The Nutrition, Family, and Consumer Sciences program helps people better manage their family and personal resources. The program provides consumers -- especially the parents of young children -- with information in food and nutrition, food safety, food preservation, and money management. Training and information is also provided to health and education professionals such as nurses, foster care parents, home health aides residential care operators, and teachers.
UCCE Youth Nutrition Education Program is for teachers, youth program coordinators, staff and counselors in Monterey and Santa Cruz Counties who work with families on a budget (Food Stamp applicants or recipients, or students at schools with 50% or more participating in the Free & Reduced School Meals Plan). UCCE offers free on-site work-shops to faculty or staff, free ongoing program support and free Curriculum, fully aligned with current State standards. The Youth newsletter, Edible Express, is a quarterly publication offering classroom activities, nutrition and food safety news items and showcasing local teachers using UCCE nutrition curriculum. The nutrition Resource Library provides videos, books, tri-fold displays and teaching aids.
Community Trainers in Nutrition Program is for volunteers whose clients benefit from classes that build skills in cost-effective food purchasing, food safety and nutritious meal planning. Training includes one full day inservice, 4 follow-up onehour tutorials on specific subjects, and 4 hours of student teaching. Graduates use UCCE's Special Menus (Lista de Platos Especiales) for the prevention of illness, low-cost nutritious (Recipes (Recetas) and (Tutorials to get the message out to seniors, pre-school or migrant education parents, teen parents and persons in recovery. The adult newsletter, Favorite Family Food, is a bilingual publication that is published on alternate months, and offers recipes, news and nutrition and food safety information in an interesting, reader-friendly format.
Fast Food High School is a fotonovela about themes that are important to us all - food, personal choice and being cool. It was acted and scripted by students at Soledad High School, in Monterey County. Their work actively benefited these and other students, and the adults in their families and surrounding community. Fast Food High School Español is also available. The project is funded by California Food and Fiber Futures: Food Diet and Health Action Project
For families on a budget, UCCE's free nutrition and health classes offer information about the foods needed for a healthy life. Learn to get the most from a food-buying dollar, prevent food-borne illness, or prepare the most healthful versions of favorite foods as quickly and inexpensively as possible. Nutrition Classes are for any groups in the Monterey-Santa Cruz County area that serve food stamp-eligible clientele. Videos, menu-planning and other hands-on activities demonstrate that nutritious food can be inexpensive and simple to prepare as well as delicious.
Healthful food can truly be "nutritious, delicious and make you feel ambitious". Call us to find out how.
Call Kathleen Nolan - 831-759-7373 for more information. Hay clases, actividades y biblioteca en español, también. Llame a Kata Nolan - 831-759-7373 para más información.
