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  • Food Pantry Clients Try New Foods

    Apr 19, 2022

    Many Iowa food pantries promote healthy habits! Pantry clients can try new foods through food samplings, recipe kits, and fresh produce donations, thanks to Iowa State University Extension and Outreach SNAP-Ed. 

    10 Minute Chili Kit with canned tomatoes, beef, and kidney beans

  • 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

  • SC Plants the Seed

    Oct 15, 2018

    SC Plants the Seed brings together nutrition education, increasing access to fresh produce, USDA Summer Food Service Program, and literacy.

    nutrition education at the library

  • Cooking with Kids

    Feb 02, 2018

    When kids help make healthy foods, they are excited to try them! Cooking with Kids teaches public school children about the joys of healthy cooking and eating and where their food comes from.

    boys stirring food in a skillet

  • Distinguished After School Health Recognition Program

    Jun 13, 2016

    California’s local and federal funding provides enrichment services in 4,500 SNAP-Ed eligible afterschool programs. To assess the potential of SNAP-Ed to introduce such efforts system-wide (ST5), the California Department of Public Health’s Network for a Healthy California worked with the Center for Collaborative Solutions (CCS), a nonprofit specializing in public education.

    hotograph of children from START performing at Cesar Chavez Park in Sacramento, California in 2014