Training
The Washington SNAP-Ed program is committed to a statewide training program for all staff involved with SNAP-Ed. Each year, the Curriculum, Training, and Website (CTW) team conducts in person and web based training on topics pertaining to curriculum, Policy, Systems and Environment (PSE) work, current topics in nutrition, food safety, and more.
These trainings are centered on the goals of SNAP-Ed: to assist low income families in their understanding of healthy food choices, the importance of physical activity to their health and ultimately improved health outcomes for the people we serve.
Trainings and Webinars
All live trainings that CTW conducted and/or facilitated can be found in one of the three following pages. These also include recorded webinars that were not presented live. Please note that some trainings may be repeated across several pages as they fit into several categories.
Systems Approaches for Healthy Communities
Foundational Policy, Systems, and Environment (PSE) Training
Systems Approaches for Healthy Communities is a web-based, professional development program developed by University of Minnesota. It promotes the integration of policy, systems, and environmental interventions with educational strategies.
Systems Approaches for Healthy Communities is designed to help all of us better understand:
- Basic terminology related to PSE work.
- Examples of systems-thinking including the Social-Ecological Model, Spectrum of Prevention and PSE concepts.
- Skills to expand our program across many levels to impact policies, systems, and environments.
- Strategies and tools for strengthening engagement, communicating with partners, and understanding community context.
Registration and Login
Once you have completed the registration and have logged into the course site, you may begin completing the modules at your convenience. For more details on the program content, including learning objectives, please review the Systems Approaches for Healthy Communities Course Overview.
Trauma Informed Basics and the Relationship to Nourishment
This 90-minute interactive webinar will introduce how trauma and adversity impact nutritional health, eating habits, and our relationship to food. Learn about the research and frameworks behind our model for Trauma-Informed Nutrition Security. WA SNAP-Ed providers should use the coupon code WASHINGTON when registering for this webinar. There is no charge for the webinar when you use the code.
National Nutrition Certification Program
The National Nutrition Certification Program (NNCP) was created to increase nutrition knowledge and teaching skills of nutrition educators. It is designed for those who teach nutrition education to the public. If you or any SNAP-Ed staff you supervise are interested in participating in the National Nutrition Certification Program, please register via the link on the page below or contact CTW for assistance at snap-ed.ctw@wsu.edu
Advocacy Training
This training is from the Collective Impact Forum (February 27, 2024).
If you are based in the U.S. and either working in the nonprofit sector or government, the below webinar video series were produced to help address your questions about participating in advocacy.
About this series: With new legislative sessions starting in 2024, an election season underway, and an ever-changing landscape of federal and state policies that impact our initiatives, folks want to understand the rules around advocacy activities that apply to their work. How can we engage in valuable advocacy without getting in trouble?
Because the rules differ for nonprofits and for government employees, the two online sessions in this training were tailored to the unique needs of U.S.-based nonprofits and government employees.
