Disscussion for Agency assignment

On Thursday, we used the class time to discuss our "Agency assignments". All students made handouts for the agency assigned and had sent them to their classmates before class already. Every one spoke in the class talked about the type of program, purpose, funding source, history, role of nutrition professionals, and evaluation for the URL according to CARS. Dr. Holben explored deeper on the topics after everyone summarized. So we had more comprehensive understanding on each program. Because of limited time, I, just ike some other people in the class, did not gain a opportunity to talk about my agency. However, we will continue next Tuesday.

From this class, I am very glad to know so many food assistance programs in the U.S. It is very impressive that U.S. has so many programs to help their citizens maintain good nutrition status and fight against food insecurity. The programs in the U.S. include those conducted by goverment or by NGOs. Comparing with other China, U.S. has good awareness of and mature for promoting nutrition status already. I think this is very worthy for China to learn. Because in China, government pay more attentions to food safety, less attentions to food insecurity. Food assistanc programs which aim to promote people's nutrition status are rare. Knowledge learned from "Community Nutrition"class is very significant for me to understand the nutrition care system in the U.S. Thank Dr. Holben.