…lanned that will unfold in 2012 to commemorate this important 10-year milestone – watch for details in the coming weeks and months! We have organized these activities around quarterly themes that have been important for CLOCC as we’ve grown since 2002 and that will carry us into the next 10 years. In our first quarter, we reflect on data and evidence. These were instrumental in the consortium’s origins as we built our efforts on what we knew and w…
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…g a higher education degree. Funding Health Education In this section, you will find tools and resources on Sex Ed and materials supporting LGBTQ+ and Trans and Gender Non-Conforming students. Tools for educators and parents or caregivers are provided. Health Education…
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…Peters, Guest Blogger Dennis Peters is a physical education teacher at Belmont-Cragin Elementary School in Chicago. Belmont-Cragin Elementary School is a PK-8 school located on the northwest side of Chicago. We have 629 students in grades ranging from pre-kindergarten to eighth grade. We have worked with CLOCC staff for the past several years in our efforts to meet the HealthierUS Schools Challenge. (We have achieved Bronze status but are still wo…
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…essage into Chicago Park District summer camp programming. Working in Hamilton Park on the South Side, Loyola Park on the North Side, and Dvorak Park on the West Side, CLOCC built upon first-year learnings while working to provide Park District staff with 5-4-3-2-1 Go! tools to rally their summer campers around healthy food and fitness. CLOCC also partnered with the parks to host cooking demonstrations and family yoga nights throughout the summer….
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…s easy and difficult. We partnered with CNT to craft an accessible and easy-to-use application. CNT also created a reporting tool that allows users to edit and view their results and CLOCC to see statistics and create data reports for communities and advocacy efforts. With the partnership of Palenque LSNA, we met with a group of residents who beta tested the application and gave feedback from their perspectives as users. With input from this group…
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…Job Opportunities Job postings will be active for 30 days upon approval. Please follow the instructions in each posting to apply. CLOCC will post internship opportunities on this board as they become available. Please respond to specific openings rather than sending in a general request or inquiry. No items found…
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The 5-4-3-2-1 Go! Team Games Stay active anywhere this summer with these fun group activities Making physical activity a part of kids’ daily routine is important. CLOCC remains committed to helping parents, teachers, counselors and others be creative in helping children live healthy lifestyles.With support from Kohl’s Cares, CLOCC is sharing these Go! Team Games, which can be played at camp, in school, at home, or wherever kids and familie…
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…) and Chicago Public Schools in 2010-11 revealed obesity rates as high as 1-in-5 for kindergartners and more than 1-in-4 for 6th graders. Adoption of Baby-Friendly’s ten-step process is a tactic outlined in CLOCC’s Blueprint for Accelerating Progress in Childhood Obesity Prevention in Chicago. Advocate Illinois Masonic is the 13th labor and delivery center in Illinois to obtain Baby-Friendly status. An additional 11 medical facilities in Chicago a…
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…bout CLOCC’s work with CPS, please visit our Schools webpage and feel free to contact us if you have any questions: info@CLOCC.net. In this section, you will find a number of recommended physical activity and nutrition curricula for a wide age-range of students. Most curricula are free for download online and compliant with Healthy CPS criteria. Common Bytes Nutrition: Google Classroom Nutrition: Lessons Big &…
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…bustle, children and families found their way to my table to learn about 5-4-3-2-1 Go!™ – CLOCC’s public education campaign to promote healthy lifestyles for children. The CLOCC table offered an interactive visual representation of the 5-4-3-2-1 Go! message using tools like food models that illustrated each of the healthy lifestyle recommendations. Kids and parents alike couldn’t resist touching the food models and comparing the different e…
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