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Client: Canadian Diabetes Association (BC), BC Healthy Living Alliance
Project: Food Skills for Families
Working with the curriculum development team from the CDA, Alphabet designed parallel sets of resources for facilitators and for participants.
We helped refine the resources from the pilot phase through to final release, finding ways to economize, such as the integration of a number of costly color pages per session into one easy-to-understand page.
The result: a resource that moves quickly for the reader and is much less costly to produce.
Four streams of the program were produced: for low-income families (Smart Budget), Aboriginal families, New Immigrant families, and Punjabi families.
Special attention to the needs of participants from the Punjabi community. The participants' resource for this community was designed as "spreads", with Punjabi on one side and English on the other. Participants see a one-to-one relationship between content in their native language and the English words they encounter in the grocery store. This is particularly helpful as they learn to read food labels for nutritional information, and learn to use measuring techniques common in Canadian kitchens.
As a completing step, Alphabet created the website FoodSkillsforFamilies.ca as a communication hub for the program.
The Food Skills for Families program is noted as a Best Practices program by The Canadian Best Practices Portal for Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention.