Delivery Formats

In food pantries around the area we can provide nutrition assistants to food pantry participants through demonstrations and classes. The program can assist food box recipients by demonstrating recipes that correlate with the foods that recipients are receiving. Recipes that are demonstrated will be handed out to recipients with the sample of the food. This program relies on our great volunteer base to be successful. For every hour a volunteer donates to OFNP it is "in-kind" support, which has a value that is matched by the federal funders to support OFNP.

In School Nutrition Lessons 

Nutrition education is free to any school that has 50% Free and Reduced Meals. It offers a fun interactive way for children to learn about MyPyramid and the USDA Guidelines and how they relate to the children's lives. In the schools we receive "in-kind" support from principals or teachers wages plus benefits percentage which are matched by the federal funder to support the program. The class format can be either a single one-time class or a class series. Currently we can provide:

• Nutrition education instruction during the school day or after school.
• One class per week for six consecutive weeks. The time spent in each classroom is dependent upon the grade level and the teacher's schedule availability.
• The class format is often comprised of a nutrition lesson, physical activity or game and handouts for students to take home, reinforcing the nutrition focus of the week.
• Each week students have the option to taste a food pre-prepared by the NEP instructor.

Contact us:

• Call us at 541-672-4461 or 1-800-883-7568 (in Douglas County)
• E-mail
  • Nutrition Education Coordinator,