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

• Pregnant
• Breastfeeding
• Postpartum
• Infant
• Child

Health History Form

• Women [English] [Spanish]
• Infant  [English] [Spanish]
• Child [English] [Spanish]

Family Documentation Tool

• Blank Tool

Conversation Starters by Client Category

• List of Questions [English] [Spanish]

Agenda Setting Tools

• Nutrition Education Cards and Circle Charts – developed by California WIC Program

FIT KIDS= HAPPY KIDS Flipchart Conversation Starters by Topic 

• Healthy Habits for Healthy Weights [English] [Spanish]
• Family Meals [English] [Spanish]
• Milk [English] [Spanish]
• Snacks [English] [Spanish]
• Serving Sizes [English] [Spanish]       
• Cups [English] [Spanish]
• Fruits & Vegetables [English] [Spanish]
• Picky Eater [English] [Spanish]
• New Foods [English] [Spanish]
• Food Bribes [English] [Spanish]
• Family Activity [English] [Spanish]
• TV-free Time [English] [Spanish]

VENA Regional Training 2007 PowerPoint presentations (viewing information)

1. VENA Overview
2. VENA Forms
3. VENA: Introduction to Risk Codes
4. A Relationship for Success Part I
5. A Relationship for Success Part II
6. Helping Participants Change
7. Critical Thinking
8. Rapport Building
9. Understanding Poverty
10. Bringing It All Together
11. 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