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ABOUT FNEP University of Missouri Family Nutrition Education Programs

Learning leads to better health and fitness!

Programs Tailored to Meet Your Needs
 FNEP provides programming that meets your needs considering age, culture, reading level, and abilities.  Lessons with hands-on activities are designed for youth and the adults that support them, pregnant teens, and immigrant populations.  Here are some examples of our programs:

Family Nutrition Lessons
 A series of up to 20 lessons.  These are the core lessons:

• Making meals from what's on hand

• Creative cooking

• Making healthy food choices

• Planning makes the difference

• Stretching your food dollars

• Keeping foods safe

 Additional lessons address food groups, eating light, nutrition during pregnancy, feeding infants and children, and food preservation.

Teenage Moms
 Lessons for pregnant and parenting teens on healthy nutrition habits for improved birth outcomes.  Also covers breast-feeding and feeding babies and toddlers. 

Food Power
Food Power is a fun, interactive exhibit that teaches K-4^th graders about nutrition and making healthy lifestyle choices.  This exhibit is sponsored by the Governor's Council on Health and Physical Fitness and is transported to elementary schools across the state.  Schedule one year in advance.

School Enrichment
 Children and teenagers learn about these topics:

• Food safety

• Food guide pyramid

• Basic nutrition for youth

• Balancing nutrition and physical activity for good health

Success Equals Skills
 Program success means life long skills for clients.  Often clients tell us how FNEP has impacted their lives, even years after they have participated.  A nutrition educator relayed this story:

 A young woman who was a client approached the nutrition educator.  This client was enrolled in the program when she was a young child, and is now a mother of three children herself.  She asked the educator to teach her children the same lessons that she had received when she was a child.  She said the skills that she learned over ten years ago as a child were now helping her raise her three small children. 

 FNEP nutrition educators receive many testimonials from clients.  Each day there are new stories that bring home the same important message: FNEP makes a difference, a difference that means better health and fitness for a lifetime.

For more information on Family Nutrition Programs in Texas County, contact

Chi Holder, Texas County Nutrition Education Program Associate

(417)967-4545 or holderc@missouri.edu

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		University of Missouri Extension Texas County texasco@missouri.edu Updated 01/11/06