Program Overview: Federal, State, and County

Updated 06/2014

Federal Program: SNAP-Ed

SNAP-Ed Goal

To improve the likelihood that persons eligible for SNAP will make healthy food choices within a limited budget and choose physically active lifestyles consistent with the current Dietary Guidelines for Americans and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) food guidance.

Program Behavioral Focus

1. Make half your plate fruits and vegetables, at least half your grains whole grains, and switch to fat-free or low-fat milk and milk products.

2. Increase physical activity and reduce time spent in sedentary behaviors as part of a healthy lifestyle.

3. Maintain appropriate calorie balance during each stage of life.

SNAP-Ed History

• 1988 – started through the University of Wisconsin Cooperative Extension

• 2004 - SNAP-Ed offered in all 50 states• 2010 – Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010

– Nutrition Education and Obesity Prevention Grant

SNAP-Ed Today

• Emphasis on obesity prevention in addition to nutrition education.

• Education is still learner-centered and behaviorally focused.

• Approaches also include environmental and policy level interventions.

• National, State, and local coordination

Program Funding

United States Department of Agriculture

Food and Nutrition Service

Florida Department of Children and Families

UF/IFAS Extension

State Program: Family Nutrition Program

Family Nutrition Program

• Offered in over 30 counties through UF/IFAS Extension.

• Over 100,000 Floridians participate each year.

• Face-to-face education with collaborative efforts to increase healthy choices within communities.

UF/IFAS Extension

• Morrill Act of 1862– Established land grant universities

• Morrill Act of 1890– Historically Black colleges and universities

• Smith Lever Act of 1914– Started federal funding of Cooperative Extension

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_land-grant_universities

What is Cooperative Extension?

• Partnership among Federal, State, and Local agencies:– Federal: USDA-NIFA– State: Land-grant Universities (e.g., UF)– Local: County Extension Services

Extension’s Mission and Vision

Mission: “UF/IFAS Extension partners with communities to provide quality, relevant education and research-based expertise to foster healthy people, a healthy environment, and a healthy economy.”

Vision: “UF/IFAS Extension is the resource that helps educate Floridians to solve problems related to agriculture, horticulture, natural resources, the environment, energy, youth, families, and communities.”

Empowering individuals and families to build healthy lives and achieve social and economic success.

• Food safety and nutrition• Housing• Family Financial Management• Aging well• Human Development and Family Relationships

UF Senior Vice President

and Head of IFAS

Dean and Director

for Extension

Associate Dean and Asst. Director

for Extension

District Extension Directors

County Extension Directors

County Extension Faculty/FNP Supervisor

FNP Program Assistants

Family and Consumer Sciences

Program Leader

Chair, Dept. Family, Youth, and

Community Sciences

Principal Investigator

Program Coordinator

Accountant, Office Manager and

Office Assistant(s)

Nutrition Education

Coordinator

Assistant Coordinators

Regional Coordinators

Project Areas

• Growing Healthy Schools• Beyond the Classroom• Growing Healthy Families• Empowering Hispanic/Latino Parents in

Miami-Dade as Role Models for Healthful Eating through Community-Based Social Marketing (Miami-Dade County only)

State Partners

• Department of Health• Department of Agriculture and Consumer

Services• Department of Education and School

Administration• Department of Elder Services

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Project Areas

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Key Partners

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Programming Sites

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