The Eat Well Nutrition Education Program is a statewide program funded with federal Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) dollars. As a result of the federal funding, the audience for the Eat Well Nutrition Education Program includes low-income adults with children in the household and low-income youth in Maine.
UMaine Extension Eat Well staff deliver evidence-based curricula to adults with children in the household. Participants learn about healthy food preparation, nutrition, food safety, food budgeting, and physical activity through hands-on activities.
In fiscal year 2012, 575 adult participants throughout Maine demonstrated improved behaviors in healthier eating (92%), food resource management (87%), food safety (66%), and physical activity (36%).
In addition to working with adults, UMaine Extension Eat Well staff provided nutrition education to 10,551 Maine youth in grades K-12 (ages 5-18) through a variety of community, school, and after school programs. Youth who participate in UMaine Cooperative Extension’s Eat Well Program learn new skills and practice behaviors that will help them improve their eating habits, prepare food safely, and become more physically active.
Image Description: Print Friendly
Image Description: Extension nutritionist dishing out food to program participants; photo by Edwin Remsberg
Image Description: improved behaviors (adults) in nutrition practices (92%), food resource management (87%), food safety (66%), and physical activity (36%)
Image Description: boy with green beans; photo by Edwin Remsberg
