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Nutrition is for Everyone Telemunda Interview

Center:

OK-Center for Learning and Leadership, UCEDD/LEND

Fiscal Year:

2018

Contact Information:

Ellen Bannister
[email protected]
405-271-4500 41008

Product Description:

The Oklahoma UCEDDthe Center for Learning and Leadershipparticipated in the five-state Nutrition is for Everyone project, a grant coordinated through AUCD and funded through the Walmart Foundation, to develop peer-led healthy living and nutrition trainings for people with disabilities and Spanish-speaking families of children with developmental disabilities. NIFE Oklahoma provided a three-pronged approach to delivering nutrition education to people with disabilities, their families, their caregivers, and their friends: recipe collection and distribution; curriculum development and training; and traditional and online media outreach. The project is an exemplar of leveraging deep community roots in a private-public partnership to impact population health.

Keyword(s):

nutrition, disabilities, developmental disabilities, nutrition is for everyone

Product/Publication Type(s):

Press communications

Target Audience:

Consumers/Families, Professionals, Policymakers, Students

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