Professional Documents
Culture Documents
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Output 15
Output 15
Overview, Government...3
Facilities...4
Nutrition Assessment..5
Food/Nutrition-Related History....5
Food and Nutrient Intake.....5
Knowledge, Beliefs, and Attitudes.......7
Behavior..7
Factors Affecting Access To Food and Nutrition-related Supplies..8
Physical Activity and Function..9
Anthropometric Measurements...10
Biochemical Data, Medical Tests And Procedures....10
Nutrition Focused Physical Findings..8
Client History...11
Personal History...11
Social History.13
Nutrition Diagnosis....13
Nutrition Intervention.....14
Nutrition Monitoring and Evaluation.....18
Appendices
Appendix A......19
Appendix B......20
Appendix C......21
Appendix D......22
Appendix E...23
Appendix F......24
References.......25
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Overview
and promoting independence for at-risk children and families and those with
programs and accepts students aged 2-5 years old. The majority of childrens
families were born in the Dominican Republic, the United States, or Mexico. The
need for this assessment arose from the health statistics in the school, in which
Government
is located within State Assembly 84, State Senate 29, City Counsel
16, Congressional District 15, Community District 4, Zone R7-1, and Precinct 44
Arroyo who has co-sponsored legislation to increase minimum wage and paid
Serrano, who has supported legislation to have recyclable trash collected within
New York City parks, and increasing funding for New York City parks (Assembly
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The District 4 chair is Kathleen Saunders and primary means of contact is
Additionally, the Health and Human Services meeting occurs every second
According to the 2016 District Needs Statement, District 4 indicated the need
request for a new community park within newly vacated land; a greenway along
the Harlem river- complete with bike paths, seasonal programming; funding for
summer youth employement; and health issues. According to the District Needs
Statement, Health Risks section (which can be viewed in Appendix A) less than
94% of District 4 residents eat 5 or more fruits or vegetable per day. 25% have
not exercised in the past month, 32% are overweight, 33% are obese, and 22%
do not have health insurance. Additionally, this data notes notes severe health
problems within the district including: 14% of residents who have Diabetes, 33%
have Hypertension, 29% have high cholesterol, and 17% have Asthma.
Facilites
Community District 4 had eight gardens. None of these gardens had internet
these gardens can be found in Appendix B. There are four long-term care
facilities and only one hospital in Community District 4, but there are 14 hospital
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Nutrition Assessment
guideline is for children over 2 years old (the second and third children in the
picture). The following components in ascending order, show pictures of: water,
grains (which the organization stated should be the main source of energy),
(legumes and animal based). It may be more beneficial to structure lesson plans
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for Sacred Heart families based on the familiar foods listed in the dietary
Food Intake (1.2.2). The Healthy People 2020 objectives for children aged 2
and older include: an increase in fruit and vegetable, whole grain, and calcium
intake; and a decrease in saturated and solid fats and added sugar (Brown,
2010).
According to the 2005-2010 NHANES, school aged children within the United
States had high intakes of: grains, dairy, protein and low intakes for: certain
vegetables. Within New York City Child-Care Centers, children have high intakes
of: dairy and fruits/fruit juices and low intakes of: grains, protein, vegetables,
followed by protein, fruits and vegetables, and grains. Childrens lowest intake is
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Knowledge, Beliefs, and Attitudes (4)
professional tell them their child (aged 0-15 years) was overweight. According to
the Global Nutrition Report, 2015 Nutrition Country Profile for Mexico, 9% of
Beliefs and Attitudes (4.2). According to the Pew Hispanic Center, Latinos
born outside of the United States are less likely to have a health care provider.
the patients faith along with use of herbs, fruits, eggs, and oils as healing tools
Behavior (5)
within do not eat pork for either religious or personal preference. Seven
picky eaters.
