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Expanded Food and Nutrition
Education Program (EFNEP)

West District

Teaching Nutrition through Games

NCCES Nutrition Programs
West District Program Assistants

What Are Games?

A test of skill, courage, or endurance
Any form of play or way of playing: amusement, recreation, sport, frolic
Check out our games.

Why Play Games?

For ice breakers
For variety in teaching techniques
To involve participants
To promote team building and social skills
To make learning fun!

PA's Role in Facilitating a Game

To give rules
To explain objective of the game
To be a supportive coach
To summarize learning objectives after game

Game Plan ~ a blank form for planning your game

MS Word ~ complete form on computer
Printer Friendly Version (PDF) ~ print form and complete by hand

To submit your games to be included in this web site

Use the Game Plan Format and email it (as an attachment or as part of the email message) to Virginia New. Your game will be reviewed and included as soon as possible.

Who We Are

West District Program Assistants deliver Adult and 4-H EFNEP nutrition education programs to clients in eight western North Carolina counties.

County	Program Assistant	Program	Adult EFNEP PAs in the kitchen
Buncombe	Sharon Carter	Adult EFNEP
Clay	Clyde McCoy	Adult EFNEP
Henderson	Maria Toledo	Adult EFNEP
Macon	Pat Cable	Adult EFNEP
	Carol Pitts	4-H EFNEP
Transylvania	Jessica Puckett	4-H EFNEP
Swain	Dee Decker	Adult and 4-H EFNEP
Watauga/Avery	Melanie Cashion	Adult and 4-H EFNEP
Yancey	Jo Simpson	Adult EFNEP

Thanks to program assistants who are no longer with EFNEP who contributed to this project: Claudia Boan, Lisa Colvard, Aimee Fairchild, Donna Fox, Sue Janowiak, Nyoka Mazaleski, Brenda Miller, Kathryn Naylor, Abby Robertson, Verna Smith, Jan Styles, Debbie Welch, and Junette Westall-McCarson.

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The Games project began in April 2001 with updates in 2005 and 2009.

Mountain Horticultural Crops Research & Extension Center
455 Research Drive
Mills River, NC 28759
Phone: 828-687-0570 ~ Fax: 828-681-0692
Email: Virginia New ~ virginia_new@ncsu.edu

Web crafter: Anne S. Napier ~ Email: anne_napier@ncsu.edu
Updated May 12, 2009

Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP)