# Presentation: 764286

## Report to the FCS National Extension Leadership on EFNEP: A Critical Transition

**Mary McPhail Gray**
**Deputy Administrator****Families, 4-H, and Nutrition****CSREES, USDA**
_***E-MAIL: MGRAY@CSREES.USDA.GOV***_
_***PHONE: 720-2908***_

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*October 6, 2006 Denver, CO*

- EFNEP: A Critical Transition

## 2006 Transitions:

**1890 Inclusion**
**NEERS 5 Launch**
**Letter of Intent Requirement**
**Active Committees**
**NEERS 5 Training**
**Research**
**Coordinating**
**Youth Questionnaire Development**
**Adult Behavior Check List**

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## 2006 - Transitions

**Retirement: Wells Willis**
**Relocation: Sylvia Montgomery**
**Hire: Stephanie Blake**
**Search: New National Program Leader**

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## 2007 Opportunities

**Farm Bill Passage?**
**March 6-8 EFNEP Coordinators’ Conference**
**Plan for 2008 EFNEP 40****th**** Anniversary**
**NEERS 5 Relationship with OneSolution**
**Stronger Integration with**
**FSNE,**
**Youth/4-H, **
**Military, **
**Community Supported Agriculture, etc..**

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## 2007 Farm Bill – Agency Commitments

**Enhanced funding to 1890 Institutions**
**Formula based on 2000 Census**
**Base Budget for All Institutions**
**Growth of the Base**
**Strategic Planning for 1994 institutions**

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## Unit Decision Challenges:

**Stable Budget and Increased Needs**
**Increased Restrictions on Data Collection (9/3 Rule)**
**Increased National Need for Healthy Lifestyle Promotion**
**Redundancy in Systems**

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## Unit/Agency Opportunities:

**Strategic Multi-State Research Projects **
**Funded Cost-Benefit Analysis Studies**
**Conceptual Leadership for Adult Education with Paraprofessionals and Volunteers**

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## Unit/Agency Opportunities:

**Social Science Leadership in Decisions Supporting Behavior Change**
**EFNEP’s Role in Obesity Prevention, Community-Supported Agriculture, etc...**

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## Unit Management Opportunities

**FSNE reporting system uses ecosystem model within which individual learner data can be nested **
**Both programs need: cost-benefit analysis research, educational methodology evaluations, longitudinal studies of impact**
**Validation studies of their evaluation system**

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## Unit Management Opportunities:

**Both programs need effective marketing of impacts**
**Both programs could be enhanced by other funding and relationships**
**Both programs have advisory or targeted working committees with some redundancies**

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## Questions:

**What specific functions could be enhanced by joint efforts?**
**What kind of structure would enhance joint efforts?**
**What concerns or barriers need to be**
**   ****considered?**

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