Youth Development

Blessed are the bees. When honey bees swarmed last week at the entrance to the Epiphany Episcopal Church in Vacaville, the site seemed quite fitting. Biblical references to bees and honey, such as "the land of milk and honey," abound. Blessed are the bees.

The statistics are staggering, shattering and incredibly sad. Of the more than 30 million cases of COVID-19 in the United States, 547,000 people have died.

A newly published UC Davis research paper pinpoints what could be the missing link in why some COVID-19 patients recover and some don't.

Feeding America published a new resource, the Nutrition in Food Banking Toolkit, aimed to guide the charitable food sector to better meet the nutritional and cultural food needs of people they serve.

Researchers at the Nutrition Policy Institute (NPI), University of California, Davis, and the University of South Carolina published a new study describing the use of factor analysis methods to evaluate the effectiveness of school nutrition environments on child health outcomes.

The California 4-H Management Board was established in 2016, after the previous State Council structure concluded its functions.

Nutrition Policy Institute's Lorrene Ritchie and Wendi Gosliner, in collaboration with Gurpinder Singh Lalli of the University of Wolverhampton, are guest editors of a Special Issue on Improving School Nutrition: Innovations for the 21st Century in the International Journal of Environmental Research...

The fourth H in 4-H stands for health, which members regularly pledge to better living.

The hard work of CalFresh Healthy Living, UC educators in Riverside, to build community gardens before the pandemic hit resulted in one of the few available activities ethnic communities in this Southern California county got to enjoy throughout 2020.

Teachers from Juanita Blakely Jones Elementary School in the San Bernardino City Unified School District have been a part of the EFNEP program for many years. This year, 1st and 2nd grade teachers participated in the new virtual youth EFNEP program.