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Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program - Clemson University
The site for South Carolina's Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP). Contains information on EFNEP in South Carolina, its history and impact.

Nutri-Web
Nutri-Web is an online nutrition library and lending resource at Clemson University. Nutri-Web has online fact sheets and other publications, links to many other nutrition websites, and a lending library of food and nutrition materials.

USDA Food Stamp Pre-Screening Eligibility Tool
This USDA Food & Nutrion Services Pre-Screening Eligibility Tool can be used to determine if clients may be eligible to receive Food Stamp benefits.

USDA Nutrition Assistance Programs
Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) increases food security and reduces hunger in partnership with cooperating organizations by providing children and low-income people access to food, a healthful diet, and nutrition education in a manner that supports American agriculture and inspires public confidence. Information on five Nutrition Assistance Programs provided by USDA FNS.

Food Stamp Nutrition Education Program National Website
This is the website for administrators of state Food Stamp Nutrition Education Programs and statewide networks.The site provides timely updates, facilitate communication between state, regional, and national staff, enchance program design, implementation and evaluation, and strengthen the link between research and practice.

USDA Food and Nutrition Information Center
Discussion of food systems, which includes everything from farm to table, and community food system, which emphasizes eating seasonally while eating locally grown and produced foods are discussed on this site through various articles and papers.

The Food Stamp Nutrition Connection
The Food Stamp Nutrition Connection is a resource system for Food Stamp Program nutrition education providers. The site has a Training Center, Resource Library, an area for Hot Topics, and an e-mail discussion group.

Eat Smart. Play Hard.™
Eat Smart. Play Hard.™ is a national nutrition education and promotion campaign designed to convey science-based, behavior-focused and motivational messages about healthy eating and physical activity.

WIC Works Resource System
The WIC Works Resource System (WWRS) is designed to serve as an encompassing resource for WIC nutritionists and other WIC professionals nationwide. WWRS is an informative and thorough online resource for health and nutrition professionals serving in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC).

Team Nutrition
Team Nutrition is an initiative designed to support and enhance implementation of USDA's new policy requiring school meals to reflect the Dietary Guidelines in schools.

Healthy People 2010
Healthy People 2010 is a statement of national health objectives designed to identify the most significant preventable threats to health and to establish national goals to reduce these threats.

America's Second Harvest
America's Second Harvest is the nation's largest domestic hunger relief organization. Through a network of over 200 food banks and food-rescue programs, they provide emergency food assistance to more than 23 million hungry Americans each year, eight million of whom are children.

Programming for Limited-Resource Families
This publication, "Programming for Limited-Rources Families", was developed to help educators expand programming to reach limited-resource learners.

SC Department of Health & Human Services
South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services official website.

Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program
The official site for Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service's (CSREES) Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP). The site includes publications, Fact Sheets, related links, and success stories.

Healthy Helpings
This site discusses the various programs, commodities, and other information from SC Department of Social Services (DSS).

Food Safety Table Tents
Free Adobe Acrobat file with six Food Safety Table Tents that you can print and display at classes.

Nutrition.gov
This government nutrition site covers food facts and food safety, lifecycle issues, health management, food assistance, research, and resources.

South Carolina Disability Resource Directory
The DRM Regional Resource Directory is designed to link Disability Resources Monthly subscribers and others with disability organizations and agencies in their own states or communities.

USDA Nutrient Data Laboratory
This site contains an authoritative food composition databases and state of the art methods to acquire, evaluate, compile and disseminate composition data on foods available in the United States.

South Carolina Information Highway
SCIway, pronounced "sky-way," is an acronym for South Carolina Information Highway. It's also the name of this web site, which is the largest and most comprehensive directory of South Carolina information on the Internet.

South Carolina Department of Social Services
South Carolina Department of Social Services website. The site contains general information, recent news, resource and reference links along with information about DSS program areas.

South Carolina Government Information
This site addresses South Carolina strategic information resources plan of 1998 to improve citizens' accessibility to government information, goods, and services.

The Seniors Farmers' Market Nutrition Program
Provides recipients with $20 to $200 in benefits that vary from state to state, for use during the 2001 harvest season to purchase fresh, nutritious, unprepared, locally grown fruits, vegetables, and herbs from 3,500 farmers at 950 farmers' markets, as well as 560 roadside stands and nearly 90 community supported agriculture programs.

South Carolina Department of Education
Website for SC State Department of Education. A very user friendly site.

US Census Bureau
This is the site for information. Some of the areas on the Census site are People, Geography, Business, Newsroom, and Special Topics.

Clemson University Public Service
Clemson University's public Service site covers Economic and Community Development, Food Safety and Nutrition, Youth Development, Environmental Conservation, and Agrisystems Productivity and Profitablity.