Youth Development

The National School Lunch and Breakfast Programs help reduce food insecurity and improve nutrition for school-aged children. The Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) allows schools with high levels of children in poverty to offer breakfast and lunch at no cost to all students.

A recent study by Nutrition Policy Institute (NPI) researchers assessed differences in quick-service, or fast-food, restaurants with and without voluntary healthy default beverage standards for kids' meals. Voluntary standards' are restaurant commitments to offer healthier drinks with kids' meals.

In May 2020, Nutrition Policy Institute researchers Suzanne Rauzon and Hallie Randel-Schreiber collaborated with Kaiser Permanente, Alliance for a Healthier Generation, and other national school health partners to survey educators across the nation about overall readiness to return to learning for t...

Today is National Avocado Day! Take a break from the heat and check out the wonderful presentations, recipe demonstrations, even a fun activity for kids and adults creating costumes for this versatile fruit, from our Virtual Avocado Festival held last month at http://ceorange.ucanr.

Spotting ants in the home or yard is no reason to reach for insecticide sprays or call an exterminator. UC Cooperative Extension experts say the insects can be managed by residents in ways that are effective, inexpensive, safe and environmentally kind. Ants are probably the No.

In English Se invita a todos los granjeros, rancheros, contratistas de mano de obra agrcola y supervisores agrcolas a llenar una encuesta corta acerca de sus experiencias sobre cmo han abordado el COVID-19? en su lugar de trabajo.

In English. Ahora ms que nunca, California est llena de hroes: los trabajadores de primera lnea en nuestros hospitales, campos agrcolas y negocios esenciales.

Field trips are out, but the learning continues at the UC Kearney Agricultural Research and Extension Center.

We first met artist Marilyn Judson of Davis in 2010 when she was preparing for a juried art show.

Most people are practicing social distancing due to the current pandemic, so contracting head lice might not be a top concern right now. However, many families with young children have at least one encounter with head lice at some time or another.