Success Stories

Community Garden Increases Access to Fresh Produce in Houma, Louisiana

SUMMARY

Live Healthy Houma, a community coalition led by the LSU AgCenter, transformed a local park in Houma, Louisiana into a community garden. The project began in January of 2019. LSU AgCenter staff held a local public forum to find out what could be done to make the community healthier.

Let's Play Bingo!

Oregon SNAP-ED (Food Hero) is helping families build healthy habits outside of school through bingo! They have had successful bingo projects, first with the Spring Break Bingo (SBB) and then Bingo at Home.

The Dish: Real Talk About Food

Imagine learning about nutrition where you want it, when you want it, even right on your phone! Families in Nebraska and South Dakota are doing just that with The Dish: Real Talk About Food. The Dish is series of 25 short, interactive eLearning micro-lessons. Each lesson helps to improve the health, well-being, and resilience of families.

Let's Ride! Let’s Eat Healthy! Let’s Have Fun!

Kids in Jefferson Parish Louisiana are riding their bikes and eating more veggies! Not only did this group of 4th and 5th grade students at Washington STEM Elementary School (WES) learn how to safely ride a bicycle, change and repair a tire tube and read a map, they had fun doing it! The students were proud of their accomplishments, with their teachers and coaches encouraging them, and they learned the importance of physical activity.

Transforming Minds to Eat A Variety of Vegetables from the School Garden

When they grow it, they will eat it! This was the story of the Lincoln and Jackson Parish students that participated in the school gardens.

SNAP-Ed in Colorado brings nutrition education into the grocery store

Share our Strength’s Cooking Matters at the Store (CMATS) program is teaching families how to stretch resources where it really matters-- the grocery store! Share our Strength's Cooking Matters is a SNAP-Ed Implementing Agency.

SNAP-Ed Partners in Colorado bring positive mealtime environments to childcare settings

Before CMCCP, Our School staff struggled to get kids to try new foods. Now, children are encouraged to serve themselves and decide what and how much they eat.

Fresh Produce and Recipes Distributed through Maine’s Commodity Supplemental Food Program

At locations in western Maine, SNAP-Ed is working with a local community coalition to enhance monthly food boxes with farm fresh fruits and vegetables! The Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP) aims to help low-income older adults by enriching their diets with healthy, non-perishable pantry staples.

Clinical-Community Linkages—Connecting Food Insecure Patients to Hunger Resources

Maine SNAP-Ed is working with Good Shepherd Food Bank and clinical partners to identify and support food insecure patients in southwestern Maine.

Indoor Playground Gets Kids Moving

Imagine a school day where children cannot go outside to the playground because of the weather. Now, imagine a school with an indoor playground! In 2019, LSU AgCenter SNAP-Ed and the Ouachita Parish Healthy Communities Coalition created an indoor playground at Shady Grove Elementary School.