​Virginia Cooperative Extension, WIC

My community nutrition rotation was at Virginia Cooperative Extension (VCE) and WIC. 

 

 

At VCE, I taught healthy cooking classes for middle school children; used my plate food model as a teaching aid for children; taught consequences of uncontrolled diabetes to adults in the community; collected recipes that utilize seasonal farmer's market produce.

 

 

At WIC, I worked with families from multicultural, ethnic background.  I developed many types of teaching aids such as evaluation questions to assess client knowledge of WIC resources; webinar to help address overweight/obesity among kids.  I also conducted classes on savvy shopping for clients.​