Let’s Eat Healthy Leadership Awards

Celebrating California leaders making a positive difference in communities through nutrition.

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Let's Eat Healthy Leadership Award

The Let's Eat Healthy Leadership Award celebrates initiative champions who advocate and take action to empower children, families and communities to develop lifelong healthy eating patterns. Now in its sixth year, the award program recognizes champion leaders and organizations from diverse sectors and backgrounds that advance strategies to further evidence-based nutrition education, dairy-inclusive agricultural literacy and equitable access to nutritious foods that include milk and dairy. Their actions make a positive difference in the health of communities across California.  

We encourage the recognition of champions actively engaging in collaborative work driven by shared values and furthering the collective impact of the Let’s Eat Healthy Initiative. We are seeking to elevate the unique expertise, lived experiences and innovative contributions of the Let’s Eat Healthy network, including educators, child nutrition professionals, health professionals, community leaders and food systems leaders.   

Let’s Eat Healthy Leadership Award Criteria 

We welcome nominations of California champions who are activating the Let's Eat Healthy Initiative in their community through innovative solutions to address the priority areas of Let’s Eat Healthy and who are amplifying or supporting access to science-based resources and tools. 

Recognition Award Categories  

Champions must demonstrate measurable success in one or more of the following recognition categories and sub-categories: 

• Nutrition Security Champion 
  • Increasing access to child nutrition programs. 
  • Fostering environments that support healthy eating, including advocating and engaging in strategies that support healthy food systems such as dairy-inclusive agricultural literacy education.  
  • Supporting equitable access to nutritious foods, including milk and dairy, vegetables, fruit, whole grains and lean protein, to support sustainable, healthy eating patterns across the life span.
     
    
• Nutrition Education Champion  
  • Ensuring consistent, age-appropriate, evidence-based nutrition education resources are integrated within nutrition practices and interventions. 
  • Expanding evidence-based nutrition education to new locations and/or audiences. 
  • Utilizing culturally informed nutrition practices and nutrition resources.  
  • Integrating fundamentals of nutrition to support sustainable, healthy eating patterns as part of food systems education.    

All submissions—including self, peer, team and organization nominations—will be accepted and eligible for consideration. Submissions are due by 11:59 p.m. on December 1, 2024.  

Champions, Nominate Today!

Learn more about previous winners by clicking here.

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Meet the 2023-2024 Let’s Eat Healthy Awardees

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