Community centers/senior centers and YMCA/4-H/clubs/schools are easy target areas to reach people; summer meal sites-especially closed sites where people must enroll for the program
How to stretch the food dollar
Need to go to where people are and speak their language- like point of purchase education (live demonstrations)
Change what is normal/easy purchasing and consumption of food to make behavior change. Those at farmers’ markets have already made the step to nutrient-dense foods
Web-based information materials:
Websites
Social media
Text messages
Important for the cultural change that is happening in our society
Provides a lot of “touches”
Make games for kids (physical activity)- run so many steps, etc.; make it fun and trendy
Increase awareness of Extension as a resource
Schools
Just as important to teach nutrition education as math, etc. and that seems to be less and less in schools “how to eat healthy”
Being involved in policy (in schools, etc.)
Junior master gardeners
Conferences ok for professional development
Priority Audiences:
If you change a kid’s thinking, then we change adult thinking
Low income and at-risk populations who have less resources
Eliminating health disparities
Call out inequity in racial and ethnical minorities
Educators
Over 70% of the population of tick habitation is within 200 yards of ticks- opens it up to all demographics
Seniors/elderly
Those who do the grocery shopping and cooking are important, but the kids drive what is on the grocery list.
Potential Partners:
4-H is a natural match; encourage 4-H clubs to do a garden and donate to a specific food bank
Outdoor and nature education groups
Within the schools, help develop curricula (like science)
Organizations that do healthy food access
Work with ethnic communities to tailor health standards/recommendations to meet the cultural needs and with low-income minorities- how to use foods in the pantry
Chefs that work with cuisines
Partners where resources can be purchased (like Stop and Shop; demonstrate how to use a vegetable; provide a coupon to purchase it)
Resources to leverage:
Collaborations
Partnering with other universities- like Johnson and Wales (because they are food-safe certified and chef, recipe-development)
4-H existing material that is already out there
Other Comments:
A lot of dietary recommendations, etc. come out and don’t match up to cultural dietary habits
Use demonstrations to show how easy it is to prepare healthy meals
● What was done initially, they set up a survey across the state to see the density of the lime disease tick transmitters. So now knew where high-risk neighborhoods were. At risk people and risk mitigators need to come together, but they don’t know each other. Ex: based on a demonstration, one neighborhood decided to spray entire neighborhood and they haven’t had ticks since.
People asked for brochures for websites. 1.1 million people viewed the website last year. But people still like a piece of paper; too many words don’t seem to work- often seen in a brochure. Use high-impact graphics to make the point.
Have a contest for kids for the website to get kids to know your website and also to be familiar with the kids.
Train-the-trainer to spread the knowledge (like with groups who work directly with kids to provide education to the kids)
Maybe think smaller in what is taught—just focus on one topic, not all tick knowledge
Possibly utilize university students (for credit, etc.) to train and then they go out and educate.
Maybe push “check for these ticks” which may agree with people’s ideas of not wanting to spray chemicals
Priority audiences:
Over 70% of the population of tick habitation is within 200 yards of ticks- opens it up to all demographics.
We educate children
Potential partners:
Health insurance companies (their health risk measures are ot tied to that, so it’s not on their list to accomplish)
Minute clinics (like CVS minute clinics) to educate CVS staff to know to go to TickSpotter
Providence Urban Wildlife
Homestead movement that do natural tick repellants
Local partners
Other comments:
Associate ticks with weight as in “don’t be like the fat tick”
CE involved in policy (like with schools and incorporating mindfulness like yoga into everyday practice in school)
Priority audiences:
Obesity part affects kids across the spectrum, so with 4-H it affects all demographics.
Two topics can be addressed through 4-H: food intake and emotional/peer pressure/unhealthy situations
Potential partners:
URI debate club with 4-H debate club (big brother/big sister situation)
Mediation center on campus? If so, that could be a good resource for peer-mediation
URI students could have a larger role (they all have experience with conflict, etc.). Schools: afterschool programs
Other comments:
Focus on healthy mandates (social and emotional well-being)- empower kids; this will lead to leadership at home (to make decisions on what they want to eat) and also so kids don’t turn to food when things go bad
Anxiety depression and social well-being are a real concern by cities for the kids
Put cooking back into 4-H…less on the other focus areas like STEM
Put a theme into 4-H to use throughout the year
General comments:
If you are looking to save dollars, working with seniors and the elderly because they have the chronic diseases. If you are interested in long-term prevention, look at kids and families.
It is more about preventing people from getting sick, not treating the sickness.
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