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Overview
Target Behavior: Healthy Eating
Intervention Type: PSE Change
Intervention Reach and Adoption
Setting: Food pantries, Health care, USDA program sites (not National School Lunch Program), Non-governmental organizations
Target Audience: Adults, Homeless/Food Pantry Clients
Race/Ethnicity: All
Intervention Components
- Recruit and assess pantries for participation
- Physical/environmental changes (inventory, layout, equipment, marketing determined by the pantry assessment)
- Nutrition education (materials available in pantry continuously)
- Ongoing Technical assistance (including re-assessing pantries at 6-month intervals), training and nutrition education
These components aim to select and equip pantries to successfully implement intervention objectives. The assessment serves as a starting point and guides the planning and implementation process. Physical changes tend to be the easiest to implement and often the most noticeable, which makes them a good place to start implementation. The timeline for implementation varies from pantry to pantry and is dependent on the capacity of the pantry. To ensure fidelity there is a pantry visit guide, plan agreement that is completed after pantry assessments, nutrition educator activity tracker, and quarterly reports.
Intervention Materials
Intervention Costs
Evidence Summary
Evidenced-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 | MT5 | |||
Sectors of Influence |
- MT5: Pantries improve assessment scores by implementing various PSE strategies
Evaluation Materials
Additional Information
Contact Person(s):
Megan Greevy
Email: mgreevy@feedingpa.org
Phone: 717 257 9852