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Education - Office of Instructional Programs - Nutrition & Parenting for Adolescents Project Files

 Series
Identifier: 012-15-119

Scope and Contents

This series consists of records documenting a pilot program providing nutrition and parenting education aimed primarily at adolescents and youthful expectant mothers. These papers were created by the Home Economics Education unit of the Division of Vocation Instruction within the Office of Vocational Education. The Division Develops: (1) vocational education programs (2) provides consultative services to local school systems (3) reviews finding requests from local school systems. Nutrition and parenting relates to the instructional area of the Home Economics Education unit. This project received federal monies under the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 and the Vocational Education Act of 1976. It not only provided nutrition and parenting classes to secondary school students, but also provided nutrition classes for elementary school students and individual counseling. The project also promoted the use of services offered by local health departments. The series includes: (1) Correspondence & memoranda between (a) federal & state officials (b) state & local officials (2) Reports (3) Budget requests (4) Local Application for State & Federal Vocational Education Funds (5) Lists of participating teachers (6) Bibliographies. The topics stressed in these documents were funding and training workshops for teachers.

Dates

  • Created: 1977-1983

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

Unrestricted

Extent

1.50 Cubic Feet

Language of Materials

English

Arrangement Note

The files are arranged chronologically by year then alphabetically by project system. A listing of folders follows.

Title
Education - Office of Instructional Programs - Nutrition & Parenting for Adolescents Project Files
Author
Georgia Archives
Description rules
Local
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Georgia Archives Repository

Contact:
5800 Jonesboro Rd
Morrow GA 30260 United States