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A School Garden Flourishes in Rural Nevada
Jan 04, 2022 Children living in Pahrump, Nevada learn more about the importance of eating fresh fruits and vegetables by building their own school garden.

Success Story
Adapting Garden Leadership Trainings to a Virtual Setting
Feb 15, 2022 Community Gardens serve as a tool to improve food insecurity and provide nutrition education. They also strengthen community relationships! These communal spaces have been especially important during the COVID pandemic. They allow an opportunity for connection and provide an activity that can be meditative and restorative.

Remote/Virtual

Success Story
Best practices and innovative solutions to overcome barriers to delivering policy, systems and environmental changes in rural communities

2018
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Haynes-Maslow, L.; Osborne, I.; Jilcott Pitts, S.B.

To better understand the barriers to implementing policy; systems; and environmental (PSE) change initiatives within Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program-Education (SNAP-Ed) programming in U.S.

SNAP-Ed Literature
Buy Eat Live Better
May 05, 2017 Buy Eat Live Better: Teaches SNAP-Ed eligible youth and adults in the locations that they eat, live, learn, work, play, and shop. Collaborates with community and statewide partners to leverage resources and increase program reach to eligible audiences. Empowers organizations and individuals to create changes in policies, systems, and environments that make the healthy choice the easy choice for all Montanans.

Success Story
CATCH - Coordinated Approach to Child Health
2021 CATCH Global Foundation; University of Texas School of Public Health (UTHealth)
The CATCH Program is a PSE change and direct education intervention that addresses the physical, mental, and emotional health of youth through its Mind-Heart-Body approach and coordinated framework.
- SNAP-Ed Interventions
CATCH Early Childhood
2011 CATCH Global Foundation, University of Texas School of Public Health
The Coordinated Approach to Child Health Early Childhood (CEC) is a direct education and PSE change intervention designed to nurture a love of physical activity (PA) while introducing classroom-based gardening, nutrition, and healthy eating in children ages 3-5.
- SNAP-Ed Interventions
Chronic Disease Self-Management Program
Self-Management Resource Center
The Chronic Disease Self-Management Program (CDSMP) is a direct education intervention that helps individuals and caregivers of those with chronic health conditions build a "toolbox" of strategies they can utilize to help achieve their health goals.
- SNAP-Ed Interventions
Community Gardens Bring Healthy Food to those in Need in Rural Alabama
Oct 26, 2018 Alabama SNAP-Ed increased access to healthy and affordable food by growing fresh vegetables in the Community Gardens in Rural Alabama pilot program! These fresh vegetables can help to improve the health and nutrition of people living in rural communities who are at higher risk for chronic disease than people living in urban settings.

Success Story
Community Garden Program during COVID-19 Helps Families Make the Healthy Choice the Easy Choice
Jan 28, 2021 COVID-19 made the 2020 summer garden program in Plymouth, Massachusetts, uncertain, but UMass Extension’s SNAP-Ed partners found a way to make it succeed, and how! This 4-year-old community gardening program reinvented itself and, in the process, provided safe and healthy food for many families and households in town.

Success Story
Contextual assessment of the breadth and level of investments made by prevention initiatives to improve nutrition and prevent obesity in Los Angeles County, 2010-2015

2019
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Sutton, K.; Clark, S.E.; Thompson, J.; Craypo, L.; Schwarte, L.; Kuo, T.

To better characterize and understand local investments made by prevention initiatives to address poor nutrition and obesity during 2010–2015, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health partnered with an evaluation firm in 2014 to conduct a context scan of nutrition education programs (NE

SNAP-Ed Literature