Servicio de Información en Español (Information in Spanish)
A Spanish-language outreach program that reaches Spanish-speaking Californians with monthly radio clips featuring UCCE advisors and specialists, Spanish-language mass media and social marketing campaigns, videos, curricula, online educational materials and other tools.
AsisTel de la UC (
Practical ideas and information from UCCE on a number of topics - including healthful eating, diabetes, farm safety and disaster recovery - available in Spanish and English by calling AsisTel toll-free at 1 (800) 514-4494.
UC Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP)
Educators are trained to deliver research-based lessons on nutrition and healthy lifestyles, resource management and food safety to low-income Californians. In the program targeting adults, ethnic minorities make up 87 percent of participants; in the youth program they are 82 percent.
Asian-language pamphlets on nutrition for parents and families
Educational materials focused on helping children achieve healthy weights are available as downloads from the Web site in Korean, Hmong, Vietnamese, English and Chinese.
Fit Families Novela Series: For parents who want the best for their families
Video and print fotonovelas are designed for health professionals to discuss with parents of young children how to create healthy snacks, increase physical activity and limit TV watching.
NutritionBest - Creating Healthy Habits Early
Brochures in Spanish and English with helpful hints that will enable parents to establish healthy eating habits in their families.
Newsletters in English and Spanish with articles that inform families about good nutrition for children and offers quick and easy kid-friendly recipes. The KidFood newsletter may be downloaded free from the Internet.
Free tip sheets in Spanish and English with information and tips on living a healthy lifestyle.
Southeast Asian Health Promotion Project
An ongoing collaborative project that aims to understand the barriers and obstacles to making healthy behavior changes, develop effective, culturally appropriate nutrition and health messages, materials and programs, and integrate the messages into a diabetes prevention curriculum for delivery by community workers or extenders.
Nutrition on the Bookshelf
A complete curriculum with lessons in English and Spanish available free on the Internet. The curriculum combines nutrition education with early literacy.
Favorite Family Food
Newsletters in English and Spanish with articles that inform families about good nutrition for children and offers quick and easy kid-friendly recipes. The newsletter may be downloaded free from the Internet.
The Resource Library offers loans of videos, books and display boards for classroom projects and events free of charge to educators in the
Food Label Tutorial
A slide presentation in English that explains the usefulness of reading food labels. The presentation may be downloaded free from the Internet.
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Seven delicious and healthful recipes in Spanish.
The Lunch Box is an educational program designed to assist preschool parents in packing healthy brown bag lunches for their preschool children (ages 2-6 years). Handouts for parents may be downloaded free from the Internet in Spanish and English.
The Central Valley Nutrition Network for Healthy Active Families creates innovative partnerships to empower low-income residents of the
A 26-page booklet with information for practitioners who deliver parenting curricula available for free download from the Internet. The publication provides research-based tips and checklists regarding cultural sensitivity of programs and services offered to families. Topics include communication, discipline, bonding, family structure, gender-roles, play and sleeping.
Let's Read Together - Leamos Juntos
A series of workshops designed to help parents interact with their children in ways that foster early language and literacy skills. The curriculum is available in Spanish and English.
A curriculum that fosters early literacy and school readiness. This program is available in English and Spanish in free workshops to
A curriculum that provides parents and caregivers with the tools necessary to support their child's kindergarten success and assist them in understanding their role as their child's first and foremost teacher.
Online videos, newsletters and games are offered in Spanish and English to give teens information needed to make wise money decisions.
Integrated
Resources to help users reduce pesticide use or use safer pesticides in the home and on the farm available in languages other than English, including Spanish, Hmong, Cambodian, Japanese, Ilokano, Lao and Punjabi
Notas Breves en español (Quick Tips)
Brief articles written in Spanish with advice and suggestions for controlling pests and diseases.
Bilingual Glossary
Terms commonly used when referring to pesticide use, safety and training list alphabetically in Spanish with the English translation and listed alphabetically in English with Spanish translation.
Facts and information about a wide variety of produce in English, Spanish and Arabic.
Agricultural Labor Management Spanish Resources
A Web site with information in Spanish and English on agricultural labor management, including a Spanish dictionary, a downloadable labor management book, and free Spanish language audio downloads for people who wish to learn Spanish.
UC Berkeley Agricultural Personnel Management Program
Information on farm employment, management, and policy issues of interest to agricultural employers, hired managers and supervisors, business and personal service providers, grower and worker association leaders, educators, students, researchers and public agency staff.
The UC Farm Safety Program provides resources and research to prevent work-related injuries and illnesses in
Dairy Beef: Maximizing Quality and Profits
An online course designed to address the future of beef markets for dairy cattle. A portion of the course is designed for instructional presentations to dairy farmworkers and includes videos, PowerPoint files, quizzes and an evaluation. The trainer's CD contains materials in Spanish.
Vegetable Research and
Vegetable production information on a wide variety of commodities in Spanish and English for free Internet download.
Provides production and marketing information to farmers not reached by traditional extension programs. A number of the resources are available in Spanish.
Posters in English and Spanish for free download from the Internet that answer the questions: "Can I get bird flu?" and "What do chickens with bad bird flu look like?"
Disease control and biosecurity
Information in Chinese, Spanish and English describing poultry disease control and biosecurity measures.
CalAgrAbility helps individuals working in agriculture who have permanent conditions or injuries - such as arthritis, deteriorating vision, hearing loss, mobility problems, amputations or spinal injuries - find ways to continue working on farms.
A variety of articles and fact sheets in Spanish and English with gardening information on such topics as composting, irrigation, growing vegetables in containers and more.
Neighborhood GreenNet Project
The Neighborhood GreenNet Project, or "Proyecto Red Verde del Vecindad," is a collaborative project aimed at engaging low-income families living in subsidized housing complexes in the City of Santa Barbara in small horticultural business startups.
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YES Project
The 4-H Youth Experiences in Science Project (YES) brings the resources of the 4-H Youth Development Program and the Sacramento START after-school program together to strengthen science education for elementary school-aged children living in
On the Wild Side is a collaborative effort to bring environmental education and an outdoor living experience to grade-school children in