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Springfield
Office
UMass Extension Nutrition Education Program
c/o MCDI
140 Wilbraham Avenue
Springfield, MA 01109
Phone : 413-737-0236
Fax: 413-737-1676
Contact:
Patricia Harmsen, MEd, LDN
Extension Educator and Program Supervisor
Email: pharmsen@umext.umass.edu
Information
The Springfield NEP Office offers a variety of adult
and youth programs for the Greater Springfield, Holyoke, and Westfield areas. Programs are delivered by professional staff
and trained nutrition educators serving community agencies such
as employment and training programs, pregnant and parenting teen
programs, shelters, rehabilitation programs, community correction
programs, mental health programs, farmers markets and after-school
and summer youth programs.
 Programs
Expanded Food and Nutrition Education
Program (EFNEP)
EFNEP is a program for limited resource families, especially families
with young children. EFNEP participants gain knowledge and skills
to plan low-cost nutritious meals, prepare food safely, and manage
available food resources. The program is delivered by nutrition
educators and includes both adult and youth programs.
Family Nutrition Program (FNP)
FNP is a federally funded initiative to provide nutrition information
to individuals and families who receive
food stamps.
Food Safety Education Program
This program provides food safety education and training to consumers
and food workers in child and elder care, school food service, shelters,
pantries and other human service and regulatory agencies.
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Staff
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Current
Year Collaborators
Expanded
Food and Nutrition Education Program
- Acorn Girls and Boys Club (Springfield)
- American International College Summer Youth
Camp
- Springfield Boys and Girls Club
- Westfield Boys and Girls Club
- Caring Health Center (Springfield)
- Community Assessment Program and Terri Thomas
Girls Assessment Program (Springfield)
- Corporation for Public Management-Brightwood (Springfield)
- Corporation for Public Management (Holyoke)
- Even Start (Springfield)
- Gerena after School Program (Springfield)
- Hampden County Correction Center-Woman's Unit
- Holyoke Community College Summer Youth Program
- Light of Restoration Ministries/Mariposa (Holyoke)
- Martin Luther King Community Center
- Massachusetts Career Development Institute
(Springfield)
- Massachusetts Job Training Programs (Holyoke)
- New England Farm Workers Council (Holyoke)
- Pioneer Valley Girl Scouts
- Phoenix House (Springfield)
- Salvation Army (Holyoke)
- Springfield Parks Department
- YWCA - Youthbuild (Springfield)
- Center for Human Development-Terri Thomas Assessment Program
- Greater Springfield Chapter of the Links
Family
Nutrition Program
- Hampden County Sheriff’s Department
and Correctional Center
- Massachusetts Career Development Institute
(Springfield)
- Springfield North WIC Nutrition Program
- The Care Center (Holyoke)
- YWCA Western Massachusetts
- Springfield Public Schools
Food
Safety
- Phoenix House
- Prospect House (HAP)
Nutrition
and Health
- Child Care, Inc of the Berkshires
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Directions
Springfield Office:
From Mass Turnpike (I-90) East or Westbound
- Take Exit 6-Springfield. Pass through toll
booth and turn left at traffic light onto I-291.
- Take Exit 4-St. James Ave. Turn left at traffic
light onto St. James Avenue.
- Proceed through 3 traffic lights. At 4th
traffic light, turn left onto State St.
- Continue up State St. (through 2 sets of
lights) to a fork in the road, which is Wilbraham Rd.
- Keep to the right and stay in the right lane.
- At the traffic light immediately after the
fork, turn right onto Eastern Ave.
- At the next traffic light, turn left onto
King St. (Holy Family Church will be on you right)
- Take your 2nd left, Wilbraham Ave. MCDI sign
on the corner. Parking Lot A for visitors is on the right.
From I-91 South
- Take I-291
- Take Exit 4-St. James Ave. Follow same directions
above.
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