Best Practices in Nutrition Education for Low-Income Audiences

Domains and best practices are as follows:

• Program design: content areas, evidence-based, goal setting, appropriate for audience, literacy considerations, theoretical base, goals and objectives, social ecological mode.
• Program delivery: learning styles, experiential activities, contacts, fidelity, enhancement items, collaboration.
• Educator characteristics: relate to the target audience, expertise in content, expertise in teaching methods, performance expectations.
• Educator training: initial training, ongoing training, observation of educators.
• Evaluation: formative evaluation, process evaluation, outcome evaluation, impact assessment, sustained behavior change, goals and objectives, social ecological model.