Too many people in Mercer County face food insecurity. Ensuring everyone has sufficient fresh, healthy, affordable food is a critical and complicated issue. To address this issue, FCHS partners with the Trenton Health Team (THT) to co-facilitate their Trenton Food Stakeholders (TFS) coalition to stimulate collaboration around improving the regional food system. TFS focuses on understanding, documenting, and strengthening the food safety net. […]
This November, FCHS nutrition educators started teaching a new 5-week nutrition class series called Food Smarts Kids, at PJ Hill Elementary School in Trenton. This series is an interactive,learner-centered curriculum that focuses on helping children make healthy choices and to think about why they make the food choices they make. Each class begins with a […]
This fall, as part of the “Just Say Yes to Fruits and Vegetables” curriculum, FCHS Nutrition Educators are teaching nutrition classes in Spanish at The Children’s Home Society Family Success Center South in Trenton. In the 90-minute class, ten participants learn about nutrition and physical activity. In one popular class, everyone does the Cardio Pyramid […]
School is back in session, and FCHS has started its “Cooking Matters for Teens” cooking series with the Christina Seix Academy. In this 6-week series, FCHS nutrition educators are teaching students about various cooking techniques and knife skills, how to make their own healthy snacks and drinks, and the importance of eating a “MyPlate” meal. […]
This August, twenty families attended a three-morning virtual “Cooking Camp.” The camp was in Spanish and in partnership with the Children’s Home Society Family Success Center South. FCHS provided three days of recipe ingredients to the families, along with handouts and giveaways, including an insulated shopping bag, a bamboo cutting board, and a set of […]
