Change can be challenging, but your well-being doesn’t have to take a backseat. This workshop will guide you past the commercialized idea of self-care to a more sustainable, meaningful practice. You’ll learn how to spot and avoid the pitfalls of consumerism and diet culture, then build a personal self-care plan that empowers you to thrive and serve those around you more effectively. You’ll be able to carry these skills with you to support your well-being as you navigate change and new opportunities. Training Date: Tuesday, December 9, 2025 Training Time: 10:00 a.m.–11:30 a.m.

With CalFresh Healthy Living funding nearing its conclusion, our focus is shifting from direct delivery to technical assistance and sustainability efforts.  One way to achieve this is equipping community champions with the knowledge and skills they need to take over this work.  However, developing a comprehensive "Train the Trainer" program from the ground up can feel overwhelming.  Join us for a two-hour, dynamic webinar designed to demystify this critical process.  You will receive practical tips, resources, and best practices to successfully launch your own Train-the-Trainer.  Although this session will focus on Direct Education, we will also discuss PSE work.  To ensure you are fully supported, Leah's Pantry will offer dedicated Office Hours in the months following the webinar.  These sessions will provide one-on-one consultation and support as you begin to train community partners.

Did you miss our last live session in August? This repeat session offers another chance to dive into a hands-on training designed to support a smooth and sustainable transition of leadership for your community garden. Together, we’ll explore how to use a trauma-informed and Appreciative Inquiry approach to plan for the future, strengthen community involvement, and ensure your garden continues to thrive. This training is open to all CalFresh Healthy Living staff, including those who have attended previous in-person Light Bulbs to Garden Bulbs sessions.

As we begin winding down the quarter, the Statewide Training team is creating space for something we all benefit from but rarely have time to do—simply connecting with one another. You’re invited to join us for a relaxed, one-hour end-of-quarter check-in. This session is an opportunity to pause together, talk about what’s been working well, reflect on challenges, and swap program ideas or insights as we head into the next phase of our work. Whether you have something specific to share or just want to listen and be part of the conversation, we’d love to have you! Come as you are—bring a story, a question, a win, or simply your curiosity. This is a chance to reconnect, support one another, and recharge as we close out the quarter.

This is a repeat session of the December training. You only need to attend one of the available sessions. With CalFresh Healthy Living funding nearing its conclusion, teams are shifting from direct delivery to technical assistance and sustainability. One way to achieve this is to equip community champions with the knowledge and skills they need to take over this work. However, developing a comprehensive "Train the Trainer" program from scratch can feel overwhelming. Join us for a two-hour webinar designed to demystify this critical process. Participants will receive practical tips, resources, and best practices to successfully launch their own Train-the-Trainer program. Although this session will focus on Direct Education, we will also discuss policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) change work. To ensure you are fully supported, Leah's Pantry will offer dedicated Office Hours in the months following the webinar for one-on-one consultation and guidance as you begin to train community partners. Note: This is a repeat session of the December training. You only need to attend one of the available sessions.

Strengthen the foundation for long-term CalFresh Healthy Living program continuity with a session focused on the types of documentation that truly support sustainability, smooth program transitions, and effective program closeout. We’ll explore what makes resources “evergreen,” how to design materials that outlast staff or funding changes, and which documentation practices help preserve institutional knowledge, strengthen partnerships, and set the stage for future grant opportunities.

As CalFresh Healthy Living programs evolve, many of us are focused on sustainability—training community champions, empowering local partners, and ensuring that great work continues. But what happens when our successors move on? How can we set the stage so the second and third persons are positioned to maintain the momentum? Join us for a practical and forward-thinking session exploring how succession planning can help strengthen the long-term sustainability of CFHL efforts. Together, we’ll highlight how simple tools—like templates, checklists, and planning guides—can help ensure your programs thrive well into the future.

Trauma-Informed Customer Service is a training for CalFresh Healthy Living staff and community educators facilitating classes and/or capacity-building programs in their community that would like to develop their customer service and relationship-building skills. Rooted in trauma-informed principles and practices, this training will help participants more effectively and compassionately handle difficult situations that may arise during their community-based work.

This interactive training is designed for staff and volunteers involved in congregate meal sites, aiming to enhance the dining experience through Wiser Dining. Wiser Dining focuses on creating a client-centered, health-promoting, and positive environment for clients. Participants will be equipped with the knowledge and tools to conduct a comprehensive needs assessment, set achievable goals, and utilize available resources effectively to meet those needs. The training covers Wiser Dining’s core focus areas: client-centered, cuisine and nutrition education, site environment, policies and procedures, and staff & volunteers.

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.

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)

Join the Bay Area Nutrition and Physical Activity Collaborative (BANPAC) and weight discrimination expert Virgie Tovar for a powerful, thought-provoking two-session training on dismantling weight stigma in public health. Together, we’ll critically examine the cultural and institutional frameworks that have shaped dominant narratives about weight, health, and responsibility. Participants will gain new vocabulary, conceptual tools, and practical strategies for identifying and interrupting weight bias in research, policy, and practice. This session invites honest reflection, transformative learning, and a reimagining of what equitable public health can look like when every body truly counts.

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

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 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 January 23, 2026, for eligibility review. Selected applicants who are funded by CalFresh Healthy Living (CFHL) will participate in a comprehensive training program at no cost.

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.

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.