Family Nutrition

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• Family Nutrition
• Education Programs

Nutrition and Life Skills for Missouri Families
FNEP
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• FNEP assists low-income Missourians

HEALTH AND FITNESS
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Nutritional needs include
Nutritional Quality
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Target Audience
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Objective
Achieving...
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Reach Our Objective
Through a
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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 Education Program Counties
EFNEP and FNP Supported Counties
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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

• Growing with Plants
• Food Power
• Kids in the Kitchen
• Chick It Out
• Teenage Parents
• Destination Wellness

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We also worked with these agencies with local
public funding through the FNP

• Assisted Living Centers
• Preschools
• After School Programs
• Homeless Shelters
• Parents as Teachers
• Mid-Continent Libraries

• Public Schools
• Community Centers
• Drug Rehabilitation Programs
• Abuse Shelters
• Detention Centers
• Mental Health Centers
• ABE Classes

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FNP Connects Statewide

• Number of participants for FY 2004
  211,048
• Total educational contacts 1,372,903
• Number of groups that participated 6,178
• 143 Alternative or special education groups
• 296 groups outside of the school setting
• Number of youth participants 198,481
• Number of adult participants 12,567

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Nutrition classes for youth

• 25,600 low-income youth in over 200 groups.
• Most programs included 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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Handwashing
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FNEP is in the community making an impact

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

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Results of the program showed the following

• 94 of the students tasted the food offered
• 98 of the teachers reported one or more changes
  in students after FNP
• 82 of the students had improved hand washing
• 38 are more physically active
• 58 made healthier meal and/or snack choices

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Teachers changes (self reported)

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

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Expanded Foods 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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Through EFNEP we worked with the following
federal and privately supported agencies

• WIC
• Head Start
• Churches
• Teen Pregnancy Centers
• Food Pantries
• Shelters
• YMCA After School Programs
• Salvation Army
• 4H
• Day Care Centers

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EFNEP Facts at a Glance

• Reached 2,751 families
• 38 minority
• 4,268 youth

• Served 64 of the 83 (77) WIC offices
• Served 13 of the 39 (33)Food Stamp offices
• Partnered with 223 agencies

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EFNEP Impact

• Food Safety
• 50 of participants more often practiced not
  thawing their foods at room temperature

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Managing Food

• 78 more often planned meals in advance
• 76 more often compared food prices
• 75 more often used a grocery list for shopping
• 36 less often ran out of food before the end of
  the month

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Healthy Food Choices

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

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Missouri Nutrition Network

• Eat for Health Its All About You and Your
  Family Too Campaign
• Network is composed of public and private
  agencies and organizations to link efforts of
  food and nutrition services
• The objective of this statewide effort is for all
  agencies to deliver a consistent nutrition
  education message to limited resource audiences

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Employment Opportunities

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

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Credits
The Family Nutrition Education Program (FNEP) is
a 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.
The University of Missouri Extension does not
discriminate on the basis of race, color,
national origin, sex, religion, age, disability
or status as a Vietnam-era veteran in employment
or programs.