[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 7, Volume 4]

[Revised as of January 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 7CFR227.36]



[Page 262-263]

 

                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE

 

    CHAPTER II--FOOD AND NUTRITION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

 

PART 227_NUTRITION EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROGRAM--Table of Contents

 

                 Subpart C_State Coordinator Provisions

 

Sec. 227.36  Requirements of needs assessment.



    (a) The needs assessment is an ongoing process which identifies the 

discrepancies between ``what should be'' and ``what is'' and shall be 

applied to each category listed below to enable State agencies to 

determine their nutrition education and training needs for each year. 

The needs assessment shall identify the following as a minimum:

    (1) Children, teachers, and food service personnel in need of 

nutrition education and training; (2) existing State or federally funded 

nutrition education and training programs including their: (i) Goals and 

objectives; (ii) source and level of funding; (iii) any available 

documentation of their relative success or failure; and (iv) factors 

contributing to their success or failure; (3) offices or agencies at the 

State and local level designated to be responsible for nutrition 

education and training of teachers and school food service personnel; 

(4) any relevant State nutrition education mandates; (5) funding levels 

at the State and local level for preservice and inservice nutrition 

education and training of food service personnel and teachers; (6) State 

and local individuals, and groups conducting nutrition education and 

training; (7) materials which are currently available for nutrition 

education and training programs, and determine for each: (i) Subject 

area and content covered; (ii) grade level; (iii) how utilized; (iv) 

acceptability by user; (v) currency of materials; (8) any major child 

nutrition related health problems in each State; (9) existing sources of 

primary and secondary data, including any data that has been collected 

for documenting the State's nutrition education and training needs; (10) 

available documentation of the competencies of teachers in the area of 

nutrition education; (11) available documentation of the competencies of 

food service personnel; (12) problems encountered by schools and 

institutions in procuring nutritious food economically and in preparing 

nutritious appetizing meals and areas where training can assist in 

alleviating these problems; (13) problems teachers encounter in 

conducting effective nutrition education activities and areas where 

inservice training or materials can assist in alleviating these 

problems; (14) problems in dietary habits of children and areas where 

nutrition education may assist in positive changes; (15) problems 

encountered in coordinating the nutrition education by teachers with the 

meal preparation and activities of the food service facility and areas 

where training might alleviate these problems.

    (b) The needs assessment should be an ongoing process and provide 

not only data on current activities but also a description of the 

problems and needs in each category and whether training



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or materials would help alleviate the identified problems.