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- 1. Paying it Forward: St. James Food Pantry Chinese Translation & Nutrition Education Becky C. Williamson NUTR 393 Portfolio April 12, 2010
- 2. Background •Located Southside of Chicago. • Provides supplemental food support for zip codes 60616 and 60605. • Recent clientele demographics have changed from a majority of African Americans to approximately 55% Chinese . • Empowerment Program includes Nutrition Education.
- 3. Project Description CHALLENGES • Help Chinese participants 營養課程 overcome language & cultural barrier • Provide SJ Food Pantry with cultural insights to assist serving Chinese population • Nutrition Education Program •Improve content & quality •Accommodate for Chinese clientele
- 4. Reaching out to the Chinese Community 我是中國人 • Start developing a rapport with Chinese clientele •Provide basic translation services • Participate in pantry programs to advertise nutrition education program
- 5. Improving Nutrition Education Current Nutrition Program Updated Nutrition Program • My Pyramid •My Pyramid Food Groups • Cholesterol • Serving Sizes & Portion • Salt & Sugar Control • Food Label Reading • Serve Safe • In class exercises include Serving Sizes, Fat, Carbohydrate, So dium and identifying ingredients • Alternative Cooking Methods, including safe food handling practices • Pre/post test to measure success •Ultimately will include Chinese translation
- 6. Success? So far…. • Assisted in various SJ Food Pantry programs to develop rapport with clientele and assess needs. • Provide translation services for Chinese speaking participants. • Review SJFP’s current Nutrition Education program, provided suggest curricula improvements. • Assisted in facilitating wk #1 nutrition class. • Plan & teach wk #2, investigate multi-media resources for future curricula. …a work in progress
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- Challenges include:1.) overcome a language and cultural barrier in order to provide adequate pantry services to the Chinese speaking clientele.2.) Update, enhance and formalized Nutrition Education program3.)
- In order to understand the needs of the clientele, I participated in a variety of St. James’ Food Pantry program, and began to develop a rapport with them.
- Current program includes 4 week lesson, originally created by a partnership with UIC.D/t lack of consistent facilitator availability, much of the program was missing. I reviewed the current curricula and noticed that the handouts were not associated with the objectives, etc. The pantry coordinator was teaching the class – not a nutrition educator, though she knows here basic nutrition information, and has an excellent rapport with the clientele.Lessons are engaging and interactive, however, too much information presented at one time, and retention is low.The updated program will involve ways to incorporate practice exercises in class, and re-iterate topics for discussion from previous weeks.
- I believe I have been successful in reaching some of the Chinese clientele by helping to translate their needs and food pantry responses. I have also begun to make modifications to strengthen their nutrition education program. In addition to presenting quality course material, I plan to create tools to measure program successfulness.