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Nutrition
Adelante
Con Leche Semi-Descremada 1% Campaign:
Santa Paula, CA
In 1998, the CANFit Program collaborated
with the Santa Paula Health Action Coalition and the Center for Science
in the Public Interest to launched the successful and first-ever bilingual
(Spanish/English) community education campaign to motivate Santa Paula
residents to switch from drinking whole or 2% milk, to 1% milk or skim
milk.
Contact:
CANFit
2140 Shattuck Ave.Suite 610
Berkeley, CA 94704
Phone: (510) 644-1533
E-mail: info@canfit.org
Web: http://www.canfit.org/index.html
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*Adelante
con Leche Semi-Descremada (1%) Campaign: East Los Angeles
The "Adelante con Leche Semi-descremada (1%) Campaign" is a project of
the CANFit Program. The East Los Angeles project ran from April through
November of 2000. The goal of the media and public relations campaign
is to motivate the community of East Los Angeles to switch from drinking
whole or 2% milk to 1% or skim milk. Campaign elements included: paid
radio and print ads, point-of purchase advertising, milk taste tests,
community presentations, and a school-based program.
Contact:
Mariela Hernandez
310-377-7009
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*Children
5 a Day - Power Play! Campaign
Children's 5 a Day - Power Play!
Campaign uses a multi-channel, community-based approach to encourage
9-11 year old children and their families to eat at least 5 servings of
fruits and vegetables every day as part of a lowfat, high-fiber diet and
a physically active lifestyle.
Contact:
California Children’s 5 a Day Power Play! Campaign
Cancer Prevention and Nutrition Section
California Department of Health Services
P.O. Box 942732, MS-662
Sacramento, CA 94234-7320
Phone: 1-888-EAT-FIVE
Web: http://www.dhs.ca.gov/cpns/powerplay/index.html
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*California
Latino 5 a Day Campaign
The California Latino 5 a Day Campaign
is a statewide, bilingual public health initiative administered in conjuction
with the national 5 A Day Program. The campaign is designed to encourage
Latinos to consume 5 or more servings of fruits and vegetables every day
as part of a healthy lifestyle to reduce the risk of diet-related chronic
diseases. The Campaign’s primary audiences are Spanish-language dominant
and acculturated, Latino adults and their families in California.
Contact:
California Latino 5 a Day Campaign
California Department of Health
Services
P.O. Box 942732, MS-662
Sacramento, CA 94234-7320
Phone: (916) 323-0594
Web: http://www.dhs.ca.gov/cpns/lat5aday/index.html
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Connecticut
Family Nutrition Program, Infant-Toddler Program (FNP-IT)
FNP-IT
is a collaborative attempt to improve the nutrition knowledge and
food choices of food stamp recipients in and around Hartford, Connecticut.
The infant and toddler component of the Family
Nutrition Program has utilized a three-pronged community participatory
approach that emphasizes culturally-appropriate nutrition education,
social marketing, and evaluation.
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*EFNEP:
Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program
(Youth & Adult)
EFNEP provides small group
nutrition instruction to low-income families covering the basic principles
of nutrition and food preparation, methods for safe food handling, and
shopping skills. This program is aimed particularly at families with
young children and is available in Spanish and English.
Youth EFNEP is a 4-H sponsored program for youth who may be nutritionally-at-risk.
The goal of EFNEP is to provide knowledge and "hands-on" learning experiences
that will enable children to make healthier food choices. EFNEP is administered
by UC Cooperative Extension offices in each county.
Contact:
EFNEP State Office
Room 3253 Meyer Hall
1 Shields Avenue
Davis, CA 95616
Phone: 530-754-8698 or 530-752-7588
Web: http://efnep.ucdavis.edu/
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*Fruit
in Your Face: Innovative Techniques for Marketing Nutrition Education
Using computerizing points
of sale, menu analysis, a student Nutrition Advisory Council, the
Hawthorne School District Nutrition and Food Services has made impressive
changes in the food service operations. These changes have resulted
in across-the-board increases in the school meals program participation
and speed of serving lines, and in healthy meals which reflect the
tastes and preferences of the Hawthorne students.
*Garden
in Every School
The California Department of
Education's Nutrition Education and Training Program (NET) has developed
the necessary elements to support garden-enhanced nutrition education
projects in schools. NET offers interested educators a packet of garden
startup information to schools, an educational resource compendium
for assistance in selecting grade-appropriate curriculum materials
for integrating garden-based nutrition education in the classroom
in alignment with California’s curriculum standards, garden-enhanced
nutrition education project mini-grants, and a regional support network
to provide California’s teachers with practical training and other
services to assist them in implementing a successful nutrition-focused
school garden project.
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Farmers'
Markets: US
A
listing local farmers markets by state across the United States.
Contact:
Nancy May
Healdsburg Unified School District
925 University St.
Healdsburg, CA 95448
(707) 431-3434
E-mail: districtoffice@husd.com
*Health
Champions
The Health Champions program
is a personalized health education program designed around a decision-making
framework. Within this program health concepts are related directly
to lifestyle behavior patterns and academic achievement. The aim of
this program is to encourage children to live healthier and happier
lives by helping schools enhance their health promotion and disease
prevention programs. Health Champions helped to set up salad bar programs
at several elementary schools in the district to give students the
option of choosing a salad bar instead of a traditional hot meal for
lunch.
La Cocina
Saludable
An innovative parent
nutrition education program designed for low-income Latino and migrant
farm workers living in Colorado. The key feature if the use of Hispanic
grandmother and abuela (grandmother figure) educators. An evaluation
of this bilingual, culturally appropriate, intergenerational approach
found it to be successful in improving the nutrition-related knowledge
and food shopping and cooking behaviors of the participating mothers
of preschool children.
