Trainings

Upcoming Trainings (13)

Oct 09, 2025; Oct 16, 2025; Oct 23, 2025; Oct 30, 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
Oct 14, 2025; Oct 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
Oct 15, 2025

CliftonStrengths: Leveraging Strengths for Collaboration

Zoom
Discover your CliftonStrengths and learn how to leverage them to build authentic, resilient, and diverse community connections. By increasing self-awareness, we can equip ourselves to contribute meaningfully, especially in contexts that require empathy, collaboration, and relationship-building across differences. Deadline to register: October 13, 2025
Community Engagement
Oct 21, 2025; Nov 04, 2025; Nov 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)
Oct 29, 2025

Introduction to Consent Decision Making in Community Nutrition Contexts

Zoom
Community work is all about collaboration, but decision-making can lead to roadblocks in projects or programs. Majority voting leaves people feeling unheard, and true consensus can be time-consuming and frustrating.  In this training, you will learn about Consent Decision-Making, a dynamic and effective facilitation method. This approach moves beyond traditional voting and consensus by asking, "Do you object?" instead of, "Do you agree?" 
Nov 05, 2025

Technology of Participation (ToP) Focused Conversation & Meeting Design Essentials

Virtual
In this introductory workshop, you’ll learn simple, universally applicable approaches to move groups from confusion to clarity, consensus, and commitment. Through demonstrations, hands-on practice, and real-world application, you’ll gain the tools and confidence to design effective meetings that foster collaboration and action. Participants will also receive a ToP certificate upon completion.
Nov 06, 2025; Nov 20, 2025

Food Smarts Adapted for Recovery

Zoom
This unique training will equip participants to facilitate the Food Smarts Adapted for Recovery curriculum. This training is intended for staff and volunteers working with adults in substance use treatment or recovery. (If an agency has multiple participants, each participant must register separately so that their registration email address can then be added to our online training system)
Food Smarts
Nov 07, 2025; Nov 21, 2025; Dec 05, 2025

Application for the Food Smarts Train the Trainer Program

Zoom
The Master Trainer program certifies individuals to train facilitators for Food Smarts community workshops aimed at both kids and adults. Interested candidates should complete the application by October 24, 2025, for eligibility review. Selected applicants who are funded by CalFresh Healthy Living (CFHL) will participate in a comprehensive training program at no cost.
Food Smarts
Dec 02, 2025; Dec 16, 2025

Body Connection Facilitator Training

Virtual
Body Connection is a series of six mindful movement lessons designed for integration with nutrition education interventions. Body Connection offers easy-to-follow and accessible mindful movement for adults (18+) and kids (grades 3-5) with a range of movement abilities.
Body Connection
Physical Activity
Dec 04, 2025; Dec 11, 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. - Gain resources and tools for implementing trauma-informed practices in their distribution through the physical environment, nutrition education, and gathering neighbor feedback.
Community Engagement
Policy, Systems, and Environment (PSE)
Dec 04, 2025; Dec 18, 2025

Older Adults Around the Table

Zoom
This unique training will equip participants to facilitate the Around the Table Older Adults curriculum. This training is intended for educators working with older adults. (If an agency has multiple participants, each participant must register separately so that their registration email can be added to our online training system)
Food Smarts

Ongoing Trainings (9)

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FFY 26 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
OngoingOngoing Training

FFY 26 Civil Rights Self Paced Course (English)

Virtual
This is a United States Department of Agriculture (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
OngoingOngoing Training

Holistic Emotional First Aid (Spanish)

Virtual
Este curso está diseñado para introducir los principios de Primeros Auxilios Emocionales Holísticos (HEFA, por sus siglas en inglés), un marco compasivo para apoyarnos a nosotros mismos y a los demás durante momentos de angustia emocional. Aprenderás qué es HEFA, por qué es importante y cómo sus prácticas integran la atención plena, la atención informada sobre el trauma y los enfoques comunitarios.
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Holistic Emotional First Aid

Virtual
This course is designed to introduce the principles of Holistic Emotional First Aid, a compassionate framework for supporting ourselves and others during moments of emotional distress. You’ll learn what HEFA is, why it matters, and how its practices integrate mindfulness, trauma-informed care, and community-based approaches.
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