Introduction

=﻿Community Nutrition 572: taking me to new heights!=

Although all the courses that I've taken so far as part of my MPH-Nutrition degree at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have been superb, Community Nutrition 572 has been an intensive, sometimes exhausting, but highly rewarding experience. This ePortfolio includes various pieces of work that I have completed during Community Nutrition 572 to satisfy 6 core competencies.

My biggest project, a Nutrition Education Project (NEP) concerning childhood obesity, is included in it's various stages:
 * Researching a nutritional problem in the community (nutritional assessment & planning) is provided for Compentency 1
 * Designing & developing an intervention strategy is used for Competency 2
 * Analysis and translating the results to different target populations is shown for Competency 5

Other types of projects have been included as well:
 * A collaborative case study about food safety and policy is used for Competency 3
 * A small group discussion that I led about health care systems and policy illustrates Competency 4
 * A letter to my State Representative about the Healthy, Hunger-free Kids Act: an important bill that would improve nutrition, health and school meals for children is included for Competency 6

=Enjoy!= = =