UTTC NUTRITION EDUCATION AND FOOD DISTRIBUTION PARTNERSHIP

• Sponsoring Institution: National Institute of Food and Agriculture
• Project Status: COMPLETE
• Funding Source: OTHER GRANTS
• Reporting Frequency: Annual
• Accession No.: 0200261
• Grant No.: 2004-47002-01893
• Cumulative Award Amt.: $100,000.00
• Proposal No.: 2004-02535
• Project Start Date: Sep 1, 2004
• Project End Date: Aug 31, 2006
• Grant Year: 2004
• Program Code: [NK]- (N/A)

Recipient Organization
UNITED TRIBES TECHNICAL COLLEGE
Doing Business As: UTTC
BISMARCK,ND 58504-7565

Performing Department
(N/A)

Non Technical Summary
UTTC's Land Grant Program have experience in providing community education emphasizing Type 2 diabetes, healthful food preparation, childhood obesity, food safety, and food resource management. Program are culturally relevant and based on the four directions of wellness including phyiscal, mental, emotional, and spiritual components, which are neccessary if healing and improved quality of life for Native people is to be achieved.

Animal Health Component

100%

Research Effort Categories

Basic

(N/A)

Applied

100%

Developmental

(N/A)

Classification

Knowledge Area (KA)	Subject of Investigation (SOI)	Field of Science (FOS)	Percent
903	6099	3020	100%

Knowledge Area
903 - Communication, Education, and Information Delivery;

Subject Of Investigation
6099 - People and communities, general/other;

Field Of Science
3020 - Education;

Keywords

nutrition education

food

food distribution

partnerships

american indians

human health

culture (sociology)

traditionalism

human nutrition

nutritional status

curriculum

curriculum content

educational materials

training

recipes

video techniques

public health

well being

diabetes

colleges

obesity

food preparation

resource management

Goals / Objectives
United Tribes Technical College's (UTTC) USDA Land Grant Programs have developed a strategic plan relating to improved wellness and nutritional status of the Tribal people it serves. Developing nurtrition education training, institutes, curriculum, and print materials is one of the goals of the plan. Activities planned to meet this goal are to develop an educational video and recipe book for Tribal people from thirty-one Tribes. The Videos address six nutrition topics relating to health disparities experienced by Tribal people.

Project Methods
UTTC's Land Grant team develops, implements, and disseminates educational materials and curriculm. Collaborative partnership include the UTTC Wellness Circle, North Dakota Public health programs, Tribal health and college programs, 1862 Land Grant Colleges, and Indian Health Services. This special emphasis project will be partnership with the Mountain Plains Region Food Distribution Nutrition Advisory Committee.

Progress 09/01/04 to 08/31/06

Outputs
Target Audience:Food Distribution program participants for 30 Indian Tribes. Changes/Problems:Maintaing funds for continuation of food and nutrition education was a concern. What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?Workshops for USDA Food and Nutrition Services staff from around the nation and tribal community agency representatives. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Productswere distributed through the training sessions. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?Maintain partnerships and communication with stakeholders. Serve on regional and national advisory boards for FDPIR.

Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals? DVD and cook books produced and a training workshop was held with over 50 representatives from multiple tribal nations attending the four day training workshop.

Publications