ABOUT

Problem Statement

Garrett County WIC issues about $15,000 in Fruits and Vegetables every month. Clients are only spending about 59% or roughly $9,000 a month. This also coincides with a families consumption of fruits and vegetables.

Aim / Overall Goal / Desired Result

Staff would like to see the percentage rate increase from 59% to 75% a month.

Change Idea

An increase in the fruit and vegetable benefit will help to increase a family's consumption of fruits and vegetables.

PDSA Objective

To implement education and other methods to increase the redemption of the fruit and vegetable benefit and that this will help participants consume more fruits and vegetables.

PDSA Cycle Number: 1

Estimated PDSA Implementation Timeline

From 2022-07-01 to 2023-10-31

What questions do you want answered for this change?

1. Why are participants not spending all of their fruit and vegetable benefit?
2. Do participants consume the recommended amount of fruits and vegetables?
3. Is this an education on benefits problem?

PLAN

Predict what will happen when this test is carried out:

Participants will increase their fruit and vegetable consumption and clients will begin to redeem all of the fruit and vegetable benefit that is issued to them.

List the tasks needed to set-up this change: (Please include the person responsible, when the task is to be completed, and where the task is to be completed for each task.)

Every staff member will be responsible.

1. Ask participants what is the hardest part of using this benefit
2. Provide recipes that use fruits and vegetables along with other WIC foods.
3. Provide educational materials on purchasing canned and frozen fruits and vegetables.

Related Improvement Measure:

WIC F&V benefit redemption $

DO

Describe what happened when you ran the test:

STUDY

Describe the measured results, and how they compared to the predictions:

ACT

Describe what modifications in the plan will be made for the next cycle from what you learned: