Professional Development

Free resources for making healthy changes at school, out-of-school time, and at home.

The National Nutrition Certification Program (NNCP) is an online training course created to increase the nutrition knowledge, teaching, and cooking skills of nutrition educators. It is designed for those who teach nutrition education to the public. 

WIC Learning Online (WLOL), a series of free online courses designed to train all levels of WIC staff. These courses are custom-made, developed specifically for WIC staff.

Early Childhood Physical Activity for Toddlers and Preschoolers is a one-hour, interactive web-based training designed to explore how young children benefit from structured physical activities and develop a wide range of movement skills through active play. 

This web-based training must be viewed using Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox. If you experience technical difficulty in accessing the training, email GrowNJKids@ssw.rutgers.edu

Online learning courses cover a variety of topics related to food and nutrition. Most courses are available for a small fee.

Reviews research on measurement/prevalence of food insecurity, household coping strategies, health consequences for children, and intervention tools that may be used in health clinics and other settings.

EatSmart is organized into six sections: Basic Nutrition, The Nutrients, Stretching Your Food Dollars, Nutrition & Chronic Disease, Nutrition & the Life Cycle and Food Safety. Each lesson includes pre and post-tests.

This tool is intended for those who have previous social marketing experience and, in particular, those who are familiar with the full edition. This CDCynergy tool is based on best practice social marketing principles, and will assist you in developing, implementing, and evaluating an effective social marketing plan.

Virtual five-course curriculum, hosted on Pan Atlantic Health Organization’s virtual campus, spans the gamut on all things social marketing—including how to approach disease prevention and health promotion, using the power of social marketing to encourage behavior change, and ways to put it all to action.

The introductory course addresses the essential theoretical aspects of social marketing and prepares you for the following program courses that aim to provide you with the skills you need to manage social marketing projects, identifying their stages, tasks, profiles involved, implementation times, resources, success indicators and results.

This online course is designed to meet the needs of professionals working to increase access to healthy food and physical activity options for low-income individuals and families.

A web-based, professional development program that promotes the integration of policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) change approaches with educational strategies.