Trainings

Upcoming Trainings (18)

Apr 02, 2025; Apr 03, 2025

Light Bulbs to Garden Bulbs In-Person Garden Training

Yuba City
This in-person, two-day workshop is designed to provide participants with the knowledge, skills, and resources to plan, develop, and sustain an edible school or community garden.  Participants must attend both days. Day 1 (in the classroom): Be ready for an action-packed day focused on developing and implementing a sustainable garden program.  Participants will describe how a garden extends beyond the “site” to reinforce community-wide PSE efforts, build a garden strategic plan, and practice developing and delivering garden program messaging that will resonate with any audience. Day 2 (in the garden): Dig your hands into the soil, and discover new techniques in this all-day garden skills workshop.  Focused on designing your garden space and conducting a garden analysis, participants will classify soil types, determine when and where in the garden to plant crops, demonstrate harvesting techniques, and install a drip irrigation system. Space is limited and will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis.  If you are interested in attending, please fill out the registration form.  Additional trainings will be held throughout the state in FFY 25.
Garden
Policy, Systems, and Environment (PSE)
Apr 02, 2025; Apr 09, 2025; Apr 16, 2025; Apr 23, 2025

Around the Table Facilitator Training

Zoom
This unique training will equip participants to facilitate the Around the Table curricula, which aims to increase the health and resilience of the communities you serve. 
Around the Table
Apr 10, 2025

Food Smarts: Waste Reduction for Kids

Virtual
This interactive training will equip participants to facilitate the Food Smarts: Waste Reduction curriculum for Kids. This curriculum aims to increase awareness of strategies and tools to support food waste reduction among young individuals.
Waste Reduction and Sustainability
Apr 11, 2025

Wiser Dining Implementer Training

Virtual
This interactive training is designed for staff and volunteers involved in congregate meal sites, aiming to enhance the dining experience through Wiser Dining. Wiser Dining focuses on creating a client-centered, health-promoting, and positive environment for clients. Participants will be equipped with the knowledge and tools to conduct a comprehensive needs assessment, set achievable goals, and utilize available resources effectively to meet those needs. The training covers Wiser Dining’s core focus areas: client-centered, cuisine and nutrition education, site environment, policies and procedures, and staff & volunteers.
Apr 22, 2025; Apr 29, 2025; May 06, 2025

Smarter Lunchrooms Movement 101: An Introductory Workshop

Virtual
Join us in April and May for a webinar series on the basics of the Smarter Lunchrooms Movement (SLM)! The Smarter Lunchrooms Movement is an evidence-based, SNAP Ed-approved Policy, Systems, and Environmental change intervention. It focuses on behavioral economics that uses small, low- or no-cost changes to the school lunchroom to make the healthy choice the easy choice for students. In this series of three webinars, participants will receive an introduction to behavioral economics, the principles behind SLM, and the five-step process for implementing SLM. By attending this webinar series, participants will have completed the first step in becoming an SLM of CA Certified Technical Advising Professional (TAP). Although not required, attendees are encouraged to complete all three sessions. However, all three sessions must be completed before participating in the remaining steps in the TAP certification process.
Apr 23, 2025; Apr 24, 2025

CATCH Kids Club and Early Childhood Implementer Training (Pomona, CA)

Pomona, CA
We are offering two CATCH Implemnter training for CATCH Kids Club (CKC) and CATCH Early Childhood (CEC). Participants can choose to attend one or both training sessions! These sessions are open to all CFHL staff who want to become implementers. This is also an opportunity for current implementers to receive refreshers.
CATCH
Physical Activity
Early Care and Education
Apr 23, 2025

Nutrition Security Peer Learning Community (PLC): The Power of Networking

Virtual
Join us for a fun and interactive webinar on how networking can elevate your work and how the PLC can be your go-to space for connecting with professionals across California and beyond. We’ll share practical tips for building meaningful relationships, real-world examples of networking success, and ways to make the most of the PLC to expand your reach.
Apr 23, 2025

