Native Diabetes Wellness Program (NDWP)
Grantees
Tohono O’odham Community Action
(Arizona)
Program title: O’odham Ha’icu Ha-Hugi c Duakog: Tohono O’odham Food, Fitness & Wellness Initiative Project. The interventions of the Tohono O’odham Food, Fitness & Wellness Initiative project focus on establishing systems changes to prevent diabetes using strategies that increase education and access to local, healthy, indigenous foods, and improves policy initiatives in schools, tribe, state, and federal levels that address using traditional foods. In recognizing that the ultimate choice of behavior rest on individuals, the viability of those choices requires systems that allow for and support healthy decisions. Through partnerships with the Indian Oasis-Baboquivari School District administrators, farmers, cafeteria staff, and Y.O.U.T.H. group (Youth O’odham United Through Health), approximately 1,000 students at the primary, intermediate, and high schools were served dishes with tepary beans, a traditional crop of the Tohono O’odham. The students voted for tepary beans over commercially provided foods such as pizza.
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