WIC Nutrition Education Toolkit

The Toolkit is a collection of resources designed to help WIC staff with nutrition education.

General Information

Bright Futures in Practice –Nutrition http://www.brightfutures.org/nutrition/pdf

California WIC Program Minimum Nutrition Education Standards, 2002 (PDF)

California WIC Program Manual, Nutrition Education - Section 410, 2002-2004

Changing WIC, Changing Lives: Transitioning to Healthy Eating and Active Living 2007 (PDF)

Healthy People 2010, Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health

http://www.healthypeople.gov/Document/pdf/Volume2/19Nutrition.pdf

http://www.healthypeople.gov/Document/pdf/Volume2/22Physical.pdf

Learner-Centered Education, 2002 (PDF)

Nutrition Education, 2002 (PDF)

WIC Nutrition Services Standards, United States Department of Agriculture, 2001

http://www.nal.usda.gov/wicworks/Topics/WICnutStand.pdf

WICWorks Learning Center http://www.nal.usda.gov/wicworks/Learning_Center/index.html

WICWorks Sharing Center http://www.nal.usda.gov/wicworks/Sharing_Center/index.html

Theory

Key Theories, Models, and Processes Relevant to Nutrition Education, 2002 (PDF)

Nutrition Education Approaches and Methods, 2002 (PDF)

Group Education

Designing Learner-Centered Education for Groups, 2002 (PDF)

Dialogue-Based Adult Learning, 2002 (PDF)

Facilitated Group Discussion Empowering Our Participants, 2002 (PDF)

Family-Centered Education in WIC Getting Children Ready for School,  2007(PDF)

Recipe for Successful Group Education, 2002  (PDF)

Individual Education

Tips for Learner-Centered Individual Education, 2002 (PDF)

Developing Education Materials

Criteria for Developing and Evaluating WIC Education Materials, 2002 (PDF)

How to Determine Readability of Education Materials, 2005 (PDF)

The Beauty of Bulletin Boards, 2002 (PDF)

Evaluation

How to Evaluate a WIC Nutrition Education Program, 2002 (PDF)

WIC Evaluation Resource Guide, United States Department of Agriculture,1991 http://www.fns.usda.gov/oane/MENU/Published/WIC/FILES/WICEvaluationResourceGuide.pdf

Additional Evaluation Resources http://www.thcu.ca/infoandresources/evaluation_resources.htm