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 24.

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.

Civil Rights is a USDA-required course that covers essential civil rights information. All staff funded by SNAP-Ed, including both state and local personnel, are required to complete this training annually. The FFY 25 Civil Rights for CFHL staff webinar is from 11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. This training is designed to support CalFresh Healthy Living (CFHL) work and the communities it serves. After attending the webinar, participants will be enrolled in an online course to complete a knowledge check. A score of 80% or higher is required to receive a certificate. This training will be repeated again on October 9, 2024, from 1:30–2:30 p.m. Please see the CFHL training calendar to register for the second Civil Rights for CFHL staff webinar option. A Civil Rights webinar for CFHL staff will be delivered in Spanish on October 2, 2024. Please see the training calendar to register for the Spanish Civil Rights webinar.

Derechos Civiles es un curso requerido por el USDA que cubre información esencial sobre derechos civiles. Todo el personal financiado por SNAP-Ed, incluido el personal estatal y local, debe completar la capacitación en Derechos Civiles cada año. El seminario web sobre derechos civiles para el personal de CFHL FFY 25 es de 11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. Esta capacitación está diseñada para apoyar el trabajo de CalFresh Healthy Living (CFHL) y las comunidades atendidas. Después de asistir al seminario web, los participantes se inscribirán en un curso en línea para completar una verificación de conocimientos. Se requiere una puntuación del 80% o más para recibir un certificado.

In this webinar, learn about the gut microbiome, the impact of diet on the gut microbiome and what the research says about the impact of the gut microbiome on health. We will discuss ways the topics of dietary fiber, prebiotic/probiotic supplements and fermented foods may arise in the classroom and how to best support community members as they navigate making healthy food choices. Dr. Jenny Smilowitz, Cooperative Extension Assistant Specialist in Nutrition and Health Equity at UC Davis, will present this webinar, co-hosted by CalFresh Healthy Living, UC.

In this workshop, participants will explore asset-based storytelling in writing. This training emphasizes shifting the narrative from deficits to highlighting achievements and positive outcomes. Through collaborative group work, participants will learn to distinguish between needs-based and asset-based language, and how to draft success stories and Forum posters using an ethical, asset-based approach.

Civil Rights is a USDA-required course that covers essential civil rights information. All staff funded by SNAP-Ed, including both state and local personnel, are required to complete this training annually. The FFY 25 Civil Rights for CFHL staff webinar is from 11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. This training is designed to support CalFresh Healthy Living (CFHL) work and the communities it serves. After attending the webinar, participants will be enrolled in an online course to complete a knowledge check. A score of 80% or higher is required to receive a certificate.

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.

The eCornell Making the Healthy Choice the Easy Choice self-paced course is an in-depth six-module course that provides an elevated approach to policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) change interventions. This course will enhance your skills in assessing needs, engaging partners, developing and implementing action plans, evaluating efforts, and fostering sustainability within the PSE framework.

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).

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. 

Join us for an exciting and informative CATCH Kids Club (CKC) program training session, open to all CFHL staff who want to become implementers and/or trainers. This is also an opportunity for current implementers to recertify and enhance their skills. CATCH CKC is designed for elementary and middle-school-aged children (K-8) and consists of nutrition education and physical activities to encourage active living and healthy eating.

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 November, and will need to complete approximately 1.5 hours of self-paced work prior to the first live session on 11/21/24.  Key dates are as follows: Registration Closes: 11/20/24 Self-Paced Course Opens:  Early November Live Zoom Sessions: 11/21, 12/05, 12.19; 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.

CATCH Early Childhood (CEC) program training session, open to all CFHL staff who want to become implementers or community trainers. This is also an opportunity for current implementers and trainers to recertify and enhance their skills. This training will be offered in two locations Riverside, CA or Ukiah, CA on Tuesday-Thursday, December 10-12, 2024.

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 from Summer 2023 through Winter 2024 at no cost to counties

This training will provide participants with an understanding of the impact of stimulant use on women and how to provide strength-based and trauma-informed approaches that promote recovery.

This course sets the foundation for future Leah's Pantry run courses.

This CalFresh Healthy Living Building Blocks for Success course will provide an overview of SNAP-Ed, what it is, who it serves, the Integrated Workplan (IWP) Blueprint, fiscal, programmatic, and disability inclusion as well as resources.

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.