FAMILY AND CONSUMER SCIENCES RESOURCE PROFILE

 RESOURCE NAME

Safe Food for Children

DATE CREATED/REVISED

Created:  1992

BRIEF DESCRIPTION (include major objectives)

Safe Food for Children is a series of five lessons on food safety for family child care providers and parents of preschool children.  Topics covered include:  hand washing, safe food shopping, safe food preparation and service, safe food storage, and kitchen cleanliness.  Each lesson includes a leader’s guide, a brochure for parents and an animated video starring “Mike the Microbe”.  A Spanish-language version is available.

LONG-TERM INTENDED OUTCOMES

Healthy,  Sustainable Communities

 

TIME COMMITMENT

 Fewer than 5 hours per week

 DURATION

Cannot be determined

DIFFICULTY

 Introductory

READING LEVEL

6th grade

AUDIENCE

Child care providers

Food handlers

Food stamp recipients

Food service managers

Low-income

Mothers

New parents

Single parents

Young families

 

 

 

SUBJECT

Child care

Consumer skills

Food handling practices

Food safety

Health promotion

Lifeskill building

 

 

COMPONENTS

AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION

Brochure

Bulletin

Face-to-face

Group meetings

Evaluation tools

Handouts

Peer interaction

Personal contact with agents

Leader’s guide

Leader’s training resource

 

 

Media release

Order form

 

 

Premiums (pencils, notepads, balloons, etc.)

Video

 

 

SKILL EMPHASIS

LEADER TRAINING REQUIRED?

SPECIALIST SUPPORT

Consultation with agents

Area meetings

Video available

 

Knowledge

Attitudes/values

Behavior changes

Preferable

LEADER TRAINING LEVEL

 FREQUENCY OF LEADER TRAINING

Introductory

Not applicable
PROGRAM RESOURCES LIST

Each county should have the leader’s guides.  The brochures are available from Distribution in Umberger Hall.

 

The “extra” items are available from Extension Foods and Nutrition and include:  Hand washing activity page and stickers, shopping list, refrigerator magnets, food storage charts.  Certificate of participation.
CONTACT PERSON/ADDRESS/PHONE

 Sandy Procter, M.S., R.D., L.D.

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

or on the web at: http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/humannutrition/safefood.htm