About SNAP-Ed
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), through the Food Stamp Act of 1977,
as amended, provides for the operation of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
in the State of Connecticut. The State of Connecticut Department of Social Services (DSS)
has been designated by the USDA to administer the State's Supplemental Nutrition
Assistance Program-Education(SNAP-Ed) activities and
DSS in turn has contracted with UConn and the CT Department of Public Health to
design and implement SNAP-Ed projects. Under this contract, the USDA has authorized
the University of Connecticut's Department of Allied Health Sciences to administer,
design, develop implement and evaluate a SNAP-Ed
plan based on the following objectives.
- Healthy Food: SNAP-Ed program participants will demonstrate increased knowledge and skills needed to choose healthy foods after completion of SNAP-Ed activities.
- Physical Activity: SNAP-Ed participants will demonstrate increased knowledge and skill needed balance dietary intake with physical activity after completion of SNAP-Ed activities.
- Fruit and Vegetable Consumption: SNAP-Ed participants will increase their intake and variety of fruits and vegetables after completion of SNAP-Ed activities.
- Resource Management: SNAP-Ed participants will demonstrate increase knowledge and skills in food resource management after completion of SNAP-Ed activities.
- Food Safety: SNAP-Ed participants will demonstrate increased food safety knowledge and skills after completion of SNAP-Ed activities.
To meet these objectives the University of Connecticut's SNAP-Ed project for 2009-2010 includes five main programs:
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