Strengthening Our Impact: CalFresh Healthy Living Branding Webinar

Virtual
Join this webinar introducing refreshed tools and resources to help strengthen and unify the impact of CalFresh Healthy Living across California. Over the years, the CalFresh Brand Unity team has worked to enhance how we communicate the program’s mission. Now, they are excited to share important branding updates that will make it easier to promote the program consistently and effectively. This webinar will cover: A new standard operating procedure for branding compliance A branding compliance checklist for streamlined implementation Enhanced brand guidelines for greater clarity and consistency Instructional branding videos and tutorials Supporting materials to ensure brand consistency By adopting these updates, we can work together to increase awareness and engagement, helping all Californians gain better access to nutritious food for healthier living.
CFHL Branding
Apr 29, 2025

Site List Management Training

Virtual
This training will provide a comprehensive overview of the Site List maintenance process, including using traditional and alternative methods. Incorporating examples from the field, participants will learn site approval requirements for adding and renewing sites for the upcoming Federal Fiscal Year, including necessary forms, supporting documentation, and best practices for providing screenshots and comments. Prerequisite: Before attending this session, we recommend viewing the previously recorded Site List training as a refresher.
Site List
May 01, 2025

Food Smarts: Waste Reduction for Adults

Virtual
This interactive training will equip participants to facilitate the Food Smarts: Waste Reduction curriculum for Adults. This curriculum aims to build nutrition and cooking skills while engaging participants to reduce food waste and its harmful effects on the planet.
Waste Reduction and Sustainability
May 06, 2025; May 20, 2025; May 28, 2025

Food Smarts Facilitator Training

Zoom
Food Smarts is a flexible, learner-centered cooking and nutrition curriculum with materials and lesson plans appropriate for K-12 youth and adults (including older adults).
Food Smarts
May 14, 2025; May 15, 2025

Light Bulbs to Garden Bulbs In-Person Garden Training

Turlock
This in-person, two-day workshop is designed to provide participants with the knowledge, skills, and resources to plan, develop, and sustain an edible school or community garden. Participants must attend both days. Day 1 (in the garden): Dig your hands into the soil, and discover new techniques in this all-day garden skills workshop. Focused on designing your garden space and conducting a garden analysis, participants will classify soil types, determine when and where in the garden to plant crops, demonstrate harvesting techniques, and install a drip irrigation system. Day 2 (in the classroom): Be ready for an action-packed day focused on developing and implementing a sustainable garden program. Participants will describe how a garden extends beyond the “site” to reinforce community-wide PSE efforts, build a garden strategic plan, and practice developing and delivering garden program messaging that will resonate with any audience. Space is limited and will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis. If you are interested in attending, please fill out the registration form. Additional trainings will be held throughout the state in FFY 25.
Garden
May 14, 2025; May 28, 2025

Trauma-Informed Care in Community and School Gardens

Virtual
This training is for CFHL educators wanting to learn how to take a trauma-informed approach in their community and school garden education programs and policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) change interventions.
Trauma-Informed
Garden
Nutrition Education
Policy, Systems, and Environment (PSE)
School and Community Gardens
May 22, 2025; Jun 05, 2025; Jun 18, 2025

Nutrition Pantry Program for Implementers

Virtual
The Nutrition Pantry Program is a healthy pantry initiative that implements policy, system, and environment changes at food distributions. Description: This unique training will bring a fresh perspective to your programs with the objective of increasing the health and resilience of the communities you serve.  Participants will: Explore the relationship between positive and adverse experiences and nourishment Learn the basic process and principles of applying a trauma-informed approach to food security settings Learn to implement the Nutrition Pantry Program (NPP) with food distributions in your community. Gain a deep understanding of the NPP mission, process, resources, leading pantry practices, and COVID-19 considerations Audience: SNAP-Ed implementers, food bank and pantry staff, University Extension professionals, and other individuals and organizations looking for an organized policy, systems and environment (PSE) intervention to adapt to their sites. [If an agency has multiple participants, each participant must register separately so their registration email address can then be added to our online training system.] Training Delivery and Dates:  This program includes self-paced content (videos, reflection activities, and readings) and live, instructor-led sessions. Registered participants will gain access to our online training system (TalentLMS) beginning early May, and will need to complete approximately 1.5 hours of self-paced work prior to the first live session on 05/22/25.  Key dates are as follows: Registration Closes: May 21, 2025 Self-Paced Course Opens:  Early-Mid May Live Zoom Sessions: May 22, June 5, June 19; Times: 10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Pacific Time Total Training Time:  Approximately nine hours total (4.5 hours of live sessions and about 4.5 hours of self-paced work) Next Steps: Upon completion of this course, participants are prepared to implement the Nutrition Pantry Program at their site(s) and will then receive access to additional resources, webinars, ongoing support, and our network of pantry partners.
Policy, Systems, and Environment (PSE)
May 29, 2025

