Due to COVID-19, many senior living apartments have only recently resumed offering outside organizations’ programs. With sites opening up to programming, FCHS reached out to offer free nutrition classes for residents in two senior living apartment complexes, Architects Housing in Trenton and Ewing Independent Living Apartments in Ewing. Our nutrition educators taught lessons from the […]
On a lovely Friday evening in June, over 100 students, parents, and staff from Parker Elementary School enjoyed a fun night of baseball at the Arm & Hammer Park Trenton Thunder game. FCHS worked with the school principal and Trenton Thunder staff to celebrate the school’s year-long health and wellness activities with a pre-game announcement. […]
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, 1 in 12 New Jersey households did not have reliable access to affordable, nutritious food. A new report from the Food Research & Action Center, Hunger and Its Solutions in New Jersey: Landscape Analysis of Current Initiatives, Recommended Actions, and Emerging Opportunities for Further Investment, produced with input […]
In partnership with the Center for Child and Family Achievement and the Gregory School, 15 families participated in several “Families Cooking Together” virtual nutrition and cooking classes. Before the classes, families are provided with ingredients for easy, fun, delicious, healthy recipes, and in addition to learning about nutrition, families cook together on -line from their […]
In addition to teaching nutrition and cooking classes for children at schools in the Trenton Public School District, FCHS also facilitates School Wellness Committees at several schools. When the committee at Gregory Elementary School expressed interest in getting more recess equipment, to make recess more fun and to increase the physical activity of the children, […]
