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A comprehensive educational resource guide designed to help teach low-income older adults to select and enjoy nutrient-rich foods. The toolkit contains a leader's guide and 4 sessions to promote fruit and vegetable consumption and physical activity. Each session is about 30 minutes, plus optional 10-minute physical activity before and after. Free download from USDA FNS website.

Source:
USDA FNS

Focuses on four key food skills: 
1. Reading food labels; 2. Comparing unit prices; 3. Finding whole grain foods; 4. Identifying three ways to purchase produce
 

Source:
Share Our Strength
CA contact The Food Trust: [email protected] 

Link: 

https://learning.thefoodtrust.org/cooking-matters/ 

Cooking Matters promotes healthy eating through educational tools, hands-on cooking courses, and interactive grocery store tours. Participants learn to shop smarter, use nutritional information to make healthier choices, and cook affordable meals.

Source:
Share Our Strength
CA contact The Food Trust: [email protected] 

Link: 

https://learning.thefoodtrust.org/cooking-matters/ 

Bingocize™ consists of two 60 minute sessions per week. Each session begins with the participants sitting at tables with bingo cards and exercise equipment (balance pads and resistance bands). After every two exercises, a bingo letter and number combination is announced for the game. The pattern is continued until a participant wins the game. The programs goals are to improve mobility, balance, and Activities of Daily Living (ADL) in older adult populations.

Community-based PA and self-management education program. Includes health education, stretching and strengthening exercises, and motivational strategies. Can be done by individuals using Walk with Ease workbook on their own, or by groups led by trained leaders. Structured 6-week multi-component program. Group sessions include socialization time, pre-walk informational mini lectures, warm ups and cool downs, and a 10-35 minute walking period.

Virtual components have been added. See Source/Virtual Contact
Information column. Cost of $89 for training and access to curriculum.

An adult series of 10 home-based lessons with 1 in-person contact and telephone coaching. Lessons focus on healthy eating, food resource management, food safety.

Source:
UC ANR

Link:
Restricted Access - Pending approval for use by programs outside of UC ANR; please contact CalFresh Healthy Living, UC State Office at [email protected]

Mini lessons designed for use as one time workshops in settings such as social services offices and food pantries. Topics include importance of breakfast, MyPlate and fruit and Vegetable Intake and making better beverage choices. Free download from website,

Source:
UC ANR

Link:
Restricted Access - Pending approval for use by programs outside of UC ANR; please contact CalFresh Healthy Living, UC State Office at [email protected] 

Companion to Parents in Action. 4 lesson plans, each 60-90 minutes, cover how parents and schools can work together, foods and beverages, PA, joint use and identifying problems and solutions. Free download of curriculum with link.

Source:
Project LEAN

Link:
http://www.californiaprojectlean.org/docuserfiles/ParentLessonPlans.pdf

Contractor developed. 5 lessons, 30-60 minutes each. Intended use:
Lesson #1 – Build a Healthy Plate, Lesson #2 – Planning Healthy Meals, Lesson #3 – Shopping on a Budget, Lesson #4 – What’s on a Label?, Lesson #5 – Rethink Your Drink

Educator's Handbook, 4 lessons (each about 45 minutes), participant handouts, marketing brochure, optional handouts. Topics: MyPlate family meals, food and PA, vegetables and fruits, active family time. Free download from website.

Source:
USDA FNS

Link:
https://snaped.fns.usda.gov/nutrition-education/myplate-my-family