About the program
Apply to be an intern with Teen HEAL to:
- Build your leadership skills
- Improve your physical and nutritional wellbeing
- Teach and serve in your local high school, college, and community agencies
Applications open each year. Interns lead HEAL clubs at their own high schools to promote healthy eating habits, healthy cooking, and active lifestyles!
Practice healthy eating
- Building a healthy plate
- Shopping smart
- Making healthy snacks
- Eating out right
- Managing your weight
- Staying active
- Organic food
- Vegetarianism
- Stress and nutrition
- Healthy cooking
Build your leadership skills
- Personality types
- Goal setting
- Public speaking
- Communication
- Social awareness
- Stress management
Get involved in the community
You can use your nutrition and leadership training to lead HEAL clubs at your own school to promote healthy cooking, healthy eating habits and active lifestyles.
You also have the opportunity to serve the community by teaching:
- Zoom club classes
- Children at Chinatown YMCA
- Summer camps at Asian Women's Resource Center
- Older adults at Self Help for the Elderly and other senior housing units
- With other community agencies and churches
Contact us
To ask about the program and get involved, contact us at:
Chinatown Public Health Center Nutrition Services
1490 Mason Street
San Francisco, CA 94133
628-217-6572
Catherine.wong@sfdph.org
Related resources
- Healthy Appetites cookbook
- Intern yearbook (2019 to 2020)
- Intern yearbook (2020 to 2021)
- Intern yearbook (2021 to 2022)
Please contact Catherine.wong@sfdph.org for permission before you share or repost our materials.
Program sponsors
Teen Healthy Eating and Active Living (HEAL) internship program is sponsored by Gum Moon Residence Hall/Asian Women's Resource Center and cosponsored by Chinatown YMCA.
The Teen HEAL Internship Program is funded through Chinese Community Health Care Association (CCHCA) grant, which strives to improve the health of those within the Chinese community.
