Family Education
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.
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This PDF, available in both Enlgih and Spanish, teaches families through a one-year training program how to integrate physical activity and nutrition education into a parenting.
The program was found to be effective in reducing the risk of low-income, preschool-age Latino children being overweight. The authors concluded that a combination of...
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 Expanded Food & Nutrition Education Program is a partnership of the University of California, the USDA, county governments, and California residents. The program's mission is to assist low-income youth and families with young children to acquire knowledge, skills, attitudes, and changed behavior necessary to choose nutritionally sound diets and...
This article reviews the benefits and challenges of farm-to-school efforts, describing some of the innovative ways that food service directors on California’s Central Coast are working to overcome challenges by forming effective partnerships with other school districts and with food banks and produce distributors.
It also describes how efforts to...
Growing Minds (GM), headquartered in North Carolina, works with schools in 60 "Appalachian Grown" Counties. GM provides training for teachers, school nutrition staff, parents, community members, and farmers/ag professionals, as well as producing an annual farm-to-school conference.
The GM website offers lesson plans, recipes, a searchable...
The University of California Cooperative Extension (UCCE) provides non-formal educational opportunities to rural and urban youth and adults of all economic levels and ethnic backgrounds. Part of UCCE's mission is to develop culturally-sensitive outreach programs in family and consumer sciences, specifically targeted toward lower- and moderate-income...
Our Food Chain promotes healthy eating by using media to educate and inspire parents, children, communities, and policy makers to get involved in their school lunch programs and improve the food options in their homes and in their communities.
Its award-winning hour-long documentary, which can be viewed on its website, is based on innovations in...
The Daily Scoop is a series of fun, kid-friendly nutirition tips. They can be added to the daily school-wide announcements or to a teacher's opening routine.
The messages are designed as an easy nutrition education tool to help schools/districts meet wellness policy goals, and elevate the importance of nutrition education to a daily practice...
