FAMILY AND CONSUMER SCIENCES RESOURCE PROFILE

 RESOURCE NAME

  Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Adult Curriculum

DATE CREATED/REVISED

Created:  1969; Revised:  1993

BRIEF DESCRIPTION (include major objectives)

EFNEP is a nutrition education program designed to help limited resource families, especially young families with children, improve their diets and more effectively manage the resources available to them.  In Kansas EFNEP is available in Sedgwick, Shawnee and Crawford counties.  In EFNEP, paraprofessional nutrition assistants work with homemakers individually or in small groups to improve knowledge and skills in basic nutrition, food preparation, food buying, money management and food safety.  The overall goal of the program is to help limited resource families and youth make simple changes in eating behaviors so that over time, healthy choices become healthy habits.

LONG-TERM INTENDED OUTCOMES

Healthy Eating and Physical Activity

Healthy Sustainable Communities

 

TIME COMMITMENT

Cannot be determined

 DURATION

Ongoing pending funding

DIFFICULTY

Introductory

READING LEVEL

6th grade

AUDIENCE

Fathers

Food stamp recipients

Low income

Mothers

New parents

Single parents

Young families

Youth

SUBJECT

Breast feeding

Budgeting

Consumer skills

Body weight issues

Body weight issues

Infant nutrition

Normal nutrition

Nutrition and exercise

Nutrition during pregnancy

Preschool nutrition

Teen pregnancy

Youth nutrition

COMPONENTS

AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION

Evaluation tools

Handouts

Face-to-face

Group meetings

Leader’s guide

Recipes

Home visits

Peer interaction

SKILL EMPHASIS

LEADER TRAINING REQUIRED?

SPECIALIST SUPPORT

Consultation with agent and assistants

Single county visits

Leader training

Program development

 

Knowledge

Attitudes/values

Behavior changes

Yes

LEADER TRAINING LEVEL

 FREQUENCY OF LEADER TRAINING

Intermediate

Yearly
PROGRAM RESOURCES LIST

EFNEP Adult Curriculum (English) – free to Kansas Counties

EFNEP Adult Curriculum (Spanish) - available
CONTACT PERSON/ADDRESS/PHONE

Sandy Procter, M.S., R.D., L.D.

EFNEP Coordinator

204 Justin Hall

Kansas State University

Manhattan, KS  66506

785-532-1675

E-mail: procter@ksu.edu

ORDER FROM

Shelly Burklund

207 Justin Hall

Kansas State University

Manhattan, KS  66506

785-532-1670

FAX: 785-532-1678

E-mail: sburklun@ksu.edu