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Design Thinking for SNAP-Ed

Are you seeking to improve how you incorporate input from your primary audience into the development of your SNAP-Ed programming?

Design thinking may help!

Design thinking is a people-centered approach to learning about a problem and developing a solution. Design thinking methods and tools are flexible, adaptable, and help organizations work collaboratively with communities and individuals who are most impacted by the identified problem. 

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Design thinking can help advance SNAP-Ed's goal to "improve the likelihood that persons eligible for SNAP will make healthy food choices within a limited budget and choose physically active lifestyles" by:

 

  • Engaging people who are SNAP-eligible in the design and adaptation of programs that center their needs and consider their barriers. 

  • Ensuring SNAP-Ed resources support effective and desirable programs, leading to easier recruitment and higher levels of retention. 

  • Reducing the amount of time and money spent on correcting implementation challenges. 

  • Providing tools to consider and advance equity in SNAP-Ed programs.

Design thinking can be integrated into SNAP-Ed plans in a variety of ways:​ 

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- Conducting assets & needs assessments 

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- Adapting interventions

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- Monitoring or evaluating an implemented intervention

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- Develop training programs for staff and community partners

 

 

 

 

 

*Image to the right is a sample output from a design thinking workshop with community members about household food waste

Image of Journey Map created for one of our projects about household food waste

Want to explore a partnership with us to implement

design thinking in your SNAP-Ed Plan?

Our team can help you: 

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  • Draft language to include in your SNAP-Ed plan to conduct design thinking activities with our guidance in the coming fiscal year;

  • Design and deliver user-centered (virtual or in-person) design thinking activities with people who are SNAP-eligible and implementation stakeholders; 

  • Synthesize and present data and learnings from design thinking activities for local and state agencies, partners, and your primary audiences through written and visual products; 

  • By providing training and technical assistance to learn more about design thinking. 

 

We can help you engage the communities you serve in new ways and build trusting relationships with partners to deliver programs. We are eager to share our tools and expertise with you as you adapt design thinking to your work!

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To learn more about how we may help you use design thinking to

move your work forward, email us at designforsnaped@unc.edu

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Food Fitness Opportunity Research Collaborative

Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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1700 Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard
CB# 7426
Chapel Hill, N.C. 27599-7426

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p: 919-966-6080
e: fforcteam@unc.edu

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