After School Program Resources

CANFit's Healthy Snack Guide for Your After School Program (1.44 MB, 47 pages)

Nutrition guidelines for snacks served in after school programs can be confusing.  CANFit has done the work for you to make it easier to serve healthy snacks in your after school program.  The guide has menus using foods that can be easily obtained at convenience stores and that fall within the federal reimbursement rate budget.  There are also two-week sample cycle menus, our Best Practice Guidelines and 26 healthy recipes.

The After School Landscape in California: Opportunites of the After School Education and Safefy Program Act  (1.64 MB, 8 pages)

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.

Trainings in Physical Activity for Youth Providers (150 KB, 2 pages)

The organizations listed in this table offer a variety of trainings in physical activity for program staff. Examples include teaching youth providers indoor and outdoor games, incorporating sports into after school programs, creating an activity program, and building a community playground.

Resources for Incorporating After School Nutrition and Physical Activity into School Wellness Policies (162 KB, 2 pages)

Schools across the country are finalizing their school wellness policies. This is a great opportunity to include school-based after school programs in these policies.

Promoting Health and Preventing Obesity in After School Programs: Critical Issues to Consider (442 KB, 21 pages)

Many after school programs miss the opportunity to provide healthy eating and physical activity experiences to youth. In this working paper, CANFit examines opportunities for after school programs to help address the physical activity and nutrition needs of middle school-aged youth of color.

Policy Recommendations on Nutrition and Physical Activity in Middle Schools, After School Programs, and Communities (26.1 KB, 3 pages)

This paper recommends policies to be implemented either legislatively or institutionally.

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Policy Advocacy

The After School Landscape in California: Opportunites of the After School Education and Safefy 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.

Promoting Health and Preventing Obesity in After School Programs: Critical Issues to Consider (442 KB, 21 pages)

Working paper which examines opportunities for after school programs to help address the physical activity and nutrition needs of middle school-aged youth of color.

Communities of Color Issue Briefing Paper: Addressing the Obesity Epidemic - Public Policies for Healthy Eating and Physical Activity Requirements (74.9 KB, 14 pages)
          This brief discusses social and environmental contributors to the obesity epidemic from the perspective

of communities of color, proposes policy solutions and stresses that policy responses are essential to combatting obesity.

Days of Dialogue: Obesity and Diabetes Prevention in Communities of Color (47.7 KB, 11 pages)

Our report summarizes a series of Community Convenings held across California.

Policy Recommendations on Nutrition and Physical Activity in Middle Schools, After School Programs, and Communities (26.1 KB, 3 pages)

Recommends legislative and institutional policies.

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CANFit Reports and Documents

Spanish-language Recetas para el Exito (Recipes for Success)

Recipes for Success is a practical "how-to" guide for those wanting to create a nutrition and physical activity program for adolescents. The Spanish-language Recipes for Success manual can be downloaded in five parts.

• Intro.pdf (2.7 MB, 11 pages)
• ImagenCorp_I.pdf (336 KB, 10 pages)
• Nutricion_II.pdf (376 KB, 18 pages)
• Refrig_III.pdf (326 KB, 16 pages)
• ActivFisica_IV.pdf (861 KB, 24 pages)

Fast Food Presentation

Our successfully field tested Fast Food Presentation.

• Complete presentation (1.61 MB, 36 pages)
• In parts
• 1 (179 KB, 5 pages)
• 2 (912 KB, 3 pages)
• 3 (170 KB, 3 pages)
• School appropriate version (1.61 MB, 36 pages)
• Sample lesson plan for one section (196 KB, 2 pages)

Communities of Color Issue Briefing Paper: Addressing the Obesity Epidemic - Public Policies for Healthy Eating and Physical Activity Requirements (74.9 KB, 14 pages)

The policy brief was developed as part of our work in advocating for policy changes

The CANFit Cultural Needs Assessment Guide (293 KB, 65 pages)

This guide outlines a process for uncovering the role of culture in the nutrition and physical activity habits of multi-ethnic youth so that the information may be used to improve the habits in a culturally appropriate way.

Days of Dialogue: Obesity and Diabetes Prevention in Communities of Color (47.7 KB, 11 pages)

This report summarizes the series of meetings we held across California with policy experts and representatives from communities of color to increase their understanding of, solicit their recommendations for, and increase their involvement in state and local obesity and diabetes prevention policy efforts.

Project REAL: A Model for Assessing Nutrition and Physical Activity in Asian/Pacific Islander Youth (59 KB, 13 pages)

This is the final report of a nutrition and physical activity program piloted with Asian American and Pacific Islander youth in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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CANFit Fact Sheets (2004)

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Summary of Completed Grantee Projects

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