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  • Creating A More Accessible Community Health Hub

    Feb 23, 2022

    Shreveport residents with disabilities now have greater access to fresh produce, preventive healthcare, physical activity, and community involvement. This is thanks to accessibility improvements made at a local community health hub. All residents can now learn how to make healthful lifestyle choices while receiving free health screenings and building meaningful connections with their neighbors.

    accessible garden: first image is a garden tool practice station, second image is a game station with non-verbal hopscotch, third image is a sensory garden including fragrant herbs

  • Community in Action: Walk Fairview Day

    Feb 15, 2022

    Walking around the neighborhood is a great way to add physical activity to your day and improve your health. But what if there are barriers in your environment to physical activity? A group of youth from the Fairview Community in Hillsborough, North Carolina identified these barriers.

    participants from the Walk Fairview Day stand behind a table with a sign

  • Learning the Alphabet through Edible ABC’s 

    Mar 04, 2021

    Preschools and other early learning centers are critical settings for obesity prevention efforts. The preschool years are an important time when young children are learning to develop healthy habits. In FY19, Maryland SNAP-Ed partnered with over 213 early education sites and reached 9,561 preschool-aged kids through face-to-face education and multi-level interventions.

    Watermelon display with watermelons in the background and other fruits and vegetable pamphlets

  • A Walking School Bus? Why Not!!

    Jan 11, 2021

    Madera County Department of Public Health is a grantee for the Cal Fresh Healthy Living Program, a SNAP-Ed Implementing Agency.  During the 2019-2020 school year, they worked with George Washington Elementary School to pilot a Walking School Bus Program (WSB). This was done to keep students safe while walking to school. Many students walk through wide, uncontrolled crossings where there are no sidewalks on the road.

    Walking School Bus

  • Let's Ride! Let’s Eat Healthy! Let’s Have Fun!

    Jul 27, 2020

    Kids in Jefferson Parish Louisiana are riding their bikes and eating more veggies! Not only did this group of 4th and 5th grade students at Washington STEM Elementary School (WES) learn how to safely ride a bicycle, change and repair a tire tube and read a map, they had fun doing it! The students were proud of their accomplishments, with their teachers and coaches encouraging them, and they learned the importance of physical activity.

    Smiling fifth-grade student at Washington STEM Elementary School riding a bicycle practicing the bike skills drills, while her classmates wait their turn to execute the course.

  • Indoor Playground Gets Kids Moving

    May 27, 2020

    Imagine a school day where children cannot go outside to the playground because of the weather. Now, imagine a school with an indoor playground! In 2019, LSU AgCenter SNAP-Ed and the Ouachita Parish Healthy Communities Coalition created an indoor playground at Shady Grove Elementary School.

    Indoor playground with kids playing