Food, Nutrition and Health
Team Accomplishments

• Goal 1: Increase the knowledge and expertise of MSU Extension staff members related to healthy weight in children.
  Objective:
  1. Provide training at MSUE fall conference 2004.
  2. Provide current information as part Children and Weight: What Communities Can Do! coalition leadership training.
• Goal 2: Promote MSU Extension as a key community partner on issues related to childhood weight and health.
  Objectives:
  1. Provide training and support materials to increase MSU Extension staff members’ expertise in community coalition building related to healthy weight in children.
  2. Collaborate with other agencies and organizations in community coalition building related to healthy weight in children.
  3. Assist community coalitions in getting started and/or implementing action plans by providing small seed grants.
  4. Initiate an online evaluation survey of community childhood weight coalitions in collaboration with extension staff members at the University of California, Berkeley
  

• Goal 1: Provide support for programming in Food, Nutrition and Health.
  Objectives:
  1. Review curricula and materials available for purchase that would support programming for Food, Nutrition and Health.
• Goal 2: Provide programming for EFNEP and FNP participants that addresses the prevention of chronic disease.
  Objectives:
  1. Adapt several lessons that focus on prevention of chronic disease for use with EFNEP/FNP.
  2. Provide training for EFNEP/FNP staff on the Dietary Guidelines for Americans and lessons for use with participants.
• Goal 3: Provide programming that helps individuals with chronic disease self-management.
  Objectives:
  1. Implement the second phase of a chronic disease self-management program: partner with faith-based organizations to provide a volunteer leader training.
  2. Conduct one volunteer leader training for the Stanford Chronic Disease Self-Management Program and evaluate.
  3. Train approximately fifteen volunteer leaders to conduct the Stanford Program.
  4. Partner with trained volunteer leaders to facilitate and evaluate at least two sessions.