Healthy Youth, Families, and Communities

The CalFresh Healthy Living, UCCE (CFHL,UCCE) program works with low-income schools, communities, and youth serving organizations in northern Santa Barbara County to provide nutrition education, food security, physical activity, and positive youth development programming.

In the last 12 months, have you ever: worried that your food would run out before you got money to buy more? been unable to afford balanced meals? cut the size of your meals or skipped meals because there wasn't enough money for food? lost weight because there wasn't enough money for food?

This summer three UCCE programs including CalFresh Healthy Living, Master Food Preservers, and Master Gardeners collaborated with local libraries to teach nutrition, gardening, and food preservation skills to families through the Lompoc Library Learn and Grow series and the Santa Maria Teens Club.

Today several members of the CalFresh at Farmers Market Working Group attended the San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors' meeting to accept the proclamation of August 6th -12th 2023 as SLO County Farmers Market Week.

The 4-H Student Nutrition Advisory Council (SNAC) club at Rice Elementary returned to in-person meetings this year for the first time since March 2020.