Nevada FFY 2020 Supplemental Nutrition 
           Assistance Program-Education  State Plan  
                        
       Table o  f  Contents  
       Introduction ..................................................................................................................................................  3  
       Target Population .........................................................................................................................................  5  
       Goals, Objectives, and Focus  .......................................................................................................................  6  
       NV SNAP-Ed Evaluation Plan ...................................................................................................................... 13  
        Descriptions of Interventions  ................................................................................................................ 15  
         Implementing  Agencies ...................................................................................................................... 15  
          Division of Public and Behavioral  Health  ...................................................................................... 15  
          Food Bank of Northern  Nevada  ..................................................................................................... 34  
          Healthy  Communities Coalition  ..................................................................................................... 62  
          HELP of Southern Nevada  .............................................................................................................. 87  
          Lutheran Social Services of Nevada ............................................................................................. 100  
          NyE Communities  Coalition  ......................................................................................................... 119  
          On Common  Ground  .................................................................................................................... 136  
          Southern Nevada Health District  ................................................................................................. 165  
          Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone  .......................................................................................... 186  
          Three Square  ................................................................................................................................ 204  
          University of Nevada Cooperative  Extension .............................................................................. 216  
          University of Nevada, Reno Re-Think Your Drink Program  ........................................................ 276  
          Washoe County Health District .................................................................................................... 332  
          Nevada Department of Health and Human Services,  ................................................................. 343  
        
                     
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                           Introduction  
                             
                           The overall State  of Nevada Supplemental Nutrition  Assistance  Program  Education (NV  SNAP-Ed)  
                           goal is  to  improve the  likelihood  that Nevadans  eligible for SNAP  will make healthy food  choices with  
                           a  limited budget and  choose physically active lifestyles. The  priority  overall objectives  are to  assist 
                           Nevadans  in  overall diet quality  and  beverages, reduce food  insecurity  through  food  resource  
                           management, increase physical activity  and  decrease sedentary  behavior, and  increase  daily  fruit 
                           and  vegetable consumption. The NV  SNAP-Ed priority  focus  areas  for  direct education and  policy, 
                           systems, and  environmental change are Early  Childhood, School  Health, Increase Food  Security, and  
                           Adults  and  Those with  Disabilities.  
                            
                           In  FFY2019,  NV  SNAP-Ed Program  pursued  the development  of  a  comprehensive, statewide 
                           evaluation plan  that incorporated  both  direct education and  policy, systems, and  environmental 
                           (PSE) change approaches  to meet the needs  of the  target population. The NV  SNAP-Ed Program  
                           used the SNAP-Ed Evaluation Framework  as  a  guide. As  a result,  the development  of the overall 
                           State goal, four  priority  overall objectives, four  priority  focus  areas  and  three  evaluation guidance 
                           documents  were established by  NV  evaluation meetings and  focus  groups. This  instituted  a 
                           structured application  process  with  set  expectations  for  implementing agencies  (IA) to  implement  
                           an  evaluation plan  based on  the State priorities  FY2020  SNAP-Ed project.   
                           The  new  FFY2020  evaluation guidance documents  included:  
                                  •     The  FFY2020  Nevada SNAP-Ed Evaluation Framework  Matrix  (Appendix  A), identifying the 
                                        specific  State Objectives, Focus  areas, Strategies, and  required evaluation tools  to  progress  
                                        from  short term  to long term  goals.  
                                  •     The FY2020  Nevada SNAP-Ed Introduction to  the Evaluation Tools  Table  (Appendix  B), which  
                                        lists  the required strategies  each  evaluation tool corresponds, description  of the evaluation 
                                        tool, and  trainings and  data aggregation requirements.  
                                  •     The FFY2020  Nevada SNAP-Ed Approved Curriculum  and  Scans  List (Appendix  C) that lists  
                                        each  Nevada approved curriculum  that corresponds  to each  four  priority  focus  areas.  
                                         
                           The NV  SNAP-Ed priority  focus  areas  were chosen by  a cooperative process  with  the current  Nevada 
                           SNAP-Ed implementing agencies  (IAs)  through  several target population  breakout evaluation 
                           meetings.  There  were  four  groups  that represented early  childhood, school  age children, women, 
                           and  seniors.  The four  groups  discussed the existing  evaluation tools  that IAs  were currently  utilizing, 
                           evaluation tools  that IAs  could  adopt statewide,  barriers  to evaluation, and  the level of the SNAP-Ed 
                           Evaluation Framework  the IAs  evaluation method  is  currently  and  the level to  move toward. The 
                           groups  also  reviewed the SNAP-Ed Evaluation Framework  for  Nutrition, Physical Activity, and  
                           Obesity  Prevention indicators and  outcome  indicators that were common  across  IAs.  
                             
