Healthy Pantry Partners:
The Healthy Pantry Partners project aims to assist the Food Bank of Delaware’s partner agencies to prioritize SNAPeligible clients’ access to Foods to Encourage by providing nutrition education. The Community Nutrition Educators visit emergency food pantries to assess the variety and quality of foods offered and the effectiveness of the site’s promotion of healthy foods. Based upon these assessments, the Food Bank of Delaware nutrition education staff utilizes the Healthy Policies for Healthy Pantry Partners to make recommendations to site personnel and volunteers on ordering and procurement of healthy foods, behavioral economics strategies including site layout and signage, and nutrition education classes to encourage participants to choose healthier foods.
The Healthy Childhood Project (HCP):
Based on the University of New Mexico Prevention Research Center’s Child Health Initiative for Lifelong Eating (CHILE) Plus Program, we provide an evidence-based curriculum in Early Childhood Education Centers and Head Start programs. The HCP curriculum is designed to be carried out over the course of a year. Through classroom meals, lessons and activities, which is supplemented by family educational materials and face-to-face family events, children improve nutrition and physical activity behaviors. We utilize the modules developed for the CHILE program in addition to lessons and materials from the Healthy Harvest for Healthy Kids curriculum to give students an opportunity to explore and taste new fruits and vegetables. We also provide indirect education and newsletters at community locations that serve SNAP
eligible populations.
Create Better Health – CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR VIRTUAL CLASSES!
The Create Better Health (CBH) Curriculum is designed to improve the nutrition and physical activity-related knowledge and skills of low-income adults. CBH focuses on stretching the food budget through the use of “Create “concepts which teach participants how to use foods they already have in their kitchen to create a variety of quick and healthy meals. Recipes prepared using “Create” principles: casseroles, soups, salads, wraps, pizza, smoothies, vegetables, grain bowls and more. This curriculum is offered in a series of 4 classes which include a nutrition topic related to My Plate and food shopping, physical activity discussion, and cooking demonstration or food sampling utilizing a “Create” concept.
Food Smarts
Food Smarts is a series of nutrition education classes that focuses on behavior change to support a healthy lifestyle for adults receiving or eligible for food assistance benefits. Through a variety of activities, participants learn about healthy eating, food safety, cooking, food waste reduction and stretching the food budget. Using Trauma Informed teaching methods, Food Smarts is a flexible, learner-centered, multi-session nutrition and cooking program with several available lesson plans to fit the needs of a variety of settings.
CONTACT US:
New Castle County
Jaime Sherman
Community Nutrition Educator
(302) 292-1305 ext 273
jsherman@fbd.org
Kent/Sussex Counties
Alicia Vogel
Community Nutrition Educator
(302) 393-2013
avogel@fbd.org