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).

Discover your CliftonStrengths and learn how to leverage them to build authentic, resilient, and diverse community connections. By increasing self-awareness, we can equip ourselves to contribute meaningfully, especially in contexts that require empathy, collaboration, and relationship-building across differences. Deadline to register: October 13, 2025

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 May, and will need to complete approximately 1.5 hours of self-paced work prior to the first live session on 05/22/25.  Key dates are as follows: Registration Closes: May 21, 2025 Self-Paced Course Opens:  Early-Mid May Live Zoom Sessions: May 22, June 5, June 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.

Community work is all about collaboration, but decision-making can lead to roadblocks in projects or programs. Majority voting leaves people feeling unheard, and true consensus can be time-consuming and frustrating.  In this training, you will learn about Consent Decision-Making, a dynamic and effective facilitation method. This approach moves beyond traditional voting and consensus by asking, "Do you object?" instead of, "Do you agree?" 

In this introductory workshop, you’ll learn simple, universally applicable approaches to move groups from confusion to clarity, consensus, and commitment. Through demonstrations, hands-on practice, and real-world application, you’ll gain the tools and confidence to design effective meetings that foster collaboration and action. Participants will also receive a ToP certificate upon completion.

This unique training will equip participants to facilitate the Food Smarts Adapted for Recovery curriculum. This training is intended for staff and volunteers working with adults in substance use treatment or recovery. (If an agency has multiple participants, each participant must register separately so that their registration email address can then be added to our online training system)

The Master Trainer program certifies individuals to train facilitators for Food Smarts community workshops aimed at both kids and adults. Interested candidates should complete the application by October 24, 2025, for eligibility review. Selected applicants who are funded by CalFresh Healthy Living (CFHL) will participate in a comprehensive training program at no cost.

This training is designed as a remote first aid for collaboratives and coalitions navigating the current CalFresh Healthy Living landscape. We will focus on triaging your group’s existing situation by identifying current challenges and opportunities. 

Body Connection is a series of six mindful movement lessons designed for integration with nutrition education interventions. Body Connection offers easy-to-follow and accessible mindful movement for adults (18+) and kids (grades 3-5) with a range of movement abilities.

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. - Gain resources and tools for implementing trauma-informed practices in their distribution through the physical environment, nutrition education, and gathering neighbor feedback.

This unique training will equip participants to facilitate the Around the Table Older Adults curriculum. This training is intended for educators working with older adults. (If an agency has multiple participants, each participant must register separately so that their registration email can be added to our online training system)

You’ve built a beautiful garden—now what? Prepare to transform your school or community garden policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) project into a self-sustaining community resource. This virtual training summarizes the key concepts from our in-person Light Bulbs to Garden Bulbs training, providing you with practical tools and actionable steps to transfer ownership to the community. This training is open to all CalFresh Healthy Living staff, including those who have attended previous Light Bulbs to Garden Bulbs sessions.

This course is for facilitators wanting to learn how to implement the Dads Around the Table (AtT) curriculum.

Este es un curso requerido por el USDA que enfatiza la información más importante sobre derechos civiles, diseñada para apoyar el trabajo de CalFresh Healthy Living (CFHL) y las comunidades atendidas. Tenga en cuenta que todo el personal financiado por CFHL, incluido el personal estatal y local, debe completar la capacitación en Derechos Civiles cada año.

This is a United States Department of Agriculture (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.

Este curso está diseñado para introducir los principios de Primeros Auxilios Emocionales Holísticos (HEFA, por sus siglas en inglés), un marco compasivo para apoyarnos a nosotros mismos y a los demás durante momentos de angustia emocional. Aprenderás qué es HEFA, por qué es importante y cómo sus prácticas integran la atención plena, la atención informada sobre el trauma y los enfoques comunitarios.

This course is designed to introduce the principles of Holistic Emotional First Aid, a compassionate framework for supporting ourselves and others during moments of emotional distress. You’ll learn what HEFA is, why it matters, and how its practices integrate mindfulness, trauma-informed care, and community-based approaches.

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.