Step Ahead has also been very helpful in referring clients to the Family Nutrition Program. Each year, additional counties are added to FNP as the county Extension offices are able to provide matching funds. Family Nutrition Program assistants deliver a series of lessons on food safety, choosing healthy foods, meal planning, and food purchase, storage, preparation, and sanitation. A core curriculum comprised of Foods and Nutrition Components, Food Safety, and Resource Management is utilized in conjunction with food skills training. Nutrition and budgeting education help ensure that families and individuals gain the knowledge and skills necessary to change behavior to improve their diet, health, and economic situation, thereby improving their quality of life.
Every effort is made to focus on each client's needs.
Delivery methods include informal classes or group presentations, individual consultations and home visits, demonstrations, radio spots, newsletters, fact sheets, information booths at grocery stores, and community events. An added benefit of FNP was that participants in the program increased their self-confidence in their ability to select, purchase, and prepare more nutritious foods for their families. All rights reserved. Purdue University Consumer and Family Sciences Extension provides links for your information. A link listing is not an endorsement of a product or service by the Purdue Cooperative Extension Service.