Cooperative Extension Service Departments
Family and Consumer Sciences Programming
Links
EFNEP National Website
- The Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) is designed to
assist audiences with limited resource in acquiring the knowledge, skills,
attitudes, and changed behavior necessary for nutritionally sound diets, and to
contribute to their personal development and the improvement of the total family
diet and nutritional well-being.
Child
Nutrition Programs (Food and Nutrition Service-USDA)
- FNS increases food security and reduces hunger in partnership with cooperating
organizations by providing children and low-income people access to food, a
healthful diet, and nutrition education in a manner that supports American
agriculture and inspires public confidence.
Food Stamp
Nutrition Education
- The Food Stamp Nutrition Education (FSNE) Program is a partnership between
the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture, the Arkansas Department of
Human Services, and the USDA Food and Nutrition Service. The FSNE program
provides nutrition education to food stamp recipients and other eligible
low-income individuals and families.
WIC: Woman, Infant and Children
- The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children -
better known as the WIC Program - serves to safeguard the health of low-income
women, infants, & children up to age 5 who are at nutritional risk by providing
nutritious foods to supplement diets, information on healthy eating, and
referrals to health care.
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