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ERIC Number: ED571846
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2014-May
Pages: 44
Abstractor: ERIC
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Aligning and Elevating University-Based Low-Income Nutrition Education through the Land-Grant University Cooperative Extension System. National Report
Schneider, Connie
National Institute of Food and Agriculture
The nation's Land-Grant University Cooperative Extension System (LGU-CES) is committed to ensuring that low-income populations have a safe, affordable, and healthy food supply. Two low-income nutrition education programs that are core to this commitment are the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education (SNAP-Ed), which are funded by United States Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) and Food and Nutrition Services (FNS), respectively. Leadership from the CES Extension Committee on Organization and Policy (ECOP) requested the assistance of NIFA to facilitate improved alignment and visibility of EFNEP and SNAP-Ed within the LGU-CES, given the importance of both programs to their organizational mission and the health needs of the country's low-income populations. NIFA's Institute of Food Safety and Nutrition issued a special project competitive award to develop recommendations for system-wide alignment of these programs. The University of California's Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources received the award and convened an expert working group with regional and programmatic diversity to participate in the national meeting and help develop the scan and recommendations. At the senior agency and organizational leadership meeting, LGU-CES representatives identified potential strategies for aligning program quality and effectiveness within five areas of focus: advocacy, communication, messaging, research, and evaluation. This report shows what is working well and what may be done to strengthen and improve EFNEP and SNAP-Ed at the university level and by Cooperative Extension as a total system. Suggestions are also given for the potential role of ECOP leadership and what federal partners might do to strengthen low-income nutrition education programming. The report is divided into two sections: (1) Project Recommendations, which contain suggestions for aligning and elevating nutrition education programs for low-income audiences within the LGU-CES; and (2) Project Strategies and Findings, which describe the approaches used and insights gained upon which the recommendations are based. The following are appended: (1) Coordination and Cooperation Considerations; (2) Recommendations for ECOP Leadership and Federal Agencies; (3) Align and Elevate Working Group Members; and (4) Environmental Scan Quantitative Data.
National Institute of Food and Agriculture. 1400 Independence Avenue SW Stop 2201, Washington, DC 20250. Tel: 202-720-4423; Web site: http://www.csrees.usda.gov/
Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative; Tests/Questionnaires
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA); Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (USDA)
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