A network analytics term that measures the extent to which communication and collaboration within the partnership is focused around one sector or one lead agency.

A means of communication or expression; a path along which information passes.

Relationships that exist when primary care clinicians make a connection with a community resource to provide certain preventive services such as tobacco screening and counseling.

The commitment of a group of important actors from different sectors to a common agenda for solving a specific social problem.

• Community partnerships between the law enforcement agency and those they serve to develop solutions and increase trust in police
• Organizational transformation that aligns management, structure, personnel, and information systems to support community partnerships and problem solving (internal changes within the law enforcement agency)
• Problem solving, which includes the process of engaging in the proactive and systematic examination of identified problems to develop and evaluate effective responses (an internal framework within the law enforcement agency)

• Natural surveillance achieved through lighting, removing concealed areas, and placing view points and entrances/exits for easy observation
• Territoriality designated by signage, low fencing, or other landscape elements that delineate the transition between areas of different use
• Access control through man-made (e.g., locks, fencing, or other security barriers) or natural (e.g., landscaping) mechanisms that discourage unwanted access
• Activity support (e.g., aesthetics or activities) that promotes use to increase "eyes on the street"
• Management and maintenance of landscaping, lighting, and other features

Local food marketing arrangements in which growers/producers sell agricultural products directly to the final consumers, such as sales through farmers markets, CSAs, and farm stands.

Categories of settings where people eat, learn, live, play, shop, and work.

How long a person does an activity in any one session (e.g., mins/session).

Newly created and growing in strength or evidence base.

Interventions that have been successfully implemented and show promise based on their underlying theory and approach but have not yet been fully evaluated in the field.

A process that surveys programs, services, supports and other resources that are currently in place.

• Procurement: Local foods are purchased, promoted, and served in the cafeteria or as a snack or taste test.
• Education: Students participate in educational activities related to agriculture, food, health, or nutrition.
• School gardens: Students engage in hands-on learning through gardening.

A multi-stall market that sells fresh produce to the public at a central/fixed location.

Ability to move a joint through its full range of motion.

A minimum of 6 months post-intervention.

How often a person does an activity (e.g. days/week).

Sweetened juice products with minimal juice content.

Money provided, especially by an organization or government, for a particular purpose.

Size or scope of an area or activity, categorized as local (ward, district, parish, neighborhood, city, county, or region), state, territorial, or tribal.

A multi-dimensional concept that includes domains related to physical, mental, emotional, and social functioning.

A designated criterion-referenced score on a Cooper Institute Fitnessgram test that indicates the child has a sufficient fitness level to provide important health benefits.

Supermarkets, farmers markets, and produce stores.

The practices used by public institutions to obtain the foods they serve and ensure that these foods promote healthy diets.

This metric is a standardized measure to show the balance of food outlets in a census tract. It is calculated as: Healthy Food Ratio (Healthy food outlets ÷ Total food outlets) x 100.

No reported indications of food-access problems or limitations.

The extent to which program outcomes lead to long-term and sustained changes.

Sub-awardee or grantee funded by State agencies to provide nutrition education and obesity prevention services.

Resources in the form of goods and services, rather than cash

Refer to what ought to be; they convey what is approved and disapproved by a group or society.

How hard a person works to do an activity.

Intervention type includes Direct Education (Direct Ed); Social Marketing; and Policy, Systems, and Environmental Change (PSE). For Direct Ed interventions, participants are actively engaged in the learning process with an educator and/or interactive media.

Outlets with the greatest reach into and/or credibility with SNAP-Ed audiences and with intermediaries in key intervention channels.

Relating to or occurring in a particular area, city, or town.

Food is grown or raised and harvested close to consumers’ homes, then distributed over much shorter distances than is common in the conventional global industrial food system.

In a given household, report of reduced quality, variety, or desirability of diet, but the quantity of food intake and normal eating patterns are not substantially disrupted.

Refers to the extent to which a learner continues to perform a behavior after a portion or all of the intervention responsible for the initial change in behavior has been removed.

The subsets of the total/general audience broken out by demographics such as income, education, ethnicity, language, age, or geography, or by psychographic profile.

• Advertising: Circulars and on-site ads, on-site signage, end-aisle and check-out displays
• In-Language: Outlets that use a language other than English.
• Public relations ("earned media")
• Promotion: Price, seasonal, commemorative specials; techniques of behavioral economics; incentives; loyalty programs; toy giveaways; movie tie-ins; coupons
• Personal sales: Food demonstrations and taste tests, expert speakers, trainings, individualized loyalty programs, online outreach

The routine, voluntary business activities of media outlets including, but not limited to, outlet-initiated news, editorial, and feature coverage; sponsorships; community campaigns; and philanthropy.

A multiplier is the number of times money circulates within a region following a transaction; it is a marker of local economic impact.

