SNAP-Ed offers a variety of nutrition lessons for children and adults. Agents and educators use interactive tools like taste tests, activities, incentive items, and books to reinforce lessons.
LSU AgCenter Healthy Communities helps local communities identify food and physical activity needs. Local coalitions work together to make healthy food and exercise safe, accessible, and affordable for the whole community. Learn more about Healthy Communities at www.LSUAgCenter.com/HealthyCommunities.
In a walk audit, a group of people identify barriers for getting safely from one place to another by foot, bike, or wheelchair. In addition to providing several walk audit assessment forms, the LSU AgCenter SNAP-Ed program can offer technical assistance and expertise from specialists and agents in eligible parishes. Contact your SNAP-Ed agent to learn more.
SNAP-Ed agents and educators can support school and community gardens by providing gardening lessons, cooking demonstrations, taste tests, and educational signage. Contact your SNAP-Ed agent or educator to learn more.
HYPE is a youth leadership program that teaches teens how to advocate for health in their community. HYPE participants help improve local food and physical activity related policies, systems, and environments (PSEs). Youth are encouraged to use the skills they learn to become lifelong advocates for their community. Contact your SNAP-Ed agent to learn more.
Geaux Shop Healthy (GSH) is a Louisiana-based healthy retail program that makes it easier to shop healthy while spending less money. Through GSH, SNAP-Ed agents and educators can provide recipes, shopping tips, grocery store tours, and cooking demonstrations. Learn more about Geaux Shop Healthy at https://bit.ly/GeauxShopHealthy.
SNAP-Ed agents and educators can offer recipes cards, cooking demonstrations, and taste tests at farmers markets. SNAP-Ed staff can also help vendors and markets interested in accepting SNAP benefits. Contact your SNAP-Ed agent or educator to learn more.
Food pantries that partner with SNAP-Ed can receive customizable nutrition guidelines, signage, recipe cards, client choice model assistance, and more. SNAP-Ed staff can also host lessons and taste tests at food pantries. Contact your SNAP-Ed agent or educator to learn more.
SNAP-Ed staff use stencils to create colorful, painted play spaces that provide no-cost opportunities for physical activity. Stencils promote exercise while enhancing community spaces with a playful element. Stencils can be placed on concrete at schools, childcare centers, libraries, parks, community centers, and other public areas. Contact your SNAP-Ed agent to learn more.
Play Streets are popup play events that take place in temporarily closed streets, open fields, or parking lots. Play Streets offer physical activity opportunities for children in under-resourced communities that lack safe parks and playgrounds by creating a safe, publicly accessible space for active play. Contact your SNAP-Ed agent to learn more.
Our walking trail fitness signs are designed to help people get the most exercise and health benefits out of public parks and trails. Signs feature trail distances, simple exercise prompts, and health messages. Contact your SNAP-Ed agent to learn more.
Grow a Row to Share is a program that connects home gardeners and local farmers with charitable food organizations like food pantries. There is no commitment on how much or how little participants must donate. The goal of the program is to get more fresh fruits and vegetables onto the plates of Louisiana residents experiencing hunger and food insecurity. Learn more about Grow a Row to Share at https://bit.ly/LSUAgGrowARow.
The LSU AgCenter and the LSU College of Agriculture