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Text2BHealthy: Engaging Parents in School Nutrition through the Use of Text Messaging

Learn how one SNAP-Ed program has incorporated text messaging to extend their reach to encourage increased fruit and vegetable consumption and how to adapt their program to encourage healthier food choices in schools.  

Presented by:

Laryessa Worthington, MS RD LDN -- Eat Smart and Mobile Technology Coordinator with the University of Maryland Food Supplement Nutrition Education Program

Nicole Finkbeiner PhD -- Evaluation and Reporting Coordinator University of Maryland Food Supplement Nutrition Education Program

Learning Objectives:





  • Participants will learn how text messages can be used to engage parents in the nutrition conversation
  • Participants will learn about strategies to develop and integrate a text message program in their schools
  • Participants will learn how engaging parents in nutrition messaging impacts their kid’s consumption of healthy foods


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About the Program

Online Parent Sign Up Link

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This technology is supported in part by New Technologies for Ag Extension (funding opportunity no. USDA-NIFA-OP-010186), grant no. 2023-41595-41325 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the view of the U.S. Department of Agriculture or the Extension Foundation. For more information, please visit extension.org. You can view the terms of useat extension.org/terms.

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