Fostering Inclusion with Participants with Disabilities

Virtual
This session equips staff with essential strategies for engaging individuals with disabilities and ensuring equitable access to nutrition education, gardening, and physical activity. Participants will gain a foundational understanding of key terminology such as adaptations, accommodations, and modifications, while exploring best practices for fostering inclusion across various settings. By the end of the session, participants will be equipped with practical tools to enhance accessibility and contribute to a more supportive and inclusive program.
Jun 12, 2025

Disability Awareness & Etiquette

Virtual
Did you know that one in four Californians identifies as having a disability? This webinar, hosted by the California Department of Rehabilitation, will demonstrate best practices for creating an inclusive program environment where everyone feels valued and can thrive. You'll learn: - The basics of disabilities concepts and terminology. - Simple yet powerful strategies that demonstrate respect and build trust. - Actionable insights to implement inclusive practices immediately.
Disability Inclusion
Jun 25, 2025; Jun 26, 2025

Light Bulbs to Garden Bulbs In-Person Garden Training

Berkeley
This in-person, two-day workshop is designed to provide participants with the knowledge, skills, and resources to plan, develop, and sustain an edible school or community garden. Participants must attend both days. Day 1 (in the garden): Dig your hands into the soil, and discover new techniques in this all-day garden skills workshop. Focused on designing your garden space and conducting a garden analysis, participants will classify soil types, determine when and where in the garden to plant crops, demonstrate harvesting techniques, and install a drip irrigation system. Day 2 (in the classroom): Be ready for an action-packed day focused on developing and implementing a sustainable garden program. Participants will describe how a garden extends beyond the “site” to reinforce community-wide PSE efforts, build a garden strategic plan, and practice developing and delivering garden program messaging that will resonate with any audience. Space is limited and will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis. If you are interested in attending, please fill out the registration form. Additional trainings will be held throughout the state in FFY 25.
Garden
Aug 14, 2025; Aug 28, 2025

Building Nourishing Pantries

Virtual
During this course, you will: - Understand how positive and adverse experiences affect individual and community relationships to food and dietary health. - Learn the basic process and principles of a trauma-informed approach and how to apply it to pantry work - Learn actionable steps that you can take to create client and community-centered food distributions - Collaboratively explore what role food pantries have in supporting community food security.
Community Engagement
Policy, Systems, and Environment (PSE)

Ongoing Trainings (9)

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Racial Equity and Implicit Bias (REIB) Statewide Initiative Workshops

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The REIB Statewide Initiative has brought together a collaborative of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) experts to design our training curriculum. This curriculum will be used to provide training to county welfare department staff touching the CalWORKs and CalFresh programs. The workshops will be presented in a variety of modalities, including in-person, instructor-led online classes and longer-term learning collaboratives. Workshops will be offered through 2025.
OngoingOngoing Training

FFY 25 Civil Rights Self Paced Course (Spanish)

Virtual
Este es un curso requerido por el USDA que enfatiza la información más importante sobre derechos civiles diseñada para apoyar el trabajo de CalFresh Healthy Living (CFHL) y las comunidades atendidas. Tenga en cuenta que todo el personal financiado por CFHL, incluido el personal estatal y local, debe completar la capacitación en Derechos Civiles cada año.
Civil Rights
CFHL General
OngoingOngoing Training

FFY 25 Civil Rights Self Paced Course (English)

Virtual
This is a USDA required course that emphasizes the most important civil rights information designed to support CalFresh Healthy Living (CFHL) work and the communities served. Please note, all CFHL funded staff, including state and local staff, must complete the Civil Rights training each year.
Civil Rights
CFHL General
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