MEDI363 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Peer Education, Healthy Diet, Food Security
7 Aug 2018
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Stir it up – Sharing good food and healthy eating
*** - matches headings in project planning form
What is Stir It Up
• A project which provides training and support to community members to run
healthy eating activities in their local communities
• Healthy eating activities may include cooking demonstrations, talks, supermarket
tours, involvement in community gardens and facilitating cooking groups
Abstract
Project Officers
Project Partners
• What can partners provide – what do they have access to/resources you don’t have
• What can they gain
• See examples
Building Local Partnerships
• Credibility
• Advocate
o Finding someone who understands structure of program
• Involvement
o E.g. involve key partners to be on planning board
• Range
o Wide range of partners can provide more
• Negotiating
Background
• Food security refers to the ability of individuals, households and communities to
acquire appropriate and nutritious food on a regular and reliable basis, using socially
acceptable means
• Food insecurity can mean:
o Experiencing hunger as a result of running out of food and being unable to
afford ore
o Not having enough food
o Eating a poor quality diet as a result of limited options
o Anxiety about acquiring food
o Having to rely on food relief
• High incidence of food insecurity in Illawarra/Shoalhaven
• Determinants of food security
• Literature Review
• Policy and other documents
Rationale
• Knowledge about healthy eating not enough – need to develop food prep skills
• Using peer education model
• Peer education
o Based on the principle that community members, especially those in hard to
reach groups, learn better from members who are of similar age, background
and SES as themselves
Project Description
• How does it work?
o
Stir It Up Messages → used by peer educators as structure for information giving
• Eat more freshly prepared, whole foods
• Eat more fruit and vegetables
• Eat a healthy breakfast
• Drink more water
Philosophy
• To underpin all strategies with healthy nutrition messages which are budget and
environmentally conscious
• To encourage community participation in the development and implementation of
the project
• To ensure all participants feel respected and supported
• To value the community engagement, skills development and social inclusion
aspects of the project as well as the nutrition education component
Target Groups
• Volunteer peer educators
o Residents in Illawarra/Shoalhaveb
o >17 years
Document Summary
Stir it up sharing good food and healthy eating. *** - matches headings in project planning form. Project partners: what can partners provide what do they have access to/resources you don"t have, what can they gain, see examples. Building local partnerships: credibility, advocate, finding someone who understands structure of program. Involvement: e. g. involve key partners to be on planning board, range, wide range of partners can provide more, negotiating. Stir it up messages used by peer educators as structure for information giving: eat more freshly prepared, whole foods, eat more fruit and vegetables, eat a healthy breakfast, drink more water. Target groups: volunteer peer educators, residents in illawarra/shoalhaveb, >17 years, preference given to people from at-risk or vulnerable populations, especially in respect to: In house volunteers with stir it up training. Goals and objectives measurable: project goal, to improve the food security status of low income communities in the.
