Family Nutrition Program

Through funds from the Midwest Region of the Food and Nutrition Service, a service established in 1969 to administer the food assistance programs under the USDA, The Ohio State University Extension partners with the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services to bring the Family Nutrition Program (FNP) to counties throughout Ohio. This program provides educational programs covering nutrition, food safety and thrifty shopping in an effort to imporve diet quality and food security for for individuals and families who are eligible for the food stamp program. These programs are free to those groups that meet the income requirements althought participants do not actually have to be receiving food stamps to attend. For mor information contact Sharon Cropper.