Family Nutrition Education Programs

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Family Nutrition Education Programs

• Nutrition and Life Skills for Missouri Families

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Program Content Areas
Food Availability
Nutritional Quality
Food Safety
Physical Activity
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Target Audience

• Children and youth and adults that support them
• Adults
• Pregnant teens and adults

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Objective
Achieving...
Lifelong health
Fitness
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The Family Nutrition Education Program
What is FNEP?
EFNEP Expanded Food and Nutrition Education
Program
FNP Family Nutrition Program
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Family Nutrition Program

• Target audience
• Eligible for food stamps
• Series of lessons preferred
• 12-18 lessons for adults
• 5-7 lessons for youth
• Funding requires 11 in-kind match with public
  agencies

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Show-Me Nutrition for Youth

• Lets Read about Healthy Eating
• Adventures in Nutrition with the Show-Me Chef
• Fun with Food and Fitness
• Building MyPyramid
• Building MyBody
• Choosing Foods for Me
• Exploring MyPyramid
• Digging Deeper
• Choices Challenges

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Additional Programs

• Food Power
• Food Power Young Adventure
• Kids in the Kitchen
• Destination Wellness
• Teen Parents
• Chick It Out

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Collaboration
Agencies with Local Public Funding

• Public schools
• Community centers
• Drug rehabilitation programs
• Abuse shelters
• Detention centers
• Mental health centers

• Assisted living centers
• Preschools
• After school programs
• Homeless shelters
• Parents as Teachers
• Mid-Continent Libraries
• ABE Classes

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FNP Connects Statewide

• Number of participants for FY 2007 256,070
• Total direct educational contacts 1,267,967
• Number of groups that participated 7,454
• -38 alternative or special education groups
• -295 groups outside of the school setting
• Number of youth participants 198,439
• Number of adult participants 57,381

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Nutrition Classes for Youth

• Most programs include seven lessons

Kids learning to make healthy choices
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Educational Activities
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Food Prep
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Food Power
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Hand washing
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Reaching Food Stamp Audiences

• Post card campaign
• Special funded projects
• Assemblies
• Pyramid of Power
• MyPyramid for Kids
• MyPyramid Comes to School (pilot)
• Show Me Nutrition Education Displays

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Eat Smart. Play Hard Campaign

• The postcard campaign reached 100 of Food Stamp
  households
• 50,000 households in 47 Missouri counties
• 1-800-ParentLink

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School Assemblies

• Pyramid of Power
• MyPyramid for Kids
• MyPyramid Comes to School (pilot)

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Show Me Nutrition Education Displays

• Viewed by teachers in Teachers Lounge
• Material taken and used in the classroom
• Reinforce nutrition messages from displays
• Points to Ponder- take back to the classroom
  activities to use with students
• Resource for Healthy Staff
  Healthy Schools project

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FNP Impact
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FNEP Making an Impact in the Community

• Nutrition classes for adults and teens who
  prepare the meals for their families
• Improving the prenatal nutrition of pregnant
  teens and adults
• Providing nutrition classes in classrooms
  Pre-K-12
• Involving youth in nutrition in after school and
  summer programs

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Results of the Program

• 94 of participants present tried the foods
  offered

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Teachers Report Behavior Change in Students

• 95 of the students were more aware of nutrition
• 82 of the students had improved hand washing
• 54 are more physically active
• 64 made healthier meal and/or snack choices

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Teachers Changes(self reported)

• 43 make healthier nutrition choices
• 45 are more aware of nutrition
• 33 are more willing to try new foods
• 97 want us back in their classroom next year
• 97 said the program was excellent or good

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Teachers Model Healthy Behaviors (self-reported)

• 92 more aware of nutrition
• 92 make healthier meal and/or snack choices
• 73 eat breakfast more often
• 81 more willing to try
  new foods

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Teachers Model Healthy Behaviors (self-reported)

• 95 improved hand washing
• 67 improved food safety other than hand washing
• 81 increased physical activity

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Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program

• Target audience
• Income within 185 of poverty
• Children in home under 19
• Series of 12-18 lessons
• No match required for funding

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Agencies Served Through EFNEP

• WIC
• Head Start
• Churches
• 4-H
• Food pantries
• Salvation Army

• Shelters
• YMCA after school
• programs
• Day care centers
• Teen pregnancy
• shelters

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Reaching the Hispanic Audience

• Bilingual nutrition educators
• Many of our materials are available in Spanish

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EFNEP Facts at a Glance

• Reached 2,561 families
• 34 minority (7 did not disclose
  race)
• 4,240 youth
• Served 53 of the 78 (68) WIC offices
• Served 14 of the 34 (41) Food Stamp offices
• Partnered with 217 agencies

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National EFNEP Impact

• Cost benefit analyses for savings on health care
  costs are as high as 10.64 per 1 spent on
  programming

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National EFNEP Impact

• For every 1 spent to implement EFNEP, 2.48 is
  saved on food expenditures, reducing the need for
  emergency food assistance

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National EFNEP Impact

• The Produce for Better Health Foundation
  identified EFNEP as the best federal program for
  increasing fruit and vegetable intake.
• 2002

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National EFNEP Impact

• Overall diet improvement in all food groups
• Preventing food-borne illness through improved
  safety practices
• Collaboration with other agencies reinforces
  common nutrition message

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EFNEP Impact
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Food Safety

• 47 of participants more often practiced not
  thawing their foods at room temperature

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Managing Food Dollars

• 51 more often planned meals in advance
• 43 more often compared food prices
• 48 more often used a grocery list for shopping
• 34 less often ran out of food before the end of
  the month

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Healthy Food Choices

• 45 more often thought about healthy food choices
  when deciding what to feed their families
• 40 more often prepared foods without adding salt
• 56 more often used the food label to make food
  choices

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Healthy Food Choices

• 35 of participants reported that their children
  ate breakfast more often

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Employment Opportunities

• Nutrition Program Assistant
• Nutrition Program Associate
• Extension Associate
• Regional Nutrition and Health Education
  Specialist
• Program Coordinator
• Associate State Nutrition Specialist
• State Nutrition Specialist

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Putting a Face to the Name!

• Jo Britt-Rankin
• FNEP Administrative Director
• Candance Gabel
• FNEP State Coordinator

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Putting a Face to the Name!

• Ellen Schuster Curriculum
• and Staff Training Coordinator
• Alma Hopkins Special Project
• Coordinator

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Putting a Face to A Name!

• Karen Sherbondy
• Alternate Educational Delivery
• Coordinator
• Kim Keller
• Evaluation Coordinator

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Putting a Face to the Name!

• Ruth Breedlove
• Administrative Assistant

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Credits
The Family Nutrition Education Program (FNEP) is
partially funded by the USDA, Food and Nutrition
Services. The funding is channeled to the
University of Missouri Extension Human
Environmental Sciences through the Missouri
Division of Family Services.
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Credits

• Equal opportunity is and shall be provided to
  all participants in Extension programs and
  activities, and for all employees and applicants
  for employment on the basis of their demonstrated
  ability and competence without discrimination on
  the basis of their race, color, religion, sex,
  sexual orientation, national origin, age,
  disability or status as a Vietnam-era veteran.
  This policy shall not be interpreted in such a
  manner as to violate the legal rights of
  religious organizations or military organizations
  associated with the armed forces of the United
  States of America.

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Credits

• Funded in part by USDAs Food Stamp Program.
• Running out of money for food? Contact your
  local Food Stamp office or go to
• www.dss.mo.gov/fsd/fstamp