Applying a Trauma-Informed Approach to Nutrition Education for Newcomer Service Providers

What will this webinar cover? 

This webinar, featuring speakers from Leah’s Pantry, will teach newcomer service providers about nutrition amid trauma and displacement. Leah’s Pantry is a California-based nonprofit with a nationwide footprint in trauma-informed nutrition education. Their innovative work building and implementing community nutrition and food security programs improves the health, wellness, and resilience of communities throughout the country. In this webinar, they will discuss how good and bad experiences affect our food choices. They will also explore the principles of a trauma-informed approach to nutrition security and ways to teach about healthy eating that respect diverse cultures and the unique experiences of newcomers. Participants will be encouraged to reflect on their own relationship with food and how that can affect teaching newcomers about eating well.
 

Is this webinar for me? 

This webinar is for newcomer service providers interested in delivering nutrition education. The webinar will not cover food security or food access topics.

Why should I participate? 
After participating in this 90-minute session, you will be able to:  

Describe ways that newcomers have multifaceted and complex experiences with food  

Explain the relationship between positive and adverse experiences and nourishment 

Design trauma-informed nutrition education programs that respond to positive and adverse experiences and that incorporate the different ways we relate to food  

Apply practical approaches for delivering trauma-informed nutrition education to newcomers with compassion and connection