The Pike County Cooperative Extension Service Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program(EFNEP) partnered with Healthy Families Rehabilitation to provide nutritional education classes to female clients. 

Seven core lessons from the Healthy Choices For Every Body curriculum were taught. Participates learned how to prepare fresh, healthy foods by using each of the five food groups based on MyPlate meal plan. Participants gained skills involving hand-on demonstrations, meal planning, food budgeting, food safety, reading food labels and understanding the limits on fats, sugar, and sodium. Family health was emphasized as they learned how to prepare healthy meals and incorporate exercise to help improve physical and emotional health. 

Eleven clients entered the program with 100% graduation rate. Ninety-two (92%) percent improved in diet quality; ninety-five (95%) percent improved in food resource management; and eighty-two (82%) percent improved in food safety. 

One client said, " I now know how to make meals stretch throughout the week. I can measure properly, and I know what temperatures that meat should be cook to." Another client said, "Most importantly I learned that making better choices in my diet is essential to my health and well-being. "