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Cultural Nutrition

Fueling Children’s Healthy Growth, Learning, and Play

Team Nutrition is an initiative of the USDA Food and Nutrition Service to support the child nutrition programs through training and technical assistance for foodservice, nutrition education for children and their caregivers, and school and community support for healthy eating and physical activity. Nebraska has been awarded the 2023 Team Nutrition Grant Supporting Nutrition Education for School- Aged Children. As part of this grant, improve equity by increasing the number of students from historically underserved and marginalized populations who are reached by nutrition education resources, including resources and recipes that are culturally appropriate and/or in the preferred language of the students and their families.

To Build Nutrition Culture, NDE will:

  1. Work with a translations services agency to translate educational materials curated as a part of Objective 1 into the top non-English languages spoken in Nebraska schools.  
  2. Conduct formative research to inform the development of culturally appropriate nutrition education materials for addition to curated portfolio. 
  3. Together with school nutrition services, collaborate with students, families, and the community to develop and implement culturally aligned recipes while meeting meal pattern requirements. 
  4. Offer school nutrition equity trainings and resources for school coaches, teachers, afterschool program coordinators, and other applicable stakeholders. 
Updated September 4, 2024 4:11pm