National Nutrition Programs

EFNEP National Website from NIFA/USDA

The Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) is designed to assist audiences with limited resources to acquire knowledge, skills, attitudes, and changed behavior necessary for nutritionally sound diets. Our program also helps our audience contribute to their personal development and improvement of total family diet as well as nutritional well-being.

EFNEP Connect Extension website 

A nationwide resource for learning and collaborating to build strong EFNEP programs utilizing best practices, emerging strategies, and shared knowledge.

  • The Topics tab is where you can ask and answer questions from your EFNEP peers.
  • The Calendar tab will share upcoming and past webinars and online events relevant to EFNEP. 

Nutrition Assistance Programs 

USDA Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) increases food security and reduces hunger in partnership with cooperating organizations by providing children and low-income people access to food, a healthy diet, and nutrition education. Child Nutrition Programs

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP - formally Known as FSNE)

A program of the USDA Food and Nutrition Service. SNAP provides food assistance and aims to increase nutrition for the health and well being of low-income individuals and their families.

WIC: Women, Infants and Children

The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, better known as the WIC Program, serves to safeguard the health of low-income women, infants and children up to age 5 who are at nutritional risk by providing nutritious foods to supplement diets, information on healthy eating and referrals to health care.


Source URL: https://class.ucanr.edu/statewide-program/california-efnep/national-nutrition-programs