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About Us
County Impact Statements - Hempstead County
Multi-prong Nutrition, Health and Wellness
The mission of the multi-prong Nutrition, Health and Wellness program is to
empower individuals and families to maximize their food dollars; to provide a
nutritious, safe, secure meal environment and women’s health issues.
The Food Nutrition Educational Program (FNEP) is an educational program
designed to encourage increased knowledge and skills related to basic nutrition
and meal planning, food purchasing, preparation and safety; budgeting and
resource management. This program provides Food Stamp recipients, persons
eligible for Food Stamps, or other limited resource audiences the opportunity to
increase their knowledge, and skills enable them to adopt the necessary behavior
changes to achieve a healthier lifestyle while fighting hunger and poor
nutrition.
The women’s health issues focused on Diabetes, Osteoporosis, Calcium, risk
factors of high fat diets and food borne illnesses resulting from unsafe
handling of our food supply. Ninety-six participants gained knowledge about risk
factors of leading causes of death for women.
The third emphasis of the program focused on teaching youth healthy eating
the Food Pyramid Way, food safety, the need for exercise and the connection
between agriculture–food supply.
Participants learn through small group programs, health fairs,
individual meetings and print media.
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Impacts
- 96 educational programs reached a total of 2,741 residents.
- 60 completed food safety training for Volunteer Food Handlers and
ServSafe for food business managers.
- 336 adopted one or more healthy eating habits.
- 30 improved body weight and fitness activity.
- 29 child care providers completed training.
- Over 500 youth involved in one or more food and nutrition programs.
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