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Impact Report
| For plan | KA 703. Nutrition Education and Behavior (Chaves County) |
| Date | October 15, 2008, 5:37 pm |
| For Objective | Short-term Show short-term objectives |
| Impact Report | In Chaves County, the ICAN program has two Nutrition Educators that provide an array of hands-on learning lessons on nutrition, food preparation, food safety, reading food labels, meal planning and budgeting to limited resource residents. The home economist oversees the program and provides support to the educators. Educators teach a series of four to six nutrition lessons to youth and adults in schools and outside of the school setting. This year ICAN programs reached 386 adults and 853 youth. One time programs were also presented reaching over 600 youth and adults. Exposure of the ICAN program is visible in Chaves County by way of health fairs, bulletin boards and information table at the Income Support Division and the Housing Authority, and a fair booth at the Eastern New Mexico State Fair. Indirect contacts reached 40, 998. Some of the program sites include Head Start, Roswell Independent Schools, GED Classes, ESL Classes, Family Resource and Referral, Teen Pregnancy Center, Housing Division, ISD, Job Corp, Youth Challenge, Tobosa, and Higher Horizons. The ICAN programs in Chaves County have a positive impact on the community. Limited resource individuals and families are improving their nutritional practices by 80 % after attending ICAN Classes. |