1. SNAP-Ed Evaluation Framework and FFY 2016 Annual Report
© University of California 2015

3. Statewide Objectives: Increase Consumption of Health Food and Beverages
MT1 Healthy Eating Behaviors
MT1c – Ate more than 1 kind of fruit
MT1d – Ate more than 1 kind of veg
MT1f – Used MyPlate to make food choices
MT1h – Drank fewer sugar-sweetened beverages
MT1l – Cups of fruit consumed per day
MT1m – Cups of veg consumed per day
Pre/post surveys referenced in Interpretive Guide

4. Example Results – Priority Indicators
Template – FFY2016

5. CA Objective: Improve Food Resource Management
Same pre/post surveys
MT2 Food Resource Management Behaviors
MT2b – Read nutrition facts or nutrition ingredients
MT2h – Compare prices
MT2i – Identify foods on sale or use coupons to save money
MT2j – Shop with a list
MT2g – Not run out of food before month’s end

6. Objective: Increase Physical Activity (PA)
Newer outcome – less evaluation data
Pre/post surveys
MT3: Physical Activity and Reduced Sedentary Behavior
Mt3a – PA and leisure sports
MT3b – PA when you breathed harder than normal
(moderate-vigorous pa)
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7. Objective: Adoption of Nutrition Supports
Smarter Lunchrooms Movement
Assessments at 57 schools with our over 36,00 students
Edible Gardens
123 edible gardens
Est. over 15,000 learned in, worked in or ate from the garden
ST5 Need and Readiness
MT5 Nutrition Supports Adopted
MT5a - # of sites that make at least one change
MT5b - total population reached
LT5 Nutrition Supports Implemented
LT5a - # of sites w/ multi-component intervention
LT5c - # of sites with improved food environment assessment scores

8. Objective: Adoption of PA Supports
Testing new tools
Kansas State University’s and Nutrition Policy Institute’s (NPI)
PEARS PSE module
Pre/post Playground Stencil Assessment
CATCH Lesson Observation Tool
For FFY 2016 not able to reliably report on changes adopted only whether reported working on:
Incorporating PA breaks in classroom instruction (100 sites)
New/improved access to structured PA (CATCH) (85 sites)
Access to safe paths/Safe Routes to School (17 sites)
Stencils to encourage PA (13 sites)

9. Disseminating Evaluation Results
FFY 2016 Annual Report
Example executive summary, indicators template
State and County profiles .

10. CALIFORNIA – multiple SNAP-Ed Agencies
Integrated Work plans at County Level
Evaluation Workgroup at State Level– all Agencies - Working toward more coordinated & integrated approach to evaluation
Overarching statewide objectives
Common measures and measures tailored to specific agencies
Piloting a single shared reporting system – KSU’s PEARS
Recommended evaluation tools
Nutrition Policy Institute (NPI) designing a new rigorous statewide evaluation

11. Image Source: Pixabay/ Public Domain
Contact Information:
Barbara MkNelly
Evaluation Analyst