History
The year Congress allocated Smith-Lever funds for an expanded homemaker program to reach and teach low-income audiences
What is 1969?
This program priority focuses on improved diets and nutritional and physical well-being through adoption of federal food and physical activity recommendations
What is Diet Quality and Physical Activity?
This group has primary responsibility for obtaining and preparing food for their young children
What are parents and other adult caregivers?
This focus includes both valuing similarities and differences in race, ethnicity, and life experiences of staff and participants, but is also reflected in hiring, training, and teaching practices
What is Diversity?
The year Extension's expanded homemaker program became widely known as the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP)
What is 1974?
This program priority focuses on increasing one’s ability to buy, grow, or otherwise appropriately obtain, prepare, and store food that meets nutritional needs
What is Food Safety?
This group will someday have primary responsibility for obtaining and preparing food for their young children
What are pregnant women and teens?
This focus for EFNEP is on improving self-esteem by recognizing success, offering continuing educational opportunities, and encouraging professional advancement
What is Empowerment?
This program approach was studied and found to be an effective cost-efficient strategy to reach and teach food and nutrition information and skills to low-income families.
What is the peer educator or paraprofessional approach?
This program priority focuses on improving household food safety and sanitation practices
What is Food Safety?
This group often has responsibility for preparing snacks or meals for younger siblings
What are adolescent youth (middle school through high school; ages 13-18 years)?
This focus is on having staff with knowledge and experience with the communities and the target audiences they serve
What is Peer Delivery?
This federal legislation outlines current requirements, authorizations, and appropriations for EFNEP
What is the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act... otherwise known at the Farm Bill?
This program priority focuses in increasing one’s ability to get food directly – and from food assistance programs where necessary – to ensure having enough healthy food to eat
What is Food Security?
This group is just starting to learn about nutrition and food preparation; they are usually taught by parents and sometimes prepare a snack on their own
What are children and pre-adolescent youth (kindergarten through elementary school; ages 5 to 12 years)?
This focus is on the nutritional health and well-being of present and future generations through helping participants gain skills for feeding themselves and their families
What is Strengthening Families?
In this year the Agriculture and Food Act specified that EFNEP program aides "shall be hired from the indigenous target population"
What is 1981?
This additional priority regarding program function is intended to result in increased referrals across programs, organizations, and community groups as well as increased coordination, cooperation, and collaboration related to EFNEP’s four core areas
What is Community Involvement?
Secondary audiences for the EFNEP program include these entities that serve low-income youth and families who would benefit from positive changes to the food and physical activity environment
What are community organizations and agencies?
A emphasis on Wellness, a Foods emphasis on food decision skills, learner centered content and delivery methods, multiple methods that are interactive and promote hands-on learning, and use of content and methods that are evidence based
What are the five strategies EFNEP uses to support change for participants?