In this webinar, learn more about how mental health is related to our food access and eating behaviors. We will explore the latest research on this topic before discussing how this may come up in the classroom or community. Dr. Cassandra Nguyen, Cooperative Extension Assistant Specialist in Community Nutrition at UC Davis, will present this webinar.

This interactive training will equip participants to facilitate the Food Smarts: Waste Reduction curriculum for Kids. This curriculum aims to increase awareness of strategies and tools to support food waste reduction among young individuals.

CATCH Early Childhood (CEC) program training session, open to all CFHL staff who want to become implementers or community trainers. This is also an opportunity for current implementers and trainers to recertify and enhance their skills. This training will be offered in two locations Riverside, CA or Ukiah, CA on Tuesday-Thursday, December 10-12, 2024.

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).

CalFresh Healthy Living (CFHL) 101 Training is designed for newer CFHL staff. This is a self-paced course and three live session training that will provide the "big picture" and introduce foundational models, plans, and frameworks of CFHL.

This interactive training will equip participants to facilitate the Food Smarts: Waste Reduction curriculum for Adults. This curriculum aims to build nutrition and cooking skills while engaging participants to reduce food waste and its harmful effects on the planet.

We are offering two CATCH Implemnter training for CATCH Kids Club (CKC) and CATCH Early Childhood (CEC). Participants can choose to attend one or both training sessions! These sessions are open to all CFHL staff who want to become implementers. This is also an opportunity for current implementers to receive refreshers.

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 - Collaboratively explore what role food pantries have in supporting community food security.

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 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.

The REIB Statewide Initiative has brought together a collaborative of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) experts to design our training curriculum. This curriculum will be used to provide training to county welfare department staff touching the CalWORKs and CalFresh programs. The workshops will be presented in a variety of modalities, including in-person, instructor-led online classes and longer-term learning collaboratives. Workshops will be offered from Summer 2023 through Winter 2024 at no cost to counties

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.

This course sets the foundation for future Leah's Pantry run courses.