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Douglas County Extension says loss of $150,000 federal SNAP grant halted local nutrition education
Summary
At an April 15 Douglas County commissioners work session, extension staff described program work on food security, 4‑H, agriculture and land stewardship and warned that a long‑running federal SNAP education grant worth about $150,000 ended, eliminating two nutrition educator positions and pausing nutrition education in the county.
Marlon Bates, county extension director, and extension staff told the Douglas County Board of Commissioners on April 15 that local extension programming spans food security, 4‑H youth development, agriculture and land stewardship, but that the office recently lost a decades‑long federal SNAP education grant that supported nutrition education.
Caitlin Pineva, the community health and wellness extension agent, said the grant had provided roughly $150,000 a year and directly supported two full‑time equivalent nutrition educator positions. "That was a loss of close to, a $150,000 in grant funding," Pineva said, and she added that the funding had paid for staff time, supplies and food. She said extension experimented with a fee‑for‑service approach but found community partners lacked the funds to cover those costs, leaving the county without nutrition education programming for now.
Why it matters: extension nutrition educators worked with community partners to reach…
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