TABLE 2.

A Framework of Tasks by Intensity of Engagement Performed by Nutrition Educators in Various Settings^*

Task	1 Making recommendations	2 Implementation/supporting role	3 Evaluation/leadership role
Setting
1 Nutrition educators’ own workplace	We make recommendations and provide information to our colleagues on ways to increase our staff and audience access to healthy foods and physical activity.	We work with our colleagues to develop and implement worksite wellness policies to increase our staff and audience access to healthy foods and physical activity.	We work with our colleagues to evaluate our progress in implementing worksite wellness policies to increase our staff and audience access to healthy foods and physical activity.
2 Organizations serving adults	We make recommendations and provide information on ways to increase the organizations’ staff and audience access to healthy foods and physical activity.	We work with organizations to develop and implement action plans to make environmental changes to increase their staff and audience access to healthy foods and physical activity.	We follow-up with organizations to evaluate their progress in making environmental changes to increase their staff and audience access to healthy foods and physical activity.
3 Schools/Youth-serving agencies	We make recommendations and provide information to schools/agencies on ways to increase children’s access to healthy foods and physical activity.	We work with schools/agencies to develop and implement action plans to make environmental changes to increase children’s access to healthy foods and physical activity.	We follow-up with schools/agencies to evaluate their progress in making environmental changes to increase children’s access to healthy foods and physical activity.
4 Community committees/coalitions	In these working groups, I/my staff make recommendations and provide information on ways to increase residents’ access to healthy foods and physical activity.	In these working groups, I/my staff support others’ projects that make environmental changes in our community to increase residents’ access to healthy foods and physical activity.	In these working groups, I/my staff take the lead to work on projects that make environmental changes in our community to increase residents’ access to healthy foods and physical activity.

^*Descriptions of each task by setting are paraphrases captured from a variety of nutrition educators’ quotes in qualitative data. The text in the table is the same as the survey items.