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The Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP), conducted
throughout the nation by Extension, began in 1968. But, EFNEP actually was an
extension of a pilot project conducted in five Alabama counties. Baldwin, Calhoun,
Houston, Marion, and Walker counties were selected to test ways to reach limited resource
families with homemaking skills and education.
The Pilot Project
The Pilot Project Involving Young Homemakers in
Low-Income Rural Areas of Alabama was a cooperative 5-year project (July 1, 1964 through
June 30, 1969) between the Alabama Cooperative Extension Service, Auburn University, and
Federal Extension Service, USDA. The three primary areas considered in the Pilot
Project were:
To develop and test
methods of reaching and teaching homemakers.
To develop and test
educational materials.
To determine if
paraprofessionals could be trained to teach low-socioeconomic homemakers so they could
understand and apply what they learned.
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