Let’s Get FAMILIAR

Mod­ern Health Edu­ca­tion For Every Body

 

As we age, our health needs change. While we often feel these dif­fer­ences in our bod­ies, we don’t always know how to adjust our dai­ly rou­tines. FAMILIAR is an Ore­gon pub­lic health ini­tia­tive that encour­ages adults to adopt healthy, evi­dence-based lifestyle and eat­ing habits that enhance how their bod­ies function. 

 

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Per­son­al & Work­force Development

what is familiar?

FAMILIAR is a 10-part nutri­tion skills series that teach­es par­tic­i­pants how to trans­late spe­cif­ic dietary rec­om­men­da­tions into per­son­al­ized meal plans. Our “Train the Train­er” mod­el pro­vides health­care work­ers with a prac­ti­cal, hands-on frame­work to lead nutri­tion­al inter­ven­tions and group dis­cus­sions with­in their home com­mu­ni­ties. Par­tic­i­pants may receive CEs at pro­gram com­ple­tion (option­al).

Cardiovascular Health

Blood Sugar Balance

Muscle & Bone Building

Mood, Sleep & Stress Support

Digestive Health & The Microbiome

Tailored Workshops

Com­mu­ni­ty-focused Pub­lic Health Programming

Our accel­er­at­ed train­ing pro­gram teach­es nutri­tion­al basics and the meth­ods to apply them, prepar­ing the com­mu­ni­ty work­force to guide healthy eat­ing dis­cus­sions and inter­ven­tions with their clients. Because food choice is high­ly local, deeply per­son­al and cul­tur­al­ly ground­ed, FAMILIAR was designed to enable and encour­age our par­tic­i­pants to cus­tomize their take-home mate­ri­als to reflect the pref­er­ences and diver­si­ty of their home communities.

Our pub­lic health cur­ricu­lum is specif­i­cal­ly designed to reach med­ical­ly under­served com­mu­ni­ties: those who are often left out of the Food as Med­i­cine con­ver­sa­tion. We have devel­oped work­shops for:

  • Rur­al Healthcare 
  • Old­er Adults/Aging in Place
  • Care­givers of Indi­vid­u­als Liv­ing with Dementia/Alzheimer’s Disease
  • The Lati­no Community

Part­ners include:

  • Yamhill Com­mu­ni­ty Care
  • Care Ore­gon
  • Ore­gon Care Partners
  • Ore­gon Office of Rur­al Health
  • Elk­ton Well­ness Initiative 
  • Dou­glas Coun­ty Pub­lic Health Network
  • Vil­lage to Vil­lage Network

FAMILIAR Founder Erin Fredericks, MSN

Erin is a Food as Med­i­cine advo­cate. She cre­at­ed FAMILIAR to share her exper­tise through fun and acces­si­ble, sci­ence-based work­shops. She designs pro­gram­ming to teach nutri­tion­al fun­da­men­tals and easy meal plan­ning that helps peo­ple find per­son­al­ized sets of lifestyle tools to thrive through­out all stages of life.

Erin spent 15 years in con­sumer adver­tis­ing, work­ing for foun­da­tion­al food pub­lish­ers like Bon Appetit, Martha Stew­art, and Rachel Ray. She also worked with online health brands includ­ing Web­MD and Med­scape. From these van­tage points, she wit­nessed the increas­ing dys­func­tion of our mod­ern food and med­ical sys­tems. With the vision to com­bine her deep knowl­edge from the culi­nary and health­care worlds, Erin left the cor­po­rate world to earn her Master’s Degree in Nutri­tion Sci­ence from the Nation­al Uni­ver­si­ty of Nat­ur­al Medicine.

Erin launched the FAMILIAR pro­gram in 2021.

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FAMILIAR

Food As Medicine, for Inde­pen­dence & Longevi­ty In Aging & Retire­ment

“As a community health worker, it was the most fun activity that I looked forward to. Because I was having fun with it, others were having fun in it.”

Tiffany

“Thank you for this marvelous class on food health! I have learned so much and plan to incorporate many of these ideas into my daily diet. I so appreciate your gift to us!”

Sue

“In my 12 years of running our center, I’ve never seen such enthusiasm or appreciation for any other program we’ve offered.” 

Lar­ry Miller, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor, Asto­ria Senior Center

“This series makes you aware of how much power you have to take care of yourself.” 

Annie

“This class directly addresses what we can do to have a better quality of life. This isn’t general advice, this is a practical roadmap for older adults.”

Bon­nie

Group Rates & Custom Programming Available

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Contact

Ques­tions about the mate­r­i­al? Curi­ous about our full cat­a­log of Healthy Liv­ing pro­grams and Guest Lec­tures? Enter your infor­ma­tion below or email me direct­ly at erin@thrivewithfamiliarfoods.com

 

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