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EFNEP and FSNEP

The Expanded Food Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) helps limited resource families and youth improve their eating behaviors and contributes to other personal development skills through behaviorally focused nutrition education. The program is administered by Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station (NJAES) Cooperative Extension, and is supported by USDA's CSREES Smith-Lever funds. The desired outcomes of our education are as follows:
  • Improved diets and nutritional welfare
  • Increased knowledge of the essentials of human nutrition
  • Increased ability to select and buy food that satisfies nutritional needs
  • Improved practices in food production, preparation, storage, safety and sanitation
  • Increased ability to manage food budgets and related resources such as food stamps
EFNEP provides educational programming in the following counties:
  • Camden
  • Cape May
  • Essex
  • Gloucester
  • Hudson
  • Mercer
  • Middlesex
  • Passaic
The Food Stamp Nutrition Education Program (FSNEP) was established in New Jersey in 1997 to provide nutrition education to limited resource adults, seniors, food stamp participants and children in school systems which have 50% or more children who are receiving free or reduced school lunches. The desired outcomes of our education are as follows:
  • Improved diets and nutritional welfare
  • Increased knowledge of the essentials of human nutrition
  • Increased ability to select and buy food that satisfies nutritional needs
  • Improved practices in food production, preparation, storage, safety and sanitation
  • Increased ability to manage food budgets and related resources such as food stamps
New Jersey FSNEP serves audiences that do not qualify for EFNEP. These areas include rural and suburban areas where groups meeting our qualifications can gather. In urban area, FSNEP can conduct classes through organizations that do not currently work with EFNEP. We currently have programs in the following areas:
  • Cumberland County
  • Essex County (UMDNJ Internship Program)
  • Hunterdon County
  • Monmouth County
  • Monmouth County 4H
  • Ocean County
  • Passaic County
  • Somerset County
  • Union County
  • Warren County
  • Rutgers University-Based Projects
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