The Nutrition Education Program teaches
limited resource families, individuals, and youth in the
community how to eat healthier and save money. Participants in NEP are taught individually or in small groups at
agencies, community sites, or at home
through mail lessons, the Internet
or phone visits. Once the participants are taught six or
more lessons they are eligible to
graduate from the NEP program. Upon graduation they will
receive a certification of completion and a
cookbook.
NEP encompasses the following two programs:
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Expanded Food & Nutrition Education
Program (EFNEP)
EFNEP has been helping families with
limited incomes acquire the knowledge and skills needed to
improve their diets and health since 1969. Target audiences
for EFNEP are families living on limited incomes that have
children. The youth component (4-H age youth) targets
school-aged children from families with limited incomes. The
program is federally funded through the U.S. Department of
Agriculture and conducted through the Cooperative State
Research, Extension and Education Service.
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Food Stamps Nutrition Education
Program (FSNEP)
FSNEP provides food and nutrition
education for food stamp recipients and for food
stamp-eligible persons. Targeted audiences for FSNEP are
those single, families with and without children, older
adults, pregnant and parenting teens. The program is
federally funded through the Food Stamps Division of the
Nebraska Department of Human Resources, the United States of
Agriculture, and the Nebraska Cooperative Extension System.
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