1. Family Nutrition Education Programs
Nutrition and Life Skills for Missouri Families

2. Program Content Area Nutritional Quality Food Availability Food Safety
Physical Activity

3. Objectives Achieving life long health and fitness
Choosing healthy food choices
Increase food preparation skills
Increase knowledge and practice of food safety skills
Using a Food Label Nutrition Facts Panel
Adopting the habit of being Physically Active

4. The Family Nutrition Education Program
What is FNEP?
The Family Nutrition Education Program
EFNEP
Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program
FNP
Family Nutrition Program

5. Family Nutrition Program SNAP - ED
Target audience
Food Stamp Recipients
Eligible for food stamps
Series of lessons preferred
8 – 12 lessons for adults
5-7 lessons for youth

6. Social Ecological Model

7. Show-Me Nutrition for Youth
Let’s Read about Healthy Eating
Adventures in Nutrition with the Show-Me Chef
Fun with Food and Fitness
Food Group Express
Building My Body
Choosing Foods for Me
Exploring the Food Groups
Digging Deeper
Choices & Challenges

8. Additional Programs Kids in the Kitchen Eating from the Garden
A Yummy Curriculum
Eating Smart Being Active
Cooking Matters
Cooking Matters in the Store
Small Steps to Health and Wealth
Stock Healthy Shop Healthy

9. Collaboration Agencies with Local Public Funding Public schools
Community centers
Abuse shelters
Food Pantries
Shelter Workshops
Senior Centers
Health Clinics
Public Health Departments
Preschools
After school programs
Homeless shelters
Parents as Teachers
Mid-Continent Libraries
ABE Classes
Head Start

10. FNP Connects Statewide
Number of participants for FY 2016: ,106
Total direct educational contacts ,091,665
Total indirect educational contacts: 3,170,363
Number of groups that participated: ,797
Number of youth participants: ,667
Number of adult participants: ,439

11. Nutrition Classes for Youth
Most programs include seven lessons
Kids learning to make healthy choices

12. Educational Activities

13. Food Prep

14. Hand washing

15. Reaching Food Stamp Audiences
Food Pantry Recipe and Information cards
Buddy Pack Program
Reaches more than 6000 children
Show Me Nutrition Education Displays

16. Adult Education
Eating Smart Being Active

17. Show Me Nutrition Education Displays
Teacher Lounges
Food Pantries
Health Fairs
WIC Offices
Grocery Stores

18. Policy, Systems and Environment
Eating from the Garden
Eat Smart in the Parks
Marketing and Messaging - MoCAN
Increasing Physical Activity
Farm to Institution
Farmer’s Markets
Healthier Lunchrooms

19. Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program
Target audience
Income within 185% of poverty
Children in home under 19
Series of 6 – 12 lessons

20. 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

21. EFNEP Facts at a Glance Reached 6,357 participants 3,735 adults
2,622 youth

22. EFNEP Impact

23. National EFNEP Impact
Cost benefit analyses for savings on health care costs are as high as $10.64 per $1 spent on programming

24. National EFNEP Impact
For every $1 spent to implement EFNEP, $2.48 is saved on food expenditures, reducing the need for emergency food assistance

25. 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

26. Food Safety
37% of participants more often practiced not thawing their foods at room temperature
23% more often practices not allowing meat and dairy foods to sit out for more than two hours.

27. Managing Food Dollars 36% more often planned meals in advance
34% more often compared food prices
34% more often used a grocery list for shopping
33% less often ran out of food before the end of the month

28. Healthy Food Choices
34% more often thought about healthy food choices when deciding what to feed their families
30% more often prepared foods without adding salt
40% more often used the food label to make food choices

29. Healthy Food Choices
27% of participants reported that their children ate breakfast more often

30. Employment Opportunities
Nutrition Program Associate
Extension Associate
Regional Nutrition and Health Education Specialist
Project Director
Program Manager
Associate State Nutrition Specialist
State Nutrition Specialist

31. Putting a Face to the Name!
Jo Britt-Rankin FNEP Administrative Director Candance Gabel FNEP State Coordinator

32. Putting a Face to the Name!
Donna Mehrle Assistant Coordinator Karen Sherbondy Alternate Educational Delivery Coordinator

33. Putting a Face to a Name!
Larry Roberts Eating from the Garden Coordinator Susan Mills-Gray Associate State Nutrition Specialist

34. Putting a Face to A Name!
Cindy Deblauw Eat Smart in the Parks Coordinator Lorin Fahrmeier Farm to Institution Coordinator

35. Putting a Face to the Name!
Stefanie Crupe Administrative Assistant Tom Pitchford Fiscal Manager

36. 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.

37. 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.

38. Credits Funded in part by USDA’s Food Stamp Program.
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