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Impacts
View "From
Hunger to Health … Portraits Across Massachusetts"
to learn more about UMass Extension Nutrition Education Program
initiatives that address hunger-related issues through direct and
practical education programs.
The information below provides a snapshot of
our FNP program impacts for FY04. For more detailed and complete
information, view our FY04
Final Report.
Areas reached:
- Barnstable County
- Boston and the immediate Boston area
- Brockton and Plymouth, Bristol, and Norfolk Counties
- Holyoke and Hampden, Hampshire, and Franklin Counties
- Lawrence and Lynn
- New Bedford, Fall River, and Taunton
- Springfield and the immediate Springfield area
- Pittsfield
- Worcester
Summary Statistics for FY ’04:
- 4,208 workshops, displays, and farmers’ market demonstrations, making 147,639 direct contacts
- 16,611 contacts with adults
- 2,943 contacts with agency staff or teachers
- 128,085 contacts with youth
- Displays, fact sheets, newsletters making an additional 149,489 indirect contacts
- 122,947 with adults
- 2,597 with agency staff or teachers
- 23,945 with youth
Key behavioral objectives:
- Increase consumption of fruits and vegetables
- Decrease consumption of fat
- Increase physical activity
- Improve food resource management behaviors
- Improve food safety practices
Major program efforts:
- Developing partnerships and fostering collaborations
- Expanding successful programs
- Building local office curriculum and resource materials
- Providing a series of 6 newsletters for preschool children and their parents (Pumpkin Post and Banana Beat newsletters)
- Providing a series of 4 newsletters for elementary school children and their families (Explore Massachusetts: Travels and Tastes Through Time)
- Promoting physical activity with staff and participants
- Incorporating a “learning through dialogue” approach to group workshops with adult participants through use of the Choices: Steps Toward Health curriculum
- Evaluating programs targeted to preschoolers
- Using the “Stages of Change” model to evaluate program impacts with adult participants
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