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.

The eCornell Making the Healthy Choice the Easy Choice self-paced course is an in-depth six-module course that provides an elevated approach to policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) change interventions. This course will enhance your skills in assessing needs, engaging partners, developing and implementing action plans, evaluating efforts, and fostering sustainability within the PSE framework. This course is part of a learning collaborative that will enhance your understanding through interactive live sessions. The Learning Collaborative includes five live Zoom sessions (see schedule below), individual presentations, and approximately 12 hours of self-paced coursework spread out between the live Zoom sessions.

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.

Are you new to incorporating food waste prevention, recovery, and redistribution strategies in your communities, or looking to learn new ways to approach this work? Join the upcoming virtual Promising Practices Summit: Food Waste Prevention, Recovery, and Redistribution. This summit will concentrate on successful initiatives and practical tips for implementing food waste prevention, recovery, and redistribution programs in your community. This event is open to all who implement nutrition or food security programs and will showcase promising practices and resources. Participants will have opportunities to engage in small group discussions, network in breakout rooms, and hear presentations from CFHL implementers and community organization

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.

This in-person, two-day workshop is designed to provide participants with the knowledge, skills, and resources to plan, develop, and sustain an edible school or community garden.  Participants must attend both days. Day 1 (in the classroom): Be ready for an action-packed day focused on developing and implementing a sustainable garden program.  Participants will describe how a garden extends beyond the “site” to reinforce community-wide PSE efforts, build a garden strategic plan, and practice developing and delivering garden program messaging that will resonate with any audience. Day 2 (in the garden): Dig your hands into the soil, and discover new techniques in this all-day garden skills workshop.  Focused on designing your garden space and conducting a garden analysis, participants will classify soil types, determine when and where in the garden to plant crops, demonstrate harvesting techniques, and install a drip irrigation system. Space is limited and will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis.  If you are interested in attending, please fill out the registration form.  Additional trainings will be held throughout the state in FFY 25.

This unique training will equip participants to facilitate the Around the Table curricula, which aims to increase the health and resilience of the communities you serve. 

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.

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).

The Systems Approaches for Healthy Communities (SAHC) Self-Paced Modules are developed by the University of Minnesota Extension and are designed to identify and describe key concepts related to policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) change interventions.

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.