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Adopt and present a resolution and plaque of appreciation honoring Thelma Daez-Sy, Public Health Nutritionist, upon her retirement from the Department of Health and Social Services, Public Health Division with 23 years of dedicated public service to Solano County (Supervisor Brown)
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DEPARTMENTAL RECOMMENDATION:
The Department of Health and Social Services (H&SS) recommends that the Board of Supervisors adopt and present a resolution and plaque of appreciation honoring Thelma Daez-Sy, Public Health Nutritionist, upon her retirement from the Department of Health and Social Services, Public Health Division with 23 years of dedicated public service to Solano County.
SUMMARY/DISCUSSION:
Thelma Daez-Sy began her career on December 11, 1995 and has worked all of her 23 years in the Nutrition Services Bureau of the Public Health Division, working in both the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program and the Nutrition Education and Obesity Prevention (NEOP) program. As a bilingual WIC Public Health Nutritionist, Ms. Daez-Sy provided nutrition education for high-risk families, breastfeeding support and critical linkages to community resources for thousands of vulnerable pregnant and postpartum woman, infants and children up to the age of 5 years. Ms. Daez-Sy provided WIC services and taught nutrition education classes for perinatal women in substance abuse treatment programs and provided nutrition case management for perinatal women on both the WIC and SolanoWORKS programs.
While working in NEOP, Ms. Daez-Sy provided nutrition education in elementary schools and participated in community assessment projects that ultimately resulted in the Healthy Market projects. Her passionate performances as the Iron Chef during National Nutrition Month and for food demonstrations in the community are legendary.
In 1996, Ms. Daez-Sy became a Certified Lactation Educator to p...
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