Value Enhanced Nutrition Assessment
Nutrition status and risk are determined by a process called Value Enhanced Nutrition Assessment.The process involves obtaining and synthesizing relevant and accurate information from the categories below:
Value Enhanced Nutrition Assessment includes:
- A= Antropometric
- B=Biochemical
- C=Clinical
- D=Dietary
- E=Environmental
- F=Family
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VENA Forms & Resources
Participant Form
Health History Form
Family Documentation Tool
Conversation Starters by Client Category
Agenda Setting Tools
FIT KIDS= HAPPY KIDS Flipchart Conversation Starters by Topic
VENA Regional Training 2007 PowerPoint presentations (viewing information)
- VENA Overview
- VENA Forms
- VENA: Introduction to Risk Codes
- A Relationship for Success Part I
- A Relationship for Success Part II
- Helping Participants Change
- Critical Thinking
- Rapport Building
- Understanding Poverty
- Bringing It All Together
- Building a Strategic Action Team
Additional Counseling Job Aids (WIC Works):
http://www.nal.usda.gov/wicworks/WIC_Learning_Online/support/job_aids/questions.pdf
http://www.nal.usda.gov/wicworks/WIC_Learning_Online/support/job_aids/stages.pdf
http://www.nal.usda.gov/wicworks/WIC_Learning_Online/support/job_aids/MI.pdf
http://www.nal.usda.gov/wicworks/WIC_Learning_Online/support/job_aids/questions_MI.pdf
Additional Information on VENA (WIC Works):
http://www.nal.usda.gov/wicworks/Learning_Center/Assessment_VENA.html
For more information about WIC Nutrition Services, call (512) 458-7444.
Last Updated August 13, 2007 |