08.07.08
Roadmap to Improving Food and Physical Activity Environments:
Tips and Tools from the Healthy Eating, Active Communities Program

This guide is designed to help coalitions working to build healthier communities, where people have access to healthy foods, and where being physically active can become a way of life for everyone. It is for coalition leaders and members that are new to this work, as well as those who are applying their experience to a new arena or are working with new partners. Though there are many ways to make change happen in communities, there are a number of steps that many successful projects have in common. The Roadmap explains these steps, and applies them to working to improve food and physical activity environments in five sectors. It also helps coalitions find some of the many tools and materials that are becoming available to support this work, without becoming overwhelmed by the very process of choosing tools.

10.08.07
Recent Publications

• Nutrition and Physical Activity in California: The Landscape of Funding and the Role of State and Local Health Departments
  January 2007
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10.18.07
Now Available for Download

• Chronic Disease Prevention in Local Health Departments: The Challenge of the 21st Century, Proceedings of a Conference
  From the preface: "The publication of [these proceedings] is not only an effort to capture the content of a significant event in the recent history of public health in California, but also to serve as a framing document for a series of follow-up regional meetings and web-based conferences intended to help build the capacity of local health departments in California to engage in chronic disease prevention, particularly focused on the social determinants of health." This conference, on January 22, 2008, brought together senior officials from 45 local health departments in California, together with representatives from the California Department of Public Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
  January 2008
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• Case Studies in Chronic Disease Prevention: Local Health Departments Confront the Challenge of the 21st Century
  This document, prepared as background material for the Conference on Local Health Departments and Chronic Disease Prevention, gathers case studies from six local health departments in California working, in innovative ways, to address the new challenge of chronic disease prevention.
  January 2008
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10.18.07

From PolicyLink, 9/9/08: "Today at EquityBlog, PolicyLink President Judith Bell shares a story of some unlikely community organizers - young kids in Shasta County, California, who joined together to get the local Wal-Mart to carry healthy snacks." To read the blog, click here.