When children drink more water, they consume fewer calories from sugary beverages, stay hydrated, and improve their readiness to learn. This session will explore the obstacles schools face in providing free drinking water for students and look at promising practices that support access to fresh water throughout the school day. Speakers include health department and school district staff who will talk about challenges and successes at the local level.

This webinar will provide SNAP-Ed LIAs with an overview of Comprehensive School Physical Activity Program. The webinar describes what a CSPAP looks like, as well as walks through the different components and steps to implement CSPAP.

Join Living Streets Alliance (LSA) for a two-hour webinar and learning session, “Creative Community Engagement Strategies for Active Living.” LSA is a local non-profit based in Tucson, working towards a vision where walking, biking, and taking transit are safe and comfortable for everyone of all ages and abilities. During this session, learn how to employ a spectrum of non-traditional strategies that center local community needs, reach diverse audiences, and strengthen neighborhoods. Tune in to hear how you might use community engagement tactics to impact transportation policies and on-the-ground projects that affect the design of our streets to make them better places for families and neighbors to bike, walk, play, and connect.

This Direct Education Webinar featured the curriculum Eat Healthy Be Active and involved compononents of the curriculum modification guidelines.

Learn how to craft sustainable public health policy that supports healthier environments by defining the problem, finding policy solutions that work and locating resources for help. Having a clear understanding of the legal and policy context for any public health effort is critical for everyone working to create lasting, meaningful change. Public health has experienced a seismic shift in how policy is viewed in prevention efforts.  What can communities do to ensure that public health policy creates healthy environments?

This course is approximately 30-45 minutes in length. This course will provide an overview of Arizona’s Empower Program, reviewing all 10 standards, policies, and resources. You will download a fillable Self-Assessment Tool Checklist to record your program’s implementation throughout the course

This webinar reviews the new azhealthzone.org public pages and review of the new Every. Day. Active physical activity campaign.

Learn about the USDA's evidence-base requirement, AzNN's evidence-base requirement, and how to submit interventions for inclusion within the AzNN program.

Explore the connection between SNAP-Ed and Farm to School and learn about opportunities for LIAs support PSE changes within this strategy.

Farmers’ markets and mobile produce vending offer “pop-up” approaches to improving access to healthy food.  This training covers some of the unique benefits of these strategies, and provides guidance for crafting right-sized policies that encourage and protect them.  Participants will learn: 1) The health, economic, and community benefits of farmers’ markets and produce carts; 2) The roles of local government in promoting successful farmers’ markets and produce carts, including market research and business assistance; 3) Model zoning and permitting strategies to promote and expand farmers’ markets and produce carts; 4) Requiring or incentivizing the acceptance of SNAP and; 5) Case studies of successful farmers’ markets and mobile vending policy implementation.

This training will cover:

1. Work Plan (per county jurisdiction)
2. Budget (per county jurisdiction)
3. Site Listing
4. Signed Assurances

This webinar will provide SNAP-Ed Local Implementing Agencies and Collaborative Partners with an overview of Fresh Pick components.

The goal of this webinar is to help LIAs identify the most strategic curriculum for their community. The webinar will review and compare approved Gardening curricula and give participants and opportunity to share their expereince with the different curriculum.

This webinar reviews the Go NAP SACC tool and how to use the tool for FY18 Early Childhood efforts. 

Giving students the opportunity to learn about and interact with agriculture is a great way to contribute to a healthier food environment at school. This training explores policy, systems, and environmental strategies that can help to reduce childhood obesity by improving the food landscape on campus, including: federal school food guidelines; program and legal considerations when starting a school garden; and best practices in farm-to-school activities from an Arizona school district. 

This webinar is an introduction to Healthy Food Retail and provides an overview of different approaches to changing the retail environment, including pros and cons of each approach and applicability to different communities.

This webinar will provide SNAP-Ed Local Implementing Agencies and Collaborative Partners with an overview of Healthy Starts Here components.

Fear of liability is one of the most common obstacles that communities encounter as they adopt and implement new strategies to improve public health.  In this session, we describe why this fear arises, debunk myths about liability, provide an overview of the legal realities around liability, and provide concrete recommendations and approaches to overcome this barrier. 

The Safe Routes to Parks webinar will allow participants to learn the strategies to increase park usage, create access via multiple modes of transportation and programming at parks. The webinar will review the Action Framework as well as National Recreation and Parks Association resources.

Urban agriculture – including home gardens, community gardens, and urban farms – can help improve residents’ access to fresh fruits and vegetables, physical activity, and educational and entrepreneurial opportunities. While the idea of promoting urban agriculture is gaining mainstream acceptance, tricky questions often crop up: should sales be allowed? Should growing practices be regulated? What kinds of requirements for soil testing are necessary? Do ADA standards apply to urban agriculture? And what about all those live critters, like bees and chickens? This training includes practical advice and model land use strategies to support and protect urban agriculture.

Communities across the country are seeking safe, accessible, and affordable places for children and their families to exercise and play. Public schools have a variety of recreational facilities—gymnasiums, playgrounds, fields, courts, and tracks—where people can engage in physical activity. In under-resourced communities, schools are often the only place to find safe and affordable recreation facilities.  Unfortunately, due to both real and perceived concerns over liability, staffing, and maintenance, these facilities are often locked during non-school hours, inaccessible to both students and the larger community.  

To secure access to these underutilized spaces, the public health community has embraced the concept of “shared use.” Shared use is most often used as a strategy to increase physical activity opportunities on school grounds, but other government agencies, community groups, and faith-based organizations are successfully implementing shared use arrangements as well.  This training introduces the topic of shared use, identifies ways for public health professionals to get involved with shared use efforts, and explores how shared use agreements and policies can address common barriers such as liability.

The purpose of the 2017 Social Media and Technology Study was to obtain more current information about media and technology access and use among the SNAP-Ed target audience and to dive a little deeper into Social Media.The information from this study will inform communications strategies for both state and local level social marketing and program implementation.

This webinar presented the research behind the new branding of the Arizona Nutrition Network to the AZ Health Zone.

This webinar will introduce the new ADHS Style Guide. This resource can be used to help craft effective messages and content that positively influences your audience and promotes healthy behavior change.

Public health experts have identified sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) as major contributors to poor diet and rising obesity rates.  Many communities and states have proposed or implemented various strategies to reduce consumption, from public education campaigns to portion size restrictions.  Other communities and states are just getting started in their path to reduce SSB consumption among residents. In this webinar ChangeLab Solutions will discuss the entire spectrum of strategies for communities and states to consider, organized in a sequence that we have seen many places follow. We will also discuss emerging strategies, including SSB warning labels.