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Health & Nutrition

Heather – Center Coordinator

Contacts:
Heather Peracchio, MS, RD, CD-N
Center Coordinator, EFNEP Supervisor, SNAP-Ed Educator
203-207-3266
Email: [email protected]
CAHNR Community Nutrition (uconn.edu)

Brenda – EFNEP

Brenda Sanchez
EFNEP Nutrition Outreach Educator
203-207-0063
Email: [email protected]
Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (uconn.edu)

Juliana – SNAP-ED

Juliana Restrepo Marin
SNAP-Ed Program Assistant 
203-207-3260
Email: [email protected]
SNAP-Ed Food Security Project | CAHNR Community Nutrition (uconn.edu)

WHAT IS EFNEP?

EFNEP: Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program

  • We work with diverse, food insecure audiences statewide and help families learn about healthy eating, shopping on a budget, cooking and physical activity.
  • EFNEP staff strive to empower participants, providing knowledge and skills to improve the health of all family members.
  • Participants learn through doing, with supportive discussions where they learn to prepare delicious, low-cost, healthy meals for their families.  

WHAT WE ACCOMPLISH

  • In Spring 2023, 93% of participants improved a diet behavior and 82% of participants improved food resource management skills. 
  • Diet behavior and food resource management includes:
    • Improved knowledge and awareness of healthy food choices
    • Nutrition information f
    • Food resources management best practices
    • Food safety practices
    • Cooking skills (creating shopping lists, efficient management of SNAP benefits).

WHAT IS SNAP-ED?

  • SNAP-Ed:  Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education.
  • SNAP-Ed Program is for people who receive USDA SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) benefits.

Our team provides a collection of fact-based food and nutrition resources for parents, adults, and children; available in both English and Spanish, on a variety of nutrition topics including how to feed your family healthy foods on a budget.

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