Extension
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| 2066 - Nutrition and Food Systems General | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2066.3) | 0 |
Dollars in EBT, WIC, or Senior benefits redeemed at farmers’ markets |
| 2066.4) | 35 |
Number of families/caregivers who reported supplementing their diets with healthy foods that they grew or preserved (community or backyard gardens, fishing, hunting, farmers markets) |
| 2066.5) | 268 |
Number of individuals who reported increased knowledge, skills, or intentions related to using the nutrition facts label |
| 2066.2) | 180 |
Number of individuals who reported they utilized delivery systems/access points (e.g. farmers’ markets, CSAs, WIC, food pantries) that offer healthy foods |
| 2066.1) | 60 |
Number of individuals who reported eating 4-6 servings of fruits and/or vegetables daily |
Author: Dianne Hayward
Major Program: Nutrition and Food Systems General
Agriculture, and Natural Resources agent, Family and Consumer Science agent .and Nutrition Education Program Assistant Combined forces to provide a very comprehensive Family oriented Take Out Bag program for our community families during a time of great confusion and depression.We felt like our community needed so sense of normalcy with so many other things to deal with like no school, some had no work,which also meant economic hardship.The agents and assistants pooled their resources and
Author: Dianne Hayward
Major Program: Nutrition and Food Systems General
Let me tell you that I am not technology savvy and neither are most of my clients. I am the SNAP-Ed Assistant for Cumberland County and have been struggling to hold any programs with most of our in person programs banned due to covid restrictions. I had to try and do our programs virtually online with zoom and facebook, with these came all the training on how to run our programs. HELP! I like so many others were pushed into this virtual world. How was I going to encourage my clients
Author: Dianne Hayward
Major Program: Nutrition and Food Systems General
Covid – 19 restrictions made us think outside the box or should we say inside the box.The extension office could not have any in person programs for quite some time in 2020 so this made us think of different ways to reach people with our programs, people still had issues with health and nutrition that we could assist with but how to reach them was a challenge. There were some media classes like Zoom and Facebook and these still happen however we kept thinking about greater outreach.The Fam