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The
Power of Choice
The Power of Choice
was developed by HHS' Food and Drug Administration and USDA's Food
and Nutrition Service. It is intended for after-school program leaders
working with young adolescents.
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USDA
Fruit and Vegetable Pilot Program
The 2002 Farm
Act provided $6 million in funding for USDA's Fruit and Vegetable Pilot
Program (FVPP) for the 2002-03 school year. The FVPP provides fresh
and dried fruits and fresh vegetables to children during nonlunch periods
in 100 elementary and secondary schools in 4 states (25 each in Indiana,
Iowa, Michigan, and Ohio) and on 1 Indian Tribal Organization (ITO)
(schools on the Zuni Pueblo Indian Reservation in New Mexico). Washington
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Food
Security
*Food
Systems Project
The Food Systems Project, a project of the Center for Ecoliteracy,
and a pilot project in the USDA "Farm to School Initiative",
is a systems approach to learning that links children's health, school
meal programs, and family farms to education for sustainable patterns
of living. The core elements of the project are to foster an ecological
curriculum, bring an integrated approach to child nutrition services,
improve the quality of school meals, create a garden in every school,
support the economic viability of local sustainable family farms,
and tackle food related public policy issues.
Contact:
Melanie
Okamoto, Coordinator
Food
Systems Project
a project of the Center for Ecoliteracy
2530 San Pablo Avenue
Suite "D"
Berkeley, CA 94702
tel:
510.548.8838
fax: 510.548.8849
*FSNEP:
Food Stamp Nutrition Education Program (Youth & Adult)
The major goal of The California
Food Stamp Nutrition Education Program (FSNEP) is to improve the nutrition-related
skills of Food Stamp recipients, specifically those skills related to
selecting, purchasing and preparing a low-cost nutritional diet for
themselves and their family. The Youth nutrition education program targets
schools and community programs with large numbers of children from Food
Stamp households. Teachers, Youth Program Leaders, and others at the
sites are trained to deliver a nutrition education program targeted
to youth audiences.
Contact:
FSNEP State Office
University of California, Department of Nutrition
One Shields Avenue
3253 Meyer Hall
Davis, CA 95616-8669
Phone: (530) 752-4143
Fax: (530) 752-1107
Web: http://fsnep.ucdavis.edu
Government
Food Assistance Programs
The USDA FNS site describing nutrition assistance government food
assistance programs for children and low-income people.
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Government
Food and Nutrition Assistance Programs
USDA administers 15 domestic food assistance programs that account
for about half of total USDA outlays. The programs work individually
and in concert to provide a nutrition safety net for children
and low-income adults. They are a major component of the Federal
safety net.
Contact:
Prell,
Mark
USDA ERS
Room N2127
1800 M Street NW
Washington DC, 20036
E-Mail: mprell@ers.usda.gov
Phone: (202) 694-5408
Kids
Café Program
Created in
1993, Kids Café is one of the nation's largest free meal
service programs for children. The primary goal of the Kids Cafe
program is to provide free and prepared food and nutrition education
to hungry children through such venues as Boys and Girls Clubs and
schools. Currently there are more than 600 Kids Cafes, operated
by more than 80 food banks across the nation.
Contact:
America's
Second Harvest
35 E. Wacker Dr., #2000
Chicago, IL 60601
ph: (1-800) 771-2303
ph: (312) 263-2303
*Santa
Monica Farmers’ Market Salad Bar Program
Began in 1997; implemented
in 12 of districts 14 school sites. Offers high quality fruits/veggies
purchased directly from farmers market vendors, and prepared by site
coordinators. Items for the salad bar are chosen collaboratively by
the program coordinators, parents, students, and food service staff.
Students may choose a hot meal or a salad bar meal. Program also provides
farm tours, farmers’ market tours, chef in the classroom, cooking
cart demonstrations linked with the curriculum, nutrition education
materials, California sushi academy, and gardening and composting.
The program is currently revenue generating.
Contact:
Tracie Thomas, Project Coordinator
(310) 450-8338 (Ext. 342)
The
Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project (FANTA)
The Food and
Nutrition Technical Assistance Project (FANTA) is managed by the Academy
for Educational Development and funded by the US Agency for International
Development (USAID). This 5 year project supports integrated food
security and nutrition programming to improve the health and well
being of women and children, provides analyses for food security and
nutrition policy development; and shares information and knowledge
with partners.
Contact:
Food
and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project
Academy for Educational Development
1825 Connecticut Avenue., NW
Washington, DC 20009-5721
Phone: (202) 884-8000
Fax: (202) 884-8432
e-mail: fanta@aed.org
*The
Small Farm Program
This is a statewide
program initiated by the University of California Division of Agriculture
and Natural Resources (DANR). The program provides production and
marketing information to farmers not reached by traditional extension
programs.
Contact:
Gillian
Brady. Program Representative
Small Farm Center
mailing
address:
University
of California
One Shields Avenue
Davis, CA 95616-8699
Phone: (530) 752-8136
Fax: (530) 752-7716E-Mail:
gbrady@ucdavis.edu
USDA
Community Food Security Initiative
The USDA Community Food Security Initiative is building vital links
directly between USDA and non-profit groups, private businesses, and
ordinary citizens, as well as with state, local, and tribal governments
- all with one goal in mind: helping Communities across America end
hunger.
Contact:
Coordinator
of Community Food Security
USDA,
Room 536-A
14th
and Independence SW
*WIC
Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program
This program provides additional coupons to WIC participants to
purchase fresh fruits and vegetables at participating local farmers’
markets. The goals of this program, currently available through sixty
California WIC agencies for 160 certified farmers’ markets, are to provide
nutritious, locally grown produce to WIC participants and to expand
their awareness and use of farmers’ markets.
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