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2. Implementing a food safety education program
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Kendall, Patricia (author), Swanson, Marilyn A. (author), and Swanson: Family and Consumer Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID; Kendall: Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
- Format:
- Conference paper
- Publication Date:
- 1994
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 97 Document Number: C07869
- Notes:
- James F. Evans Collection, Ham, Mimeographed, 1994. 1 p. Presented at the Society for Nutrition Education, Portland, OR, July 16-20, 1994., Two hundred and twelve Idaho citizens participated in the "Train the Trainer" Safety and Food excellence (S.A.F.E.) educational program during 1993. Idaho's effort was part of an eight state strategy to reduce the risk of illness from foods served to individuals with weakened immune systems. Funding was obtained through the FY92 ES-USDA Food Safety and Quality Initiative. S.A.F.E., a four hour leader training program, is an action-oriented program which teaches professionals, paraprofessionals an volunteers to present education programs aimed at changing specific food handling practices. Individuals who work with the elderly or other high-risk population groups were targeted. The seven Idaho programs were team taught by the Extension Food Safety Specialist, a county Extension Home Economist and an Environmental Health Specialist from the local health district. Participants received three food safety posters, learned appropriate food safety practices and teaching strategies and set personal behavior goals. Mean knowledge scores increased from 89% to 96%. Ninety seven percent of the participants set personal food safety behavior goals. At a three month self-reported evaluation, a majority met their goals "most of the time" and almost all met their goal "some of the time". Over 950 food safety posters have been distributed. Estimates suggests each poster has been seen by an average of 25 individuals. The trained program leaders have utilized food safety educational strategies from the S.A.F.E. workshop and reached between 4 and 282 others.
3. Sri Lanka's agricultural extension service
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Golden, William G., Jr. (author) and Leader, Training and Communication, CIAT, Cali, Colombia
- Format:
- Conference paper
- Publication Date:
- 1974-12
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 129 Document Number: C19266
- Notes:
- Burton Swanson Collection, In: Strategies for agricultural education in developing countries : Agricultural Education Conference I. 1974 October 15. [New York] : Rockefeller Foundation, 1974. p. 238-275
4. The cooperative extension service of the United States: transferability to developing countries
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Claar, John B. (author)
- Format:
- Conference paper
- Publication Date:
- 1983
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 51 Document Number: C00553
- Notes:
- AgComm Teaching, Paper presented at the regional seminar on Extension and Rural Development Strategies, Universiti Pertanian Malaysia, Serdang Selangor, Malaysia, May 16-20, 1983, 14p.
5. Training in the inter-Asian corn program
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Smeltzer, Dale G. (author) and Leader, Training and Communication, CIAT, Cali, Colombia
- Format:
- Conference paper
- Publication Date:
- 1974-12
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 129 Document Number: C19270
- Notes:
- Burton Swanson Collection, In: Strategies for agricultural education in developing countries : Agricultural Education Conference I. 1974 October 15. [New York] : Rockefeller Foundation, 1974. p. 403-424
6. Using volunteer extenders to promote use of the new nutrition label
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Wightman, Norma (author / University of California Cooperative Extension, San Luis Obispo, CA)
- Format:
- Conference paper
- Publication Date:
- 1994
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 97 Document Number: C07900
- Notes:
- James F. Evans Collection, Ham, Mimeographed, 1994. 1 p. Presented at the Society for Nutrition Education, Portland, OR, July 16-20, 1994., A 10-hour training program was designed to teach volunteers to deliver short programs that demonstrate using the new nutrition label to select lower fat and/or low sodium foods. Volunteers contracted to "pay back" 10 hours of community service. In cooperation with the local Area Agency on Aging Nutrition Program, volunteers delivered 20-minute interactive programs at nutrition sites to nearly 400 seniors. Post-tests showed a majority of seniors could recognize the new nutrition facts label compared with the old nutrition label after the brief presentations. Information on sodium content was most frequently sought on nutrition labels by this audience. A survey of the volunteer extenders showed high job satisfaction and a feeling of contributing valuable information to the community. It was recommended that in addition to teaching experience, volunteers be required to have at least one college-level course in nutrition. Refinements in the training curriculum were also recommended and are being piloted on a second group of volunteers.