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INVESTIGATOR: Yaroch, A.; Byker Shanks, CA, .

PERFORMING INSTITUTION:
CHN NEBRASKA
8401 WEST DODGE RD SUITE 100
OMAHA, NEBRASKA 681143494

NTAE 2.0: BUILDING ON SUCCESS FROM NTAE 1.0 TO STRENGTHEN GUSNIP FOR ALL AUDIENCES

NON-TECHNICAL SUMMARY: The Nutrition Incentive Program Training, Technical Assistance, Evaluation, and Information (NTAE) Center supports potential applicants, grantees, and the Gus Schumacher Nutrition Incentive Program (GusNIP) as a whole. GusNIP brings together partners from food, healthcare, and research sectors to improve the health and nutrition of participating households, facilitate growth in underrepresented communities and geographies (UCGs), and collect and compile data to identify best program practices. The first NTAE Center (NTAE 1.0) was authorized from 2019-2023. NTAE 1.0 was led by the Gretchen Swanson Center for Nutrition (GSCN), the prime awardee, in partnership with Fair Food Network (FFN). GSCN and FFN assembled partners and resources, known collectively as the Nutrition Incentive Hub (Hub).The proposed work for 2.0 will provide training and technical assistance (T&TA), evaluation, and informational support services to potential applicants, nutrition incentive (NI) and produce prescription (PPR) projects, and GusNIP as a whole. NTAE 2.0 will be led by GSCN, in partnership with FFN and University of California San Francisco (UCSF). The NTAE and Hub will continue to inform efforts that maximize the effectiveness and efficiency of GusNIP projects in meeting GusNIP priorities, increase fruit and vegetable purchases, and improve the nutrition of participating households. Specifically, 2.0 will:1.Engage GusNIP audiences to improve and sustain GusNIP NI/PPR projects, with an emphasis on reaching underrepresented communities and geographies (UCGs). To achieve this, we integrate meaningful engagement of GusNIP audiences into 2.0 governance.2.Provide and continuously improve T&TA services that optimize the experience of GusNIP audiences. To achieve this, we assemble robust partnerships and technologies to maximize USDA NIFA's return on investment in NI/PPR projects.3.Conduct a rigorous evaluation of NI/PPR projects centered on diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) principles. To achieve this, we advance the evidence for NI/PPR with continued scientific rigor, while centering DEIA.Ultimately, these efforts are intended to meet the long-term goal of making safe, nutritious food available to all Americans, which is a strategic goal of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

OBJECTIVES: Building upon the work of the Gus Schumacher Nutrition Incentive Program (GusNIP) Nutrition Incentive Program Training, Technical Assistance, Evaluation, and Information (NTAE) Center from 2019-2023 (NTAE 1.0), the goal of NTAE 2.0 (hereafter 2.0) is to create an integrated system of efficient and streamlined implementation and evaluation support services directly informed by the communities and geographies we serve. To achieve this goal in 2.0, the NTAE will carry out the following objectives:1.Engage GusNIP audiences to improve and sustain GusNIP nutrition incentive (NI)/produce prescription (PPR) Programs, with an emphasis on reaching underrepresented communities and geographies (UCGs). Objective 1 integrates meaningful engagement of GusNIP audiences into 2.0 governance.2.Provide and continuously improve training and technical assistance (T&TA) services that optimize the experience of GusNIP audiences. Objective 2 assembles robust partnerships and technologies to maximize USDA NIFA's return on investment in NI/PPR projects.3.Conduct a rigorous evaluation of NI/PPR projects centered on diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) principles. Objective 3 advances the evidence for NI/PPR with continued scientific rigor, while centering DEIA.In 2.0, the NTAE will contribute to the long-term goal of making safe, nutritious food available to all Americans (USDA's Strategic Goal 4).