Building relationships throughout your lifetime is important. It is important to create sustainable relationships and collaborate with community organizations throughout the community. One of the ways Kentucky State University collaborates is through EFNEP. Kentucky State University Cooperative Extension Program (KSUCEP) provides low-income families and youth in Kentucky with hands-on nutrition education to combat food insecurity and nutrition-related health challenges. Through the federally funded grant Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP), nutrition Extension Assistant, Jhamicah Harbut helps in this effort by conducting nutrition education classes in Fayette County.

As part of the efforts being made by KSUCEP, Ms. Harbut continues to collaborate with the Southern Middle School 8^th grade group to conduct a virtual learning series that addressed key concepts about nutrition, like food preparation and cooking, food safety, and physical activity. Participants attended Zoom classes once a month from September 2020 to May 2021. In class, Ms. Harbut continues to help students step by step through food demonstrations while they prepared healthy recipes online at home with their siblings or parents. Feedback from participants most of the students in the have liked the recipes for the healthy recipes they prepared from the Teen Cuisine recipes and the Chocolate Covered Katie recipe.

In each class, we have had a varied amount of students.