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Nutrition
Resources
The Bay Area Region provides a
wealth of nutrition resources to organizations
across the Bay Area. These resources are made
available to schools, community youth organizations,
grocery stores, and other organizations that serve
the Bay Area’s low-income communities. Key nutrition
resources include the following:
Community Youth Organization Resources
A key Children's Power Play! resource for CYOs is the
Community Youth Organization Idea & Resource Kit.
This kit includes the following items:
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CYO Leaders Guide
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Activities related to after school and community
youth programs
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Rap Cassette Tape
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Fruit & Vegetable Rap, with
lyrics included - combines music that appeals to
kids with a positive, healthy message
  
School & CYO
Trainings & Technical
Assistance
The Children's Power Play! Campaign
conducts trainings for Schools and Community
Youth Organizations on how to incorporate
healthy kid activities into the classroom
and after school programs. These
trainings include information on fun-filled
activities like the Nutrition Decathlon as
well as information on how Children's Power Play! helps
schools meet their wellness policy
objectives.
Farmers’ Markets
The Children's Power Play! Campaign
partners with and supports Farmers’ Markets
that serve low-income communities. Children's Power Play! provides Farmers’ Markets with
fun, interactive fruit and vegetable
activities and materials for kids and
parents, including:
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Signs and posters
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Games and contests for kids
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Educational materials and
incentive items for kids and parents
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Cooking demonstrations
Grocery Stores
Children's Power Play! provides grocery stores with materials, including in store
signage. In addition, the
Children's Power Play!
Campaign also conducts fruit and
vegetable demonstrations and tastings. Further, the
Children's Power Play! Campaign
helps to arrange store tours for school
children.
Children’s Recipes
Please note that all the recipes
are Web links.
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Retail Program
The Retail Program provides retailers in low-income
communities with free merchandising materials as
well as free food demonstrations.
 
Merchandising Materials
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Floor Stand Display Kit
This bilingual (English & Spanish) kit
for low-income area stores contains a
floor stand display, logo
posters, and recipe and seasonality
cards available in Spring/Summer and
Fall/Winter themes.
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Retail Merchandising Kit
This bilingual (English & Spanish) kit
for low-income area stores contains logo posters and recipe and
seasonality cards available in
Spring/Summer and Fall/Winter themes.
Food Demonstrations
The Retail Program conducts
food demonstrations at participating grocery
stores throughout the Bay Area. The
food demonstrations provide valuable
information about preparing quick and
healthy meals and provides consumers with
the skills needed to purchase and prepare
healthy food. Consumers are able to
taste recipes, see the
ingredients prepared, and encouraged to
purchase the recipe contents all in one
location. In addition, participants
receive free cookbooks and
incentive items, including t-shirts, cooking
colanders, and canvas grocery bags.
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Worksite Program
The Worksite Program helps low-income
worksites throughout the Bay Area develop and
implement their own employee wellness
program. Toward this effort the Program provides
low-income worksites with free nutrition education
resources, including the
California Fit Business Kit
and the
Take Action! Employee Wellness
Program.
Nutrition and Physical Activity Resource Guides
A Nutrition and Physical Activity Resource Guide for
each county in the Bay Area is now available.
The resource guides provide a listing of the parks,
recreation centers, gyms, and other recreational
resources in communities across the Bay Area. The resource guides also provide a listing of the
WIC programs, Food Assistance Programs, Nutrition
Programs and other nutrition resources in each
County. The Resource Guides for the following
six counties are as follows:
These Resource Guides are PDFs.
Bay Area Nutrition and
Physical Activity
Collaborative (BANPAC)
Healthy Vending Machine Toolkit
In an effort to assist organizations and
communities develop and implement healthy vending
machine policies, BANPAC has created the
Healthy
Vending Machine Toolkit. This Toolkit provides help with Assessment, Policy
Development, and Evaluation. It also provides
key information on Lessons Learned.
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