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Clara Wilshire is a Nutrition Educator for the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program, EFNEP for short. She graduated from Cal State San Bernardino with a B.S. degree in Health Education and Promotion. Ms. Wilshire is married to an SBCUSD teacher and has 4 children. She is employed by the UC Cooperative Extension for over 27 years. She began to work part-time at the Cooperative Extension while going to school. For the last 22 years, she has been working with the Adult and Youth Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program.
Working with the EFNEP program has influenced how she feeds her family and incorporates healthy lifestyle practices. She feels it’s very important to lead by example and try to practice what she teaches. Over the years she has learned to adjust and adapt special nutritional needs. 2 of her children have food allergies to milk and eggs and she had to learn to ensure that her children’s nutritional needs were met with alternative protein and calcium sources. This has been instrumental when sharing nutrition information to her students. She teaches how to make healthy food choices and hopes these skills will take with them into adulthood.
About the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program
Expanded Food and Nutrition Education (EFNEP) is a national and Federally Funded program. Funded through the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA NIFA) that offers nutrition education to limited-resource families and children in all 50 states and U.S. territories
Target Audience The youth program aims to enroll youth who come from limited-resource families in a rural and urban areas. EFNEP helps youth acquire knowledge, skill, the right attitude, and behavior to create nutritionally sound diets.
Students learn to:
Develop healthy eating habits
Choose healthy snacks
Increase physical activity
Practice safe food handling
Learn more at efnep.ucanr.edu