CalFresh Healthy Living aims to improve students' health and wellbeing through interventions that promote healthy eating and physical activity. In 2023-24, 92 school and school-based after school sites partnered with the local health department in their county to implement and evaluate CalFresh Healthy Living Programming. To measure program outcomes, students reported their dietary intake and physical activity behaviors on a self-administered survey before and after the programming. An infographic developed by the Nutrition Policy Institute describes the sample of students who participated in the evaluation and summarizes changes in their nutrition and physical activity behaviors. The infographic demonstrates a number of behavior changes, including:

• Whole fruit consumption increased by 0.5 times per day
• Sugary drink consumption decreased by 0.5 times per day
• The number of students achieving 60min of daily physical activity increased by 16%

Learn more about NPI's work to evaluate the CalFresh Healthy Living program.