CalFresh Healthy Living, UCCE Placer/Nevada

CalFresh Healthy Living, UCCE Placer/Nevada

CalFresh Healthy Living, UCCE Placer/Nevada Counties, provides comprehensive, hands-on nutrition education, produce tastings, garden and physical activity education to qualifying schools, youth organizations, and adult groups. 

We aim to help CalFresh-eligible children and families in Placer and Nevada Counties maintain healthy lifestyles through wise food choices and physical activity. 

Each school year, our program staff serves over 2,800 children by teaching nutrition lessons and providing evidence-based nutrition curricula, training, and materials to teachers in qualifying schools and area educators at no cost. We reach hundreds of CalFresh-eligible adults through workshops and newsletters. 

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