EFNEP
Above, EFNEP participants share what they learned from our program.
What is the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program?
EFNEP can help you shop smarter and feel better!
This program helps low income families and youth to improve health by teaching ways to eat more fruits and vegetable, drink fewer sweetened beverages, maintain a healthy weight, and be physically active.
Who’s Eligible?
Families working to make ends meet, including those participating in SNAP, Medicaid, WIC, Head Start and free or reduced price school lunches.
Learn how to
- Buy healthy food with your money and SNAP or WIC benefits
- Make recipes your children will love
- Plan nutritious meals that save time and money.
- Prepare delicious dishes with less salt, sugar and fat.
- Use food labels to make healthy choices.
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for a series of six to 8 interactive, supportive classes. Learn with others in a group or meet one on one with our staff. Call us to schedule classes!
Last updated August 15, 2019
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EFNEP targets low-income families with young children and low-income youth. EFNEP educators follow research-based models that allow them to effectively reach and educate program participants. Participants make positive changes for improved health.
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EFNEP Impacts
Cornell program celebrates 50 years of nutrition education
By Expanded Food Nutrition Education Program(EFNEP), a federal program delivered through Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) that helps families with limited resources learn how to eat healthy meals on a budget and lead active, healthy lives.
To recognize a half-century of making a positive difference, 200 nutrition educators from throughout the state joined CCE staff and university faculty for a conference and celebration, June 17-18 at the Statler Hotel.
“Just think about all of the families that those of you and your predecessors have affected in New York state,” said Jamie Dollahite, professor and director of the Northeast Nutrition Education and Obesity Prevention Center of Excellence, Food and Nutrition Education in Communities, which manages EFNEP.
“You’ve taught them to use their food resources to their best advantage,” Dollahite said, “to eat better, to be healthier themselves, to have healthier children and … to develop self-esteem, to feel better about themselves as they graduate from our program.”
Currently operating in 29 New York counties and in New York City, EFNEP is a collaboration among the College of Human Ecology (CHE), the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (CALS) and CCE.
