APA

API’s San Francisco Bay Fish Outreach and Education Project

Project Goals:
o Increase community awareness and understanding of fish contamination issues
o Reduce chemical exposure from eating SF Bay fish through outreach, research, and education
within our API population

Project Activities:
o Community-Based Social Marketing: Identifying the barriers and benefits to continue consumption
of Bay Fish at safe level and promote the benefit from healthy nutrition available in fish.
Developing tools (message, posters, materials) so the API community will be receptive to
participating, learning and changing their behavior for long term.
o Translated, compiled and developed materials, resources, and informational incentives.
o Community and Cultural Events

Outcomes:
o Worked with CDPH to translate the advisory brochure into 9 API languages.
o Developed several fish themed games and activities for kids.
o Arranged for training (by CDPH) and ongoing support to APA partner organizations that increased
these organization’s capacity to provide fish information in the communities they serve.
o Farmmary Saephan was interviewed for a radio story called "Fishermen harvest dinner in the Bay
at their own risk" that was aired on KALW, a San Francisco public radio station.

APA Link: http://www.apafss.org/

California Indian Environmental Alliance (CIEA)

San Francisco Bay Mercury Tribal Health Project

Project Goals:
The purpose of the CIEA and NAHC WIC San Francisco Bay Mercury Tribal Health Partnership project was to empower low-income families to eat fish while avoiding mercury and PCBs.

Project Activities:
o Developed GC 30 Making Healthy Fish Curriculum
o Community Events
o All WIC staff on-duty successfully completed training
o CIEA completed waiting room surveys and field test surveys
o Making Healthy Fish Choices GC 30 Class in English, Spanish, and Vietnamese

CIEA Link: http://cieaweb.org/

Greenaction

San Francisco Bay Fish Environmental Health and Justice Project

Project Goals:
o Increase awareness and understanding of the new Fish Advisory information, contamination issues and benefits associated with consuming fish from San Francisco Bay
o Reduce exposure to PCBs and mercury linked to consuming contaminated Bay fish, primarily focusing on low-income people of color living in Bayview-Hunters Point and southeast San Francisco and who are disproportionately affected by ill health problems arising from a multitude of pollution exposures including eating contaminated fish

Project Activities:
o Hired and trained a fluent bilingual Chinese-English outreach worker
o Fisher interviews
o Community Presentations
o Conducted Outreach to Tongan Community

Outcomes:
Surveyed Bayview-Hunters Point residents, fishers, and at-risk women and mothers who:
o Intend to modify their attitudes about potential health impacts of mercury and PCBs and benefits of Omega-3s/healthy fish on their personal health and the health of their family.
o Improved their knowledge about the Fish Advisory, mercury and PCBs in fish, health benefits of fish and safer fishing and fish consumption habits.
o Will intend to change or modify their fishing practices or consumption habits towards safer consumption-fish catching and safer preparation methods.

Greenaction Link: http://greenaction.org

Kids for the Bay

Safe Bay Food Consumption Project (SBFCP)

Project Goals:
o Teach students about the San Francisco Bay watershed and the pollutants impacting bay health and human health
o Students become environmental health educators and teach their families show to reduce intake of toxins, including mercury and PCBs, from consumption of Bay fish
o Students educate people fishing on Bay piers about pollution in the Bay and how to reduce intake of toxins from consumption of bay fish
o Teachers learn to teach the KIDS for the BAY (KftB) Safe Bay Food Consumption Curriculum and Watershed Action Program to future classes of students. The program becomes an integrated component of the grade-level school curriculum with the support of the school principal.

Outcomes:
o Selected classes to participate in the SBFCP which, based on the population screening tool, contained at least 20% of students whose families fish from the Bay/Delta
o Updated and revised the SBFCP curriculum and program materials
o Lead workshops to train KftB staff on pollution in the Bay and the potential health effects from eating Bay fish, the new Bay fish advisory information and the SBFCP curriculum
o Conducted Watershed Action Program classroom lessons at schools to provide a framework for students’ understanding of SBFCP related issues
o Assisted students to conduct angler interviews on fishing piers on field trips to the San Francisco Bay shoreline
o Lead a demonstration Safe Bay Food Consumption presentation for each class to train students for their student-led presentations to family members
o Assisted classes during the student-led Safe Bay Fish Consumption presentations to family members
o KIDS for the BAY was featured on KPFA 94.1 FM’s “Terra Verde” radio show

Kids for the Bay Link: http://www.kidsforthebay.org

Evaluation Tools for funded groups

These are the evaluation tools developed by CDPH to help the funded groups evaluate their projects.

I. Population Screening Tool

Purpose: to track the number of attendees, San Francisco Bay fish consumers, and at risk consumers

II. Outcome Evaluation Tools:

Purpose: to measure changes in knowledge, access to information, and/or intent to change behavior that has resulted from project activities. The outcome evaluation tools include:

a. Pre/Post Test

b. Retrospective Post Test (Long Version)

c. Retrospective Post Test (Short Version)

Download the PDF versions of the tools here:

Population Screening Tool:
Population Screening Tool.pdf (147.05 KB)

Pre/Post Test:
Pre-post test questionnaire.pdf (245.04 KB)

Retrospective Post Test (Short Version):
Retrospective post test questionnaire (Short Version).pdf (282.58 KB)

Retrospective Post Test (Long Version):
Retrospective Post-Test (Long Version).pdf (262.39 KB)

Fishing Locations with Fish Smart Signs