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Dig is a unique student group on the UCLA campus that focuses on using student-driven research and peer learning. Through Dig, students educate one another about food, activism, health, and sustainability. Dig also works to ensure that spaces like the garden at Sunset Canyon Recreation Center, near UCLA’s on-campus student housing, expand throughout the...
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...
This curriculum helps support the education of pediatric, family physician, and medical-pediatric residents to promote the health of children and their families through healthy eating, optimal exercise, and emotional well-being.
It was developed by the UCLA Schools of Medicine and Public Health in collaboration with the American Academy of...
The Food Justice curriuclum is designed to engage high school-aged youth in conversations about food environments, food as a social justice issue, nutrition, and the power of commercials and social marketing. Through exposure to concepts such as the food environment, food justice, nutrition concepts, media literacy, and social marketing, the youth are...
The Food Studies graduate certificate program offers UCLA PhD, MA, and professional school students from diverse disciplines the opportunity to investigate complex topics spanning food cultures and histories, nutrition and public health, food policy and food justice, urban planning, and agrifood systems and the environment.
Envisioned and supported by Jane and Terry Semel, the Healthy Campus Initiative (HCI) is committed to making UCLA the healthiest campus in America. Rooted in UCLA's long-term commitment to fostering a culture of health and wellbeing, HCI supports the enhancement and expansion of current health and wellbeing efforts; offers new and interesting approaches...
This manual presents a general overview of how to implement a salad bar program in an elementary school cafeteria.
Based on lessons learned while launching salad bars on several Los Angeles campuses, it is designed for schools, cafeteria personnel, parents or other community members and covers the full process from planning to maintenance and...
LAUSD has adopted a policy allowing schools to donate unused food to community organizations providing services to families and children. This website provides an FAQ and other information about the provisions and procedures of the policy, which was devised to avoid discarding excess food.
The Los Angeles Food Policy Task Force sees "Good Food" as the new paradigm within the food system — encouraging production, distribution, accessibility and consumption of high-quality food to build a healthy, just, and sustainable food system.
A Good Food System prioritizes the health and well-being of our residents; makes healthy, quality food...
Transforming Corner Stores: Integrating Health, Food and Community is a guide to implementing a corner store conversion, detailing lessons learned from a UCLA initiative to change the food environment in the Boyle Heights and East Los Angeles communities of Los Angeles. The community-based program built strong community partnerships, transformed corner...
