Recruiting EFNEP Agency Partners: Process and Materials

Abstract

The Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) was created in 1968 in response to the concerns about hunger in the United States. The Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program uses paraprofessional educators who represent the target audience to teach basic nutrition, food safety, food resource management, and physical activity to limited-resource families. According to the Colorado State University EFNEP Web site, a common way for both adult and youth participants to be referred to the program is through community agencies affiliated with EFNEP. Prior to this project, Colorado EFNEP did not use any printed materials to recruit potential agency partners, and there was a lack of recruitment materials for potential EFNEP participants.