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Food
& Money Basics: Choices & Decisions...
is designed
to assist low income persons to effectively manage their money while
making healthy food choices. It is for beginners who need survival
life skills, and who are willing to practice prioritizing choices
and making decisions. Being realistic, ready, and responsible are key prerequisites.
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Major
Components
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Delivery
Concepts
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Adjusts
typical extension programming for limited resource clientele
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Combines
basic financial management and foods and nutrition education
curriculum
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Utilizes
paraprofessionals to impart technical knowledge and skills
to target clientele at opportune moments
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Promotes
learner-based, hands-on, literacy instruction
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- Is
delivered by field educators including agency, program,
and school personnel who work directly with clients.
- Has
been successfully used in group educational settings.
- Is
modulated into a series of 4-8 group sessions, each focused
on a particular topic.
- Is
adaptable to the needs of the clientele.
- Encourages
follow-up contact and support to skills learned by clientele
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Food
& Money Basics: Choices & Decisions...
has
been developed and field tested with community agency paraprofessionals
and their clientele since 1995. A training kit for direct service
providers consists of a facilitator guide, participant materials,
and budget boxes. The subject matter includes money values, goal
setting, basic budgeting, nutrition, food shopping, and food safety.
Implementation
of this educational module relies upon training of direct service
providers by Cooperative Extension Service faculty. Trained agency
personnel work with Cooperative Extension Service to instruct their
clientele on the module's concepts.
The anticipated
output demands behavioral change. Despite the odds, currently trained
agency personnel have enthusiastically welcomed this effort that
offers their clientele the knowledge and skills to become self-sufficient.
Food & Money
Basics: Choices & Decisions has been completely integrated into
the Nutrition Education for Wellness (NEW) as one of its lesson
package components. Community educators may find more family resource
information at Food
Resources Management.
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