California’s Healthy Behaviors Initiative
The Healthy Behaviors Initiative (HBI) supports local and statewide efforts by transforming expanded learning programs into places that embed healthy eating, physical activity and food security in their policies, practices and behaviors--changing the lives of the students, staff and families. Currently there are 28 multi-site programs and 37 Learning Centers statewide that are implementing the HBI practices at an exemplary level; impacting the policies, practices and behaviors of close to 1000 expanded learning sites throughout California. Read more here.
Changing Lives, Saving Lives
A Step-by-Step Guide to Developing Exemplary Practices in Healthy Eating, Physical Activities and Food Security in Afterschool Programs.
SNAP-Ed Toolkit Website
This toolkit will help SNAP-Ed Implementing Agencies across the country find evidence-based interventions and explore the SNAP-Ed Evaluation Framework in order to strengthen our impact on our goal to help SNAP-eligible households make healthy eating and physical activity choices on a limited budget.
See the website here.Access the HBI webpage here.
Download a PDF of the toolkit here.
CCS Honored by NAA
CCS has been selected as one of the National Afterschool Association's 2017 Most Influential in Health & Wellness. Honorees are distinguished for their strong advocacy for and support of health and wellness in afterschool programs. Honorees were profiled in the Spring 2017 issue of AfterSchool Today magazine. Read the article here.