                           The Early Childhood  priority  focus  area was  chosen to implement  the connection  of  nutrition  and  
                           physical activity  direct education to  PSE strategies  to create  a healthy  environment  within  Early  
                           Care and  Education (ECE) programs  and  centers.  The NV  SNAP-Ed Plan  aligns  priorities  and  funds  
                           initiatives  that support activities  outlined in  the Early  Childhood  Obesity  Prevention  State Plan  to  
                           increase collaboration  and  alignment  of statewide early  childhood  obesity  prevention interventions  
                           and  resources  focusing on  children from  zero to  eight years, and  targets parents, low-income  
                           families,  minority  populations, pregnant women, ECEs, providers, and  community  partners.  
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       In  FFY2019  NV  SNAP-Ed funded the Child  and  Adult Care Food  Program  (CACFP) for  Early  Care and  
       Education Settings:  Gap  Analysis. According to  the Academy  of Nutrition  and  Dietetics,  “CACFP is a 
       documented success,  improving nutrition  and  supporting healthy  development  and  obesity  
       prevention.”  The  two  primary  objectives  for  conducting the project  were  to  determine factors  
       affecting Nevada’s rate of ECE providers  participating in  CACFP  and  to identify  opportunities  to 
       enhance Nevada’s participation in  CACFP  based on  data obtained from  the ECE provider  
       community. The opportunities  to  promote CACFP  participation per  survey  respondents  included 
       streamlining administrative requirements, conducting community  education campaigns  to  increase 
       knowledge  about CACFP,  reviewing  and  standardizing food  permitting regulations, innovating 
       approaches  to incentivize use of CACFP,  and  reviewing reimbursement  rates  to  address  the  cost of 
       food.  
        
       The School  Health  priority focus  area was  chosen to  improve the nutrition  and  physical activity  
       environment  through  access  to education in  the classroom  and  PSE change through  school wellness  
       policy implementation.  In  addition,  strengthen the collaboration with  the Nevada Department of 
       Agriculture (NDA) who  oversees  regulations  for  school wellness  policy implementation, school  food  
       service programs  and  school gardens. The  NDA  collaboration will strengthen  the  evaluation of 
       school  environments  using required evaluation tools  that are listed  on  the FY2020  Nevada SNAP-Ed 
       Introduction to  the Evaluation Tools  Table.  
        
       The Food  Resource Management priority  focus  area was  chosen to  increase  food  security  through, 
       healthy  meal planning and  budgeting, PSE changes  to encourage healthy  food  choices  among 
       pantry  clients, and  access  and  availability  of healthy  food  in  the community.  This will allow  
       encouragement  of healthy  foods  at retail  outlets  and  ability  to give technical assistance to  Nevada 
       Farmer’s Markets. This includes advocating for each Farmer’s Market to  enroll in  the Double Up  
       Food Bucks program to increase the NV SNAP participants’ purchasing power.  
        
       The Adults  and  those with  Disabilities  priority  focus  area  is  to  provide evidence-based healthy  
       eating and  physical activity  education to  eligible  adults and  support PSE change in eligible 
       communities. It was  identified  in the phase III of the Statewide Needs Assessment for Nevada’s 
       SNAP-Ed report  (Appendix  D). The  top three  nutritional education topics  for  all surveyed and  also  
       the subset of vulnerable population, which  are individuals  aged  70  years  old  or  older, individuals  
       with  a self-reported  physical, mental, or  emotion  condition, households with  children, and  
       individuals  with  health-related dietary  needs, were  in  ranking order, ways  to make  food  last all  
       month, ways  to prepare healthy  meals  quickly, and  preparing meals  on  a budget.  
        
       During FFY2019  the  Nevada  SNAP-Ed  IAs  staff, state staff, and  other  NV  nutrition  programs  staff  
       participated  in  the  University of Minnesota’s Systems Approach for Healthy Communities Training. 
       This training assisted  in  the knowledge  in  aligning  NV’s direct education being more directly 
       connected  to  the PSE efforts  statewide. This  training  specifically  gives  the NV  IAs  and  state staff the 
       skills  to  explain  how  systems  impact whether  the healthy  choice  is  the  easy  choice, applied  
       definitions  of PSE  as  part of a common  language, and  described  how  multi-level approaches  to  
       health  promotion can  have a greater impact in  creating frameworks  for  healthy  communities.  
        
        
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