The "Story Behind the Measure" helps us understand the causes and forces at that work that explain the data behind the 'number of participants who increased their knowledge of how to prepare foods, including home preservation techniques'  and the resources that Haywood County Cooperative Extension plans to commit to address the health issue.  Cooperative Extension plans, promotes, administers, and evaluates the nutrition education programs.  

What's Helping What We Do? These are the positive forces at work in our nutrition education program that influence how much we do or how well we do it.

• Skilled facilitators
• Access to evidence-based programs and practices 
• Adequate training space

What's Hurting What We Do? These are the negative forces at work in our nutrition education program that influence how much we do or how well we do it.

• Participant transportation needs
• Difficulty in committing time to attending programs 
• Difficulty in accomodating schedules of potential participants
• Weather-related factors