Alm Care Facility

Success Story

February 27, 2018

Outcome: Long Term 

SNAP-Ed Assistant: Toina "Toni" Williams

Hardin County has a total of five day center for people with disabilities. Individuals with disabilitieshave a tendency to have bad eating habits, because sometimes they have to fendfor themselves and they lean towards things that is easy to make but nothealthy for them.

Working with adults thathave disabilities is rewarding to me. The participants are so receptive of 

What is being taught,some of the participants come to Alm Care Facility for day-treatment, wherethey work on social skills and learning things, so they can function somewhaton their own. I use recipes that will require little supervision to none atall. That is easy for them to do themselves.

One of the participants,when we do our overview of what they ate the before and she always stated thatshe had ramen noodles for lunch. I explain that eating ramen noodles every daywas not good for her health and the she need to start eating more fruits andvegetables. 

We did our overview whatthey all had been eating and she stated that she had stop eating the ramennoodles and started eating vegetables. And that she is willing to try newvegetables. This is a big change for her because she was eating the ramennoodles at least twice a day.

This is a long term outcome, because there is a behavioral change that has taken place. And the participant is willing to try more vegetables that she normally doesn’t eat.