Mission, Goals and Objectives

Development of Nutrition-IQ Summer Camp for Little Brothers and Sisters of Pinellas County-

Mission

Nutrition-IQ (N-IQ) Summer Camp, in collaboration with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Pinellas County, aims to improve the diet quality of Littles (age 10+) to decrease their risk and development of teen obesity.

Goals

Increase the ability Littles have to nourish themselves utilizing the life skill of food preparation.
Improve nutrient density of Littles’ diets while decreasing intake of processed foods.
Grow the level of confidence, independence and enjoyment Littles have with cooking simple, appealing, healthy and economical dishes.

Objectives

At the conclusion of N-IQ Summer Camp:

Bigs will have kitchens with the essential equipment needed to cook with the Little during camp and on future occasions.
Matches will have prepared at least two recipes together.
Littles’ self-efficacy scores for food preparation methods will significantly improve.
Littles will be able to identify local produce markets accepting EBT benefits.
Littles’ knowledge scores for fruits and vegetables high in nutrients commonly lacking will significantly improve.
Littles’ scores measuring attitude toward cooking will significantly improve.
Matches will submit their first quarterly food or food preparation related goal using materials from the N-IQ website.
Littles will increase consumption of home prepared food and decrease consumption of processed ready-made food.