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CYFAR Program Spotlight: 4-H Fitness and Nutrition Clubs, Connecticut 
Author: Nordby, Ann
Description: 4-H Fitness and Nutrition Clubs in Connecticut use the Jump Into Foods and Fitness curriculum developed at Michigan State University. It utilizes teen mentors and adult volunteers. An eight-week intervention phase is followed by an ongoing 4-H afterschool fitness club.
Author: Dierenfield, Candi; Deborah Conklin
Description: Program example - 3 day camp with a focus on fitness, biking, learning and using GPS that includes building safety skills and team work.
Family Resource Centers, North Carolina
Author: Nordby, Ann
Description: North Carolina's family resource centers provide myriad books, computers and staff to help new residents and low-income residents learn and help their children learn.
Author: Nordby, Ann
Description: The Power Up Club of Morris County, Kansas, trains teens to lead younger children in the CATCH physical fitness curriculum. In so doing, it encourages lifelong physical fitness among the teens and provides good quality after-school care for the children.
Seacoast Youth Leadership Project
Author: Nordby, Ann
Description: Two programs in New Hampshire focus on middle school youth, and collaborates to meet the needs of low-income families in two counties.
Shape Up: Family Style in South Dakota
Author: Nordby, Ann
Description: Native American dance is the centerpiece of powwows, a popular cultural event on reservations and elsewhere. A CYFAR program in South Dakota capitalizes on assets such as the popularity of native dance when working with families at risk for obesity and diabetes.
Author: Nordby, Ann
Description: CCST brought isolated elderly immigrants in Spokane, Washington out into the community and connected to youth through a large community garden project.
Description: Voz de la Familia started as an after school child-care and nutrition program, but expanded greatly in response to community need. About 15% of Colquitt County, Georgia's population is Spanish-speaking new immigrants, a population with many risk factors. A series of shocking crimes in 2004 highlighted the need for communication with the longer-established community. Voz de la Familia, a CYFAR program, acted as liaison, collaborating with many other groups.
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CYFAR Cluster Programming Areas
Author: CYFERNet Team, ; CYFERnet Editors
Description: The CYFERnet team has put together this section to make your searches for high-quality resources much easier on the six topic areas below! This section contains links to resources on the six most prominent program thrusts (called “clusters”) for current CYFAR Sustaining Community Program (SCP) grant recipients.
Description: Voz de la Familia started as an after school child-care and nutrition program, but expanded greatly in response to community need. About 15% of Colquitt County, Georgia's population is Spanish-speaking new immigrants, a population with many risk factors. A series of shocking crimes in 2004 highlighted the need for communication with the longer-established community. Voz de la Familia, a CYFAR program, acted as liaison, collaborating with many other groups.