Gaining these skills contributes to job readiness. Working parents, single homemakers, pregnant teens, and youth from rural and urban communities are taught in small groups or individually by trained paraprofessional nutrition education advisers. Participants may meet in county offices, community centers, housing developments, schools, churches, or homes. Eating a nutritious diet is difficult when little money is available for food, or when skills to effectively use available resources is limited.
Poor diet leads to poor health, low work productivity, and impaired mental functions.
The Fayette County nutrition education advisers educated 277 program families this past year in many areas of the county. The SuperCupboard program is a collaborative effort to help frequent users of emergency food services break the cycle of dependency.