Putting nutritious food on your table NMC promotes Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program
What is EFNEP? EFNEP helps young people and low-resource families develop the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behavior needed to improve their diet. Families learn to make informed choices about low-cost, nutritious foods, to better manage family finances, and to become more self-sufficient. EFNEP is federally funded and administered in the CNMI by the Northern Marianas College CNMI Cooperative Research, Extension, and Education Service.
How are families assisted? Family members are given group or individual training that covers shopping skills, the basic principles of nutrition and food preparation, and methods for safe food handling and preservation. EFNEP lessons also include maternal and infant nutrition, as well as home gardening.
How does the program operate? Paraprofessionals, trained by NMC Extension Educators, provide instruction for small groups or on a one-on-one basis. Those who complete the program are able to use their EFNEP knowledge and skills to provide and prepare more economical and nutritious food for their families. Evaluation of participants’ diets show significant improvements in their eating habits, especially in the consumption of milk, fruits, and vegetables. At the end of the year, participants attend a graduation ceremony in their honor.
Where is EFNEP located? The EFNEP base is currently located at the Northern Marianas College, Saipan campus, Building G. In Rota and Tinian, EFNEP is located in the Northern Marianas College campus.
For free registration, call 234-5498, Ext. 1713.
Sewing program at the college
The Sewing Program, EFNEP’s counterpart, by NMC CNMI Cooperative Research, Extension and Education Service (CREES), Family and Consumer Sciences Programs, provides beginning and advanced sewing courses.
The courses are offered on an on-going basis and are designed to help clients learn to save money by making clothes for themselves and their whole family. In addition, clients learn to make household items such as pot holders, pillowcases, curtains, and tablecloths.
There is no need to spend money buying costly patterns as our sewing instructor, Henara Ada, teaches clients to make their own patterns. Class times are designed to be flexible in order to accommodate the client’s family obligations or work schedules.
For more information, contact Henara Ada or Kathy Pohl at 234 3690, Ext. 1700.
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CNMI CREES Sewing and EFNEP Graduates (September 1999)
The Northern Marianas College CNMI Cooperative, Research, Extension and Education Service (CNMI CREES) awarded the following graduates for September 1999:
Certificates of Completion, Sewing Program
Lucy Cabrera Joan Nyamekye Rosemarie Pederson Sylvia Santos
Annie C. Rodeo Virginia Gumabon Anicia M. Perez Lorna Alcala
Rita C. Mallari
Certificates of Completion, Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program
Lorna Alcala Anicia Perez Morendie Cruz Eufemia Cruz
Edwina Baulechong Marichu Sanchez Debra Aldan Maria Islam
Joni Delos Reyes Sandra Aldan Elizabeth Benavente Carmen Camacho
