Native Nutrition and Fitness Project
Mission: To empower Native youth in Oregon to engage in policy change addressing nutrition and physical fitness.
Project Overview
The Native Nutrition and Fitness Project carries out community-based participatory research (CBPR) activities with Native high school students in two Oregon tribal communities, which will lead to student driven nutrition and physical fitness policy change within their local communities. The research process and resultant policies will contribute to improvements in nutrition and reductions in the prevalence of overweight and obesity in two Oregon tribes.
Using the research method, Photovoice, this project will engage tribal youth from two Oregon tribes in exploring their perceived barriers and assets to good nutrition and physical fitness in their communities; in developing a conceptual framework of the environmental, ecological, and social realities impacting nutrition and physical fitness in their communities; and in engaging tribal and school decision makers in reviewing findings with youth in order to identify opportunities and initiate steps toward developing culturally appropriate policy interventions.
Funding
Project activities are funded by the Northwest Health Foundation, three-year grant, awarded July 2010.
For additional information, please contact:
Carrie Sampson, BS (Umatilla-Walla Walla)
Project Coordinator
(503)416-3304
