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Leveraging Community Partnerships for Improved Health & Nutrition

Nutrition Education Program Community Wellness Coordinators

February 6, 2020

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Theresa Mince, MA, CHES

Lake County

Holly Catron, MBA

Boone & Montgomery Counties

Kristen Fitzgerald, RDN

Marion County

Agenda

• What is NEP?
• Value of Outside Partnerships
• Our Work With Schools
• Q&A

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What is the Nutrition Education Program?

NEPAs provide free nutrition and physical activity education in our communities, and in schools like yours! Utilizing the CATCH curriculum, topics include:

• Portion sizes
• Understanding food labels
• Healthy snacks
• Physical activity
• …and more!

Nutrition Education Program Assistants (NEPAs)

The Purdue Extension Nutrition Education Program (NEP) works with limited-resource audiences to improve nutrition and health in communities statewide. We do this through direct education & bigger picture changes. Community Wellness Coordinators (CWCs) work with community partners to make healthy choices more accessible in five focus areas for those with limited resources:

• Nutrition
• Physical Activity
• Food Security
• Food Safety
• Food Resource Management

We do this through Policy, Systems, and Environmental (PSE) change.

Community Wellness Coordinators (CWCs) Policy, Systems, and Environmental Change

PSE work looks at the bigger picture, to affect change on a broader scale. Some examples:

• School wellness policies
• Community gardens
• Farmers markets
• Bicycle- & pedestrian-friendly routes
• Fruit & vegetable prescription program

While direct education can create individual behavior changes, PSE work creates an environment in which healthy choices become the easy choices.

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Why Outside Partners are Important

• Capacity

○ We can put in the leg work ○ Help with those projects you have dreamed about

• Funding
• Connections to programming

○ Direct education

• Support
• Different strengths
• Links to community

○ You are not an island ○ Volunteer recruitment through coalitions, organizations

Our Work With Schools Across the State Holly Catron – Montgomery County, IN

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SMALL CITY IN A RURAL COUNTY

Montgomery County, Central Indiana Surrounded by farmland 2,384 students in grades PK-12 Three elementary schools (PK-1, 2-3, 4-5) One middle and one high school Breakfast in all schools, in-class for elementary & middle school, and all have salad bar NEED: Community partners and connections to further Farm to School

FARM TO SCHOOL Community team In-school celebrations School gardens Local Food Summit community event Classroom herb kits School garden to cafeteria Summer lunch & learn SCHOOL CELEBRATIONS

Kickoff for Fuel Up to Play 60 National Farm to School month Farm to School supper

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SUMMER LUNCH & LEARN

Garden & Nutrition education Purdue Extension, Master Gardeners, Sustainable Initiatives, many community volunteers Held at the local community garden Sustainable Initiatives Free lunch for all kids Chartwells & Summer Food Service Program (SFSP)

SCHOOL GARDEN TO CAFETERIA

SAFETY PLAN

Theresa Mince – Lake County, IN

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School Breakfast

Statewide & regional taskforces to increase breakfast participation

(Check out Michelle Plummer’s presentation @ 1pm for more info!)

CWC role:

• Overall planning, implementation, and evaluation
• Generate teacher & administrator buy-in
• Complete School Health Index
• Help address additional barriers to increase efficacy
• Transportation, school policies, etc.
• Find and assist in application for grants
• Wrap-around PSE work to ensure success and create healthy schools

Mindfulness/Movement Rooms

• Statewide focus on Social-Emotional Learning (SEL)
• Incorporating physical activity into self-regulation and daily learning
• 3-year grant from ISDH
• Piloting in 2 elementary schools this year, expanding each year after

Mobile Cooking Cart

• Horticulture Club expressed interest in learning how to cook the food they grew at school
• Assisted in writing a grant from the local hospital for a mobile cooking cart
• NEPAs provided education
• Students select recipes from eatgathergo.org

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Staff Wellness

• High rates of teacher burn-out
• Need to care well for educators who are caring for our students
• Walking clubs, team challenges, healthy eating, etc.

Kristen Fitzgerald – Marion County, IN School Wellness Policies (SWP)

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Healthy Classroom Celebrations Physical Activity in the Hallways

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Leveraging Community Partnerships for Improved Health & Nutrition

Nutrition Education Program Community Wellness Coordinators

February 6, 2020

Questions?

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