Category: Rural Health & Nutrition

The Rural Health and Nutrition Extension Program Team, in collaboration with Clemson University’s College of Behavioral, Social and Health Sciences, and Prisma Health received a one-year, $100,000 grant from The American Diabetes Association to deliver one hour webinars about the link between Diabetes and Heart Disease. The rationale for delivering this program through the Rural […]

What is EFNEP? The Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) offered by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture and Clemson University Cooperative Extension Service is aimed at providing practical, hands-on nutrition education. The mission of EFNEP is to assist limited-resource audiences in acquiring the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and changed behavior necessary for […]

The Rural Health and Nutrition team has been hard at work. In reviewing their programmatic impact they found their direct and indirect program participation (number of direct and indirect contacts) have gone up an average of 195% since March. They have converted six traditional, face-to-face programs to virtual, online programs including the Expanded Food and […]

The Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) is continuing to serve residents of Greenville County throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. This year-long program focuses on preventing or delaying the onset of type 2 diabetes through healthy lifestyle changes like healthy eating and physical activity. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, DPP has transitioned to virtual delivery. To date, all […]

Dianna Richardson, Aiken County EFNEP Nutrition Educator, just graduated a group of participants from her first online nutrition program for adults. This particular Eating Smart, Being Active (ESBA) program is being conducted 100% through a private Facebook group, a totally new delivery method for EFNEP. Recruiting adult EFNEP participants is always challenging. However, it became […]

The Health Extension for Diabetes (HED) program has recently moved to an online delivery format in order to continue to provide diabetes self-management education and support to people in Greenville County. Program participants meet weekly for four months and meet for both educational sessions and support groups in order to gain the knowledge, skills, and […]

The Rural Health and Nutrition Program Team’s Hypertension Management Program (HMP) has been adapted to address the needs of our participants during the COVID-19 crisis. This program is traditionally delivered as an 8-week, face-to-face group program targeting people with high blood pressure (hypertension). The HMP supports participants by providing them with the knowledge, behavior change […]

Rural Health Team agents Wanda Green and Weatherly Thomas understand that a healthy living environment should be accessible for everyone in South Carolina. However, residents in Lee County face more barriers to healthy living than many in our state. Lee County has an adult obesity rate of forty percent. Twenty-one percent of the county residents […]

Our Rural Health and Nutrition (RHN) Extension Agents in Lee, Hampton, and Marion Counties are working on Policy, System, and Environment initiatives to fight obesity. Prior to and during this COVID-19 crisis, getting healthy foods into local food pantries has been a way to provide healthy eating options for food-insecure individuals. The RHN agents in […]

Technology has provided the Rural Health and Nutrition team with the ability to continue to do their weekly follow-ups with the more than 2,000 enrolled participants in their EFNEP, Diabetes Prevention Program, Health Extension for Diabetes, Hypertension Management Program, Baby Café, and School Wellness Checklist programs. The team also launched a WalkSC Stay-at-Home Edition. During the […]