San Bernardino County Nutrition Program Network for a Healthy California

Community Youth
Organizations

Community Youth Organizations are in a unique
position to influence kids in a friendly, interactive
environment. You may also connect with parents
more frequently than teachers do. Our Campaign’s evaluation study showed that involving the community, including youth organizations, increased children’s fruit and vegetable consumption twice as much as working with just schools. The Network for a Healthy California—Children’s Power Play! Campaign provides free nutrition and physical activity educational materials to qualifying* community youth organizations (CYO’s). Materials can be used by afterschool programs, summer programs, clubs, faith-based youth programs, and other organizations that bring children together outside of school hours.

What is included in a CYO Kit?

	Nutrition Education Made Easy! 20 engaging activities that educate children about the importance of eating fruits and vegetables and being physically active.
	Fun Physical Activities. 9 of the activities get kids up and moving to reinforce their learning.

What do I have to do to participate?

	Simply fill out and return your CYO Registration Form, making a commitment to complete all 20 lessons by the end of the school year or summer (as applicable).
	Once you complete all 20 lessons, return your CYO Participation Report to receive a “Kids…Get Cookin’!” cookbook for each student in your class.

What else can I do?

	You can enhance your Idea & Resource Kit lessons by promoting specific fruits and vegetables each month through Harvest of the Month
	We can help you reinforce the nutrition and physical activity messages with posters for your school or organization and items to reward and motivate your students such as posters, flying disks and jump ropes.
	Conduct an outdoor Nutrition Decathlon event at your site. Contact your regional Power Play! Coordinator to find out how.

For Community YouthOrganizations, not located at a school site, the site must be located in a census tract that has a population of 50% or more below 185% Federal Poverty Level for all races Hispanic or African-American. Please go to the website http://www.cnngis.org to access the Map Viewer and verify you incormation using your site's address. You can access the tutorial on the website.