i. Summary: SALUDABLES answers the urgent need to develop an educational pipeline to train diverse nutrition and dietetics professionals for the community, and aligns with all four of the USDA HSI Priority Need Areas. By connecting with students early to support their attainment of an Associates, Bachelor's and master's degree, and earn stacking credentials in health coaching (NBHWC) and dietetics (NDTR/RDN), we will address two challenges in the border region of the desert southwest: (1) Overall health and health literacy of those residing in Yuma and Imperial Counties continue to be low. Many roles traditionally held by dietetics professionals in the community remain vacant or are filled by paraprofessionals due to the challenges of recruiting and retaining healthcare professionals in rural areas. 2) Low bachelor's degree attainment in STEM fields. Additionally, we address the lack of diversity in dietetics, by employing culturally responsive approaches to teaching, mentoring, and training. The grant objectives are: 1) Recruit and support 20 undergraduate students from AWC to transfer into UArizona's Nutrition B.S. program. 2) Promote careers in FANH to a minimum of 1200 students in K-12 area schools 3) Recruit, Support and Train 10 graduate students to become RDNs in our accredited Professional Science Master's Applied Nutrition-Dietetics program 4) Create a group of at least 20 Food and Nutrition Stakeholders (FANS) including faculty, students and staff from AWC and UArizona NSC Dept, community professionals.