- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
Published on: May 13, 2021

A group of kids water their school garden.
When local promotoras - volunteer health workers - team with CalFresh Healthy Living, UC Cooperative Extension educators, magic happens in school gardens. Trained by Ceres Partnership for Healthy Families in Stanislaus County, promotoras encourage children to eat well by growing their own produce in school gardens.
In 2018, twenty promotoras were trained to implement the Powerful People curriculum designed to engage community leaders. This is a partnership with Cultiva La Salud and Ceres Partnership for Healthy Families with funding support from Stanislaus County Health Services Agency. After the training, the promotoras worked with Ceres Unified School District to create school gardens...
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UCANR: Promoting healthy people and communities
Tags: CalFresh Healthy Living UC (5), Jaci Westbrook (1), promotoras (1), Rosalinda Ruiz (1), school gardens (4)
Focus Area Tags: Family, Yard & Garden
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