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CANFit
2140 Shattuck Ave., Suite 610
Berkeley, CA 94704
phone: 510-644-1533
fax: 510-644-1535
info@canfit.org |
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2007
CANFit Releases Healthy Snack Guide
CANFit's Healthy Snack Guide for Your After School Program is now available with 26 menus, two-week sample cycle menus, funding options and our Best Practice Guidelines. The guide makes it easier for after school programs to provide healthier snacks for the youth they serve. Read about how your family can also use the guide to include healthy cultural snacks into your after school routine.
CANFit's Releases New After School Policy Brief
The After School Landscape in California: Opportunities of the After School Education and Safety Program Act. With the implementation of Proposition 49, the legislation that created the After School Education and Safety (ASES) program, the number of state-funded after school programs in the state has nearly doubled. This policy brief explores the landscape of after school in the state, including the differences between programs run by local education agencies and those run by community-based programs, and how programs are implementing physical activity and nutrition components. The brief also highlights how The California Endowment's Healthy Eating and Active Communities are helping to shape the movement toward intentional physical activity and nutrition in after school, and it provides recommendations for communities interested in expanding after school opportunities to promote healthy lifestyles.
CANFit's Executive Director Receives American Public Health Association Award
CANFit's Executive Director, Arnell Hinkle, has been awarded the American Public Health Association (APHA), Food and Nutrition Section, Mary C. Egan Award. This award honors public health professionals who have served as members in the area of public health nutrition and contributed to improving nutrition among low income and underserved populations. The award was presented at the APHA annual meeting held in Washington, D.C., November 3, 2007.
CANFit Brings Wellness to Pistahan Festival
CANFit recently promoted a new wellness component at the 14th Annual Pistahan Parade and Festival. Read about how CANFit’s Program
Manager, Lloyd Nadal, was able to get non-profit organizations who promote physical and mental well-being to exhibit at the Filipino event for the first time. Read the article. CANFit Partners with MEE Productions in "Preventing Obesity in the Hip-Hop Generation" Workshop Series
CANFit and MEE Productions are collaborating on a new workshop series that focuses on addressing healthy eating and increased physical activity among urban, African-American and Latino youth populations. These communications workshops present information in a way that can be immediately applied directly with children, teens and their parents in real-world scenarios. After successful events in Washington, D.C. and Philadelphia, the workshop traveled to Los Angeles in June 2007. Visit the website!
2006
CANFit Executive Director with Viewpoint Article in Youth Today Newspaper
CANFit's Executive Director, Arnell Hinkle, has a Viewpoint article published in the December 2006/January 2007 edition of Youth Today newspaper. Her article, "Weight is the Least of It," describes how the focus needs to be on living a healthy lifestyle instead of numbers on the scale when working with youth. Read the article!
2005
CANFit Joins The California Endowment's Heathy Eating, Active Communities Initiative
California Adolescent Nutrition and Fitness (CANFit) has been named the technical support provider for after school programs participating in The California Endowment's four-year Healthy Eating, Active Communities Initiative. Six collaboratives have been funded in predominantly low income, urban and rural communities across California. The objectives of the Healthy Eating, Active Communities Initiative are to improve the food and physical activity environments for school-age children and to create momentum for widespread changes in the policies and practices that contribute to the rising rates of childhood obesity.
CANFit Receives Gold Rating by The Cooper Institute and the Michael and Susan Dell Foundation
California Adolescent Nutrition and Fitness (CANFit) was awarded a Gold Rating based on an evaluation by The Cooper Institute and the Michael and Susan Dell Foundation as part of their Children's Healthy Bodies Initiative. Of over 300 programs initially contacted, CANFit was one of only 47 that received the highest award, a Gold Rating. Programs were objectively scored in four categories: program design, evaluation, implementation and dissemination. CANFit is very proud to have been recognized as a program having the greatest potential to help reduce childhood obesity.
2004
CANFit and CalSAC Host the National Middle School Conference
CANFit collaborated with the California School-Age Consortium to provide the National Middle School Conference: Take Your Job and Love It! on November 3-6, 2004 at the Cathedral Hill Hotel in San Francisco. Thank you to everyone for making it such a great success! Especially our sponsors: The California Endowment, Health Net, Stonyfield Farm, L.A. Care Health Plan, and ESPN Play Your Way. Check out our special Sponsors Page.
2003
CANFit Holds its 10th Anniversary Gala
The gala event was held on October 9, 2003 at the Oakland Museum of California. View photos from the event. View the acknowledgement page.
CANFit Receives Second Award from Dannon Institute
California Adolescent Nutrition and Fitness' "Promoting Healthy Activities Together (P.H.A.T.) Campaign Uses Hip-Hop Culture To Promote A Healthy Lifestyle Among Youth" Honored With 6th Annual Dannon Institute Awards For Excellence In Community Nutrition. For the second time, CANFit was honored by the Dannon Institute, this time for its P.H.A.T. campaign. View our press release!
CANFit's Executive Director Receives Robert Wood Johnson Award
CANFit's Executive Director, Arnell Hinkle, received the Robert Wood Johnson Community Health Leadership Program award in 2003. This program awards individuals who have overcome significant challenges to expand access to health care and social services to underserved members of their communities. View the press release. Visit the Community Health Leaders Web site.
2002
Native American Surf Camp Coordinated by CANFit Grantee
The third annual Native American surf gathering drew nearly 100 children ages 9-18 from reservations across San Diego County. View our article about surf camp, published in the 2002 edition of News From Native California.
CANFit Receives Award from Dannon Institute
CANFit was presented with a 2002 Dannon Institute Award for Excellence in Community Nutrition for a manual made in conjunction with the 100 Black Men of America mentoring program that promotes nutrition and physical activity. View our press release. View the Dannon Institute news article.
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