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ForwardSymposium Session: Beyond the Clinic Using Community Engagement to Expand Impact and Influence
As healthcare providers, registered dietitians are trained to make a difference; one client at a time—but meaningful impact often extends beyond the clinical setting. This session explores how nutrition and wellness professionals can leverage the power of community engagement to expand access to evidence-based nutrition care, support public health, and build trust with broader audiences.
Participants will examine practical strategies for engaging community organizations such as schools, faith-based organizations, and nonprofit groups as well as tools for delivering consistent, evidence-based messaging across platforms. Whether in private practice, corporate wellness, public health, or just beginning to explore your role in the broader community, this session will deliver the strategies, confidence, and creativity to: identify meaningful opportunities, communicate effectively with diverse audiences, and develop sustainable relationships that grow both your impact and your professional visibility. Come ready to reimagine your role—not just as a clinician—but as a community catalyst for well-being.
This is not a webinar or course for purchase - this is a module for credit claiming for our 2026 Spring Symposium attendees and cannot be purchased or taken by non-attendees. These sessions are exclusive to our Symposium; however, the topics may be revisited in the future in the form of a webinar or self-study course.
Learning Objectives
After completing this continuing education activity, health care professionals will be better able to:
- Define community engagement within the context of nutrition entrepreneurship and explain its role in building trust, visibility, and professional influence.
- Evaluate community opportunities strategically using practical frameworks to determine alignment, sustainability, and potential impact.
- Differentiate between volunteer, honorarium, and paid engagements and apply strategies for setting boundaries while transitioning toward compensated partnerships.
- Create consistent, evidence-based messaging using specific marketing tools that extends influence beyond the clinic.
- Develop a personalized 30-day action plan to begin implementing strategic community engagement aligned with business and professional growth goals.
Additional Information
Yvette Perrier Quantz, RDN, LDN, is the Founder of Affy Health (formerly Customized Nutrition Newsletters), an innovative content solution designed to help health and wellness professionals communicate with clarity, compassion, and confidence. Through her private practice, Food Therapy, she combines the science of nutrition with intuitive and faith-based principles to guide clients toward balance and well-being. Passionate about her community, Yvette actively supports initiatives that promote the health and wellness of people across Louisiana. Her mission is simple: to help others build trust, foster connection, and share messages that nourish both body and soul.
Kelly Devine, MS, RDN, LDN, is a Chicago Southsider through and through—proud, passionate, and deeply rooted in her community. As a Registered and Licensed Dietitian Nutritionist with over 18 years of experience, she brings a refreshingly real approach to health and wellness. Kelly holds a master's degree in nutrition education and is the founder of Devine Nutrition, a group practice she launched in 2009. Her team specializes in weight management, diabetes education, family wellness, and sports nutrition, delivering personalized, evidence-based care to individuals, families, schools, coaches, and fitness professionals across Illinois.
But Kelly’s mission goes beyond the clinic. She’s the founder of Run to the Pub Running Club, now a nonprofit dedicated to making fitness fun and accessible for all. She is also co-creator of Emerald Cup Coffee and Emerald Social, a growing hospitality and community-based events brand that fuels connection through creativity, collaboration, and (of course) great coffee. From mobile coffee pop-ups at farmers markets to community-focused gatherings, Kelly is dedicated to building spaces where people come together—and leave better than they arrived.
Known for her approachable teaching style and “real-life wellness” philosophy, Kelly proves you can live healthy without giving up the foods and traditions that make life worth living. Whether she’s coaching clients, hosting community events, planning social gatherings, or enjoying a post run pint, Kelly is all about helping people build habits they enjoy—and can actually stick with.
Disclosures:
The faculty and planners of this educational activity have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.
An “ineligible company” includes any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
In support of improving patient care, Great Valley Publishing Company is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
This activity will also award credit for dietetics (CDR CPEU).
Dietitians: RDs and DTRs are to select activity type 102 in their Activity Log. Sphere and Competency selection is at the learner’s discretion.
Available Credit
- 1.50 CDR