Community Nutrition Project
You will complete the community nutrition project individually. But you can use discussion board to talk about your project and the scenario you selected and maybe why you selected it. The community nutrition project will have two components: (1) an abstract and (2) a 7 page paper (reference page, title page and double spaced total of 7 pages but you can do more if you want just not less and please have at least 3 professional peer reviewed articles in the references-book not one of the references counted). You must choose one of the following scenarios to guide their community nutrition project. Use the chapters covered in this course as a resource when completing this project (in addition to other resources/articles you may need).
Scenarios:
Option I
You are a dietitian or health educator working for a school in Houston (HISD or any other district system). The school system has made significant changes in their school lunch program and their physical education curriculum, but the school board administrators remain concerned about the rates of overweight and obesity among their students ages 6-18. You begin to explore the issue with teachers, food service staff, nurses, and the physical education teachers and determine that the students appear to be receiving adequate physical activity, but their diets at school remain poor. The lunches offered in the cafeteria offer a variety of low fat, whole grain, and fresh produce items; however, most students bring their lunches from home and their lunches often contain candy, refined grains and sugary drinks plus chips and other low nutritional foods. Many of the older students have access to vending machines or leave campus to eat. The school board requests you develop a program that can be disseminated across the school district to improve the diets of the student while at school and reduce the current status of being overweight or obese. They want you to research and report what other school districts are already doing to combat these same issues. Please find peer-reviewed articles on this topic. You need to prepare a formal written proposal and present to the board at the next board meeting.
Option II
You work for a health maintenance organization (HMO) and one of the companies that your HMO has a contract with contacts you about a growing expense they believe you can help them with. The company is a large successful energy company in Houston. While they are proud to say their employees are dedicated to the company and remain with them for years, they have had to pay greater fees for employee medications, particularly for treating high cholesterol, diabetes and hypertension. They would like you to develop a worksite wellness program to improve their employees’ health status and reduce their need for medication to treat high cholesterol, diabetes and hypertension specifically. The HMO wants you to research and report on what other companies are doing to improve employee wellness. Please find peer-reviewed articles on this topic. They ask you to develop a written proposal before they provide funding for the project.
Option III
You are a dietitian or health educator working for our local Food Bank in any area in Houston and a very wealthy donor has given a grant of 1 million dollars for a program to improve the nutrition services and health services offered by various homeless organizations (Homeless Coalition of Harris County). The donor has asked for a proposal to help address the issues of poor nutritional health, poor activity levels, overall poor health awareness of many diseases and health conditions of this population. They have asked that you work in partnership with the many non-profit organizations in the Houston area. They have requested you research and report what other cities are doing for their homeless populations to improve access to nutrition and health services. Please find a couple of peer-reviewed articles on homeless health issues and make a written proposal of your possible solutions.
COMPONENT ONE: Once you have chosen one of the case study options, you will then create a 7 page proposal, double spaced, covering the following aspects from your scenario:
Identify and describe the nutrition/health problem(s): research the prevalence, trends, possible short and long term consequences of this problem, causes of the problem, and barriers to treating the problem.
Describe any multicultural or diversity issues related to treating this problem. There are ALWAYS multicultural and diversity issues to consider. Some cultures have different health risks just from genetics.
Research and Identify existing programs, organizations, and resources for helping to treat the nutrition problem and provide a critique of existing programs including strengths, limitations, and gaps. NO program is perfect otherwise no one would have the nutrition problem. You find the limitations and address how you would make them better.
Develop and describe a nutrition program to help solve the problem. Include goals (Ex. Reduce BMI), objectives (Ex. Change diet, change activity levels), target audience (who are you trying to change?), change strategies (i.e., how will you change behaviors of the program participants?), setting, necessary supplies etc. to be used. Do not have to do a budget.
Outline a plan for evaluating outcomes of the proposed program. What are the measures you would use to evaluate whether your program was achieving the stated goals and objectives (make sure the goals and objective align to each other)? THIS IS A CHAPTER IN YOUR BOOK. What types of process outcomes would you look at to determine whether the program was being delivered as you intended? Actually use the book terminology.
The proposal will be turned in on the TURNITIN link in the assignment tab within Blackboard for grading. The proposal has a upload link and the abstract has an upload link. 2 different links.
Grading Rubric for the proposal:
Grading criteria Possible points Points received
Covered the required components
Identify and describe the nutrition problem(s) (5 points)
Multicultural or diversity issues (5 points)
Identify and critique other existing programs, organizations, or resources (10 points)
Describe the nutrition problem to solve (20 points)
Plan for evaluation (20 points) 60
Creativity & Originality
Utilizes creative message(s)
Utilizes creative approach(es)
Work is original 15
Clarity & Quality
Communicates clearly and understandably
Flow is logical
15
Creativity
Thinking outside the box
10
TOTAL POINTS 100
COMPONENT TWO: Students are to succinctly describe their community project in an abstract (Google what an abstract is). Do not go over or under the word count. The abstract will be a shortened, written document describing your proposal. The abstract should be approximately 200-300 words (~1/2-3/4 page), single-spaced, 12-point font in WORD or PDF format. After completion of the abstract, the student will need to upload their document within Blackboard using the respective assignment tab for grading.
Grading rubric for the abstract:
Grading Criteria Possible Points Points Received
Abstract Content and Format/Organization
Abstract is approximately 200 words in length (1/2-3/4 page, typed, single spaced).
Summary of abstract is accurate, and includes the following:
Identify and describe the nutrition problem
Multicultural or diversity issues
Identify and critique other existing programs, organizations, or resources
Describe the nutrition problem
Plan for evaluation
Abstract “flows” well and transitions smoothly
40
Mechanics
Grammar/spelling
Punctuation
Verb use/sentence structure
Uses appropriate technical writing style
10
TOTAL POINTS
50
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