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Food & Nutrition

Food and Nutrition Education in Communities teaches nutrition related skills through a vast array of approaches.

If you are a young mother struggling to feed your family nutritiously in a world of junk food, we can help you learn to cook using basic, healthy ingredients. You can learn to serve good, healthy food your family will enjoy – and to do it on a budget.

If you receive Supplemental Nutrition Benefits and struggle to make ends meet, we can help you budget your resources and make sound financial decisions to ensure you can feed yourself and your family without running out of food at the end of the month.

 
EFNEP – Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program

 This program assists low-income families and youth acquire the knowledge, skills, attitudes and changed-behaviors necessary for nutritionally sound diets, contribute to their personal development and improve the total family diet and nutritional well being. 

Participation should result in:

  • Improved diet quality for the total family.
  • Increased knowledge of nutrition and health.
  • Increased ability to select and buy quality foods.
  • Improved practices in food safety and preparation.
  • Improved food resource management practices.                            


ESNY – Eat Smart New York (SNAP-Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program)

 ESNY encourages persons eligible for Food Stamps to make healthy food choices within a limited budget and choose physically active lifestyles consistent with the current Dietary Guidelines for Americans and MyPlate.

Participation should result in:

  • Increased frequency of eating fruits and vegetables, whole grains, and fat-free or low-fat milk products every day.
  • Increased frequency of being physically active every day as part of a healthy lifestyle.
  • Improved selection and consumption of healthy foods within a limited budget.

The topic areas which can be covered in EFNEP and ESNY lessons are:

  • Nutrition knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to improve diets (normal nutrition).
  • Planning for daily food needs.
  • Knowledge and practice in food selection and preparation.
  • Knowledge of financial management relating to family food budgets.
  • Use and care of equipment used for food preparation and storage.
  • Food safety.
  • Maternal and infant nutrition.
  • Healthy lifestyles.

For  EFNEP or ESNY participation:

 Healthy Children Healthy Families (HCHF) – Parents Making a Difference. This program promotes healthy nutrition choices for children using parenting skills.

Keys To Success – Help make healthy habits happen by:

  • Showing: Teach by Example
  • Supporting: Helping Children Feel Good About Themselves
  • Guiding: Teaching Children how to Make Healthy Choices
  • Shaping: Making Healthy Choice

 Have you heard about the Community Coalition for Children facebook page?  Check it out!

 Breastfeeding Support Program – Not only is mother’s breastmilk best for baby,  but health experts now recognize that babies who are not breastfed are at greater risk for many illnesses such as infections, some cancers, diabetes and obesity. Not all mothers experience breastfeeding as the natural process that it is; some run into difficulties that cause them to stop breastfeeding. Nutrition educators are skilled at helping mothers make breastfeeding a successful experience. Educators visit with women during pregnancy and after baby is born.  See our breastfeeding brochure for more information.

Gardening – Families enrolled in our program are encouraged to garden as a way to become more self-sufficient. Cornell Cooperative Extension of Jefferson County has a rototiller and will travel to your home. From seed to soup, you can learn the secrets of making food grow from your backyard to your pantry.

Community Food Security – Because money for food is not always available and families sometimes do not have enough healthy, acceptable food, Cornell Cooperative Extension of Jefferson County is dedicated to the idea of Community Food Security. Visit our 2011 Local Food Guide to see where fresh local foods can be purchased. Visit the Monday Neighborhood Farmers’ Market in front of the Extension offices during the summer. Call Cornell Cooperative Extension to learn if a community garden is growing near you or to see how you can support local efforts to bring nutritious fresh produce to everyone’s plate.

Farmers Markets

The Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program (NYS-FMNP) operates through collaboration among the NYS Department of Agriculture and Markets (NYSDAM), Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC), Office for the Aging (SOFA), and Cornell University Cooperative Extension to:

  • Enhance health of eligible low-income, nutritionally at-risk residents with fresh fruits and vegetables and nutrition education
  • Promote use of farmers’ markets by WIC clients and low-income senior
  • Support NY farmers who market their fresh produce through farmers markets
  • Encourage expanded and diversified fruit and vegetable production in NYS
  • Promote the development of farmers’ markets as a component of sustainable, quality communities

Cornell’s FMNP goal is to strengthen local capacity, to address challenges and reinforce successes leading to strengthened local farmers’ markets and enhanced food access and nutrition knowledge by low-income consumers. New WIC Checks add a benefit WIC Information for Farmers Markets

The Farmers Market is open from July to October. Participating WIC Farmers Market Nutrition Programs: Farmers Market Locations 

For  Gardening, Community Food Security or Farmers Market:

  • Contact
    Cathy Moore , Program Leader
     cmm17@cornell.edu  • 788-8450, ext. 236

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