Eating Smart • Being Active
Award Received
Educational Curriculum Package
Susan Baker, EFNEP (Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program) Coordinator of Colorado State University Extension (CSUE) in Fort Collins, Colorado, and her team of collaborators from CSUE and the University of California-Davis, were honored recently at the National Extension Association for Family and Consumer Sciences 2010 annual session, “Lighting the Way through Education & Outreach.” Baker’s team received the First Place National and First Place Western Region Educational Curriculum Package/Communications Award at the conference held September 20-24, 2010 in Portland, Maine.
The curriculum team members included Kathryn McGirr and Ann Diker, research associates for EFNEP from Colorado State University, Barbara Sutherland, California EFNEP Coordinator, and Rita Mitchell, nutrition research associate for EFNEP, both with University of California, Davis. In receiving the award, the team was recognized for Eating Smart • Being Active, a dialogue-based, nutrition education curriculum for adults, designed for use by paraprofessionals when teaching low-income families. The curriculum addresses normal nutrition and health promotion, food resource management, food safety and physical activity.
The Educational Curriculum Package Communications Award encourages excellence in a teaching package that utilizes communication tools from two or more categories: audio/visual, written, exhibit, slides, transparencies, computer program or educational publication. The package must also include a teaching plan and evaluation method. American Income Life Insurance Company sponsors the award. The Eating Smart • Being Active team’s commitment to meeting the needs of individuals, families and communities is exemplary and worthy of top recognition.
Updated Thursday, May 17, 2012
