Posted on 07/23/2004 11:37:41 PM PDT by Libloather
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) is committed to lead America in ending hunger and improving nutrition and health. The FNS mission is to increase food security and reduce hunger in partnership with cooperating organizations by providing low income persons with access to food, a healthful diet and nutrition education. The Food Stamp Nutrition Education Program is intended to carry out this vision and mission for the Food Stamp Program.
State of Hawaii: Department of Human Services National Food Stamps
Food Stamp Nutrition Connection
Secretary of Agriculture Ann M. Veneman recently announced that the Department will fully examine its nutrition education programs this fiscal year (2004) to determine their effectiveness in dealing with the national crises of overweight and obesity. She appointed two USDA Under Secretaries-Eric M. Bost, Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services, and Joe Jen, Research, Education and Economics-to head this important effort and make recommendations. To view Secretary Venemans full remarks at the USDA Agricultural Outreach Forum 2004, go to www.fns.usda.gov/cga/PressReleases/2004/PR-0078.htm.
FNS recently launched its "Food Stamps Make America Stronger" national media campaign, which highlights the nutrition assistance benefits available through the Food Stamp Program (FSP) for low-income individuals, children, and families. FSP serves more than 23 million people, only about 60 percent of those who are eligible. As part of the campaign, English and Spanish language radio messages are being aired in selected urban and rural markets nationwide in March, April, June, and July 2004. To complement the radio messages, printed messages will be placed on buses and in bus shelters in eight metropolitan areas. For more information, go to www.fns.usda.gov/cga/PressReleases/2004/PR-0087.htm.For general information about FSP, click on www.fns.usda.gov/fsp/.
A number of Food Stamp Program (FSP) educational materials are available free of charge on the FNS website, including posters, flyers, and pamphlets for use at the local level to educate low-income people about food stamps. The materials are available for a variety of audiences, including seniors, working poor, and immigrants. Some materials are also available in Spanish. The FNS website (www.fns.usda.gov/fsp/info.htm) summarizes the available materials. To order, click on "Order Materials Online." Materials are usually received in about one week.
Hawaii’s Food Stamp Nutrition Education Project collaboratively (Collaboration Wheel* and USDA-FNS Hawaii Council memorandum*) provides practical nutrition education for Hawaii’s low-income households. Through a working partnership, the Hawaii Food Stamp Program and the University of Hawaii Cooperative Extension Service jointly facilitates nutrition education services delivery with support and guidance from USDA-FNS Hawaii Council, a memorandum of understanding consortium of United States Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Programs.
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food and Nutrition Programs share the common mission of ensuring access to nutritious, healthy diets for all Americans. Food assistance and nutrition education programs for low-income Americans promote healthful diets through educational efforts encouraging consumers to make healthful food choices.
The Food Stamp Program (FSP) is designed to safeguard the health and well being of low income Americans by providing access to a healthy, nutritious diet. The FSP includes activities designed to increase, within a limited budget, the likelihood of healthy food choices by food stamp recipients that are compatible with the most recent dietary advice as reflected in the Dietary Guidelines for Americans and the Food Guide Pyramid.
The University of Hawaii Cooperative Extension Service (UH-CES) offers practical “putting knowledge to work” services to the people of the State of Hawaii. Nutrition Education is a major focus area, and in addition to Food Stamps Nutrition Education, endeavors include Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP), Food: Just Grow It! Project, Food and Money Basics, Food Safety Education, Consumer Helpline, Diabetes Education Project and Lifeskills In Food Education Webpage (http://www.hawaii.edu/foodskills/). As part of the USDA land-grant college system, UH-CES collaborates with and offers training and technical assistance to USDA food and nutrition programs including school lunch and breakfast program, child and adult care food program, congregate and home-delivered meals for seniors, women infants children program, and commodity foods. UH-CES has a core of nutrition education professionals and a history of practical, non-formal delivery of educational programs. As part of the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, UH-CES has a statewide network of county offices and programs, and access to the nutrition specialties of the Department of Human Nutrition, Food and Animal Sciences.
There is a link between nutrition, nutrition education, and the well being of individuals and families. Historically established is the link between nutrition, a fundamental physical building block of human beings, and the well being of our country. Food assistance programs have been based on this link. Research continues to expand its findings regarding the links between nutrition and the physical, mental, emotional, and social wellbeing of people. Research is establishing the link between adequate nutrition in the early years and adult productivity, the link between adequate nutrition and risks of disease and disability, and the linkage between nutrition education and nutritional intake. Also, the greater the number and variety of community partnerships and the deeper the collaboration with these partners, the greater will be the learners’ access to education, nutritious lower priced food, and community recognition for nutritional success.
