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• USDA Recipe Finder
  Search for low-cost, healthy and easy to prepare recipes for use in nutrition education activities.

• USDA commodity fact sheets
  With recipes

• Lesson plans to support cooking demonstrations for Adults with children from California WIC.

• A series of lessons about fruits and vegetables from NOAHnet. These lessons are designed to help teach adults about fun and easy ways to eat more fruits and vegetables; use low fat recipes; shop with a limited budget; and store fruits and vegetables appropriately. *These materials contain 5 to 9 a day messaging and must be adapted to incorporate the 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans before using in a BFNEP project.

• The Simply Good Eating Curriculum
  Helps participants learn how to apply basic nutrition principles to their food choices, plan healthy meals on a limited budget, stretch their food dollar, and cook with an emphasis on safe food practices. Complies with the 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans and MyPyramid. Recommended for EFNEP and FSNEP staff, other nutrition educators, and teachers.

• NIH Senior Health
  The National Institutes of Health's web site for seniors and their care givers.

• The Food and Nutrition Information Center (FNIC) Resource List
  A quick guide to materials that address nutrition education for the non-institutionalized elderly. Scroll down to Table of Contents and click Curricula to view a variety of senior curriculums.

• A senior curriculum (PIW) designed for delivery at congregate nutrition sites from North Carolina. Partners in Wellness (PIW) is based on the Socio-ecological Model which targets the individual and the surrounding environment to achieve behavior change. Each level in the model (individual, interpersonal, organizational, communal and societal) is addressed in PIW delivery.

Collaboration  (back to top)

• Collaboration Math: Enhancing the Effectiveness of Multidisciplinary Collaboration
  Collaboration Math describes and illustrates how multidisciplinary groups can use this tool to increase effective collaboration.

• Developing Effective Coalitions: An Eight Step Guide
  This tool guides advocates and practitioners through the process of coalition building, from deciding whether or not a coalition is appropriate, to selecting the best membership and ending with conducting ongoing evaluations.

• The Tension of Turf: Making it Work for the Coalition
  The Tension of Turf was developed in response to a common experience in coalitions – turf struggle. The document explores turf issues that commonly arise among coalition members and offers a recommendations for limiting the negative aspects of turf struggles.

• Eliminating Health Disparities: The Role of Primary Prevention
  This describes how health disparities can be reduced through systems-based prevention strategies that address the underlying factors influencing health.

• Cultivating Common Ground: Linking Health and Sustainable Agriculture
  Cultivating Common Ground delineates opportunities for creating a synergistic movement between health and sustainable agriculture, in order to strengthen the momentum for a just, sustainable health-promoting food system. Opportunities to positively impact agriculture, the environment and health make this collaboration not only promising, but essential. The report was funded by the Clarence E. Heller Charitable Foundation and Columbia Foundation.

Contractor Developed Materials Why reinvent the wheel? Share examples of presentations and nutrition education materials you have created or revised. (back to top)  

• Early Childhood Curriculum
  This curriculum has temporarily been removed until it can be adapted to meet the 2005 Dietary
  Guidelines for Americans. If interested in these materials, contact the DOH BFNEP staff.

• Sample activity form (MS Word, 29KB)

• Sample shopping lesson plan (MS PowerPoint, 1.5MB)

• The Healthy Eating for Healthy Aging Cookbook (PDF, 2.46MB)
  provides senior-friendly, simple recipes that emphasize the use of fruits, vegetables, and whole grains.  Recipes are designed to be low-cost and include tips for modifying to individual preferences.  The cookbook includes information about reading Nutrition Facts Labels, serving sizes, and nutrition recommendations for older adults based on the 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans and My Pyramid. 

  Target Audience: While designed for older adults and seniors, this cookbook is appropriate for other age groups.

  Key Messages: Simple, healthful recipes to increase intake of fruits, vegetables, and whole grains.

• Fruit & Vegetable Curriculum Teachers Guide, 5th edition (PDF, 5.7 MB)
  This curriculum was based originally on the Honor the Gift of Food. It has lesson plans for cooking classes and food demonstrations focusing on incorporating fruits and vegetables into recipes using commodity foods. It includes a cookbook workbook for participants and sample evaluation tools. Nutrition materials reflect the 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.
  Target Audience: FDPIR and Food Bank Participants
  Key Messages: How to purchase, store, safely handle, and cook fruits and vegetables. 
  Participant Cookbook Workbook, 5th edition with nutrition information and recipes (MS Word, 11MB)

• NOAHnet, cranberry lesson plan (MS Word, 374 KB) This lesson plan was created by Cindy Johnson at Mattawa Community Medical Clinic to augment her NOAH net lessons on fruits and vegetables and has been adapted to incorporate the 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.

Evaluation  (back to top)

• Education and Administrative Reporting System (EARS)
  Describes FNS's current efforts to develop an ongoing reporting system for Food Stamp Nutrition Education.

• The NSI Checklist was designed to increase older adults' awareness about nutrition and health. The Mini Nutrition Assessment (MNA®) was designed to identify older adults (>65 years) at risk of malnutrition. Both help differentiate among adequate nutritional status, malnutrition risk, and malnutrition.

