Youth Teams

Balboa students prepare fruity smoothies to celebrate May's Harvest of the Month: Strawberries

Balboa students prepare fruity smoothies to celebrate May's Harvest of the Month: Strawberries

Balboa students prepare fruity smoothies to celebrate May's Harvest of the Month: Strawberries

Willie Brown Middle School Nutrition Outreach Workers share some of their favorite family recipes

"Raising Health" is the culminating event for Youth Speaks’ Fall 2020 Bigger Picture Slam Club, featuring young poets from the San Francisco Unified School District as well as guest presenters and community members, Ryane Daniels, Darius Simpson and Aniya Butler. About The Bigger Picture: The Bigger Picture is a collaborative project between Youth Speaks and UCSF’s Center for Vulnerable Populations that encourages young writers to use their voices to combat public health crises that threaten their communities. Learn more about The Bigger Picture Project and how you can get involved at www.thebiggerpictureproject.org About Youth Speaks: Through the intersection of arts education and youth development practices, civic engagement strategies, and high quality artistic presentation, Youth Speaks creates safe spaces that challenge young people to find, develop, publicly present, and apply their voices as creators of societal change. Learn more about Youth Speaks and how you can get involved at www.youthspeaks.org

Lincoln Nutrition Outreach Worker has an amazing at-home Bok Choy harvest from his seed kit project. Bok Choy is a great leafy green filled with Vitamin C and Vitamin K. Bok Choy is great for soups, salads, or stir fries!

Over this trying and historic year, the students in Mission High's Urban Agriculture program continued to show up and bring their best selves. The capstone project this year asked the question: How are you staying healthy in a time of covid? Here are the videos and podcasts that were completed this spring by these graduating seniors. Special thanks to Jade Rivera (TSA/ School Wellness) and Angela Buencamino Phung (Student Teacher /SFSU) for joining me on this Zoom journey.

Lincoln High School Nutrition Outreach Workers prepare strawberry smoothies in their homes to celebrate May's Harvest of the Month

Lincoln High School Nutrition Outreach Workers prepare strawberry smoothies in their homes to celebrate May's Harvest of the Month

Lincoln High School Nutrition Outreach Workers prepare strawberry smoothies in their homes to celebrate May's Harvest of the Month

Lincoln High School Nutrition Outreach Workers prepare strawberry smoothies in their homes to celebrate May's Harvest of the Month

Lincoln High School Nutrition Outreach Workers prepare strawberry smoothies in their homes to celebrate May's Harvest of the Month

SFUSD Youth Poets from the Bigger Picture Slam club, express their experiences and perspectives on health equity issues. Here's a final spoken word piece (2020)

Water Task Force Ambassadors kicked off their club by handing out over 180 water bottles to all their peers during lunch time!

Students were able to fill their water bottles with specially made Spa Water; mango, pink lemon, and pineapple.

Lincoln High School Nutrition Outreach Workers take on the challenge of creating a recipe with April and May's Harvest of the Month. The end product: a delicious strawberry avocado toast 

Lincoln High School Nutrition Outreach Workers take on the challenge of creating a recipe with April and May's Harvest of the Month. The end product: a delicious strawberry avocado toast 

Balboa students make their own toast featuring April's Harvest of the Month Superfood: Avocados!!!

Balboa students make their own toast featuring April's Harvest of the Month Superfood: Avocados!!!

Lincoln High School Nutrition Outreach Workers create a delish hummus veggie sandwich to highlight April's Harvest of the Month: Avodados!

ABC7 highlights SFUSD students learning about food sustainability through a partnership between SFUSD and Center for Urban Education and Sustainable Agriculture (CUESA). The student were compensated for their work through stipends that were funded by the SF Soda Tax.

Balboa Nutrition Outreach Worker does an at-home recipe for Guacamole and Pita bread. This recipe highlights the Harvest of the Month: Avocado!

Nutrition Outreach Worker Juliana shows us how to make a sweet parfait recipe that highlights the strawberry Harvest of the Month!

Balboa High School PULSE Nutrition Outreach Workers prepare Green Smoothies and share tastings at lunch for Harvest of the Month

Balboa High School students hand out tastings of persimmons during lunch. Students highlighted Farmer Mohammed Afzal at M. A. Farms, who grew and picked these lovely persimmons.

Such a yummy October Harvest of the Month! 

Our elementary students took part in a MUNI poster contest! They created beautiful artwork showing the pathway of our California fruits and veggies from farm to plate. Join our elementary students in celebrating California fruits and vegetables by visiting your local Farmers Market!

Our elementary students took part in a MUNI poster contest! They created beautiful artwork showing the pathway of our California fruits and veggies from farm to plate. Join our elementary students in celebrating California fruits and vegetables by visiting your local Farmers Market!

As part of an effort to reduce Willie Brown Middle School's cafeteria waste, a group of students, known as the Nutrition Outreach Workers, created a video to re-educate students on how to properly sort their lunch waste into the correct bins