Success StoryNutrition Education
Nutrition Education
Author: Paula Jerrell
Planning Unit: Ballard County CES
Major Program: Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices (general)
Plan of Work: Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices
Outcome: Initial Outcome
Ballard County is 62% free and reduced lunches. With this high percentage, our annual Bomber Bash is a real need for our county. Bomber Bash is sponsored by Family Focus, our Family Resource and Youth Services Center. Many county organizations and businesses offer free school supplies, hygiene supplies, hair cuts and more. Ballard County Cooperative Extension offers SNAP-ED items for youth and families to encourage them to try healthy snacks and recipes. We give them pencils, food pyramid, Chop Chop magazine, back pack totes, recipes and more. In addition, we make a healthy snack that would be great to keep at home for after school. This year we made trail mix.
Youth love the snack and pencils. Adults love the recipes. We also have homemaker and 4-H volunteers help man the booth to greet people and hand out the goodies. This is a great connection to make with a mostly low income audience. This year we gave out 250 goody bags and even more recipes and pencils. We feel this program is very worthwhile.
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