Farmers Market  (back to top)

• Farmers Markets/Produce
  Download fruit and vegetable brochures, newsletters, and promotion ideas. Locate certified WIC markets.

• Washington State Farmers Market Association Page

• Harvest of the Month. (PDF- 217 KB) This tool kit provides educators with materials and resources to help educate and inspire students to eat a variety of colorful fruits and vegetables and get daily physical activity.

• "All About Farmers' Markets"  A teaching guide for Classrooms, Camps and Community Programs.

Funding  (back to top)

• Grants.gov is a collaborative effort led by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Collaborative partners include the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Education, Homeland Security, Housing and Urban Development, Justice, Labor and Transportation, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Environmental Protection Agency, National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Science Foundation.

Needs Assessment  (back to top)

Applicant organizations must conduct needs assessments to ensure the development and delivery of nutrition education interventions in an effective manner appropriate to Basic Food Program participants and applicants.  Needs assessments require and rely on data that describes, identifies, and locates the people that your Basic Food Nutrition Education Program (BFNEP) will serve and data must focus on income statistics of potential BFNEP participants.  The WA State Department of Health provides data packets to all prospective contractors.  This packet includes the following data elements and should be used in conjunction with local data to determine eligibility of the contractor’s population: National School Lunch Program Eligibility Data, Head Start Program Data, U.S. Census Tract Data.

• Local data may also be used depending upon the intervention and its audience.  Contact a member of the WA State Department of Health BFNEP Staff for questions or clarification.

Nutrition Resource Links  (back to top)

• My Pyramid

• Food Stamp Nutrition Connection

• United States Department of Agriculture Food Assistance Programs

• American Dietetic Association

• 2005 Dietary Guidelines Toolkit for Professionals

• SNE MyPyramid e-Catalog
  Society for Nutrition Education (SNE) has developed a new web site to help nutrition educators find and market nutrition education materials promoting MyPyramid and the 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans. and is a searchable listing of peer-reviewed resources. 
   

• Three Simple Steps handout (PDF-560k)
  Eating fruits and vegetables is simple and healthy. Use these three steps to get the amounts that are right for you. This handout is designed to be easy to read. Budget-friendly tips are also included.
  Also available in a text-only version (PDF-47k)
   

• Portion Distortion: Learn serving size information

• Make Your Calories Count is an interactive learning program that provides consumers with information to help plan a healthful diet while managing calorie intake. This program will show consumers how, in part, by explaining what serving sizes, percentages, and daily values mean and how to use them.  This program is available for online use and in a downloadable format.

• This Nutrition Facts Label brochure describes how consumers can use the label as they shop and plan meals.  

• CDC fruit and vegetable information
  This is the successor to the "5 A Day" site, and contains updated dietary guidelines, recipes and tips for healthy eating.

• Fruits & Veggies More Matters
  A website created by the "Produce for Better Health Foundation" containing information on nutrition, meal planning, shopping tips and healthy resources.

• My Pyramid tip sheets on using fresh fruits and vegetables

• ADA Complete Food and Nutrition Guide

• Food & Nutrition Information Center

Tribal  (back to top)

• Circle of Change - Guiding Others Toward Healthy Living 8.5x11, 3-ring binder.
  The goal of this guide is to assist health educators implement successful nutrition education interventions especially in tribal settings. Originally developed for BFNEP coordinators using the Lifestyle Balance curriculum, the guide can serve any instructor responsible for adult education programs.
  Target Audience: Health educators working with adults
  Key Messages: How to recruit and retain participants, how to work with large versus small groups, what to do with difficult or disruptive participants, stages of change, learning styles, and more.

• Lifestyle Balance  (external site) is an education program that was developed through the national Diabetes Prevention Program. Several Washington Tribes have implemented Lifestyle Balance programs and have generously offered their lessons learned to improve and strengthen Lifestyle Balance.

• The United Tribes Technical College Extension Program has developed educational activities which promote and strengthen a healthy and productive lifestyle for tribal members including a fruit and vegetable lesson plan and DVD

•  Native American Nutrition Database
  Has an extensive resource list for educators

• Article on Native American Nutrient Database

• A River of Recipes: Native American Recipes Using Commodity Foods
  Provides many recipes of interest to Native Americans incorporating foods that are distributed through Commodity Foods Programs. Also has information on food safety and food measurements.

• Encyclopedia Smithsonian: Food, Cooking, Plant Use by Native Americans
  Recommended books on food, cooking, and plant use.

 USDA Recommended Materials  (back to top)

• Eat Smart. Play Hard.™

• WIC Works Resource System

• Team Nutrition

Youth  (back to top)

• The Iowa Department of Public Health and Iowa State University developed a series of 42 nutrition education modules focused on increasing young children's intake of vegetables

• Eat Smart. Play Hard™ kids’ web page

• Eat Smart. Play Hard.™ Healthy Lifestyle web page

• Eat Smart. Play Hard™ main page

Links to external resources are provided as a public service and do not imply endorsement by the Washington State Department of Health.

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Last Updated:  03/06/2008 09:51 AM