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Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior � Volume 42, Number 4S, 2010 Poster Abstracts S99

Objective: To identify and adapt an easy-to-use, second-grade curriculum for SNAP-Ed that would be acceptableto classroom teachers.Use of Theory or Research: Using pedagogical theories,Grazin’ the Pyramid with Marty Moose, University ofWyoming’s 5-lesson series, was adapted.Target Audience: The primary audience is second-gradeyouths in qualifying SNAP-Ed schools; secondary audi-ences include classroom teachers and SNAP-Ed educators.Description: Nutrition concepts were simplified andredistributed into 10 interactive lessons incorporating alloriginal activities within classroom time limitations. Fivelessons include basic nutrition, food safety, and physicalactivity; 5 introduce serving size, food group goals, andlabel reading. Lessons were scripted and timed.Evaluation: Initial pilot testing in 10 classrooms evalu-ated the lesson format, content, and sequencing. Afteredits, 9 SNAP-Ed educators in 37 classrooms evaluatedthe lessons for SNAP-Ed usability, teacher satisfaction,and student engagement. Teachers in 27 classrooms ratedage appropriateness, student engagement, length oflessons and series, and other age-appropriate indicators.Results of both groups fell between excellent to excel-lent-good. Educators requested notes for timing and effi-ciencies, and worksheets. Classroom teachers requestedshorter lessons and options for fewer lessons. A third pilotby 13 classroom teachers resulted in 18 age-appropriatestudent worksheets being integrated into the revised cur-riculum. During 2 years, the curriculum was tested in 68classrooms with 1,650 students.Conclusions and Implications: Building onestablishedcurriculum and extensive pilot testing, Washington State’sadaptation resulted in a curriculum designed for ‘‘fun learn-ing,’’ acceptance by classroom teachers, and delivery that iseasy to use and fun to teach. It is currently undergoinga Washington State University peer review process. This pro-ject is funded by USDA SNAP-Ed and WSU Extension.

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P34 Comprehensive Community Approach toNutrition EducationTina Tamai, MPH, JD, tina.tamai@doh.hawaii.gov,Healthy Hawaii Initiative Tobacco Settlement Project,Hawaii Department of Health, 1250 Punchbowl Street,Room 422, Honolulu, HI 96813; Vanessa Buchthal, MSPH,opalb@hawaii.edu, University of Hawaii Department ofPublic Health Studies, 1960 East-West Road Biomed D209,Honolulu, HI 96822; Katie Heinrich, PhD, katiemh@hawaii.edu, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1960 EastWest Road, Biomed D201, Honolulu, HI 96822

Objective: The objective of this project was to create com-munity-wide change in fruit and vegetable consumptionin a low-income community.Use of Theory or Research: This project is grounded insocial network theory.Target Audience: Low-income (SNAP-eligible) Asian andPacific Islander populations in Hawaii.

Description: Research suggests that obesity-related be-haviors may be socially transmitted between individualsin social networks. This project took an assets approachby focusing on highly interconnected social networks ina low-income immigrant neighborhood. Coordinated in-terventions that diffused knowledge, attitudes, and skillsfor behavior change throughout the community were de-veloped for health centers, housing projects, communitycenters, schools, and after-school programs, along withsupermarket banners and posters in neighborhood set-tings. All interventions used the same core nutrition mes-sages and skill-building activities, adapted for the specificsetting and subpopulation. Culturally tailored low-literacymaterials developed for the project were shared acrossinterventions.Evaluation: Formative evaluation was conducted foreach of the intervention components. A baseline tele-phone survey was conducted in the larger communityand will be repeated postintervention to determine pro-gram influence.Conclusions and Implications: The diffusion of linkedinterventions through multiple community settings pro-vides a natural form of social marketing for complex, di-verse communities. This methodology allows messages tobe narrowly tailored to community subgroups while takingadvantage of the strong social networks of immigrant pop-ulations to reinforce overarching messages and create com-munity-wide change. This project was funded by the Stateof Hawaii Nutrition Education Network, a branch of theUSDA SNAP-Ed Program.

P35 Project Zest, a Nutrition EducationProgram for Low-income Asian and PacificIslander ImmigrantsLisa Caldwell, RD, MS, lcaldwell@kphc.org;Andrea Macabeo, MPH, CHES, amacabeo@kphc.org;Jermy Domingo, MPH, jedomingo@kphc.org, Kalihi-Palama Health Center, 915 North King Street, Honolulu,HI 96817; Tina Tamai, MPH, JD, tina.tamai@doh.hawaii.gov, Healthy Hawaii Initiative Tobacco SettlementProject, Hawaii Department of Health, 1250 PunchbowlStreet Room 422, Honolulu, HI 96813;Vanessa Buchthal, MSPH, opalb@hawaii.edu, University ofHawaii Department of Public Health Studies, 1960 East-West Road Biomed D209, Honolulu, HI 96822;Katie Heinrich, PhD, katiemh@hawaii.edu, University ofHawaii at Manoa, 1960 East-West Road, Biomed D201,Honolulu, HI 96822

Objective: Project Zest was designed to provide primaryprevention nutrition services for a low-income Asian and Pa-cific Islander community, through linking and strengthen-ing nutrition education within existing health promotionprograms at the Kalihi-Palama Health Care Center (KPHC).Use of Theory or Research: Prochaska’s Transtheoreti-cal Stages of Change model was used to design a programthat incorporated both knowledge and skill building toprepare participants to make healthy dietary changes.