Partnerships for Progress: Summer Youth Nutrition Programs
Volume
36
Issue
6
Abstract
The North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service 4-H EFNEP program, in collaboration with Out For Lunch, implemented youth nutrition programs in nine counties during the summer of 1997. These experiential programs were designed to provide limited resource youth with information on the fundamentals of proper nutrition and contribute to their personal development and overall well-being. Collaboration played a large role in the success of all the programs, both internally among Extension professionals, and with external partners. External partners provided various types of resources that enabled the program to serve a total of 1,469 youth in the nine counties. In the article, examples of collaboration from the successful summer nutrition programs are provided which can spark ideas as to potential collaborators for other Extension program endeavors. The article concludes with a discussion of the most common problems that arose during collaboration and ways in which to deal with those issues.
Recommended Citation
Guion, L. A. (1998). Partnerships for Progress: Summer Youth Nutrition Programs. The Journal of Extension, 36(6), Article 13. https://open.clemson.edu/joe/vol36/iss6/13