Success StoryGoodwill Rise
Goodwill Rise
Author: Nan Montgomery
Planning Unit: Allen County CES
Major Program: Nutrition and Food Systems General
Outcome: Long-Term Outcome
Goodwill RISE (Reintegrating Individuals Successfully Every Day) offers paid job-readiness training that paves the way back to employment for individuals with a criminal history. Goodwill RISE collaborated with Warren County SNAP Education Assistant to provide nutrition education to the enrolled workers. This program would be part of their job training. The Healthy Choices for Everybody Curriculum was used to teach a variety of lessons like, food budgeting, food safety, meal planning, rethinking your drink, and others.
At the end of the program, 87% of participants showed improvement in one or more diet quality indicators like an increase in eating fruits and vegetables and drinking less soda. Ninety-two percent of participants now cook dinner at home compare food prices, plan meals before shopping, and a make grocery list. Seventy-seven of participants improved food safety practices like thawing meat properly or using a meat thermometer. Fifty-one percent of participants showed an increase in daily physical activity.
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