Nutrition education
The goal of the Family Nutrition Education Program is to help participants make behavior changes to achieve lifelong health and fitness.
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Through the Family Nutrition Education Program (FNEP), MU Extension is dedicated to providing research-based nutrition education to Missouri’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients and those who are eligible. MU Extension nutrition educators work with individuals and groups in a variety of settings throughout the state to meet a wide range of needs. Whether reaching out to youth and adults through direct education or working with communities to promote healthy policies, systems and environments (PSE), the goal of FNEP is to help participants make behavior changes to achieve lifelong health and fitness.
Often people tell us how the program has impacted their lives, even years after they have participated. Each day there are new stories that bring home the same important message: The MU Extension Family Nutrition Education Program makes a difference, a difference that means better health and fitness for a lifetime.
Programs funded by FNEP:
Youth
- Show Me Nutrition
- Kids in the Kitchen
- Eating From the Garden
- Healthy Plants, Healthy Bodies
- Grow it, Try it, Like it
- Serving up MyPlate: A Yummy Curriculum
- Dig In!
- Cooking Matters for Kids
- Cooking Matters for Teens
- Live It
Adult
- Eating Smart, Being Active
- Cooking Matters for Adults/Families/Parents
- Cooking Matters at the Store
- Get Healthy through Gardening
- Healthy Change Workshops
- Healthy Eating Basics
- Stay Strong, Stay Healthy
- Eat Smart, Live Strong
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Meet the experts
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Albertina Henry
NUTRITION PROGRAM MANAGER
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Leslie Speller-Henderson
PROF, ASOC EXTNS
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Connie Griffith
NUTRITION PROGRAM MANAGER
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Deann Turner
NUTRITION PROGRAM MANAGER
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Deborah Raaf
NUTRITION PROGRAM MANAGER
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Jo Britt Rankin
ASSOC DEAN AND EXTENSION PROFESSOR OF HES EXTENSION & STATE SPECIALIST
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Kimberly Keller
ASSISTANT EXTENSION PROFESSOR-EVALUATION COORDINATOR FOR HUMAN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES EXTENSION
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Mary Smyser
NUTRITION COORDINATOR
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Michelle Chapman
NUTRITION COORDINATOR
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Myrna Stark
NUTRITION PROGRAM MANAGER
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Nancy Keim
NUTRITION COORDINATOR
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Paula Gray
NUTRITION PROGRAM MANAGER
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Penny Crawford
NUTRITION COORDINATOR
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Sarah Wood
PROF, AST EXTNS
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Teresa DeFord Petefish
NUTRITION COORDINATOR
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Theresa Fossett
NUTRITION COORDINATOR