Harris County

Success Stories

Carolyn DeVaughn with the Children's Defense Fund has served on the EFNEP Advisory Committee. She has provided information to assist our clients in acquiring health insurance for their families. With her assistance, Jackie Jones, Youth Agent, was a speaker and exhibitor at a citywide training that reached 250 school nurses. Referrals from that presentation resulted in the EFNEP youth program being included by nurses at Garden Villa Elementary, Golfcrest Elementary and Douglas Elementary schools. One nurse, Carolyn Ollison from Middle College for Technology, Careers High School at Texas Southern University stated, "I was so impressed that I now use the agent's example of how eating one potato chip requires running in place one vigorous minute to burn the calories." She further stated, "the milk display was eye-catching and got the attention of the youth." The Expanded Nutrition Program youth program reached 250 students at her school's Health Day Program and made a lasting impression on them.