Nutrition Education Program Proposal

For this assignment you will complete another part of the design of your nutrition education program by completing Steps 5D and 5E: environmental support plan. Then you will use the information from your Step 1-5 worksheets to write your nutrition education plan in essay format as if you were presenting it as a proposal. In your proposal be certain to include how you would use research on learning styles to implement your learning experiences. Include charts and graphs as necessary.

Prepare a 5-7 page paper following APA guidelines, based on the above requirements (not including title page and reference page) and list at least three scholarly references. Wikipedia is not an acceptable reference.

In Step 5, use your theoretical model, philosophy of nutrition education, and nutrition education program objectives to create (1) educational plans for the individual-level components and (2) environmental support plans for environmental/policy components.

These pages of the Step 5 worksheets are devoted to designing the environmental supports plan for the environmental/ policy components. Generally, the environmental/policy components consist of activities directed at changes that impact one or more facets of the environment or policy as these relate to your program’s behavioral goals.

You should have one support plan for each environmental/policy component you stated in Step 3.

At the end of the Step 5 worksheets for the environmental/policy components, you will have the following products:

Step 5D:      General support objectives for each environmental or policy component.

Step 5E:      A matrix that links mediators, objectives, and activities to help you design your support plan.

Use these worksheets as an organizational guide to help you design your environmental support plan and translate theory mediators into environmental and policy change activities. Electronic versions of these worksheets are available at http://nutrition.jbpub.com/education/2e. If you are unable to access the worksheets electronically, you can write onto this blank worksheet or create a text document that uses the same flow of information.

Support plan title:                   ______________________________________________________________________

Program goal behaviors:      ______________________________________________________________________

Write the general educational objectives.

In Step 5, use your theoretical model, philosophy of nutrition education, and nutrition education program objectives to create (1) educational plans for the individual-level components and (2) environmental supports plans for environmental/ policy components.

These pages of the Step 5 worksheets are devoted to designing the environmental supports plan for the environmental/ policy components. Generally, the environmental/policy components consist of activities directed at changes that impact one or more facets of the environment or policy as these relate to your program’s behavioral goals.

You should have one support plan for each environmental/policy component you stated in Step 3.

At the end of the Step 5 worksheets for the environmental/policy components, you will have the following products:

Step 5D:      General support objectives for each environmental or policy component.

Step 5E:      A matrix that links mediators, objectives, and activities to help you design your support plan.

Use these worksheets as an organizational guide to help you design your environmental support plan and translate theory mediators into environmental and policy change activities. Electronic versions of these worksheets are available at http://nutrition.jbpub.com/ education/2e/. If you are unable to access the worksheets electronically, you can write onto this blank worksheet or create a text document that uses the same flow of information.

Support plan title:                   ______________________________________________________________________

Program goal behaviors:      ______________________________________________________________________

Write the general educational objectives.

Design your support plan in matrix format. Write specific objectives for the mediators in your theory model (Step 3). Then, write the theory-based strategy you will employ to address the mediator and create support activities that will be meaningful, interesting, and appropriate for your audience and will operationalize strategy.