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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

  • 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

  • Rural Obesity Prevention Toolkit

    2017 The Rural Health Information Hub.

    The Rural Obesity Prevention Toolkit is made up of eight modules to help pinpoint factors in your community that promote obesity, convene partners to help address those problems, and apply proven o

    Rural Obesity Prevention Toolkit with a green background and an image of a scale

  • Chickasaw Nation SNAP-Ed Coordinated Programming and Evaluation

    Aug 04, 2017

    The Eagle Adventure program was developed through a collaboration between the Chickasaw Nation Nutrition Services SNAP-Ed Program and the Oklahoma State University in Indian Country for youth and their families after extensive formative research indicated type 2 diabetes as a major concern among parents and elders. The team used the socioecological model (SEM) as the framework for development of the program and evaluation processes.

    Table - Chickasaw Nation SNAP-Ed evaluation processes support evaluation of indicators outlined in the SNAP-Ed Evaluation Framework