Ability to exert submaximal force repeatedly against resistance.

Ability of a muscle or muscle group to exert maximal force.

The largest nationally representative and continuing assessment of what America's students know and can do in various subject areas.

The process of identifying and describing the extent and type of health and nutrition problems and needs of individuals and/or target populations in the community.

A formalized group of individuals and organizations characterized by ongoing dialogue and information sharing.

A farmer/producer with a one-stand operation that sells a variety of fruits and vegetables (produced by the farmer) directly to the public.

Community-based programs that promote the use of public space for physical activity,recreation, and socialization by closing streets temporarily to motorized vehicles, allowing access to pedestrians.

An entity consisting of multiple people, such as an institution or an association, that has a collective goal and is linked to an external environment.

The desired benefit, improvement, or achievement of a specific program or goal.

Organizational entities that offer site(s) or services for conducting SNAP-Ed activities with or without SNAP-Ed funding.

Any body movement that works muscles and requires more energy than resting.

A written statement of an organizational position, decision, or course of action.

An approach based upon published or unpublished evaluation reports and case studies by practitioners working in the field that have shown positive effects on individual behaviors, food/physical activity environments, or policies.

Interventions that have evidence derived from practice in the form of evaluation data or reports.

Levels of activity or achievement typically set by external bodies for recognition awards. Examples might include bronze, silver, and gold or 3-star, 4-star, and 5-star.

How far the project stretches in achieving the end goal.

An outcome measure that considers both the quality and the quantity of life lived. The QALY is based on the number of years of life added by interventions.

A model to help structure evaluation to answer practical questions about program implementation and sustainability (see https://re-aim.org/).

Number of SNAP-Ed eligibles who encounter the improved environment on a regular (typical) basis and are assumed to be influenced by it.

The state of being fully prepared to make a behavior change.

In memory refers to the mental process of retrieval of information from the past. Along with encoding and storage, it is one of the three core processes of memory.

Grains that have been milled to give them a finer texture and improve their shelf life. This process removes dietary fiber, iron, and many B vitamins.

Interventions that have been published in the peer-reviewed literature.

A program to make walking and bicycling to school safer and more accessible for children, including those with disabilities, and to increase the number of children who choose to walk and bicycle.

Areas of the economy in which businesses share the same or a related product or service.

Too much sitting or lying down at work, home, in social settings and during leisure time.

Setting is the type of site where the intervention takes place; interventions may be implemented in more than one setting. The Community setting includes interventions designed to help children and families and/or interventions implemented in neighborhoods, parks, faith-based organizations, or other community locations. This also includes recreation and emergency food provision settings.

Types of sites, for example schools, work sites, food stores, and parks.

The physical locations or places where SNAP-Ed activities occur.

SNAP-Ed agencies include state agencies that administer SNAP, Implementing Agencies (e.g., Land-grant universities, other universities, public health departments, Indian Tribal Organizations, and nonprofit organizations), and their sub-contractors.

Expectations held by social groups that dictate appropriate behavior and are thought of as rules or standards that guide behavior.

Fats that are solid at room temperature, like beef fat, butter, and shortening. Solid fats mainly come from animal foods and can also be made from vegetable oils through a process called hydrogenation.

A communication with some identifiable aspect (e.g., logo, jingle, character) that the respondent could not name unless he or she had been exposed to the communication.

• Planned, focused activities designed to improve age-appropriate motor skill development. The activity should be engaging and involve all children with minimal or no waiting.
• Daily, fun physical activity that is vigorous (gets children "breathless" or breathing deeper and faster than during typical activities) for short bouts of time.

Changes in written policies, organizational systems, and the observable (physical or “built”) or communications environments that make healthy choices easier and more desirable.

The continued use of intervention components and activities for the continued achievement of desirable intervention and population outcomes.

A written document that describes the priorities and action steps that will be taken to ensure the long-term sustainability of a SNAP-Ed intervention or initiative.

A group of related parts that move or work together within a whole organization or a network of organizations.

Unwritten, ongoing, organizational decisions or changes that result in new activities or new ways of conducting business that reach large proportions of people the organization or network of organizations serve.

Target behavior includes Breastfeeding (BF), Food (e.g., healthy eating, nutrition standards), and Physical Activity (PA).

The total number of people that listen, view, read, or otherwise engage with media formats, not broken out by demographics or other segmentation.

Healthy food outlets as well as fast food restaurants, convenience stores, and corner stores.

• Activities that respect and encourage children's individual abilities and interests.
• Teacher engagement with children, support for extending play, and gentle prompts and encouragement by teachers, when appropriate, to stay physically active.

Reports of multiple indications of disrupted eating patterns and reduced food intake.

Grains that contain the entire kernel—the bran, germ, and endosperm.