In Metcalfe County, there is a homeless shelter owned and maintained by a park.  Anyone in a low resource situation is welcome to stay for up to 30 days.  While staying there, it was evident that many of them faced obstacles such as poverty and disease and the park felt it was a perfect time to provide education in hopes of helping them gain knowledge in ways that would benefit them.  Staff at the park requested the Metcalfe County Extension Service to teach people staying in the shelter about nutrition, food safety and managing their SNAP benefits and/or how to seek SNAP benefits. Each week, the SNAP-Ed (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education) assistant taught the Healthy Choices for Every Body curriculum provided by the NEP (Nutrition Education Program) office at the University of Kentucky to the people living at the shelter.  It is now a requirement that every adult who enters the shelter must complete the 7 core NEP lessons.  This year, 24 people from the shelter graduated from the NEP program; each having been taught at least 7 lessons and some as many as 10.  Classes included healthy recipe tastings each week and provided people with kitchen incentive items that they would be able to take with them when they moved.  At the beginning, 42% of participants (10 people) said they drank at least 2 sodas a day.  At the last lesson, 83% (20 people) reported they had quit soda completely.  The group also benefited greatly from learning about food safety with 79% (19) reporting that they never thaw food at room temperature whereas at entry, only 5 people said they never thawed food at room temperature.  Also, no participants at entry owned a meat thermometer and only 1 reported always using one.  But by exit, all participants had received meat thermometers and 83% reported using one more often with 18 people out of 24 using one "usually" or "always".  Their food resource knowledge increased as well; 21% at entry met all 5 components of the practice criteria while on exit, 86% met all 5 components (cook dinner at home more, compare food prices, plan meals before shopping, look in cupboard before shopping and make a list before shopping).