Youth Development

At fast food and sit-down restaurants across California, kids' meals come with water or milk automatically. At least, that should be the case since state law requires restaurants to offer the healthy beverages by default to reduce the amount of sugary beverages served to children.

The Sustainable You! Summer Camp is an annual camp that is put on by the Ventura County 4-H Program and the City of Ventura each year in July. Usually, it is held at the University of California Hansen Agriculture Research and Extension Center (UC HAREC) in Santa Paula.

This is the third story in our #NationalWellnessMonth series. See the second story, UCCE promotes nature as a way to improve wellness. Youth up to 17 years of age who have been arrested or adjudicated for breaking the law are housed at juvenile detention facilities.

Berkeley, California made history by passing the nation's first sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) tax paid by beverage distributors in 2014, which garnered unanimous support from City Council and 76% of the vote in a public referendum.

Like everything and everyone else in 2020, our local fairs are adapting to the changes necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Congratulations to the following Ventura County 4-H'ers who participated in California State Field Day 2020! This event was all virtual this year, so we had more participation than ever before! Ashley Pyler of Loma Vista 4-H won 3 Golds in the State 4-H Film Festival for her videos "Apple Goodness,"...

The National School Lunch and Breakfast Programs help reduce food insecurity and improve nutrition for school-aged children. The Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) allows schools with high levels of children in poverty to offer breakfast and lunch at no cost to all students.

A recent study by Nutrition Policy Institute (NPI) researchers assessed differences in quick-service, or fast-food, restaurants with and without voluntary healthy default beverage standards for kids' meals. Voluntary standards' are restaurant commitments to offer healthier drinks with kids' meals.

In May 2020, Nutrition Policy Institute researchers Suzanne Rauzon and Hallie Randel-Schreiber collaborated with Kaiser Permanente, Alliance for a Healthier Generation, and other national school health partners to survey educators across the nation about overall readiness to return to learning for t...

Today is National Avocado Day! Take a break from the heat and check out the wonderful presentations, recipe demonstrations, even a fun activity for kids and adults creating costumes for this versatile fruit, from our Virtual Avocado Festival held last month at http://ceorange.ucanr.