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These Web pages are intended to provide tips, tools, and additional resources to help after school programs:
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Section One Why Healthy Snacks? |
The benefits of healthy snacks for your program and its students! |
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Section Two What are Healthy Snacks? |
Foods that make healthy snacks |
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Section Three Acquiring Healthy Snacks |
Resources for funding healthy snacks and resources to get your hands on healthy snacks |
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Section Four Creating Healthy Food Policies |
How to build food policies for your after school program |
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Section Five Serving Safe Snacks |
Food safety and sanitation for healthy snacks |
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Section Six Teaching Healthy Eating Choices |
The power of nutrition education |
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Section Seven Engaging Youth |
Youth development through a healthy snack program |
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Section Eight Assessing Your Program |
How well is your program doing at providing healthy snacks? |
Senate Bill 638 and After School Healthy Snacks
Senate Bill 638 (2006) was introduced by Senators Torlakson and Ashburn to aid in the implementation of voter-approved Proposition 49. One of the requirements of SB 638 is that the California Department of Education (CDE) will provide training and support for the after school enrichment component in After School Education and Safety (ASES), 21st Century Community Learning Centers (21st CCLC), and/or 21st Century High School After School Safety and Enrichment for Teens (ASSETs) programs. These Web pages are one of CDE’s efforts to provide training and support to after school programs to provide healthy after school snacks and nutrition-related educational activities.
Federal Program Monitoring (FPM)
The California Department of Education’s Federal Program Monitoring requires that after school programs funded by ASES, 21st CCLC, and/or ASSETs programs provide a daily nutritious snack/meal for attending students, and that snacks conform to the California Nutrition Guidelines. See What are Healthy Snacks? for more information.
Nutrition News
The United States Department of Agriculture released Choose Myplate. This icon replaces Mypyramid as a visual reminder to make healthy choices.
Access Moving from MyPyramid to MyPlate (PDF file).
The 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans were just released. Learn more about this cornerstone for nutrition policy and education.
The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 improves school meals and supports supper in after school programs.
Interested in information about incorporating physical activity into your after school program? If so, check out the tips, tools, and resources on the After School Physical Activity Web pages.
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