The Colorado Nutrition Education Plan (NEP) is
an outreach function funded by the Food and Nutrition Service of the United
States Department of Agriculture through the Colorado Department of Human
Services, Food Stamp Program. It is headquartered in the Food Science and
Human Nutrition Department at Colorado State University.
The NEP is comprised of the following:
---Colorado
Nutrition Network---
The Colorado Nutrition Network is a statewide collaborative alliance
with the mission to link together public and private organizations to promote
and coordinate nutrition education for low-income Coloradans. The Network
has two major initiatives: Food Friends: Making
New Foods Fun for Kids, and Nutrition
Links.
---Extension
Nutrition Programs---
Extension Nutrition Programs provides classes, demonstrations, and educational
activities on nutrition, food choices, food buying and preparation, food
resource management, and general diabetes education awareness to Food Stamp
recipients and potential applicants. ENP is offered through Colorado State
University Cooperative Extension Offices. The FSNEP component is a part
of the Nutrition Education Plan.
---Alternative
Strategies for Nutrition Education---
Alternative Strategies for Nutrition Education: the major initiative offered
by this component is the La Cocina Saludable Interactive multimedia
program. La Cocina Saludable, Spanish for "The Healthy Kitchen,"
has six bilingual learning modules. This touch-screen computer program is
placed in such sites as food assistance offices, WIC clinics, health clinics,
and other locations that are visited frequently by limited resource families.
---Youth
Initiatives---
The Integrated Nutrition Program is implemented in a school-based setting.
The program consists of lessons taught in traditional classroom settings
or in after-school settings. The curriculum Seeds for Health will be offered
in 3rd grade classrooms statewide. They cover the majority of the youth
through Colorado FSNEP.
