Counseling and Education Guides

Family Centered Education
California has field tested and pilot tested a Family Centered Education (FCE) approach as part of their overall commitment to revitalizing nutrition education using a learner centered approach. FCE is an education approach that promotes the parent as the first teacher for the child and the group education sessions are designed for participation by parents and children together.

Health and Nutrition Lesson Plans
Various topics available. Developed by California. Lesson plans, as well as accompanying handouts, can be downloaded and tailored to meet the needs of participants.

Healthy Habits
Staff training modules were developed that focused on client oriented, behavioral approaches to nutrition education that promoted family meals and physical activity. In addition, the Washington WIC State agency awarded local agency mini-grant projects to increase local capacity to apply public health approaches to develop and sustain community-based nutrition services and chronic disease risk reduction. Review final report.

Participant and Staff Questionnaire. Also available in Spanish. [WORD]
Participant Questionnaire Short Version [WORD]
Project Summary Report Form - Family Meals [WORD]
Project Summary Report Form - Physical Activity [WORD]
Mini-Grant Quarterly Progress Report Form [WORD]
Mini-Grant Final Report Form [WORD]

Healthy Habits materials and resources are available electronically from Washington State. To purchase materials download the module's material lists, ordering instructions and order form.

Health Lifestyle Promotion Toolkit [PDF]
This guide by New York focuses on implementing a healthy lifestyle promotion action plan that is specifically tailored to a community. The toolkit guides staff through the assessment, implementation and evaluation stages of healthy lifestyle promotion plan.

Learn Together Approach
The Learn Together Approach was developed by Michigan and is a facilitative-style adult learning approach. Instead of the classroom, lecture-style methods, the Learn Together Approach focuses on participants and promotes a comfortable learning environment using the facilitated group discussion method. Learn Together Approach is taught in a train-the-trainer format, so each attendee can become a future trainer.

Learning for Health Project
West Virginia created 12 interactive lesson plans focused on healthy eating, increasing physical activity, promoting health and preventing disease as part of the Learning for Health Project. Each of the interactive group education sessions includes fun, flexible and positive education messages and lasts about 20-30 minutes.

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