Zoo program to model healthy eating
October 30, 2015
Alison Karpyn, CRESP, is partnering with Christiana Care and Nemours to introduce a healthy eating program, “Evaluating the lmpact of Healthy Food Product Offerings and Tastimals Marketing at the Zoo.”
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Starting at Home interventions
September 15, 2015
Starting at Home will examine the impacts and outcomes for Early Head Start parents and children to determine if participation in Promoting First Relationships parenting intervention reduces stress levels in children.
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Incentivizing SNAP users toward healthy food alternatives
September 8, 2015
Incentivizing SNAP users toward healthy food alternatives Through a new partnership and a $3.77 million USDA Food Insecurity Nutrition Incentive (FINI) grant, the University of Delaware’s Center for Research in Education and Social Policy (CRESP) will help evaluate the effectiveness of incentives at farmer’s markets, helping to make locally grown food more accessible and affordable …
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Incentives to purchase of healthier foods
July 27, 2015
For the 47 million Americans participating in SNAP, it’s difficult for them to put healthy food on their table. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) released a study in July 2014 that explored incentives designed to encourage participants in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to make healthier food choices. Allison Karpyn, …
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