Faculty Publications

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2018

Publication Title

California Agriculture

Volume

72

Issue Number

2

First Page

135

Last Page

143

DOI

10.3733/ca.2018a0016

Keywords

Food and Human Nutrition, self-efficacy, vegetables

Disciplines

Human and Clinical Nutrition | Nutrition | Other Nutrition | Science and Mathematics Education

Abstract

The Healthy Living Ambassador Program brings health, teen leadership, and teamwork to California's elementary school gardens through interdisciplinary UC Cooperative Extension collaboration, community-based partnerships and teen teaching. During spring 2015, teen ambassadors trained by Extension educators and volunteers at UC Elkus Ranch in San Mateo County taught nutrition science, food cultivation and healthy living skills in an 8-week, garden-based, after-school nutrition and physical education program for elementary school children in an urban setting. We conducted a pilot study using a mixed-methods approach to measure and explore the program's impact on children's vegetable selection and consumption preferences, as well as perceived self-efficacy in teen healthy living behavior. The children trended toward an increased preference for gardening, cooking and science, and teens displayed an increase in perceived health self-efficacy.

Comments

This article was published in California Agriculture, University of California, volume 72, number 2, pages 135-143. ©2018 The Regents of the University of California. The article can also be found online at this link. Material published in California Agriculture, excluding photographs, is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/#).

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