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The California Department of Education has compiled a list of resrouces, initiatives, and policies geared towards improving nutrition and establishing healthy eating habits in school, child care, adult, and after school settings. Topics include California's Farm-to-School Program and Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program, Classroom Cooking, Competitive Foods...
The Shaping Healthy Choices Program is a multi-component, school-based intervention that was developed to improve children’s health. The program integrates activities within four components: nutrition education and promotion, family and community partnerships, foods available on the school campus with an emphasis on regional agriculture, and school...
This website offers free resources for LA County health professionals and educators including publications and videos. Choose Health LA was a local initiative of the LA County Department of Public Health to prevent and control chronic disease.
Facebook.com/ChooseHealthLA
Twitter.com/ChooseHealthLA.
ChopChop is filled with nutritious, delicious, ethnically diverse, and inexpensive recipes for kids. Winner of the prestigious James Beard Foundation Award for Publication of the Year, this quarterly magazine is published in both Spanish and English. It also has food facts, games and puzzles, and interviews with healthy heroes ranging from kid...
EatFresh.org is an online resource for CalFresh eligible individuals and families, though this website is a great resource for anyone who wants to improve their health. EatFresh.org seeks to: encourage cooking at home with fresh foods and minimally processed non-perishables, show users that healthy change can happen even when barriers exist, and help...
The mission of the Edible Schoolyard Project is to build and share a national edible education curriculum for pre-kindergarten through high school. The program envisions gardens and kitchens as interactive classrooms for all academic subjects, and a sustainable, delicious, and free lunch for every student.
Their website includes lessons designed...
Equity Eatz is a food justice and entrepreneurship curriculum that helps youth develop skills in culinary arts, product development, and marketing through the lens of the food industry. Through conceptualizing food access as a social justice issue, this curriculum encourages youth to adopt healthy nutrition practices and apply nutrition knowledge to food...
A nationwide team of AmeriCorps members who connect kids to real food and help them grow up healthy by partnering with schools to help provide food and nutrition education, lead hands-on activities such as gardening and cooking, and work with school food directors and staff to integrate healthier foods into breakfast, lunch, snack programs, and more....
The Kitchen Garden Laboratory uses cooking as a prism for learning science — and science as a way to understand healthy eating and nutrition. Its programs promote delicious, nutritious eating for better health outcomes, while fostering food and STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) literacy.
The garden is a living laboratory for...
Young Chefs uses hands-on cooking education to empower the next generation with culinary skills and scientific knowledge. It develops free open-access lesson plans and teaching resources for cooking/science education. Its support for educators includes afterschool programming, teacher workshops, summer camps, and in-school lessons.
Its website...
