Overview

Mission Statement

The mission of the Center for Nutrition and Activity Promotion is to create innovative partnerships so that Californians in the north state are enabled to adopt healthy eating and physical activity patterns as part of a healthy lifestyle.

CNAP History

The Center for Nutrition and Activity Promotion (CNAP) was created in June 2006 to organize and promote various nutrition and health-related programs that service high-risk populations in northern California.

Purpose

The purpose of the Center for Nutrition and Activity Promotion (CNAP) is to serve the nutrition, fitness, and health education needs of the CSUC service region residents and to promote substantial contact with service region communities. The Center will promote collaborative multi-disciplinary research among CSUC faculty and provide opportunities for undergraduate and graduate student pre-professional practice, service learning, and research.

Goals

• Support the academic mission of CSUC by serving as an educational resource and coordinating with departments to help strengthen interdisciplinary collaboration for student service learning and pre-professional practice opportunities.
• Facilitate faculty in obtaining external funding.
• Provide both on- and off-campus infrastructure for coordinating interdisciplinary sharing of grant funded resources.
• Support the long-term financial stability of CNAP through continuation of current grants and subcontracts and exploration of additional sources of funding such as foundation grants, state and federal funding, and gifts.
• Strengthen the infrastructure bases which support CNAP, i.e. external funding, community partnerships, and public relations.
• Coordinate CSUC efforts to provide quality outreach services and meet nutrition and fitness related needs of residents within the Sierra Cascade service area.
• Provide the cutting edge science and practice foundations needed for nutrition related public health professionals.
• Facilitate the career progression of CSUC baccalaureate and master's graduates to meet regional and national nutrition related health care needs.
• Apply the expertise of science to the nutrition related health problems of the region.
• Facilitate interdisciplinary curriculum projects which involve several academic units.

What our students have to say...

• "I liked how comfortable my supervisor made me feel during the first couple weeks working with the organization. I felt a little uneasy since I have never done anything like this before and she made sure to be clear and precise about her directions and helped me with any problems I had."
• "My supervisor was warm and very friendly from the beginning. I felt that she tried to include me in tasks and activities when I was new to the job and was unsure what exactly I was supposed to do."
• "She was GREAT!! Easy to talk to and very approachable. She clarified things that needed to be and was eager to answer my questions when I had them."
• "She (my supervisor) was very knowledgeable in her field. (She)Taught me a lot about the SCNAC organization and how it is run."