Dominican women oftentimes involve daily shopping for the meals of the day
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due to frequent electricity blackouts and unreliable refrigeration, along with lack
of money. Lunch is the main meal of the day which generally includes rice, with a
protein and a salad. Breakfast is also a larger meal than dinner in many
Traditionally in Mexico, familes eat four to five meals per day but after
acculturation into the United States, many eat three meals per day (Ohio State
main meal of the day, and dinner is the smallest meal of the day. Lunch typically
consists of a meat dish, along with rice, tortillas, coffee, and dessert (Ohio State
University).
households with children under eighteen are food insecure in the United States;
In New York, SNAP and WIC had a total of 3,393,411 participants in 2016
(USDA).
SNAP, despite one hundred eighty one parents (91%) meeting baseline eligibility
levels for SNAP. Unfortunately, not all childrens charts were complete in terms
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specifically chicken and beef (Google Maps). Of these seventeen restaurants, six
are classified as fast food. There are eleven supermarkets within walking
distance of Sacred Heart. The closest supermarket, Pioneer, had only five fruit
products, one water and one juice product. The remainder of fruit and vegetable
deals were displayed on the last page of the weekly ad. The weekly ad can be
to a study ~70% of the 486 children did not participate in any organized
recreational activities and average time in gym class was one hour per week.
46.7% of children in the study had more than two hours of screen time per day.
Physical activity data within was not available but data on mode of
drive than walk, reducing the amount of physical activity the child participates
in.
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Nutrition Diagnosis
PES Statement
as Nutrition Consultations.
Nutrition Intervention
counseling.
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Stress Management (C-2.6): Tools given to both parents and children in
Lesson Plan
within , twice per month. The focus of the lesson plans will be healthful
different diet components, etc.), picky eating, applying for SNAP, etc. All
parents. All lesson plans will include components of previous lesson plans along
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with checking in with parents on their success with incorporating previous
topics into their daily lives. The objective of each lesson plan is for parents to
incorporate one component of the presentation into their daily life. All lesson
plans will consist of one handout, a powerpoint presentation, and props. All
handouts will be in English and Spanish and all presenters will present in English
1. Healthy Eating with MyPlate: This lesson plan will focus on MyPlate
those that parents currently make for their family. It will also include portion
of time will be included for questions and introductions. It will also include a
2. Childhood Overweight and Obesity: This lesson plan will discuss the
topics from the previous lesson plan. At the end of the previous lesson, parents
will have been asked to write out a healthy dinner they had with their family in
the last week using a MyPlate blank handout. These will be posted onto an easle
and brought in for the remainder of the workshop series. Physical activity will be
touched upon during this presentation as well. The lesson plan, handout, and
3. Sugar and Salt: This lesson plan will focus on the effects of sugar and
4. SNAP, How to Make it Work for Your Family: This lesson plan will
focus on steps to apply for SNAP, as well as how to shop on SNAP. This lesson
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5. Help! My Child is a Picky Eater: This lesson plan will focus on parents
who are worried about their childs picky eating. Interns and staff will provide
parents with tips on how to combat picky eating such as plate decoration.
children and their families more physically active. It will include dancing clips
desserts.
9. Potluck: This final lesson will be a potluck from various cultures using
tips learned from the lesson plans. This lesson plan will also include a post test,
which will be a replica of the pre-test along with a comment section on how to
Marketing
parents to join the workshop series. Emphasis will be placed on healthy eating
and picky eating as these are hot topics for parents at the site. Emphasis will
Place. Placement of fliers for the workshop series will be given to teachers to
foot traffic such as the parent room, the main office, and outside of classrooms.
Price. Emphasis on the fliers will include that the workshop series is free but
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Promotion. The main promotion will be the fliers given to parents and
posted around the site. The workshop series can also be promoted on social
media or on the schools website. Phone calls will also be placed to parents who
did not RSVP for the series up to a week before the first presentation.
Resources
Resources include: access to a laptop and projector, handouts that can be printed
on site, and materials for the parfait recipe. When this lesson plan was conducted
on February 28, 2017 by Kristina Markovic, the total cost was $24.85 for the
recipe materials (yogurt, granola, fruit, cups, and spoons) and $1.85 to print all
A pre and post test will be included in the workshop series in order for staff
to judge the success of the series and evaluate the participants understanding of
each component of the series. The pre-test will be given to parents to complete
on the day of the first lesson plan, and the post-test will be given to parents on
the last day of the series along with a section for comments.
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