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  • Smarter Lunchrooms Movement

    Jan 10, 2017

    The Smarter Lunchrooms Movement conducts research in thousands of schools across the country in order to identify the best ways to nudge students to select and consume the healthiest food in the lunchroom.

    Smarter Lunchrooms Movement

  • Text2BHealthy

    Jun 13, 2016

    Text2BHealthy is a text message program targeting parents of elementary school students who are currently receiving classroom-based nutrition education. Face-to-face nutrition education is an effective tool in teaching children about fruits and vegetables, but programs often experience difficulty reaching parents.

    TEXT 2B Healthy

  • Scoring Coalitions Using the SNAP-Ed Evaluation Framework

    Jun 13, 2016

    Partners that are engaged through active coalitions are vital to the success of SNAP-Ed in Tennessee. All 95 counties are required to have a SNAP-Ed coalition. These coalitions have members from diverse public and nonprofit agencies and organizations as well as SNAP and SNAP-Ed participants.

    people sitting around a table

  • The Potential for Shared Statewide Metrics

    Jun 13, 2016

    California has five SNAP-Ed State Implementing Agencies (SIAs), each of which has its own Local Implementing Agencies (LIAs) for reaching the SNAP-Ed population with education and obesity prevention interventions.

    map of California

  • Distinguished After School Health Recognition Program

    Jun 13, 2016

    California’s local and federal funding provides enrichment services in 4,500 SNAP-Ed eligible afterschool programs. To assess the potential of SNAP-Ed to introduce such efforts system-wide (ST5), the California Department of Public Health’s Network for a Healthy California worked with the Center for Collaborative Solutions (CCS), a nonprofit specializing in public education.

    hotograph of children from START performing at Cesar Chavez Park in Sacramento, California in 2014

  • Measuring Food Security in Remote Villages

    Jun 13, 2016

    The Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s Division of Subsistence (DOS) conducts annual field research to measure changes in the amounts of subsistence foods used in rural Alaska. The Alaska Family Nutrition Program’s SNAP-Ed team is partnering with DOS and the Center for Alaska Native Health Research (CANHR) to measure food security in rural Alaskan communities (indicator R6 in the SNAP-Ed Evaluation Framework).

    Pie chart of Alaska Food Security

  • Measuring Physical Fitness in Georgia's Schools

    Jun 13, 2016

    In partnership with the Georgia Departments of Health, Education and Human Services, HealthMPowers, Georgia State University, and other key stakeholders, Georgia has been collecting annual health-related fitness data on one million students in grades 4–12 since 2012.

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  • Producing PEARS, A Data Tracking System

    Jun 13, 2016

    The state uses the Program Evaluation and Reporting System (PEARS) to gather evaluation data. Using PEARS, Kansas SNAP-Ed professionals can select or build evaluation instruments specific to the needs of each program they deliver, enter program information and response data, and access various reporting features.

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  • Creating a Standardized Program Evaluation System

    Jun 13, 2016

    The Maine Department of Health and Human Services contracts with the University of New England to deliver SNAP-Ed through 23 community-based coalitions. Maine’s nutrition educators enhance direct education with obesity prevention policy, systems, and environmental change (PSE) strategies.

    gardens