About the Program
Nutrition Links staff provide thousands of Pennsylvania's limited resource citizens with education on topics such as food and nutrition safety, food preparation, and food budgeting.
Primary Audiences:
- Families with young children (under the age of 19) living in either rural or urban areas who are responsible for the planning, purchasing and preparing of the family's food
- Pregnant women
- Pregnant and Parenting Teens
- School-age youth (5 - 19 years of age)
- Preschoolers and their parents
- Adults and Seniors
Participants are taught how to:
- make positive changes to achieve good nutrition and health
- control portion sizes
- practice food resource management skills
- practice food safety in preparation
- practice safe storage and handling of food
- increase physical activity
Nutrition Links provides:
- program lessons
- food demonstrations
- displays, newsletters, and handouts
- hands-on cooking experiences to groups and/or individuals at various locations
Penn State Extension received funding from these two federal programs to provide effective, research-based nutrition education following the USDA 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans to audiences with limited resources.