Hawaii’s Food Stamp Nutrition Education Project’s ultimate goal is to safeguard the health and well being of low income households by providing access to a healthy, nutritious diet. Objectives focus on dietary quality, food security, food safety, food resource management/shopping behaviors and system and environmental changes. Methods and activities need to convey messages needed to build skills and change behaviors; have a limited series of focused messages that are strong, consistent and simple; have many messengers; and be delivered at primary points of contact. Assessment and evaluation are significant, based on the logic model framework method and incremental and based on developing USDA-FNS guidance.
The following are resources, user zones, training opportunities, collaborative projects and food education focus areas that form the basis for Hawaii’s FSNEP.
Collaboration Wheel* – Project Partners USDA-FNS Hawaii Council Memorandum of Understanding* Lifeskills home – an umbrella program that includes FSNEP
Food Education – foods and nutrition focus areas Projects – partner projects
User zones – for learners
Resources – lessons packages, educational materials, foodskills cookbook
Nutrition Connection - resource system for Food Stamp Program nutrition education providers
They steal tax dollars and spin it into something else. There should be an end to it...
End hunger? Like hell! Obesity is a big problem in this country, so big, Medicaid and Medicare are going to start doling out benefits for the morbidly obese.
1944 World War II - War Bonds make America Stronger
2004 War on Terror - Food Stamps Make America Stronger
This is bull shiiye. Thes bastards spend more money on Marlboros than they do buying food for their children. If I were Jim Rob, I'd scrub this thread fast. Total bull-oney.
(Speeling corrections) This is bull shiite. These bastards spend more money on Marlboros than they do buying food for their children. If I were Jim Rob, I'd scrub this thread fast. Total bull-oney.
I've heard and seen the same ads. Also, saw an ad on a bus in Spanish for some kind of welfare as well.
The other one? Americans with Disabilities Act - the other gift that keeps on giving. And taking. And running up construction costs and lining lawyers pockets. Ad nauseum.
God, I'm so sick of our Big Stupid Government.
Lenin is resting in peace now.
Disagree. The Americans With Disabilities Act actually does some good when you think about it. Maybe when you become dependent upon others, you'll realize what I'm talking about. I'm disabled, and the last thing I want to become is dependent upon everyone else, including the government itself. I enjoy what little independence I have. If that wheelchair ramp someone has built has become a roadblock to you, that's your problem to sort out.
I think the point being made is, charity and a helping hand doesn't need to be a burden for anyone, however with the government "middleman" involved the giving to help to those who need it can lead one to frustration.
It isn't the helping hand that is at issue, it's the rich and power mongering who take advantage of it that leaves such a putrid taste in a once willing hand extended souls mouth.
I would like to ask you if you think the government should give you access, or do you prefer that individuals (Businesses) have their own freedom? Shouldn't the smart businessperson accomodate the handicapped? He shouldn't be forced by the government to do so. That wheel chair ramp never bothered me the slightest. What bothers me is that chump lawyers can sue at the slightest incoveinence of any handicapped individual. God forbid anyone is inconveinenced. I am inconveinenced every day. I won't sue anyone because of it.
One of the two was already compliant - you could play a damn hockey game in there. But nooooo, that wasn't good enough for the government bastards - the other bathroom had to be ADA as well. There went $15,000, right down the toilet. That's fifteen thousand dollars that we will never recover. Never. Not even if we charged every crippled person who actually used it $100 per visit.
We get maybe one or two wheelchairs in the place per month, but apparently we need the bathroom capacity for 50 per day.
Bob Dole and his big government schemes can go to hell.
You may love the outcome of Big Stupid Government, but you're not paying the burden those parasites impose on businesses.
Explain to me why one ADA bathroom wouldn't suffice, given the infinitesimal demand. Can't people in wheelchairs "hold it" for a couple minutes when the bathroom is busy - like everybody else?
We need a Constitutional Amendment to ban government from giving away money
He should have said he had high prices for those wealthy Republican customers.
M,mm and all along I though Government had others money to redistribute, and didn't have money to give away.
I musta' got lost....
Like hell I aint. Where exactly is this business of yours that has bathrooms the size of hockey rinks, if they're big enough to play hockey in? I've been to the restroom facilities at America West Arena and the Mall Of America which are quite small compared to a hockey rink and they weren't even filled to capacity even during the halftime and "peak operating hour".
Can't people in wheelchairs "hold it" for a couple minutes when the bathroom is busy - like everybody else?
I think you're problem is bordering on bigotry.
Now the welfare class is so fat we're going to have to pay for gyms and liposuction procedures on them.
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