Evaluation Plan 1. Develop handouts and lesson plans based on the most current issues in food safety, including completed research on produce washing treatments. Adapt materials for teens employed in foodservice establishments. According to 1995 statistics, North Dakota has 641,000 residents. Native Americans in North Dakota develop Type 2 diabetes at a rate four to five times greater than the rest of the United States population.
Site selection is based on poverty figures and criteria affected by poverty.
The program is driven by the fact that poorly nourished people perform below their inherent ability at home, at school and on the job. Low-income individuals and youth tend to have poorer than average diets. Inadequate dietary practices can be passed from generation to generation because of a lack of sufficient nutrition knowledge, limited skills to prepare healthful meals and a lack of general resources. A new curriculum on youth diabetes prevention will be developed during 1998-99 that will provide highly valuable education especially to Native American clientele whose level of diabetes has reached epidemic proportions. In anticipation of many clientele returning to or entering the work force through further implementation of the Welfare Reform Bill, other delivery means will become necessary.