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The North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service, Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) Records contains county by county records, unit reports, and reviews. Also included are general documents relating to EFNEP which include interview scripts, blank forms, data tools, interview documents, conference notebooks, scrapbooks, photographs, videotapes, CDs, floppy disks, and publications. Materials range from 1969 to 2018.
The Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP), established in 1969, is a Federal Extension and Community outreach program that has been operating through the 1862-1890 land-grant universities across the country. Employing a community-based approach, EFNEP has been able to tackle issues such as economic insecurity, obesity, health and hygiene, and food insecurity around the country for low-income families and children.(http://nifa.usda.gov/efnep , accessed April 2019) In North Carolina, EFNEP is administered through North Carolina State University and North Carolina A&T State University (https://www.ncfamilieseatingbetter.org/EFNEP/partners-about.php, accessed April 2019). The Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) at NC State University was established by the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service in the 1970s at a time that saw many economic difficulties for rural communities.
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The Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP), established in 1969, is a Federal Extension and Community outreach program that has been operating through the 1862-1890 land-grant universities across the country. Employing a community-based approach, EFNEP has been able to tackle issues such as economic insecurity, obesity, health and hygiene, and food insecurity around the country for low-income families and children.(http://nifa.usda.gov/efnep , accessed April 2019) In North Carolina, EFNEP is administered through North Carolina State University and North Carolina A&T State University (https://www.ncfamilieseatingbetter.org/EFNEP/partners-about.php, accessed April 2019). The Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) at NC State University was established by the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service in the 1970s at a time that saw many economic difficulties for rural communities.
The records of the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) contain unit reports by county and districts, county EFNEP reviews, annual reports, district summaries and recomendations, EFNEP statistics, and general documents related to participation and outcomes of the EFNEP program. Materials range in date from 1969-2018. Also included are general documents relating to EFNEP which include interview scripts, blank forms, data tools, interview documents, conference notebooks, scrapbooks, photographs, videotapes, CDs, floppy disks, and publications.
The North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service, Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program Records are divided into four series: Reports by District, Reports by County, Program Reviews by year, and Administrative documents. Each series is organized by year. The series are dated from 1969-2019. Unprocessed Materials contains additions to the collection, arranged in the order received.
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[Identification of item], North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service, Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program Records, UA 102.051, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC
Transfered from the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program. North Carolina State University.
Processed by Carmen Spradlin, 2009 November; Sarah Almond, 2019. Finding Aid by Oliver Robinson, 2019 March. Finding aid updated to reflect additions to the collection by Clare Carlson and Todd Kosmerick, 2019 June-August.
The collection is organized into five principal series:
The first series in this collection, Reports by District, includes Unit, Status and Food Recall Reports by each district in North Carolina. The Unit reports cover topics such as Homemakers Food, Family Income and Food Expenditure Records, Family Descriptions, and Number of Aides. The Status reports cover Family Participation, Results, Program Opportunities and Implications. The Food Recall reports chart each family's diet and covers the number of servings per food group. The reports date from 1969-1982.
The second series of this collection, Reports by County, includes summary reports of all participants in the EFNEP program within each county in North Carolina. These reports detail user statistics on topics such as length of enrollment, race and sex, youth members, 4-H participation, aide and volunteer counts, and family incomes. The reports date from 1980-1993.
The third series in this collection, Program Reviews by Year, includes reviews of the EFNEP program by county as well as some corresspondence by county chairpersons and Food and Nutrition agents. Within the reviews there are documents that detail program concerns, successes, recomendations, and some program data. Amongst the correspondence files there are program findings and memos between county extension agents and other members of the EFNEP program. These files date from 1983-1995.
The Administrative Series includes three EFNEP Newsletters, annual reports, statewide statistics on food nutrition and health, and a CD-ROM for the program "Families Eating Smart and Moving More" (2004). The series also includes several documents covering the North Carolina Youth At Risk plan of work. This program details how the EFNEP program plans to help the diet and health of North Carolina's at risk youths. This series dates range from 1986-2004.
File count of digital media is approximate
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[Identification of item], North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service, Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program Records, UA 102.051, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC
The nature of the NC State University Libraries' Special Collections means that copyright or other information about restrictions may be difficult or even impossible to determine despite reasonable efforts. The NC State University Libraries claims only physical ownership of most Special Collections materials.
The materials from our collections are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to U.S. Copyright law. The user must assume full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Any materials used for academic research or otherwise should be fully credited with the source.