sleep, we also talk about cribs for kids. And then we talk about a program that's called the period of purple crying. And this came out of Kapilani Hospital and it's about preventing shaken baby syndrome, which is what happens when parents get overly frustrated or just don't know how to handle, they might shake their baby out of frustration and it causes brain damage, it causes bleeding in the brain, it causes lifelong profound disabilities. I remember there used to be a campaign against it. I haven't heard of SIDS in a very long time. Is it making a comeback or has it always been there? It's one of those things that sometimes is misunderstood or misrepresented. So even the way that we classify our infant deaths can be kind of ambiguous. If a baby for example is lying in bed with the parents and suffocates in the pills and blankets, it's truly a suffocation death, but sometimes they may be misclassified as SIDS. So therefore sometimes people have questions about how the data is really recorded. And again, SIDS, it's not an extremely prevalent affliction, but it does happen. And when it does happen, parents really blame themselves because they just wonder what happened and how could I prevent this and it's such a traumatic experience for people. But I have talked to moms that it's happened to and it's heartbreaking. Now is it similar to what we talked earlier about more of those who are underprivileged, those who are more of the lower income or any cultural markers on that? Yeah, again, there is definitely a very clear, the data does show that tends to be moms that are of low income status. However, it does happen to everybody. It doesn't, it's not specific, but it is very specific when it comes to smoking and breastfeeding. Those are things that we know the breastfeeding protects and the smoking is really, really a risk factor. All right, Lisa, it sounds like you folks are doing a lot of work. They can go to your website to find out more and don't forget, there is an October 6, mom's night out, where is it again? Painting with a twist on Ward Avenue. So check it out at hmhb-whi.org and you are watching Think Tech Hawaii. You're watching Aloha United We Stand. I'm Chris Agyanaldo. I was joined here by Lisa Kimura, again the executive director of Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition of Hawaii. I wanna thank you so much for talking with us and keep tuning in at Think Tech HI. Don't forget to tweet us and we'll see you later. Thank you, Aloha.


Now in your 20s is the time not to mask personal debt to be chained to a car payment or a mortgage Maybe even chained to a career that you're really not sure about Now's the time to travel the world a little bit You'll never be as free as you are right now to go and see things and do things you can travel so cheaply on your loan on your own Nobody mind. He's not here today He lost his job and he went on unemployment It was a commercial real estate company that went out of business. He had a good job with him He claims unemployment. He's like I can stay here and look for a job Or I got an employment business for a few months, so he actually went to Columbia and lived for like a month, you know experienced culture Now's the time to do it if you had a wife kids Car house payment couldn't do it those things chain you down.  Feminism that was a big one and then you know the feminist movement came along and guys decided they were going to be emasculated or Probably our grandfathers and great-grandfathers would look at us these days and just shake their heads and go man as I said in the community tapes back then Men knew their role and women knew the role and it didn't cross very much, you know and Women will say watch this and go well, that's really crap because we deserve as much opportunity But you admit that most of the problems in American culture come down to Women trying to fill roles that are traditional men. It's very politically incorrect good and then Men Convalescing acquiescing their role as leaders and accepting that and say oh, it's really cool that my wife works How great is that? You know we got a nanny for the kids and do this and do that. She's so independent Yeah, wait just she's tired of your ass, okay It's painful it will happen it will happen to many people in this room So I don't know I've got friends that have made it to almost 40 they haven't been married No kids and say what do you think you want kids you and I'm like You know you have to decide that it's not it's not a bad. You got to take your life and define it how you want So number 10 coming down to that Mistake to making your 20s And I stole this here's a question. Oh another guy On that list of people get anything you can get your hands on by gaining Jim Rohn Rohn He just died last year brilliant man.  You got to educate them too So they got to be charged up excited about life and going after these things But they got to be educated too, so they're not just a fanatic about it And then you can't have somebody who's just educated and doesn't have the attitude to go with it because you know They're the stodgy technician that doesn't get along with people and difficult so So Jim Rohn reads Zig Ziglar's books too if you went in sales everybody eventually makes a deline of sales You've got guys in all different Variety walks of life, but everything will get down to sales You know when you go out and you do pick up it's really sales and the stuff I'm not chasing actually translated into In the sales that I do you don't want to be the salesperson.  