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Overview
Target Behavior: Healthy Eating, Food Insecurity/Food Assistance
Intervention Type: PSE Change
Intervention Reach and Adoption
Setting: Community gardens, Food pantries
Target Audience: Homeless/Food Pantry Clients
Race/Ethnicity: All
Intervention Components
Intervention Materials
- Program and Process descriptions
- Evaluation Tool
- Needs Assessment
- Work Plan
- Other resources to support implementation of the 6 focus areas
To access NPP materials visit:
https://www.leahspantry.org/what-we-offer/cultivate-nourished-communities/nutrition-pantry-program/
Intervention Costs
Evidence Summary
Process evaluation outcomes included that participants found the resources easy to access and that NPP was a reasonable amount of work for staff and volunteers. However, only half “Agreed” that the work plan was easy to access and update, the other half neither agreed nor disagreed.
Unintended benefits include network building among pantries either by geography or setting as evidenced by invitations for pantry tours, contact information exchanges and relationships built around exchange of surplus food and exchange of resources. There has been additional network building among non-traditional partners, such as food waste reduction projects. Unintended challenges include slower than expected program completion, often tied to monthly distributions (as opposed to weekly and therefore fewer opportunities to work on implementation of PSE changes), volunteer and staff turnover also limit progress.
Evidence-based Approach: Practice-tested
Evaluation Indicators
Readiness and Capacity – Short Term (ST) | Changes – Medium Term (MT) | Effectiveness and Maintenance – Long Term (LT) | Population Results (R) | |
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Individual | ||||
Environmental Settings | ST5 | MT5 | LT5, LT7 | |
Sectors of Influence |
ST5: Need and Readiness
- ST5a: 42 pantries documented readiness for changes in PSE to expand access or improve appeal for healthy eating
MT5: Nutrition Supports
- MT5b, c, d: Pantries completed an average number of 12 PSE changes to expand access or improve appeal for healthy eating
LT5: Nutrition Supports Implementation
- LT5c: Among the 12 sites that have made at least one PSE change (MT5) and completed a pre/post Healthy Food Pantry Assessment, 10 showed improvement in their food environment assessment score.
LT7: Program Recognition
- LT7a: Leah’s Pantry has recognized 13 pantries as Certified Gold or Silver Nutrition Pantries, which means they have completed the NPP process
Evaluation Materials
https://www.dropbox.com/s/2sraep3qko37scm/NPP_HFPAT.pdf?dl=0
Process Evaluation Survey: https://www.dropbox.com/s/wz0ymqp3whje13c/Process%20evaluation%20survey%20NPP%202019.pdf?dl=0
Success Story
St. Anselm’s Food Pantry Partnership Fills the Need for Healthy Food Access and Nutrition Security (April 21, 2022):
Additional Information
Contact Person(s):
Leah Quinn – Program Manager
650-379-4795