Final Weeks at Food, Nutrition, and Wellness (DOA)

The last two weeks of my internship were at our Food, Nutrition, and Wellness. There were some projects to finish and presentations we had to give. The other intern and myself worked on an in-service for our division. We then presented the short power point to the whole department.

We spent a lot of time working and completing our research paper which we presented to the supervisors the last week of the internship. We also worked on the Florida School Breakfast week menu.

This internship was wonderful. It provided me with so many opportunities and I really feel well-rounded coming out of this program. I have learned to make the most of everything given to me and I feel as though I really did.

Thank you to Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Division of Food, Nutrition, and Wellness as well as all the preceptors throughout the internship who helped me during this internship!

Florida Department of Health- CCFP Rotation

The last rotation was at the Department of Health's Child Care Food Programs. 

The Child Care Food Program and two related programs, the Afterschool Nutrition Program and the Homeless Children Nutrition Program, are administered by the Bureau of Child Care Food Programs. These programs provide nutritious meals and snacks to children through public-private partnerships with organizations committed to caring for children. All three programs are funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service. http://www.doh.state.fl.us/ccfp/

We worked with the Nutrition sections while with this department and created a 4 week cycle menu. We also worked on a food safety online training for CCFP centers. We created three modules for the training and presented our work at the end of the rotation. We met with various staff in the department to learn what they did for the program.

It was a good learning experience and nice change of pace to end the internship.