nom! Children embraces the
Pilbara red dust     

Our nom! Children program employs qualified nutritionists to support parents through valuable healthy eating nutrition education sessions. With increased nutritional knowledge parents can introduce healthy eating habits and improve the wellbeing of their young family. The program empowers parents through valuable healthy eating education, promoting nutrition strategies that result in improved dietary intake in the family home.  

This particular program has been designed to benefit parents with young children allowing our nutritionists to continue to deliver our evidenced-based programs in the Pilbara region as we have done for the past 12 years. We are proud to continue to deliver our great nom! programs across the State.

To date, the program has demonstrated improvements in parental food literacy with 82% of participants in 2020 making at least one positive improvement in their food literacy skills and 83% making at least one positive improvement to their parenting practices.  

The initiative was run as a pilot for three years (2019 – 2021) and successfully demonstrated the importance of providing parents and carers with the tools to create a positive eating experience.   

Through increased nutrition knowledge, and quality time spent teaching parents, the impact of the program has been highlighted in improving healthy eating in children and overall wellbeing for parents and their family.   

Our nom! Children program helps to increase parents’ confidence in applying practices to support healthy eating in young children, by empowering them to take control of their child’s health and development.   

The program also aims to increase the knowledge of parents and carers living with social disadvantage.  

A vital outcome of the program is improved confidence, knowledge, and food literacy skills within three months of completing the program. Good nutrition during early childhood has been recognised as a critical indicator for optimal health, growth, and cognitive development, from conception to five years.   

All participants are provided a range of resources including easy to follow recipe booklets, comprehensive education resource book, a shopping bag and healthy eating plate.  

nom! Children is proudly supported by Telethon7 and we are pleased to announce that Roy Hill has signed a three-year agreement for nom! – a comprehensive, evidence based, nutrition education and cooking program to parents in the Pilbara region.