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Impact Report

For plan KA 703. Nutrition Education and Behavior (Doña Ana County)
Date October 11, 2008, 8:33 pm
For Objective Short-term Show short-term objectives
Impact Report ICAN YOUTH Two thousand four hundred (4,200) youth participated in at least four hours of nutrition and cooking classes during the 2007-08 program year. This is an increase of 33 per cent over last year’s graduation number of 1810 youth. Each person received a certificate of completion upon graduation. The majority of the youth were 3rd and 4th grade students . Most of the youth graduates were students in either the Gadsden Independent School District or the Las Cruces Public School District. Las Montanas Charter High School and Delores Huerta Middle School students numbered in the 4,200 graduates. This summer our agency collaborated with Families and Youth Inc.(FYI)’s summer lunch feeding program and provided nutrition education at most of the parks and some housing units in Las Cruces. COOKING WITH KIDS This reporting year Cooking with Kids curriculum and classes were received by 99 students from Loma Heights Elementary School and University Hills Elementary School after school students. Cooking with Kids is a multicultural food education program that is hands-on learning about a variety of culturally diverse foods that are healthy and appealing. Cooking classes are one and three-fourths hours long and are taught by a nutrition educator with teacher and parent volunteer assistance. This is an extremely popular curriculum and has been expanded to an additional two elementary schools this 2008-09 reporting year and is being offered during the regular instruction day. No formal youth evaluation instrument was available during the 2007-08 reporting year and the nutrition educators verbally asked the students questions related to the lesson given. The majority of the youth responded positively to the questions asked. Teachers are requesting ICAN classes a year in advance. This speaks to the positive value of the program.