Implement and deliver a Statewide SNAP-Ed program that meets the specifications of the most recently approved annual SNAP-Ed Plan (refer to Appendix H for the most current SNAP-Ed Plan), demonstrating standards from the SNAP Ed Plan Guidance (Plan Guidance), including: Implement SNAP-Ed nutrition education and obesity prevention services, consistent with the 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans and MyPlate, that combine educational strategies, accompanied by supporting Policy, Systems, and Environmental (PSE) Change Strategies, demonstrated to facilitate adoption of food and physical activity choices and other nutrition-related behaviors conducive to the health and well-being of the individual. Employ and/or subcontract with local agencies to assure SNAP-Ed services are available Statewide in all Department Public Health Districts in all sixteen (16) counties. All subcontracts shall be pre-approved by the Department’s State Agency and Food and Nutrition Service (FNS). Develop future annual SNAP-Ed Plans, in collaboration with the Department’s State Agency, using current standards from the Plan Guidance by: Determining which Direct Education curricula and PSE Change Strategies will be included in future SNAP-Ed Plans by identifying: The curricula that will be used for Direct Education activities; Which target populations the curricula will be used for, as determined from a needs assessment; The total unduplicated number of Participants expected to use the curricula; PSE strategies that are closely linked to Direct Education projects in order to support SNAP-Ed’s primary goals...
