Nutrition News in the Butte Cluster

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education (SNAP-Ed) is a federally funded grant program that supports evidence-based nutrition education and obesity prevention interventions and projects for persons eligible for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) through complementar...

The Butte Cluster Nutrition Education programs have significantly contributed to University of California Agriculture and Natural Resource's Healthy Families and Communities Strategic Initiative through the coordination and implementation of the UC CalFresh Nutrition Education Program (NEP) and the...

This year marks the 12th anniversary of the annual Growing Healthy Children Walk/Run and the 5th year that the University of California CalFresh Nutrition Education Program in the Butte Cluster has co-chaired the event.

The UC CalFresh Nutrition Education Program in the Butte Cluster collaborated with the Chico State University Crop Science and Horticulture Club to reinvigorate the Oakdale Heights Elementary School's Learning Garden. The Crop Science and Horticulture Club is a student-led organization.

EFNEP HISTORY & FUNDING The Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) began as an Alabama pilot project in response to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) poverty and hunger concerns.