FoodWIse Nutrition Education
FoodWIse
FoodWIse employs a combination of evidence-based strategies designed to promote changes for individuals, communities and environments to help make the healthy choice the easy choice.
What is FoodWIse?
FoodWIse advances healthy eating habits, active lifestyles and healthy community environments for families with limited incomes through nutrition education at the individual, community and systems levels.
FoodWIse is federally funded by the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program-Education (SNAP-Ed) and the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP).
Each year FoodWIse delivers nutrition education to more than 50,000 participants statewide. Partnering with community-based organizations, we use a combination of evidence-based strategies designed to promote change for individuals, families and communities and help make the healthy choice the easy choice.
Introduce
Introduce children to new fruits and vegetables and teach them why they are important.
Teach
Teach parents how to buy, plan and prepare healthy meals.
Engage
Engage families with limited resources in support of choosing healthy diets while stretching food dollars.
Support
Support communities in making the healthy choices where people live, learn, work, play and worship.
Hillarie Roth
FoodWIse Educator for Chippewa and Dunn Counties.
Sandy Tarter
Regional FoodWIse Coordinator for Chippewa, Dunn and Eau Claire Counties.
