Current Trainings
Upcoming Events
Past Presentations
California Project LEAN offers training, technical assistance, and expert consultation in both Spanish and English, on policy and environmental change strategies and community-based solutions that will improve opportunities for healthful eating and physical activity.
California Project LEAN has worked with a variety of organizations and can provide one-time only assistance or on-going assistance for longer projects. We can provide training, technical assistance, local or state-wide project management, resource development, and assistance with research, data collection, and project evaluation.
California Project LEAN can assist organizations, schools, and communities to identify their strengths and weaknesses and build their capacity to improve the food and physical activity offerings in their surroundings.
Some of our areas of expertise include:
California Project LEAN has provided trainings to numerous organizations inside and outside of California. In California, this includes to school board members, policy-makers, teachers, school districts, county health departments, local obesity prevention coalitions, promotora groups, and grant-funded organizations from schools to community organizations. CPL has provided several out-of-state trainings to state health and education departments including South Dakota, Colorado, Florida, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Utah, and most recently, North Carolina.
For more information about our services, availability, and fees, contact Vicki Berends at vicki.berends@cdph.ca.gov or (916) 552-9894.
Parents in Action! Advocating for Healthier School Environments
February - August (Central Valley)
California Project LEAN is leading trainings for parents to help them learn about and assess their children's current school nutrition and physical activity environments and help them become advocates for stronger policies and healthier campuses. For more information about the Central Valley (Earlimart, Fresno, Pixley, and Planada) trainings, please contact Jane.alvarado@cdph.ca.gov.
Parent Engagement Webinar: Engaging Parents in Creating Healthy School Environments
Thursday, September 9, 2010
California Project LEAN and the Network for a Healthy California (Network) are pleased to announce the upcoming webinar: Engaging Parents in Creating Healthy School Environments with Guillermo Gomez of Parents United for Healthy Schools based in Chicago. This webinar is geared for Network-funded local incentive awardess working to increase parent involvement in obesity prevention and nutrition and physical activity efforts in schools. For more information, please contact Katherine.hawksworth@cdph.ca.gov.
2011 Childhood Obesity Conference
California Project LEAN is the lead agency in the development of the nation's premiere Childhood Obesity Conference. The 2011 Conference is in San Diego June 28 - July 1, 2011. For conference details, please see www.childhood-obesity.net or contact our Conference Manager, Ces Murphy at cecile.murphy@cdph.ca.gov or (916) 445-9066.
Robert Wood Johnson Center Bonus Q&A Session
Did you join us for our February 25th webinar: “Seizing the Moment: Efforts Underway to Improve our Schools?” If so, listen to our post-webinar questions & answer session audio clip! In this 15 minute conversation, webinar panelists Jim Gerstein, founding partner of Gerstein|Agne; and Vicki Berends, marketing director at California Project LEAN, discuss additional questions that were not answered during the webinar. If you didn't have the opportunity to join us for the webinar on February 25th, watch the full presentation here for more background.