Hey, I got the best thing going you can come to me So many times you see sales people chasing but anyways back to that There's a guy a famous sales trainer called Brian Tracy if you get a hold of his tapes he does a lot of DVDs and audio files that you can listen to but anyways he asked this in his in his seminar What is the number one waste of time in your 20s? What's the number one waste of time? Answers Facebook Facebook. That's pretty good. What number one waste of time? TV it's good. Generally a waste of time Sleep too much, right? Yeah, I'll sleep when I'm dead Those are good things number one waste of time is staying in a bad relationship You could just ingrain that in your brain. You will save yourself so much time energy effort I See my friends and bad I've seen them in bad relationships and you all know somebody's been in bad relationships You may have grown up in a home. There was a bad relationship and what is the old saying is that every kid would rather Be from a broken home than live in one. It's kind of the same way Why do you want to stick around in a broken relationship that doesn't work? Oh, well, you know She moved in to help me pay the mortgage payment. She moved in to help me pay the rent, you know, it's cheaper to Then the things go souring now stuck with this person. So here's the signs I'm gonna hit a bullet point that will do a Q&A Red flags in a relationship. I've got a lot of this stuff in my blog This is my and in my blog archives you can go back But if you see yourself in this anytime or you see friends say and wake up these are red flags Arguments poor communication or lying of any kind One of my early business partners I used to say this with clients You get a difficult client right out of the gate and you're like and we would always say if this is the honeymoon I Can't wait to see how the marriage is going to be so if it's really bad in the first stages in the first few months personal experience you can have a relationship with a woman for Two or three years and never have an argument there are women out there like that So don't think we have a healthy debate about things. No, not really Okay, so arguments poor communication lying bad Jealousy or suspicion if she doesn't let you have boys night out if she just tries to keep you from your friends You say hey Friday night boys night out. I'm going with my friends.   You say what we are we're gonna drink We're gonna drink some Irish whiskey.  It's implicit. They'll accept it It's a good woman. She'll accept it if she's like jealous and doesn't want you going out with your buddies or tries to keep you to herself Huge red flag. It's because it's only gonna get worse someday We decide to get married and have kids whether you want to go play golf on Saturday with your buddies. Guess what? No, you're not she'll say I worked hard all week. Here's the kid Your turn. I'm gonna go have breakfast with my girlfriends. She'll say and you like what?  No, you set the stage for it So don't you know snip that in the bud.    That's how you tell I'd love to meet your mom When can we meet your mom? You get serious about a girl find out. That's as soon as you want to do If I want to hang out with a girl more than one occasion, I'm like with Tim Tell me about your parents. How's your relationship with your mom?  All right, we don't talk. Oh My mom's crazy. She's been married three times. I'm like, thank you for that information The acorn never falls far from the Tree exactly look at your dad.  I'm like So my dad I said I didn't think 40 was I used to think 40 was old. He's like I used to think 70 was old I'm like, you know what 70 is not old anymore to me. That's only 30 years away. Then it's closer now. All right I'm back to this red flags Just so important this probably lack of proper boundaries for the management of time and or money you take any person male or female The way they manage time is exactly the way they manage money If they are hairy scary, they show up late. They're never on time They over commit to things guess what they do with their money It's the same the same things people manage time and money in about the same ways. They really do Some is tight protects the time. They're probably really good with protecting their money So you look at that woman if she has really issues with time management or money management And if a woman ever has any if she is like in debt to her gills. She's materialistic, you know You don't want to stick with her. She may be fun girls are fun You girls watching this You like to play games with guys as much as you like to play games with you is so true women do that Surprise surprise any woman has extreme need for approval same thing go back to what her parents how they how they raised her


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