Active Living By Design has released Investing in Healthy Community Change: A Resource for Funders. This new resource offers a range of ideas that challenge business as usual, and explore lessons learned about investing in healthy community change to help funders of all sizes leverage their investments, achieve their goals and sustain their results. Active Living By Design produced this resource from their unique perspective on placed-based healthy community grantmaking and collaboration, having served for more than 12 years as a bridge between dozens of funders and more than 160 community coalitions. Read the full report ...
Active Living By Design has released Growing a Movement: Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities Final Report. The report provides an overview of the Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities national initiative which supported 49 partnerships to increase children’s access to healthy foods and opportunities for physical activity through changes in policies, systems and environments. Growing a Movement includes common themes, key findings and brief vignettes, along with implications for the field. Four key findings of the report include: 1 – Partner Collaboration was Critical for Success
2 – Connections to the Larger Movement Enhanced Local Action
3 – Engaging the Community Drove Action and Equity
4 – Policy and Environmental Change was Critical to Building a Culture of ...
If your thinking about bringing a pop-up protected bike lane to your community, you might want to consider using some signage to increase visibility and to let others know about the benefits of protected bike lanes. Access some resources for creating a protected bike lane ...
Bag the Junk brings a easy guide to being prepared for the new snack changes that start this 2014-15 school year. Good News – Healthier Rules for School Snack Food are Now in Place and We’ve Got the skinny on How They Can Work for You and Your Students! The USDA “Smart Snacks” rule applies to all foods sold for consumption at school that are not part of the national school breakfast and lunch programs (vending machines, a la carte items, school stores, fundraisers, etc.). Using the resources below can make changing your school’s food environment as easy as eating an apple. Top 5 Resources to help you prepare for new Smart Snacks rules: Find Smart Snacks guidelines HERE.
Find complete USDA Smart Snacks materials HERE.
To know whether a particular food ...
Voices For Healthy Kids, a joint initiative of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and American Heart Association (AHA) that works to help all kids eat healthier foods and be more active, has released a toolkit on access to healthy and affordable foods in corner stores entitled “Just Around the Corner.” This toolkit is a compilation of facts, sample materials, and guidance on how to build, engage, and mobilize a social change movement in your state or community on this critical issue. The toolkit is wrapped together by a unique theme designed to maximize interest and action to increase shared use. Together with a collection of parallel toolkits on other proven social change strategies to help kids live more active, healthful lives, Voices for Healthy Kids wants to ...
This report highlights how levels of physical activity differ by state. It also points out how states compare to each other in regards to environmental and policy strategies used to encourage physical activity. Things like: policy guidance on shared use agreements at the state level;
having access to parks, recreation centers, and sidewalks
living within 1/2 mile of a park;
increasing time spent doing moderate-vigorous physical activity;
requiring recess; and
getting kids to walk and bike to school are all recommended as ways to increase levels of physical activity. Access the full report ...
While soda sales are seeing declines, the sales of other sugary drinks, like energy, sports, tea and fruit drinks, is growing rapidly based on misleading health claims, according to a study by UC Berkeley's Atkins Center for Weight and Health (CWH). Check out their findings and download the press release and fact sheets in English and ...
The Texas Health and Human Services Commission and IT'S TIME TEXAS are collaborating with organizations across the state to provide the first, annual series of SNAP Education workshops that will focus on regional obesity prevention efforts. Program leaders representing various backgrounds including schools, health and human services, and faith- and community-based organizations, will come together for a 1.5 day interactive learning experience to gain insight from leaders in the industry and network with innovative minds across the state to help make healthy the norm in Texas by utilizing existing resources and collaborating within their communities. These workshops are free of charge and will provide continuing education credit for multiple disciplines. The last two workshops are ...
Studies show a 20% increase in skin cancer rates in Hispanics, many of who are misinformed about their risk and believe they are immune to the damaging effects of sun rays, the Latin Times reports. The Skin Cancer Foundation has launched a new public education campaign to inform Hispanics about sun protection. The campaign includes a Spanish-language website with various resources, information, and potentially life-saving tips to prevent skin cancer (melanoma), advise on warning signs, and promote early detection. The campaign also is bringing Spanish-language printed and other materials to Hispanic-serving clinics, community groups, and media. "There is a misconception in the Hispanic population that they are immune to skin cancer because of their skin, and thus, they are not ...
