…We asked Joy Menhennett, Food and Nutrition Education Coordinator for La Casa Norte in Chicago, to write about her experience consulting with the CLOCC Research and Evaluation Interest Group to improve their evaluation effort. Aveggies! A Nutrition Puppet Show is La Casa Norte’s program aimed to educate 3-5 year olds in Humboldt Park daycare centers about healthy eating habits. The program also engages youth from the community as paid puppeteers….
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…designed the Neighborhood Walkability and Accessibility Assessment Tool (NWAAT) and began the Neighborhood Walkability and Accessibility Initiative (NWAI) in neighborhoods throughout the City. The purpose of the Initiative is to increase walking as a form of physical activity for all Chicagoans through measures that address the safety and quality of the built environment and of transportation infrastructure. With the NWAAT, community members have…
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…;s Cares. Healthy at Home With One Hour or More of Physical Activity Share Sample Tweet: Physical activity at home can be fun! Try and do at least four, 15-minute physical activity breaks throughout the day. Stretching, yoga, indoor tag, and hide-and-seek with your family all count! See more ideas: http://clocc.net/healthyathome #HealthyAtHome Community Resources Create a fitness course: webpage Learn how to safely bike ride: webpa…
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…ote recognition of obesity as a public health problem Assist Americans in balancing healthful eating with regular physical activity Identify effective and culturally appropriate interventions to prevent and treat Encourage environmental changes Develop and enhance public-private partnerships II. CDC Publishes and Disseminates Decades of Obesity Maps U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention gathers data from BRFSS to assess yearly changes in…
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…ition, and overweight if we are speaking in medical terms or referring to data. If this doesn’t help answer your question, click here. Q. Why is childhood obesity called an epidemic? A. An epidemic is defined as “an outbreak or unusually high occurrence of a disease or illness in a population or area”.(Source) The rates of childhood overweight (see the previous question) have tripled nationally since the 1970s. State-by-state data on the rates of…
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Adam Becker by Adam Becker, PhD, MPH, Executive Director Happy New Year! 2012 is an especially happy new year for CLOCC as it marks our 10th year as a Consortium collaborating on childhood obesity prevention in Chicago and beyond! I hope that as partners you will feel as proud of our shared accomplishments as we do as staff members. Throughout this 10th year we will be reviewing our past successes, highlighting our current collaborative work, an…
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…he Consortium to Lower Obesity in Chicago Children (CLOCC) is providing a database of resources to support educators and families working towards Healthy CPS. We understand that there is an overwhelming amount of information available to educators, so we have carefully chosen a select number of tools to highlight in each area. To learn more about CLOCC’s work with CPS, please visit our Schools webpage and feel free to contact us if you have any qu…
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…besity and/or intervention strategies. Bright Futures http://brightfutures.aap.org National health promotion and disease prevention initiative developed by the American Academy of Pediatrics Call to Action to Prevent and Decrease Overweight and Obesity in Children and Adolescents Recommendations from the Office of the Surgeon General, revised in 2007 Evidence Based Policy and Environmental Change Strategies for Obesity Prevention: Strategies with…
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2020 poised to be a year of revitalization and renewal By Adam Becker, PhD, MPH Executive Director, Consortium to Lower Obesity in Chicago Children As we embark on a new year and (some would say) a new decade, exciting happenings are afoot for the Consortium to Lower Obesity in Chicago Children (CLOCC). While 2019 was a year of exploration of the role that social influencers of health play in obesity, 2020 will be a year of action on those influ…
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…uipping families, educators, and partners with tools tailored for this new reality. We understand that needs and challenges in virtual learning emerge daily, and that prioritizing Healthy CPS achievement, along with nutrition and physical activity programming, has become more difficult. CLOCC has organized an easily-navigable database of resources to support educators and families working towards Healthy CPS. Tools are available in Spanish and Eng…
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