Federally Funded Programs:
Program Impacts:
SNAP-Ed:
- The Plan. Eat. Move. Program through the University of Kentucky encompasses SNAP-Ed and EFNEP.
- This program will show individuals how to plan nutritious meals on a limited budget, acquire safe food handling practices, improve food preparation skills, and change behaviors necessary to have a healthy lifestyle.
- Plan. Eat. Move. provides resources surrounding healthy eating, adapting physically activity and numerous recipes.
- NIFA’s involvement with SNAP-Ed began in 1999, as Land Grant University administrators identified the need for national leadership through their federal partner.
- NIFA supports SNAP-Ed by promoting well-trained staff; effective program planning, identification and use of effective and appropriate resources; and improved consistency and clarity of communication among SNAP-Ed's many partners.
Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP):
- EFNEP is a Federal Extension (community outreach) program that currently operates through the 1862 and 1890 Land Grant Universities in every state
- EFNEP uses education to support participants' efforts toward self-sufficiency, nutritional health and well-being.
Source:
- https://www.nifa.usda.gov/about-nifa/blogs/national-canned-food-month - https://www.cdc.gov/foodsafety/communication/home-canning-and-botulism.html